Richard Dawson

12.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
190 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Richard Dawson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Dawson has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 25 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Richard Dawson's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (63 papers), Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (21 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (16 papers). Richard Dawson is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (63 papers), Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (21 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (16 papers). Richard Dawson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Richard Dawson's co-authors include Jim W. Hall, Alistair Ford, Maria Pregnolato, Shu Tao, Oliver Heidrich, Stuart Barr, Paul Sayers, Sean Wilkinson, Chris Kilsby and Mathaios Panteli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Richard Dawson

184 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Power System Resilience to Extreme Weather: Fragility Modeling, Probabilistic Impact Assessment, and Adaptation Measures

2016 485 citations Mathaios Panteli, Sean Wilkinson et al. profile →
Six research priorities for cities and climate change

2018 439 citations Xuemei Bai, Richard Dawson et al. profile →
The impact of flooding on road transport: A depth-disruption function

2017 395 citations Maria Pregnolato, Alistair Ford et al. profile →
Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities

2018 284 citations Selma B. Guerreiro, Richard Dawson et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Dawson

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Surface urban heat island variations under the 3-decadal urban expansion in China: Patterns and driving factors 2025 ·Sustainable Cities and Society ·Haibo Yang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Richard Dawson, Alistair Ford, Stuart Barr	2
2	International development and disaster risk reduction research: A UK research practitioner stocktake 2023 ·International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ·Mark Pelling, Dilanthi Amaratunga, (unknown), (unknown), Andrew Collins, Richard Dawson, Tanvi Deshpande, Amy Donovan, (unknown), (unknown), Katherine Marsden, Julie Morin, Virginia Murray, Jeremy C. Phillips, S. Sargeant	0
3	Enhanced urban growth modelling: Incorporating regional development heterogeneity and noise reduction in a cellular automata model - a case study of Zhengzhou, China 2023 ·Sustainable Cities and Society ·(unknown), Zongmin Wang, Haibo Yang, Alistair Ford, Richard Dawson	10
4	Systems thinking for water security 2022 ·Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems ·(unknown), Richard Dawson, Claire Walsh, Jaime M. Amézaga, Miguel Peña, Cindy Lee, Sandhya Rao	12
5	LAYERS: A Decision-Support Tool to Illustrate and Assess the Supply and Value Chain for the Energy Transition 2022 ·Sustainability ·Oliver Heidrich, Alistair Ford, Richard Dawson, David A.C. Manning, Eugene Mohareb, Marco Raugei, Joris Baars, Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar	7
6	A climate resilience research renewal agenda: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for urban climate resilience 2021 ·Climate and Development ·Mark Pelling, Winston Chow, Eric Chu, Richard Dawson, David Dodman, Arabella Fraser, Bronwyn Hayward, Luna Khirfan, Timon McPhearson, Anjal Prakash, Gina Ziervogel	38
7	Energy-water nexus at the building level 2021 ·Energy and Buildings ·Shifeng Wang, (unknown), Sicong Wang, Richard Dawson	8
8	Implications of Using Global Digital Elevation Models for Flood Risk Analysis in Cities 2020 ·Water Resources Research ·(unknown), Richard Dawson, Chris Kilsby	56
9	Upscaling urban data science for global climate solutions 2019 ·Global Sustainability ·Felix Creutzig, Steffen Lohrey, Xuemei Bai, Alexander Baklanov, Richard Dawson, Shobhakar Dhakal, William F. Lamb, Timon McPhearson, Jan C. Minx, Esteban Muñoz, Brenna Walsh	89
10	Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities breakdown → 2018 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Selma B. Guerreiro, Richard Dawson, Chris Kilsby, Elizabeth Lewis, Alistair Ford	284
11	A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure 2018 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·Richard Dawson, David B. Thompson, (unknown), Frances Wood, Geoff Darch, Lee Chapman, Paul N. Hughes, Geoff Watson, Kevin Paulson, Sarah Bell, Simon N. Gosling, William Powrie, Jim W. Hall	56
12	Costs of sea dikes – regressions and uncertainty estimates 2017 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·(unknown), Diego Rybski, Oliver Heidrich, Richard Dawson, Jürgen P. Kropp	24
13	Pluvial Flooding in European Cities—A Continental Approach to Urban Flood Modelling 2017 ·Water ·Selma B. Guerreiro, Vassilis Glenis, Richard Dawson, Chris Kilsby	53
14	Future changes in heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities 2017 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Selma B. Guerreiro, Richard Dawson, Chris Kilsby, Elizabeth Lewis, Alistair Ford	1
15	Integrated Approach to Assess the Resilience of Future Electricity Infrastructure Networks to Climate Hazards 2017 ·IEEE Systems Journal ·Gaihua Fu, Sean Wilkinson, Richard Dawson, Hayley J. Fowler, Chris Kilsby, Mathaios Panteli, Pierluigi Mancarella	67
16	Simulating Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on Urban Transport Infrastructure in the UK 2015 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Alistair Ford, Katie Jenkins, Richard Dawson, Maria Pregnolato, Stuart Barr, Jim W. Hall	6
17	Resilience of Resource Movements to Disruptive Events 2014 ·(unknown), Richard Dawson	0
18	An evaluation of thermal Earth observation for characterizing urban heatwave event dynamics using the urban heat island intensity metric 2012 ·International Journal of Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Stuart Barr, Richard Dawson, Jim W. Hall	39
19	Risk Assessment for Strategic Planning (RASP) – An intermediate and detailed level methodology 2003 ·EPrints - HR Wallingford (HR Wallingford) ·Paul Sayers, Jim W. Hall, Richard Dawson, Cornelia Ohl, C Rosu, Ian Meadowcroft	1
20	Risk assessment for flood and coastal defence for strategic planning: High level methodology: Evaluation report 2002 ·Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·Paul Sayers, Jim W. Hall, Richard Dawson, C Rosu, J. B. Chatterton, Robert Deakin	2

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