Roger Wheate

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Roger Wheate is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger Wheate has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atmospheric Science, 10 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Roger Wheate's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers), Climate change and permafrost (16 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (7 papers). Roger Wheate is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers), Climate change and permafrost (16 papers) and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (7 papers). Roger Wheate collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Georgia and Russia. Roger Wheate's co-authors include Brian Menounos, Tobias Bolch, R. D. Moore, Erik Schiefer, Levan Tielidze, M. J. Beedle, Sean W. Fleming, Andrew G. Fountain, Matthias Jakob and Kerstin Stahl and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Geophysical Research Letters and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Roger Wheate

31 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Landsat-based inventory of glaciers in western Canada, 19... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400
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. Landsat-based inventory of glaciers in western Canada, 1985–2005
    2009 443 citations Tobias Bolch, Brian Menounos et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roger Wheate Canada 18 1.3k 306 305 304 203 33 1.7k
Tiangang Liang China 22 1.2k 0.9× 161 0.5× 601 2.0× 331 1.1× 213 1.0× 41 1.6k
Yong Nie China 17 1.4k 1.1× 258 0.8× 415 1.4× 191 0.6× 393 1.9× 47 1.8k
Hendrik Wulf Switzerland 13 548 0.4× 118 0.4× 228 0.7× 199 0.7× 189 0.9× 21 829
L. H. Pitcher United States 19 710 0.5× 139 0.5× 343 1.1× 227 0.7× 169 0.8× 38 1.1k
C. A. Hiemstra United States 26 2.0k 1.5× 352 1.2× 974 3.2× 212 0.7× 268 1.3× 51 2.4k
Xiaohua Hao China 20 1.2k 0.9× 344 1.1× 463 1.5× 99 0.3× 113 0.6× 86 1.5k
K. J. Bormann United States 19 1.3k 1.0× 377 1.2× 664 2.2× 89 0.3× 218 1.1× 36 1.7k
Esteban Alonso‐González Spain 22 940 0.7× 302 1.0× 517 1.7× 104 0.3× 176 0.9× 69 1.2k
Mahendra R. Bhutiyani India 10 882 0.7× 196 0.6× 592 1.9× 68 0.2× 126 0.6× 14 1.2k
Fabia Hüsler Switzerland 14 400 0.3× 108 0.4× 350 1.1× 224 0.7× 130 0.6× 19 735

Countries citing papers authored by Roger Wheate

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roger Wheate

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roger Wheate

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roger Wheate. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roger Wheate 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 Roger Wheate. Roger Wheate 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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Johnson, Chris J., et al.. (2024). Accuracy, uncertainty, and biases in cumulative pressure mapping. Ecological Indicators. 166. 112407–112407. 3 indexed citations
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Johnson, Chris J., et al.. (2022). Canada’s human footprint reveals large intact areas juxtaposed against areas under immense anthropogenic pressure. FACETS. 7. 398–419. 27 indexed citations
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Tielidze, Levan, Tobias Bolch, Roger Wheate, et al.. (2020). Supra-glacial debris cover changes in the Greater Caucasus from 1986 to 2014. ˜The œcryosphere. 14(2). 585–598. 61 indexed citations
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Tielidze, Levan, Tobias Bolch, Roger Wheate, et al.. (2019). Brief communication: Supraglacial debris-cover changesin the Caucasus Mountains. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1 indexed citations
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Tielidze, Levan & Roger Wheate. (2018). The Greater Caucasus Glacier Inventory (Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan). ˜The œcryosphere. 12(1). 81–94. 69 indexed citations
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Paul, Siddhartho Shekhar, et al.. (2018). Application of Object Oriented Image Classification and Markov Chain Modeling for Land Use and Land Cover Change Analysis. Journal of Environmental Informatics. 28 indexed citations
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Tielidze, Levan, Roger Wheate, Stanislav Kutuzov, Kate Doyle, & Ivan Lavrentiev. (2017). Supraglacial debris cover assessment in the CaucasusMountains, 1986-2000-2014. 1 indexed citations
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Beedle, M. J., Brian Menounos, & Roger Wheate. (2015). Glacier change in the Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia, Canada (1952–2005). ˜The œcryosphere. 9(1). 65–80. 19 indexed citations
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Parker, Katherine L., et al.. (2014). BURNING FOR NORTHERN MOUNTAIN UNGULATES: EFFECTS OF PRESCRIBED FIRE By. 1 indexed citations
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Beedle, M. J., Brian Menounos, & Roger Wheate. (2014). An evaluation of mass-balance methods applied to Castle creek Glacier, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Glaciology. 60(220). 262–276. 26 indexed citations
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Jost, G., R. D. Moore, Brian Menounos, & Roger Wheate. (2012). Quantifying the contribution of glacier runoff to streamflow in the upper Columbia River Basin, Canada. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(3). 849–860. 129 indexed citations
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Menounos, Brian, et al.. (2012). Area change of glaciers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 1919 to 2006. ˜The œcryosphere. 6(6). 1541–1552. 51 indexed citations
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Marshall, Shawn J., Michael N. Demuth, Tobias Bolch, et al.. (2011). Glacier Water Resources on the Eastern Slopes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 36(2). 109–134. 97 indexed citations
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Wheate, Roger. (2009). UK Society of Cartographers’ Forty-Fourth Annual Summer School 2008. Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 44(2). 125–127. 1 indexed citations
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Schiefer, Erik, Brian Menounos, & Roger Wheate. (2008). An inventory and morphometric analysis of British Columbia glaciers, Canada. Journal of Glaciology. 54(186). 551–560. 43 indexed citations
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Menounos, Brian, et al.. (2007). First results from a satellite and photo-based glacier inventory for British Columbia, Canada. AGUFM. 2007. 1 indexed citations
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Raup, Bruce, S. S. Khalsa, R. L. Armstrong, et al.. (2004). Comparative Image Analysis to Ensure Data Quality in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier Database. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Chris J., et al.. (2003). Characterizing woodland caribou habitat in sub-boreal and boreal forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 180(1-3). 241–248. 29 indexed citations
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Wheate, Roger, et al.. (1979). Re-assessing the Role Played by Shaded Relief in Topographic Scale Maps. The Cartographic Journal. 16(2). 77–85. 14 indexed citations

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