Paul Pilon

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Paul Pilon is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Pilon has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Water Science and Technology and 4 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Paul Pilon's work include Hydrology and Drought Analysis (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers). Paul Pilon is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Drought Analysis (13 papers), Climate variability and models (10 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers). Paul Pilon collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. Paul Pilon's co-authors include Sheng Yue, George Cavadias, K. Adamowski, Kaz Adamowski, Younes Alila, Terry D. Prowse, William D. Hogg, R. G. Lawford, Frank Schneider and Michael G. Sideris and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Journal of Hydrology and Hydrological Processes.

In The Last Decade

Paul Pilon

21 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

The influence of autocorrelation on the ability to detect trend in hydrological series

2002 1.7k citations Sheng Yue, Paul Pilon et al. profile →
Power of the Mann–Kendall and Spearman's rho tests for detecting monotonic trends in hydrological series

2002 1.7k citations Sheng Yue, Paul Pilon et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Pilon Canada	16	3.4k	1.9k	1.3k	606	490	22	4.5k
George Cavadias Canada	6	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	526 0.9×	429 0.9×	8	3.6k
A. Ramachandra Rao United States	19	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	821 1.4×	415 0.8×	71	4.2k
Khaled H. Hamed Egypt	14	3.5k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	720 1.2×	509 1.0×	42	4.7k
T. A. Buishand Netherlands	32	3.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.5×	467 0.8×	226 0.5×	64	4.6k
Stephen P. Charles Australia	32	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	731 1.2×	286 0.6×	68	4.2k
Venkataramana Sridhar United States	37	3.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	849 1.4×	429 0.9×	126	4.9k
Juan B. Valdés United States	36	3.1k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	554 1.1×	121	4.6k
G. H. Leavesley United States	30	2.9k 0.8×	2.9k 1.5×	1.7k 1.3×	955 1.6×	350 0.7×	69	4.5k
Gab Abramowitz Australia	35	3.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	779 1.3×	361 0.7×	93	4.2k
Bryson C. Bates Australia	25	2.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	803 0.6×	669 1.1×	405 0.8×	54	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Pilon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Pilon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Pilon

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pilon, Paul, et al.. (2007). Call for Collaboration in WMO Project for the Assessment of the Performance of Flow Measurement Instruments and Techniques. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering. 133(12). 1439–1440. 2 indexed citations

Pilon, Paul. (2006). Perennial Solutions: A Grower's Guide to Perennial Production. 3 indexed citations

Yue, Sheng & Paul Pilon. (2005). Probability distribution type of Canadian annual minimum streamflow / Type de distribution de probabilité du débit minimum annuel au Canada. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 50(3). 16 indexed citations

Yue, Sheng & Paul Pilon. (2004). A comparison of the power of the t test, Mann-Kendall and bootstrap tests for trend detection / Une comparaison de la puissance des tests t de Student, de Mann-Kendall et du bootstrap pour la détection de tendance. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 49(1). 21–37. 336 indexed citations

Pilon, Paul, et al.. (2004). Guidelines for Reducing Flood Losses. 82 indexed citations

Yue, Sheng & Paul Pilon. (2003). Interaction between deterministic trend and autoregressive process. Water Resources Research. 39(4). 36 indexed citations

Yue, Sheng, et al.. (2003). Canadian streamflow trend detection: impacts of serial and cross-correlation. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 48(1). 51–63. 407 indexed citations

Yue, Sheng, Paul Pilon, & George Cavadias. (2002). Power of the Mann–Kendall and Spearman's rho tests for detecting monotonic trends in hydrological series. Journal of Hydrology. 259(1-4). 254–271. 1663 indexed citations breakdown →

Pilon, Paul & Sheng Yue. (2002). Detecting climate-related trends in streamflow data. Water Science & Technology. 45(8). 89–104. 18 indexed citations

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Yue, Sheng, et al.. (2001). Patterns of Trend in Canadian Streamflow. 5 indexed citations

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Schneider, Frank, et al.. (2000). Contributions of Evaluation Research to the Development of Community Policing in a Canadian City. Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. 15(1). 101–129. 3 indexed citations

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Pilon, Paul. (1997). CHALLENGES FACING SURFACE WATER MONITORING IN CANADA: REPLY TO THE DISCUSSION BY M.N. DEMUTH. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 22(1). 93–93. 1 indexed citations

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Pilon, Paul, et al.. (1996). CHALLENGES FACING SURFACE WATER MONITORING IN CANADA. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 21(2). 157–164. 23 indexed citations

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Pilon, Paul, et al.. (1996). Development of Test Material for Narcotics Detection Equipment: Sand/Drug Mixtures. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 41(3). 371–375. 4 indexed citations

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Adamowski, Kaz, Younes Alila, & Paul Pilon. (1996). Regional rainfall distribution for Canada. Atmospheric Research. 42(1-4). 75–88. 41 indexed citations

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Lawford, R. G., et al.. (1995). Hydrometeorological aspects of flood hazards in Canada. ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN. 33(2). 303–328. 20 indexed citations

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Pilon, Paul & Kaz Adamowski. (1993). Asymptotic variance of flood quantile in log Pearson Type III distribution with historical information. Journal of Hydrology. 143(3-4). 481–503. 30 indexed citations

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Pilon, Paul & K. Adamowski. (1992). The value of regional information to flood frequency analysis using the method of L-moments. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. 19(1). 137–147. 52 indexed citations

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Pilon, Paul, et al.. (1992). Ion Mobility Spectrometry of Drugs of Abuse in Customs Scenarios: Concentration and Temperature Study. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 37(6). 1550–1566. 27 indexed citations

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Pilon, Paul, K. Adamowski, & Younes Alila. (1991). Regional analysis of annual maxima precipitation using L-moments. Atmospheric Research. 27(1-3). 81–92. 29 indexed citations

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