Nicholas P. Simpson

7.4k citations

44 papers · 1.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 18

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 5%
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Space and Planetary Science top 5%

Papers in

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 17
- Climate change impacts on agriculture 17
Global and Planetary Change 18
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance 10

Co-authors: Portia Adade Williams Christopher H. Trisos Clifford Shearing Birgitt Ouweneel Edmond Totin Benoît Dupont Mumuni Abu Olivier Crespo
Journals: Nature Climate Change (5 papers)Climate Risk Management (4 papers)The Science of The Total Environment (2 papers)Environmental Research Letters (2 papers)Environmental Science & Policy (2 papers)
Partner nations: South Africa United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Nicholas P. Simpson

42 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake 2023 · 63 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 iScience
2022 Nature Climate Change
2021 The Science of The Total Environment

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1	Advances in complex climate change risk assessment for adaptation npj Climate Action ·Nicholas P. Simpson, Edward Sparkes, Marleen de Ruiter, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Marlon Vieira Passos, Julius Schlumberger, Judy Lawrence, Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Hochrainer‐Stigler	2025	0
2	Research priorities for climate mobility One Earth ·Nicholas P. Simpson, Katharine J. Mach, Mark Tebboth, Elisabeth Gilmore, A.R. Siders, Petra B. Holden, Brilé Anderson, Chandni Singh, Salma Sabour, Lindsay C. Stringer, Harald Sterly, Portia Adade Williams, Andreas L. S. Meyer, Georgina Cundill, Sarah Rosengaertner, Abdimajid Nunow, Kamal Amakrane, Christopher H. Trisos	2024	7
3	Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development Nature Climate Change ·Siri Eriksen, Nicholas P. Simpson, Bruce Glavovic, Debora Ley, Edward R. Carr, Luis Fernández Carril, Bronwyn Hayward, Michael D. Morecroft, Minal Pathak, Joy Jacqueline Pereira, Hans‐Otto Pörtner, Debra Roberts, Alex C. Ruane, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, E. Lisa F. Schipper, William Solecki, Lindsay C. Stringer, Edmond Totin, Arlene Birt, Frode Degvold	2024	13
4	The challenges of the increasing institutionalization of climate security PLOS Climate ·Judith Nora Hardt, Dhanasree Jayaram, Cameron Harrington, Duncan McLaren, Nicholas P. Simpson, Alistair D. B. Cook, M. Cecilia Oliveira, Franziskus von Lucke, Julia Maria Trombetta, Marwa Daoudy, Rita Floyd, Chinwe Philomina Oramah, Mely Caballero Anthony, Adrien Estève	2024	2
5	Engaging diverse knowledge holders in adaptation research Nature Climate Change ·Georgina Cundill, Blane Harvey, Debora Ley, Chandni Singh, B. Huson, Paulina Aldunce, Robbert Biesbroek, Judy Lawrence, Daniel Morchain, Johanna Nalau, Nicholas P. Simpson, Edmond Totin	2024	4
6	Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake iScience ·Nicholas P. Simpson, Portia Adade Williams, Katharine J. Mach, Lea Berrang‐Ford, Robbert Biesbroek, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Alcade C. Segnon, Donovan Campbell, Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Elphin Tom Joe, Abraham Marshall Nunbogu, Salma Sabour, Andreas L. S. Meyer, Talbot M. Andrews, Chandni Singh, A.R. Siders, Judy Lawrence, Maarten van Aalst, Christopher H. Trisos Hit paper breakdown →	2023	63
7	Integrating climate change in Environmental Impact Assessment: A review of requirements across 19 EIA regimes The Science of The Total Environment ·Rose Mayembe, Nicholas P. Simpson, Olivia Rumble, Marieke Norton	2023	11
8	Climate-resilient development planning for cities: progress from Cape Town SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Nicholas P. Simpson, Kayleen Jeanne Simpson, Albert T. Ferreira, Andrew Constable, Bruce Glavovic, Siri Eriksen, Debora Ley, William Solecki, Roberto Sánchez Rodríguez, Lindsay C. Stringer	2023	11
