Lucy Barker

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Lucy Barker is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucy Barker has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Water Science and Technology and 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Lucy Barker's work include Hydrology and Drought Analysis (21 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (18 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (16 papers). Lucy Barker is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Drought Analysis (21 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (18 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (16 papers). Lucy Barker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and China. Lucy Barker's co-authors include Jamie Hannaford, Cecilia Svensson, Andrew Chiverton, Kerstin Stahl, Simon Parry, Katie Muchan, Sophie Bachmair, Maliko Tanguy, Stephen Turner and Mark Svoboda and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Water Resources Research and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Lucy Barker

26 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

From meteorological to hydrological drought using standardised indicators

2016 438 citations Lucy Barker, Jamie Hannaford et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucy Barker United Kingdom	14	1.1k	604	167	137	69	30	1.2k
Dimitris Tigkas Greece	18	1.1k 1.0×	450 0.7×	325 1.9×	90 0.7×	103 1.5×	29	1.3k
Abubaker Omer China	11	576 0.5×	350 0.6×	121 0.7×	144 1.1×	114 1.7×	14	775
Ignazio Giuntoli United Kingdom	8	762 0.7×	607 1.0×	74 0.4×	182 1.3×	76 1.1×	11	976
Abel Afouda Benin	18	537 0.5×	412 0.7×	103 0.6×	150 1.1×	92 1.3×	56	783
Xiaobo Yun China	10	465 0.4×	312 0.5×	113 0.7×	94 0.7×	55 0.8×	14	645
Veit Blauhut Germany	15	993 0.9×	269 0.4×	335 2.0×	189 1.4×	51 0.7×	29	1.2k
Sophie Bachmair Germany	11	800 0.8×	437 0.7×	190 1.1×	138 1.0×	199 2.9×	18	1.1k
Irene Kohn Germany	11	673 0.6×	396 0.7×	155 0.9×	358 2.6×	51 0.7×	19	943
Syewoon Hwang South Korea	18	752 0.7×	441 0.7×	222 1.3×	349 2.5×	175 2.5×	57	1.1k
Javad Bazrafshan Iran	16	636 0.6×	280 0.5×	136 0.8×	145 1.1×	119 1.7×	47	802

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lucy Barker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucy Barker

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hannaford, Jamie, Stephen Turner, Amulya Chevuturi, et al.. (2025). Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich, temperate environment. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(18). 4371–4394.

Barker, Lucy, et al.. (2025). River flow amplification under climate change: attribution and climate-driven storylines of the winter 2023/24 UK floods. Environmental Research Letters. 20(10). 104035–104035.

Barker, Lucy, Jamie Hannaford, Stephen Turner, et al.. (2024). An appraisal of the severity of the 2022 drought and its impacts. Weather. 79(7). 208–219. 10 indexed citations

Hannaford, Jamie, Stephen Turner, Amulya Chevuturi, et al.. (2024). Have river flow droughts become more severe? A review of the evidence from the UK – a data-rich temperate environment. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 1 indexed citations

Tanguy, Maliko, Lucy Barker, Chaiwat Ekkawatpanit, et al.. (2023). Indicator-to-impact links to help improve agricultural drought preparedness in Thailand. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(7). 2419–2441. 6 indexed citations

Svensson, Cecilia, et al.. (2022). Representation of Drought Events in the United Kingdom: Contrasting 200 years of News Texts and Rainfall Records. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10. 9 indexed citations

Sefton, Catherine, Katie Muchan, Simon Parry, et al.. (2021). The 2019/2020 floods in the UK: a hydrological appraisal. Weather. 76(12). 378–384. 24 indexed citations

Turner, Stephen, Lucy Barker, Jamie Hannaford, et al.. (2021). The 2018/2019 drought in the UK: a hydrological appraisal. Weather. 76(8). 248–253. 35 indexed citations

Wang, Yaxu, Juan Lv, Jamie Hannaford, et al.. (2020). Linking drought indices to impacts to support drought risk assessment in Liaoning province, China. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(3). 889–906. 19 indexed citations

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Barker, Lucy, Jamie Hannaford, Simon Parry, et al.. (2019). Historic hydrological droughts 1891–2015: systematic characterisation for a diverse set of catchments across the UK. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(11). 4583–4602. 48 indexed citations

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Smith, Katie, Lucy Barker, Maliko Tanguy, et al.. (2019). A multi-objective ensemble approach to hydrological modelling in the UK: an application to historic drought reconstruction. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(8). 3247–3268. 51 indexed citations

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Sefton, Catherine, et al.. (2019). Hydrological summary for the United Kingdom: February 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Hannaford, Jamie, et al.. (2018). Enhancing Drought Monitoring and Early Warning for the United Kingdom through Stakeholder Coinquiries. Weather Climate and Society. 11(1). 49–63. 20 indexed citations

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Muchan, Katie, et al.. (2017). Hydrological summary for the United Kingdom: May 2017. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 1 indexed citations

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Stahl, Kerstin, Irene Kohn, Veit Blauhut, et al.. (2016). Impacts of European drought events: insights from an international database of text-based reports. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 16(3). 801–819. 209 indexed citations

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Bachmair, Sophie, Cecilia Svensson, Jamie Hannaford, Lucy Barker, & Kerstin Stahl. (2016). A quantitative analysis to objectively appraise drought indicators and modeldrought impacts. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(7). 2589–2609. 118 indexed citations

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Barker, Lucy, Jamie Hannaford, Andrew Chiverton, & Cecilia Svensson. (2016). From meteorological to hydrological drought using standardised indicators. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(6). 2483–2505. 438 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marsh, Terry, et al.. (2016). The winter floods of 2015/2016 in the UK - a review. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 40 indexed citations

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Barker, Lucy, Jamie Hannaford, Katie Muchan, Stephen Turner, & Simon Parry. (2016). The winter 2015/2016 floods in the UK: a hydrological appraisal. Weather. 71(12). 324–333. 38 indexed citations

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Parry, Simon, et al.. (2014). Hydrological summary for the United Kingdom: September 2014. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council).

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