Peter D. Killworth

12.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
175 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

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Peter D. Killworth is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter D. Killworth has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Oceanography, 61 papers in Atmospheric Science and 44 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Peter D. Killworth's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (96 papers), Climate variability and models (40 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (30 papers). Peter D. Killworth is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (96 papers), Climate variability and models (40 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (30 papers). Peter D. Killworth collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Peter D. Killworth's co-authors include H. Russell Bernard, Lee Sailer, Christopher McCarty, Jeffrey R. Blundell, Gene A. Shelley, Eugene C. Johnsen, David Webb, Dudley B. Chelton, Roland A. de Szoeke and Melvin E. Stern and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Peter D. Killworth

173 papers receiving 7.5k citations

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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 Problem of Informant Accuracy: The Validity of Retrospective Data

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter D. Killworth United Kingdom	50	4.1k	2.9k	2.6k	1.4k	1.2k	175	8.7k
Andrew C. Thomas United States	47	4.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	3.7k 1.4×	604 0.4×	328 0.3×	131	13.9k
Andrew J. Weaver Canada	62	4.8k 1.2×	9.2k 3.1×	8.4k 3.2×	1.2k 0.9×	189 0.2×	303	17.1k
Chris Chatfield United Kingdom	43	461 0.1×	579 0.2×	1.3k 0.5×	427 0.3×	296 0.3×	94	14.1k
Pranab Kumar Sen United States	39	912 0.2×	4.1k 1.4×	7.7k 3.0×	316 0.2×	154 0.1×	469	20.0k
Stephen E. Fienberg United States	34	963 0.2×	233 0.1×	1.7k 0.7×	953 0.7×	118 0.1×	151	14.9k
S. T. Buckland United Kingdom	66	1.4k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	5.2k 2.0×	348 0.2×	101 0.1×	201	27.5k
George Sugihara United States	50	1.3k 0.3×	1.3k 0.4×	7.5k 2.9×	867 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	109	16.8k
J. Aitchison United Kingdom	39	266 0.1×	957 0.3×	919 0.4×	424 0.3×	177 0.2×	94	15.7k
Roger A. Pielke United States	82	1.5k 0.4×	15.6k 5.3×	19.8k 7.6×	1.2k 0.8×	340 0.3×	447	27.3k
Vasilis Dakos France	40	854 0.2×	1.5k 0.5×	8.7k 3.3×	1.0k 0.7×	920 0.8×	100	13.3k

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Killworth, Peter D.. (2008). Estimating Bolus Velocities from Data—How Large Must They Be?. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 39(1). 70–88. 1 indexed citations

Killworth, Peter D., et al.. (2005). Remote visualisation of Labrador convection in large oceanic datasets. Atmospheric Science Letters. 6(4). 198–203. 1 indexed citations

Hogg, Andrew McC., William K. Dewar, Peter D. Killworth, & Jeffrey R. Blundell. (2003). A Quasi-Geostrophic Coupled Model (Q-GCM). Monthly Weather Review. 131(10). 2261–2278. 44 indexed citations

Killworth, Peter D. & Jeffrey R. Blundell. (2003). Long Extratropical Planetary Wave Propagation in the Presence of Slowly Varying Mean Flow and Bottom Topography. Part I: The Local Problem. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 33(4). 784–801. 83 indexed citations

Killworth, Peter D., Christian Dieterich, C. Le Provost, Andreas Oschlies, & Jürgen Willebrand. (2001). Assimilation of altimetric data and mean sea surface height into an eddy-permitting model of the North Atlantic. Progress In Oceanography. 48(2-3). 313–335. 16 indexed citations

Nurser, A. J. George, Peter D. Killworth, & S.G. Alderson. (2000). A new approach to the sigma-coordinate pressure gradient problem in a terrain-following bottom boundary layer model. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 4 indexed citations

Killworth, Peter D., Jeffrey R. Blundell, & William K. Dewar. (1997). Primitive Equation Instability of Wide Oceanic Rings. Part I: Linear Theory. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 27(6). 941–962. 20 indexed citations

Killworth, Peter D.. (1996). Time Interpolation of Forcing Fields in Ocean Models. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 26(1). 136–143. 62 indexed citations

Coward, Andrew C., Peter D. Killworth, & Jeffrey R. Blundell. (1994). Tests of a two‐grid world ocean model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 99(C11). 22725–22735. 13 indexed citations

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Stevens, David P. & Peter D. Killworth. (1992). The distribution of kinetic energy in the Southern Ocean: a comparison between observations and an eddy resolving general circulation model. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 338(1285). 251–257. 24 indexed citations

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Webb, David, B. A. de Cuevas, Peter D. Killworth, & Mark P. Rowe. (1990). Initial results from a fine resolution model of the southern ocean. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 13 indexed citations

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Bernard, H. Russell, Eugene C. Johnsen, Peter D. Killworth, et al.. (1990). Comparing four different methods for measuring personal social networks. Social Networks. 12(3). 179–215. 144 indexed citations

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Bigg, Grant R. & Peter D. Killworth. (1988). Conservative tracers and the ocean circulation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 325(1583). 177–187. 3 indexed citations

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Killworth, Peter D. & Grant R. Bigg. (1988). An Intercomparison of Inverse Methods Using an Eddy-Resolving General Circulation Model. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 18(7). 987–1008. 11 indexed citations

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Griffiths, R. W., Peter D. Killworth, & Melvin E. Stern. (1982). Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 117. 343–377. 134 indexed citations

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Bernard, H. Russell, Peter D. Killworth, & Lee Sailer. (1982). Informant accuracy in social-network data V. An experimental attempt to predict actual communication from recall data. Social Science Research. 11(1). 30–66. 221 indexed citations

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Martinson, Douglas G., Peter D. Killworth, & Arnold L. Gordon. (1981). A Convective Model for the Weddell Polynya. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 11(4). 466–488. 149 indexed citations

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Anderson, David L. T. & Peter D. Killworth. (1979). Non-linear propagation of long Rossby waves. Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers. 26(9). 1033–1049. 27 indexed citations

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Killworth, Peter D. & H. Russell Bernard. (1979). A Pseudomodel of the Small World Problem. Social Forces. 58(2). 477–505. 16 indexed citations

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Killworth, Peter D.. (1979). On the propagation of stable baroclinic Rossby waves through a mean shear flow. Deep Sea Research Part A Oceanographic Research Papers. 26(9). 997–1031. 10 indexed citations

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