Niamh Cahill

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Niamh Cahill is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Niamh Cahill has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Atmospheric Science, 23 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 15 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Niamh Cahill's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (34 papers), Geological formations and processes (17 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers). Niamh Cahill is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (34 papers), Geological formations and processes (17 papers) and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers). Niamh Cahill collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United States and Singapore. Niamh Cahill's co-authors include Stefan Rahmstorf, Benjamin P. Horton, Andrew C. Kemp, Andrew Parnell, David Thornalley, Gerard McCarthy, Levke Caesar, Simon E. Engelhart, Andrea D. Hawkes and Grant Foster and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Niamh Cahill

51 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Current Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakest in last millennium

2021 263 citations Niamh Cahill, Stefan Rahmstorf et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niamh Cahill Ireland	28	1.1k	615	524	505	501	56	2.1k
William J. Fletcher United Kingdom	26	2.4k 2.1×	708 1.2×	286 0.5×	145 0.3×	494 1.0×	63	3.0k
Hanying Li China	21	1.0k 0.9×	342 0.6×	123 0.2×	234 0.5×	270 0.5×	69	1.4k
Michael J. Bentley United Kingdom	46	5.1k 4.5×	636 1.0×	707 1.3×	299 0.6×	1.9k 3.7×	151	6.0k
Robin E. Bell United States	41	3.4k 3.0×	244 0.4×	436 0.8×	249 0.5×	796 1.6×	114	5.3k
Kathleen R. Johnson United States	26	3.6k 3.1×	1.3k 2.1×	278 0.5×	915 1.8×	878 1.8×	69	4.2k
P. N. Adams United States	18	384 0.3×	718 1.2×	242 0.5×	212 0.4×	512 1.0×	42	1.6k
H.M. Rendell United Kingdom	27	1.6k 1.4×	862 1.4×	121 0.2×	173 0.3×	436 0.9×	85	2.7k
Kristina Dahl United States	16	1.1k 1.0×	323 0.5×	328 0.6×	671 1.3×	323 0.6×	22	1.8k
Richard Pearce United Kingdom	20	930 0.8×	223 0.4×	642 1.2×	83 0.2×	474 0.9×	85	1.8k
David Evans United Kingdom	22	1.2k 1.1×	437 0.7×	454 0.9×	259 0.5×	553 1.1×	73	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Niamh Cahill

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niamh Cahill

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Vetter, Lael, Glenn A. Milne, Lev Tarasov, et al.. (2025). Sea-level rise at the end of the last deglaciation dominated by North American ice sheets. Nature Geoscience. 18(11). 1167–1173. 1 indexed citations

Vacchi, Matteo, Timothy A. Shaw, Edward J. Anthony, et al.. (2025). Sea level since the Last Glacial Maximum from the Atlantic coast of Africa. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1486–1486. 1 indexed citations

Cahill, Niamh, et al.. (2024). Diagnostics for categorical response models based on quantile residuals and distance measures. Journal of Applied Statistics. 52(2). 306–328. 1 indexed citations

Shaw, Timothy A., Tanghua Li, Niamh Cahill, et al.. (2023). Deglacial perspectives of future sea level for Singapore. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 6 indexed citations

Cahill, Niamh, et al.. (2023). A Bayesian time series model for reconstructing hydroclimate from multiple proxies. Environmetrics. 34(4). 1 indexed citations

Khan, Nicole S., Tanghua Li, A. J. Meltzner, et al.. (2023). Holocene relative sea-level histories of far-field islands in the mid-Pacific. Quaternary Science Reviews. 310. 107995–107995. 12 indexed citations

Engelhart, Simon E., et al.. (2022). Reproducibility and variability of earthquake subsidence estimates from saltmarshes of a Cascadia estuary. Journal of Quaternary Science. 37(7). 1294–1312. 4 indexed citations

Walker, Jennifer, Tanghua Li, Timothy A. Shaw, et al.. (2022). A 5000-year record of relative sea-level change in New Jersey, USA. The Holocene. 33(2). 167–180. 8 indexed citations

Corbett, D. Reide, Jennifer Walker, Robert E. Kopp, et al.. (2022). Common Era Sea-Level Budgets along the U.S. Atlantic Coast. The Scholarship East Carolina University's Institutional Repository (East Carolina University). 38 indexed citations

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Walker, Jennifer, Robert E. Kopp, Timothy A. Shaw, et al.. (2021). Common Era sea-level budgets along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1841–1841. 2 indexed citations

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Cahill, Niamh, Emily Sonneveldt, Robinson Enow Mbu, et al.. (2021). Using family planning service statistics to inform model-based estimates of modern contraceptive prevalence. PLoS ONE. 16(10). e0258304–e0258304. 2 indexed citations

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Croke, Jacky, et al.. (2021). A palaeoclimate proxy database for water security planning in Queensland Australia. Scientific Data. 8(1). 292–292. 4 indexed citations

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Horton, Benjamin P., Nicole S. Khan, Niamh Cahill, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 3(1). 4 indexed citations

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Nelson, Alan R., Andrea D. Hawkes, Yuki Sawai, et al.. (2020). Identifying the Greatest Earthquakes of the Past 2000 Years at the Nehalem River Estuary, Northern Oregon Coast, USA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 8 indexed citations

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Horton, Benjamin P., Nicole S. Khan, Niamh Cahill, et al.. (2020). Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 3(1). 97 indexed citations

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Horton, Benjamin P., Nicole S. Khan, Niamh Cahill, et al.. (2019). Estimating future sea-level rise by 2100 and 2300 AD from expert assessment. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Cahill, Niamh, Andrew C. Kemp, Benjamin P. Horton, & Andrew Parnell. (2016). A Bayesian hierarchical model for reconstructing relative sea level: from raw data to rates of change. Climate of the past. 12(2). 525–542. 52 indexed citations

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Cahill, Niamh, Andrew C. Kemp, Benjamin P. Horton, & Andrew Parnell. (2015). Modeling sea-level change using errors-in-variables integrated Gaussian processes. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 9(2). 63 indexed citations

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Long, Antony J., Natasha Barlow, W. Roland Gehrels, et al.. (2013). Contrasting records of sea-level change in the eastern and western North Atlantic during the last 300 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 388. 110–122. 35 indexed citations

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Cahill, Niamh. (2002). Site-specific cross-linking analyses reveal an asymmetric protein distribution for a box C/D snoRNP. The EMBO Journal. 21(14). 3816–3828. 93 indexed citations

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