Rob Allan

13.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
148 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Rob Allan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Allan has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 53 papers in Atmospheric Science and 35 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Rob Allan's work include Climate variability and models (60 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (26 papers). Rob Allan is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (60 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (26 papers). Rob Allan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Rob Allan's co-authors include T. J. Ansell, C. J. C. Reason, J. A. Lindesay, Janette Lindesay, Danny Parker, Edward R. Cook, P. D. Jones, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Rob Wilson and Gilbert P. Compo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Rob Allan

141 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

A New Globally Complete Monthly Historical Gridded Mean S... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 200 400 600
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. A New Globally Complete Monthly Historical Gridded Mean Sea Level Pressure Dataset (HadSLP2): 1850–2004
    2006 718 citations Rob Allan, T. J. Ansell Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rob Allan United Kingdom 36 3.2k 2.9k 1.1k 783 329 148 4.9k
Jun Matsumoto Japan 40 3.8k 1.2× 3.4k 1.2× 1.1k 1.1× 453 0.6× 305 0.9× 272 5.5k
A. P. Cracknell United Kingdom 39 1.8k 0.6× 1.5k 0.5× 504 0.5× 736 0.9× 1.0k 3.1× 200 5.3k
Hiroyuki Murakami Japan 52 6.0k 1.9× 6.1k 2.1× 2.8k 2.6× 186 0.2× 278 0.8× 273 8.0k
S. K. Solanki Germany 66 2.2k 0.7× 3.8k 1.3× 1.3k 1.2× 608 0.8× 304 0.9× 733 18.4k
Richard A. Muller United States 30 955 0.3× 1.4k 0.5× 187 0.2× 530 0.7× 401 1.2× 149 4.4k
Xiaoli Sun United States 30 796 0.2× 789 0.3× 142 0.1× 532 0.7× 304 0.9× 215 3.8k
Pierre Sabatier France 40 355 0.1× 2.0k 0.7× 405 0.4× 780 1.0× 898 2.7× 202 5.8k
Jason Holt United Kingdom 54 2.5k 0.8× 1.5k 0.5× 3.6k 3.4× 127 0.2× 1.1k 3.4× 215 8.7k
Ralf Toumi United Kingdom 39 3.2k 1.0× 3.5k 1.2× 681 0.6× 221 0.3× 276 0.8× 196 5.4k
N. Sato United States 28 1.8k 0.6× 1.2k 0.4× 313 0.3× 177 0.2× 509 1.5× 125 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Rob Allan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Allan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Allan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rob Allan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rob Allan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rob Allan. Rob Allan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vaz, Juliana dos Santos, Rob Allan, Ian Marr, et al.. (2025). Implementation of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for microbiology in Timor-Leste: challenges, mitigation strategies, and end-user experiences. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 25(1). 32–32.
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Skrynyk, Oleg, et al.. (2020). Ukrainian early (pre‐1850) historical weather observations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 55–73. 4 indexed citations
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Turney, Chris, Andrew Klekociuk, Christopher J. Fogwill, et al.. (2017). Brief communication: Changing mid-twentieth century Antarctic sea ice variability linked to tropical forcing. 3 indexed citations
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Turney, Chris, Richard T. Jones, David Lister, et al.. (2016). Anomalous mid-twentieth century atmospheric circulation change over the South Atlantic compared to the last 6000 years. Environmental Research Letters. 11(6). 64009–64009. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaolan L., et al.. (2013). Is the storminess in the Twentieth Century Reanalysis really inconsistent with observations? - A reply to the comment by Krueger et al. (2013). EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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Brohan, Philip, Rob Allan, Eric Freeman, et al.. (2012). Constraining the temperature history of the past millennium using early instrumental observations. 6 indexed citations
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Brohan, Philip, Rob Allan, Eric Freeman, et al.. (2012). Constraining the temperature history of the past millennium using early instrumental observations. Climate of the past. 8(5). 1551–1563. 43 indexed citations
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Allan, Rob, Philip Brohan, Gilbert P. Compo, et al.. (2011). The International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Initiative. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 92(11). 1421–1425. 133 indexed citations
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Allan, Rob, Gilbert P. Compo, & James A. Carton. (2011). Recovery of Global Surface Weather Observations for Historical Reanalyses and International Users. Eos. 92(18). 154–154. 6 indexed citations
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Brohan, Philip, et al.. (2010). Arctic marine climate of the early nineteenth century. Climate of the past. 6(3). 315–324. 15 indexed citations
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Stickler, Alexander, Andrea Grant, Tracy Ewen, et al.. (2009). The Comprehensive Historical Upper-Air Network. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 91(6). 741–752. 48 indexed citations
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Brohan, Philip, Rob Allan, Eric Freeman, et al.. (2008). Marine Observations of Old Weather. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 90(2). 219–230. 42 indexed citations
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Yang, Xin & Rob Allan. (2007). Sakai VRE Demonstrator Project: Realise E-Research through Virtual Research Environments. WSEAS Transactions on Computers archive. 6(3). 539–545. 4 indexed citations
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Allan, Rob, et al.. (2006). A Deep Look at Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) and WSRP4J. 1 indexed citations
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Spence, David, N. I. Geddes, Jens Jensen, et al.. (2006). ShibGrid: Shibboleth Access for the UK National Grid Service. 75–75. 9 indexed citations
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Allan, Rob & T. J. Ansell. (2006). A New Globally Complete Monthly Historical Gridded Mean Sea Level Pressure Dataset (HadSLP2): 1850–2004. Journal of Climate. 19(22). 5816–5842. 718 indexed citations breakdown →
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Meredith, David, et al.. (2006). Application of Business Process Execution Language to Scientific Workflows. 1(3). 289–302. 4 indexed citations
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Allan, Rob, et al.. (2006). e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and other VREs for the Social Sciences. Ariadne. 11. 1 indexed citations
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Stahle, David W., Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Matthew D. Therrell, et al.. (1998). Experimental Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 79(10). 2137–2152. 295 indexed citations
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Allan, Rob, R Shingal, & D. R. Flower. (1986). Charge transfer in H+-Na (3p) collisions: a possible ultraviolet laser mechanism. Journal of Physics B Atomic and Molecular Physics. 19(7). L251–L256. 23 indexed citations

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