N. W. Watkins

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

N. W. Watkins is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, N. W. Watkins has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 29 papers in Molecular Biology and 27 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in N. W. Watkins's work include Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (26 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (24 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (23 papers). N. W. Watkins is often cited by papers focused on Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (26 papers), Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (24 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (23 papers). N. W. Watkins collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. N. W. Watkins's co-authors include S. C. Chapman, M. P. Freeman, David A. Stainforth, Eugene J. Murphy, Sergey V. Buldyrev, M. G. E. da Luz, Ernesto P. Raposo, Richard A. Phillips, Andrew M. Edwards and Vsevolod Afanasyev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

N. W. Watkins

111 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer

2007 704 citations N. W. Watkins, M. P. Freeman et al. profile →
Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change

2018 436 citations Raphael Calel, S. C. Chapman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
N. W. Watkins United Kingdom	28	848	736	577	404	372	113	3.1k
W. Ebeling Germany	46	1.3k 1.6×	441 0.6×	378 0.7×	432 1.1×	373 1.0×	409	9.4k
Viral B. Shah United States	12	333 0.4×	993 1.3×	167 0.3×	99 0.2×	116 0.3×	24	5.8k
Ronald F. Fox United States	35	1.0k 1.2×	449 0.6×	485 0.8×	204 0.5×	119 0.3×	145	8.5k
Kim Christensen United Kingdom	31	215 0.3×	518 0.7×	100 0.2×	1.5k 3.7×	280 0.8×	107	4.9k
S. C. Chapman United Kingdom	41	1.8k 2.1×	585 0.8×	5.5k 9.5×	557 1.4×	423 1.1×	310	7.5k
S. N. Coppersmith United States	56	344 0.4×	96 0.1×	117 0.2×	146 0.4×	127 0.3×	194	10.6k
Bruno Eckhardt Germany	50	491 0.6×	1.8k 2.5×	330 0.6×	225 0.6×	448 1.2×	195	8.2k
Peter E. Jupp United Kingdom	17	439 0.5×	176 0.2×	126 0.2×	113 0.3×	260 0.7×	60	4.6k
V. Carbone Italy	40	2.3k 2.7×	381 0.5×	4.8k 8.4×	778 1.9×	327 0.9×	291	6.7k
Peter Clifford United Kingdom	31	295 0.3×	387 0.5×	32 0.1×	275 0.7×	149 0.4×	109	4.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of N. W. Watkins

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of N. W. Watkins. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of N. W. Watkins based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with N. W. Watkins. N. W. Watkins is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Watkins, N. W., Raphael Calel, S. C. Chapman, et al.. (2024). The challenge of non-Markovian energy balance models in climate. Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. 34(7). 3 indexed citations

Lebo, Matthew S., Marcie Steeves, Laura K. Conlin, et al.. (2023). O31: Risk allele evidence curation, classification, and reporting: Recommendations from the ClinGen Low Penetrance/Risk Allele Working Group*. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 100457–100457. 3 indexed citations

Hnat, B., S. C. Chapman, & N. W. Watkins. (2023). Topology of turbulence within collisionless plasma reconnection. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18665–18665. 1 indexed citations

Chapman, S. C., et al.. (2022). Variation of Geomagnetic Index Empirical Distribution and Burst Statistics Across Successive Solar Cycles. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 127(1). 7 indexed citations

Hnat, B., S. C. Chapman, & N. W. Watkins. (2021). Magnetic Topology of Actively Evolving and Passively Convecting Structures in the Turbulent Solar Wind. Physical Review Letters. 126(12). 125101–125101. 8 indexed citations

Chapman, S. C., R. B. Horne, & N. W. Watkins. (2020). Using the aa Index Over the Last 14 Solar Cycles to Characterize Extreme Geomagnetic Activity. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(3). 34 indexed citations

Calel, Raphael, S. C. Chapman, David A. Stainforth, & N. W. Watkins. (2020). Temperature variability implies greater economic damages from climate change. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5028–5028. 33 indexed citations

Franzke, Christian L. E., Susana Barbosa, Richard Blender, et al.. (2020). The Structure of Climate Variability Across Scales. Reviews of Geophysics. 58(2). 91 indexed citations

Palyulin, Vladimir V., George L. Blackburn, Michael A. Lomholt, et al.. (2019). First passage and first hitting times of Lévy flights and Lévy walks. New Journal of Physics. 21(10). 103028–103028. 56 indexed citations

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Chapman, S. C., N. W. Watkins, & David A. Stainforth. (2019). Warming Trends in Summer Heatwaves. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(3). 1634–1640. 41 indexed citations

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Chapman, S. C., P. T. Lang, R. O. Dendy, et al.. (2018). Intrinsic ELMing in ASDEX Upgrade and global control system-plasma self-entrainment. Nuclear Fusion. 58(12). 126003–126003. 1 indexed citations

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Chapman, S. C., et al.. (2018). Control system-plasma synchronization and naturally occurring edge localized modes in a tokamak. Physics of Plasmas. 25(6). 5 indexed citations

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Watkins, N. W., Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, et al.. (2016). Standing on the Shoulders of Giants by Managing Scientific Experiments Like Software.. 41. 8 indexed citations

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Manzanares, Adam, et al.. (2016). ZEA, a data management approach for SMR. 26–30. 17 indexed citations

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Gramacy, Robert B., et al.. (2015). Efficient Bayesian inference for natural time series using ARFIMA processes. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 22(6). 679–700. 17 indexed citations

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Achlioptas, Dimitris, et al.. (2014). Flash on rails: consistent flash performance through redundancy. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 463–474. 38 indexed citations

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Kiyani, K. H., S. C. Chapman, & N. W. Watkins. (2009). Pseudononstationarity in the scaling exponents of finite-interval time series. Physical Review E. 79(3). 36109–36109. 10 indexed citations

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Chapman, S. C., G. Rowlands, & N. W. Watkins. (2003). The Origin of Universal Fluctuations in Correlated Systems: Explicit Calculation for an Intermittent Turbulent Cascade. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Chapman, S. C., B. Hnat, G. Rowlands, N. W. Watkins, & M. P. Freeman. (2002). Scaling of Solar Wind Epsilon and the AU, AL and AE Indices. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Freeman, M. P., N. W. Watkins, & D. Jason Riley. (2000). An SOC-like avalanche distribution observed in an MHD turbulent cascade in the solar wind. arXiv (Cornell University).

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