Niall McCormick

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Niall McCormick is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Building and Construction and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Niall McCormick has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Building and Construction and 3 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Niall McCormick's work include Climate variability and models (6 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (5 papers). Niall McCormick is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (6 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (5 papers). Niall McCormick collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Denmark and Belgium. Niall McCormick's co-authors include Carlo Lavalle, José I. Barredo, Marjo Kasanko, Luca Demicheli, Jonathan Spinoni, J. Vogt, Paulo Barbosa, Valentina Sagris, Gustavo Naumann and Diego Magni and has published in prestigious journals such as Landscape and Urban Planning, International Journal of Climatology and Global and Planetary Change.

In The Last Decade

Niall McCormick

15 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Are European cities becoming dispersed? 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2019 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Are European cities becoming dispersed?
    2005 489 citations Marjo Kasanko, José I. Barredo et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →
  2. A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016
    2019 308 citations Jonathan Spinoni, Paulo Barbosa et al. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies profile →

Peers

Niall McCormick
Marjo Kasanko Italy
Haijun Wang China
Charles Dietzel United States
Lien Poelmans Belgium
Dongjie Guan China
Noah Goldstein United States
Sanwei He China
H. S. Sudhira India
Marcello Schiavina Italy
Valentina Sagris Estonia
Marjo Kasanko Italy
Niall McCormick
Citations per year, relative to Niall McCormick Niall McCormick (= 1×) peers Marjo Kasanko

Countries citing papers authored by Niall McCormick

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Fields of papers citing papers by Niall McCormick

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niall McCormick

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Niall McCormick. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Niall McCormick 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 Niall McCormick. Niall McCormick is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Cammalleri, Carmelo, Niall McCormick, Jonathan Spinoni, & John W. Nielsen‐Gammon. (2024). An Analysis of the Lagged Relationship between Anomalies of Precipitation and Soil Moisture and Its Potential Role in Agricultural Drought Early Warning. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 63(2). 339–350. 5 indexed citations
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Cammalleri, Carmelo, Niall McCormick, & Andrea Toreti. (2022). Analysis of the relationship between yield in cereals and remotely sensed fAPAR in the framework of monitoring drought impacts in Europe. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(11). 3737–3750. 6 indexed citations
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Spinoni, Jonathan, Paulo Barbosa, Hans‐Martin Füssel, et al.. (2021). Global population‐weighted degree‐day projections for a combination of climate and socio‐economic scenarios. International Journal of Climatology. 41(11). 5447–5464. 10 indexed citations
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Cammalleri, Carmelo, Paulo Barbosa, Alfred de Jager, et al.. (2021). A revision of the Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) used in the European Drought Observatory (EDO). Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 21(2). 481–495. 41 indexed citations
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Spinoni, Jonathan, Paulo Barbosa, Michael Cherlet, et al.. (2021). How will the progressive global increase of arid areas affect population and land-use in the 21st century?. Global and Planetary Change. 205. 103597–103597. 73 indexed citations
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Lavaysse, Christophe, Tim Stockdale, Niall McCormick, & J. Vogt. (2020). Evaluation of a New Precipitation-Based Index for Global Seasonal Forecasting of Unusually Wet and Dry Periods. Weather and Forecasting. 35(4). 1189–1202. 4 indexed citations
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Spinoni, Jonathan, Paulo Barbosa, Alfred de Jager, et al.. (2019). A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 22. 100593–100593. 308 indexed citations breakdown →
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Spinoni, Jonathan, Paulo Barbosa, Alessandro Dosio, Niall McCormick, & J. Vogt. (2018). Is Europe at risk of desertification due to climate change. EGUGA. 9557. 3 indexed citations
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Spinoni, Jonathan, J. Vogt, Paulo Barbosa, et al.. (2018). Global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9481. 1 indexed citations
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Spinoni, Jonathan, J. Vogt, Paulo Barbosa, et al.. (2017). Changes of heating and cooling degree‐days in Europe from 1981 to 2100. International Journal of Climatology. 38(S1). 159 indexed citations
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Kasanko, Marjo, José I. Barredo, Carlo Lavalle, et al.. (2005). Are European cities becoming dispersed?. Landscape and Urban Planning. 77(1-2). 111–130. 489 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barredo, José I., Luca Demicheli, Carlo Lavalle, Marjo Kasanko, & Niall McCormick. (2004). Modelling Future Urban Scenarios in Developing Countries: An Application Case Study in Lagos, Nigeria. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 31(1). 65–84. 128 indexed citations
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McCormick, Niall, Carlo Lavalle, Marjo Kasanko, Luca Demicheli, & José I. Barredo. (2003). Mapping and modelling the impact of land use planning and management practices on urban and peri-urban landscapes in Europe: the MOLAND project. 243–244.
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Barredo, José I., Marjo Kasanko, Niall McCormick, & Carlo Lavalle. (2002). Modelling dynamic spatial processes: simulation of urban future scenarios through cellular automata. Landscape and Urban Planning. 64(3). 145–160. 386 indexed citations
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Kasanko, Marjo, et al.. (2002). <title>Land-use and transport-network indicators in the assessment of the sustainability of urban areas</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4545. 118–129. 2 indexed citations
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Lavalle, Carlo, et al.. (2000). The Murbandy / Moland Methodology, and its Potential to Support Sustainable City Development. 5 indexed citations

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