Sally Thompson

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
168 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Sally Thompson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sally Thompson has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 67 papers in Water Science and Technology and 33 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sally Thompson's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (66 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (57 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (21 papers). Sally Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (66 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (57 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (21 papers). Sally Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Sally Thompson's co-authors include Gabriel G. Katul, N. B. Basu, P. Suresh C. Rao, Murugesu Sivapalan, C. J. Harman, David Dralle, Todd E. Dawson, Marc F. Müller, Scott L. Stephens and David D. Ackerly and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sally Thompson

156 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity

2010 464 citations Sally Thompson, Murugesu Sivapalan et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sally Thompson United States	43	2.9k	2.2k	1.2k	1.0k	961	168	5.6k
Thomas G. Huntington United States	37	3.2k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	703 0.7×	1.8k 1.9×	80	6.6k
C. Tague United States	45	4.4k 1.5×	3.5k 1.6×	1.8k 1.5×	992 1.0×	2.3k 2.4×	156	7.7k
Dominik Wisser United States	27	3.5k 1.2×	4.0k 1.8×	1.2k 1.0×	524 0.5×	815 0.8×	44	7.0k
T. Meixner United States	40	2.2k 0.8×	2.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.1×	443 0.4×	911 0.9×	139	5.9k
John L. Campbell United States	41	3.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	2.3k 1.9×	1.8k 1.7×	1.7k 1.8×	146	7.4k
Xiaohua Wei Canada	44	3.8k 1.3×	2.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	997 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	193	6.4k
Bruce R. Forsberg Brazil	41	1.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	2.7k 2.2×	1.8k 1.7×	659 0.7×	113	6.4k
Carolyn T. Hunsaker United States	29	2.3k 0.8×	942 0.4×	2.1k 1.7×	1.4k 1.3×	750 0.8×	72	4.9k
Javier Tomasella Brazil	39	3.5k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	654 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	113	6.0k
Wei Shangguan China	25	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	594 0.6×	1.5k 1.5×	69	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Sally Thompson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sally Thompson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sally Thompson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Duncan, John, et al.. (2025). Training sensor-agnostic deep learning models for remote sensing: Achieving state-of-the-art cloud and cloud shadow identification with OmniCloudMask. Remote Sensing of Environment. 322. 114694–114694. 1 indexed citations

Katul, Gabriel G., et al.. (2025). Uniting Surface Properties With Hydrodynamic Roughness in Shallow Overland Flow Models. Water Resources Research. 61(1).

Dawson, Todd E., et al.. (2025). Mind the Data Gap: Using a Multi‐Measurement Synthesis for Identifying the Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Plant Drought Response and Recovery. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(5). 3673–3690. 1 indexed citations

Carlson, Stephanie M., Mariska Obedzinski, Sean Gallagher, et al.. (2025). Anatomy of a range contraction: Flow–phenology mismatches threaten salmonid fishes near their trailing edge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(14). e2415670122–e2415670122. 1 indexed citations

Wright, Nicholas F., John Duncan, Nik Callow, Sally Thompson, & Richard J George. (2025). Adaptive water body detection: Integrating deep learning, normalised difference water index, and vector data for farm dam water monitoring with OmniWaterMask. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 227. 714–732. 1 indexed citations

Feng, Xue, et al.. (2024). Different roads, same destination: The shared future of plant ecophysiology and ecohydrology. Plant Cell & Environment. 47(9). 3447–3465. 3 indexed citations

Bourke, Sarah A., et al.. (2024). Nonstationary recharge responses to a drying climate in the Gnangara Groundwater System, Western Australia. Journal of Hydrology. 633. 131007–131007. 6 indexed citations

Pfefferlé, David, et al.. (2024). Idealized branch sections and hydrodynamic analysis characterize rainfall partitioning. Hydrological Processes. 38(6). 2 indexed citations

Skelton, Robert P., et al.. (2023). Exploring within‐plant hydraulic trait variation: A test of the vulnerability segmentation hypothesis. Plant Cell & Environment. 46(9). 2726–2746. 12 indexed citations

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Azad, Nasrin, Javad Behmanesh, Vahid Rezaverdinejad, et al.. (2023). CNN deep learning performance in estimating nitrate uptake by maize and root zone losses under surface drip irrigation. Journal of Hydrology. 625. 130148–130148. 10 indexed citations

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Ali, Geneviève, Nandita B. Basu, Karletta Chief, et al.. (2023). A commentary on women’s contributions in hydrology. Journal of Hydrology. 624. 129884–129884. 2 indexed citations

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Holton, David, et al.. (2023). Thermal hydraulic and mechanical modelling of the full-scale in situ test (FISST). Engineering Geology. 322. 107165–107165. 3 indexed citations

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Katul, Gabriel G., et al.. (2023). Hydrologic Connectivity and Patch‐To‐Hillslope Scale Relations in Dryland Ecosystems. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(10). 4 indexed citations

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Groh, Jannis, Lana Filipović, Horst H. Gerke, et al.. (2023). Soil–Water Dynamics Investigation at Agricultural Hillslope with High-Precision Weighing Lysimeters and Soil–Water Collection Systems. Water. 15(13). 2398–2398. 4 indexed citations

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Khodaverdiloo, Habib, et al.. (2022). Recalibration of existing pedotransfer functions to estimate soil bulk density at a regional scale. European Journal of Soil Science. 73(3). 2 indexed citations

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Abrahão, Gabriel Medeiros, et al.. (2021). A MODIS-based scalable remote sensing method to estimate sowing and harvest dates of soybean crops in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Heliyon. 7(7). e07436–e07436. 23 indexed citations

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Boisramé, Gabrielle, Sally Thompson, C. Tague, & Scott L. Stephens. (2019). Restoring a Natural Fire Regime Alters the Water Balance of a Sierra Nevada Catchment. Water Resources Research. 55(7). 5751–5769. 52 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sally, et al.. (2015). Hydrological signatures of Critical Zone Processes: Developing targets for Critical Zone modeling.. AGUFM. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sally, Murugesu Sivapalan, C. J. Harman, et al.. (2013). Developing predictive insight into changing water systems: use-inspired hydrologic science for the Anthropocene. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(12). 5013–5039. 109 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sally. (2008). Community-based camp management. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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