Robert Muir‐Wood

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Robert Muir‐Wood is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Muir‐Wood has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Robert Muir‐Wood's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (8 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (5 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (4 papers). Robert Muir‐Wood is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (8 papers), Disaster Management and Resilience (5 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (4 papers). Robert Muir‐Wood collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Austria. Robert Muir‐Wood's co-authors include G. C. P. King, Reinhard Mechler, Shinjiro Kanae, Neville Nicholls, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Wolfgang Kron, Pascal Peduzzi, Gerardo Benito, Kiyoshi Takahashi and Katharine J. Mach and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Robert Muir‐Wood

27 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

2013 1.1k citations Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Shinjiro Kanae et al. Hydrological Sciences Journal profile →
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States

2017 730 citations Solomon Hsiang, Robert E. Kopp et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Muir‐Wood United Kingdom	11	1.4k	516	513	457	440	27	2.8k
Edward Maltby United Kingdom	25	1.3k 0.9×	267 0.5×	671 1.3×	121 0.3×	132 0.3×	64	3.7k
Tin Lukić Serbia	27	594 0.4×	211 0.4×	345 0.7×	163 0.4×	253 0.6×	102	1.9k
Joel B. Smith United States	38	2.3k 1.6×	492 1.0×	760 1.5×	125 0.3×	938 2.1×	103	5.2k
Pascal Peduzzi Switzerland	27	2.9k 2.1×	684 1.3×	1.5k 2.9×	134 0.3×	986 2.2×	62	5.1k
Grégory Giuliani Switzerland	37	1.1k 0.8×	323 0.6×	670 1.3×	989 2.2×	128 0.3×	179	4.1k
Ning Li China	30	890 0.6×	124 0.2×	395 0.8×	85 0.2×	462 1.1×	133	2.5k
Hy Dao Switzerland	20	1.3k 0.9×	147 0.3×	754 1.5×	73 0.2×	670 1.5×	39	2.4k
Russell Blong Australia	29	1.1k 0.8×	141 0.3×	1.0k 2.0×	489 1.1×	413 0.9×	91	3.0k
John McAneney Australia	21	1.5k 1.1×	191 0.4×	781 1.5×	75 0.2×	501 1.1×	43	2.4k
Christopher Lloyd United Kingdom	30	700 0.5×	244 0.5×	440 0.9×	40 0.1×	444 1.0×	126	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Muir‐Wood

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Muir‐Wood

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Muir‐Wood

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert Muir‐Wood. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert Muir‐Wood 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 Robert Muir‐Wood. Robert Muir‐Wood is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hsiang, Solomon, Robert E. Kopp, Amir Jina, et al.. (2017). Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States. Science. 356(6345). 1362–1369. 730 indexed citations breakdown →

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Muir‐Wood, Robert. (2016). The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters. 7 indexed citations

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Muir‐Wood, Robert, et al.. (2016). What constitutes a global baseline for worldwide casualties from catastrophes?. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 17. 123–127. 2 indexed citations

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Muir‐Wood, Robert, et al.. (2015). Comprehensive Disaster Risk Modeling for Agriculture. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

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Nyst, M., et al.. (2014). Quantifying the Earthquake Clustering that Independent Sources with Stationary Rates (as Included in Current Risk Models) Can Produce.. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Houser, Trevor, Solomon Hsiang, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, et al.. (2014). Risky Business and the American Climate Prospectus: Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States". AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Tom, et al.. (2014). Setting, measuring and monitoring targets for reducing disaster risk : Recommendations for post-2015 international policy frameworks. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 8 indexed citations

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Kundzewicz, Zbigniew W., Shinjiro Kanae, Sonia I. Seneviratne, et al.. (2013). Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 59(1). 1–28. 1136 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shepherd, Andrew, Tom Mitchell, Kirsty Lewis, et al.. (2013). The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030. 77 indexed citations

10.

Sparks, R. S. J., Susan Loughlin, Elizabeth Cottrell, et al.. (2012). Global Volcano Model. EGUGA. 13299. 1 indexed citations

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Michel‐Kerjan, Erwann, Stefan Hochrainer‐Stigler, Howard Kunreuther, et al.. (2012). Catastrophe Risk Models for Evaluating Disaster Risk Reduction Investments in Developing Countries. Risk Analysis. 33(6). 984–999. 93 indexed citations

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Mignan, Arnaud, et al.. (2010). Risk assessment of Tunguska-type airbursts. Natural Hazards. 56(3). 869–880. 10 indexed citations

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Hallegatte, Stéphane, Nicola Patmore, Olivier Mestre, et al.. (2009). Assessing climate change impacts, sea level rise and storm surge risk in port cities: A case study on Copenhagen. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 6(33). 332021–332021. 29 indexed citations

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Hallegatte, Stéphane, Nicola Patmore, Olivier Mestre, et al.. (2009). Assessing climate change impacts, sea level rise and storm surge risk in port cities: A case study on Copenhagen. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 6(33). 332021–332021. 10 indexed citations

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Herweijer, Celine, Robert J. Nicholls, Susan Hanson, et al.. (2008). How do our coastal cities fare under rising flood risk?. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 2 indexed citations

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Lonfat, Manuel, et al.. (2007). Atlantic basin, U.S. and Caribbean landfall activity rates over the 2006–2010 period: an insurance industry perspective. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 59(4). 499–499. 8 indexed citations

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Wilbanks, Thomas J., Patricia Romero‐Lankao, Frans Berkhout, et al.. (2007). Industry, settlement and society. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 357–390. 143 indexed citations

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Muir‐Wood, Robert & G. C. P. King. (1993). Hydrological signatures of earthquake strain. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 98(B12). 22035–22068. 381 indexed citations

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Muir‐Wood, Robert. (1989). EUROPEAN EARTH SCIENCES (or how to convert a suspect terrane into a craton). Terra Nova. 1(1). 7–14. 1 indexed citations

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Muir‐Wood, Robert, et al.. (1989). TERRA BOOK. Terra Nova. 1(1). 100–101. 1 indexed citations

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