9	Risk from responses to a changing climate Climate Risk Management ·Talbot M. Andrews, Nicholas P. Simpson, Katharine J. Mach, Christopher H. Trisos	2023	9
10	Climate Resilient Development Pathways in Global Drylands Lindsay C. Stringer, Nicholas P. Simpson, E. Lisa F. Schipper, Siri Eriksen	2022	14
11	Decolonizing climate change–heritage research Nature Climate Change ·Nicholas P. Simpson, Joanne Clarke, Scott Allan Orr, Georgina Cundill, Ben Orlove, Sandra Fatorić, Salma Sabour, Nadia Khalaf, Marcy Rockman, Patrícia Pinho, Shobha Maharaj, Poonam V. Mascarenhas, Nick Shepherd, Pindai M. Sithole, Grace W. Ngaruiya, Debra Roberts, Christopher H. Trisos	2022	29
12	Feasibility assessment of climate change adaptation options across Africa: an evidence-based review Environmental Research Letters ·Portia Adade Williams, Nicholas P. Simpson, Edmond Totin, Michelle A. North, Christopher H. Trisos	2021	47
13	Funding flows for climate change research on Africa: where do they come from and where do they go? Climate and Development ·Indra Øverland, Haakon Fossum Sagbakken, Aidai Isataeva, Galina Kolodzinskaia, Nicholas P. Simpson, Christopher H. Trisos, Roman Vakulchuk	2021	58
14	Understanding responses to climate-related water scarcity in Africa The Science of The Total Environment ·Walter Leal Filho, Edmond Totin, James Franke, Samora M. Andrew, Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Hossein Azadi, Patrick D. Nunn, Birgitt Ouweneel, Portia Adade Williams, Nicholas P. Simpson Hit paper breakdown →	2021	156
15	Managing city-scale slow-onset disasters: Learning from Cape Town's 2015–2018 drought disaster planning International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ·Hugh D. Cole, Megan J. Cole, Kayleen Jeanne Simpson, Nicholas P. Simpson, Gina Ziervogel, Mark New	2021	21
16	Gated Adaptation during the Cape Town Drought: Mentalities, Transitions and Pathways to Partial Nodes of Water Security Society & Natural Resources ·Nicholas P. Simpson, Clifford Shearing, Benoît Dupont	2020	16
17	Resilience Policing: An Emerging Response to Shifting Harm Landscapes and Reshaping Community Policing Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice ·Tariro Mutongwizo, Cameron Holley, Clifford Shearing, Nicholas P. Simpson	2019	13
18	When Anthropocene shocks contest conventional mentalities: a case study from Cape Town Climate and Development ·Nicholas P. Simpson, Clifford Shearing, Benoît Dupont	2019	11
19	Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development ·Nicholas P. Simpson, Kayleen Jeanne Simpson, Clifford Shearing, Liza Rose Cirolia	2019	35
20	Accommodating landscape-scale shocks: Lessons on transition from Cape Town and Puerto Rico Geoforum ·Nicholas P. Simpson	2018	17

About Nicholas P. Simpson

Nicholas P. Simpson is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Conservation and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 44 papers that have together received 1.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate change impacts on agriculture (17 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (12 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (10 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (5 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (4 papers), Agricultural risk and resilience (4 papers), Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (4 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (337 citations), Space and Planetary Science (18 citations), Conservation (45 citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (257 citations) and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (156 citations). Nicholas P. Simpson has collaborated with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Portia Adade Williams, Christopher H. Trisos, Clifford Shearing, Birgitt Ouweneel, Edmond Totin, Benoît Dupont, Mumuni Abu, Olivier Crespo, Walter Leal Filho and Ismaila Rimi Abubakar. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Climate Risk Management, The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Research Letters and Environmental Science & Policy.

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