Owen King

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Owen King is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Owen King has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Atmospheric Science, 13 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Owen King's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (37 papers), Climate change and permafrost (23 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (18 papers). Owen King is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (37 papers), Climate change and permafrost (23 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (18 papers). Owen King collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Owen King's co-authors include Tobias Bolch, Duncan J. Quincey, Atanu Bhattacharya, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Rakesh Bhambri, Tandong Yao, Ann V. Rowan, C. Scott Watson, David R. Rounce and Amaury Dehecq and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Owen King

39 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed ... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2023 50 100 150 200
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. High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s
    2021 203 citations Atanu Bhattacharya, Tobias Bolch et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya
    2023 96 citations Guoqing Zhang, Tobias Bolch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Owen King United Kingdom 18 1.2k 337 291 134 59 40 1.3k
Michael MacFerrin United States 18 770 0.7× 253 0.8× 355 1.2× 72 0.5× 14 0.2× 30 856
Niklas Neckel Germany 19 1.0k 0.9× 293 0.9× 197 0.7× 105 0.8× 53 0.9× 38 1.1k
J. Rachel Carr United Kingdom 19 984 0.8× 403 1.2× 212 0.7× 96 0.7× 22 0.4× 31 1.1k
Lizong Wu China 9 901 0.8× 83 0.2× 97 0.3× 172 1.3× 132 2.2× 19 1.0k
Kriti Mukherjee India 14 707 0.6× 107 0.3× 164 0.6× 97 0.7× 66 1.1× 23 840
Andreas Linsbauer Switzerland 17 1.3k 1.1× 228 0.7× 397 1.4× 136 1.0× 141 2.4× 31 1.3k
Georg Veh Germany 12 717 0.6× 136 0.4× 318 1.1× 207 1.5× 80 1.4× 25 845
Douglas Brinkerhoff United States 14 781 0.7× 210 0.6× 192 0.7× 160 1.2× 74 1.3× 31 941
Yvonne Schaub Switzerland 9 754 0.7× 143 0.4× 426 1.5× 162 1.2× 53 0.9× 11 864
Sharad Joshi Nepal 14 949 0.8× 189 0.6× 222 0.8× 181 1.4× 128 2.2× 22 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Owen King

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Fields of papers citing papers by Owen King

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Owen King

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All Works

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Mukherjee, Kriti, Atanu Bhattacharya, Sajid Ghuffar, et al.. (2025). Variabilities in climate sensitivities and mass balance of four High Mountain Asian glaciers. Global and Planetary Change. 255. 105044–105044.
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Carrivick, Jonathan L., Ryan Wilson, Bethan J. Davies, et al.. (2024). Accelerating Glacier Area Loss Across the Andes Since the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(13). 6 indexed citations
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Falaschi, Daniel, Atanu Bhattacharya, Lei Huang, et al.. (2023). Annual to seasonal glacier mass balance in High Mountain Asia derived from Pléiades stereo images: examples from the Pamir and the Tibetan Plateau. ˜The œcryosphere. 17(12). 5435–5458. 6 indexed citations
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Brun, Fanny, Owen King, Marion Réveillet, et al.. (2023). Everest South Col Glacier did not thin during the period 1984–2017. ˜The œcryosphere. 17(8). 3251–3268. 7 indexed citations
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Bolch, Tobias, Tandong Yao, Atanu Bhattacharya, et al.. (2022). Earth Observation to Investigate Occurrence, Characteristics and Changes of Glaciers, Glacial Lakes and Rock Glaciers in the Poiqu River Basin (Central Himalaya). Remote Sensing. 14(8). 1927–1927. 12 indexed citations
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Allen, Simon, Ashim Sattar, Owen King, et al.. (2022). Glacial lake outburst flood hazard under current and future conditions: worst-case scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(11). 3765–3785. 30 indexed citations
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King, Owen, Mingyang Lv, Sajid Ghuffar, et al.. (2022). A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach. ˜The œcryosphere. 16(2). 603–623. 62 indexed citations
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Rowan, Ann V., David Lundbek Egholm, Duncan J. Quincey, et al.. (2021). The Role of Differential Ablation and Dynamic Detachment in Driving Accelerating Mass Loss From a Debris‐Covered Himalayan Glacier. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 126(9). 21 indexed citations
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Bhattacharya, Atanu, Tobias Bolch, Kriti Mukherjee, et al.. (2021). High Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4133–4133. 203 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bolch, Tobias, et al.. (2021). Proglacial Lakes Elevate Glacier Surface Velocities in the Himalayan Region. 6 indexed citations
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King, Owen, Mingyang Lv, Sajid Ghuffar, et al.. (2021). A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach. Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity). 2 indexed citations
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Lv, Mingyang, Duncan J. Quincey, Huadong Guo, et al.. (2020). Examining geodetic glacier mass balance in the eastern Pamir transition zone. Journal of Glaciology. 66(260). 927–937. 12 indexed citations
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Watson, C. Scott, Owen King, Evan Miles, & Duncan J. Quincey. (2018). Optimising NDWI supraglacial pond classification on Himalayan debris-covered glaciers. Remote Sensing of Environment. 217. 414–425. 61 indexed citations
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Quincey, Duncan J., Mark W. Smith, David R. Rounce, et al.. (2017). Evaluating morphological estimates of the aerodynamic roughness of debris covered glacier ice. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(15). 2541–2553. 22 indexed citations
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Rowan, Ann V., Lindsey Nicholson, Emily Collier, et al.. (2017). Multiannual observations and modelling of seasonal thermal profiles through supraglacial debris in the Central Himalaya. Aberystwyth Research portal (Aberystwyth University). 3 indexed citations
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Forsberg, R., et al.. (2014). New aerogeophysical views of crustal architecture in the Recovery frontier of East Antarctica. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4374. 1 indexed citations

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