Sally Thorpe

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Sally Thorpe is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sally Thorpe has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Oceanography, 39 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 26 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sally Thorpe's work include Marine and fisheries research (34 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (30 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers). Sally Thorpe is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (34 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (30 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (28 papers). Sally Thorpe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Sally Thorpe's co-authors include Eugene J. Murphy, Michael P. Meredith, Geraint A. Tarling, Karen J. Heywood, Kevin A. Hughes, Claire M. Waluda, J. L. Watkins, Iván Loaiza, César O. Pacherres and Huw J. Griffiths and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sally Thorpe

85 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microplastics in the Antarctic marine system: An emerging area of research

2017 568 citations Catherine Waller, Huw J. Griffiths et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sally Thorpe United Kingdom	35	1.3k	1.3k	1.3k	724	660	87	3.3k
Huw J. Griffiths United Kingdom	35	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	524 0.7×	642 1.0×	108	3.7k
Sanae Chiba Japan	33	1.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	351 0.5×	374 0.6×	59	3.1k
P. William Froneman South Africa	41	2.7k 2.1×	2.0k 1.6×	2.7k 2.2×	362 0.5×	537 0.8×	216	5.2k
Charlotte Laufkötter Switzerland	21	1.5k 1.1×	964 0.7×	689 0.5×	388 0.5×	499 0.8×	36	2.5k
Genuario Belmonte Italy	25	1.2k 0.9×	744 0.6×	953 0.8×	136 0.2×	650 1.0×	125	2.6k
Thomas G. Bornman South Africa	21	805 0.6×	559 0.4×	649 0.5×	338 0.5×	492 0.7×	52	1.9k
Coleen L. Moloney South Africa	33	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	1.8k 1.4×	152 0.2×	1.5k 2.2×	122	4.4k
Simonepietro Canese Italy	35	1.3k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.7×	144 0.2×	777 1.2×	122	3.4k
Jan Newton United States	32	2.8k 2.1×	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	366 0.5×	181 0.3×	89	3.5k
Ana M. Queirós United Kingdom	31	1.7k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.2×	98 0.1×	799 1.2×	64	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Sally Thorpe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sally Thorpe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sally Thorpe

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

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Sylvester, Zephyr, Alexis A. Bahl, Sophie Bestley, et al.. (2025). Untangling the complexities of larval Antarctic krill overwintering success under climate change. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 82(4).

Tarling, Geraint A., Sally Thorpe, Sian F. Henley, et al.. (2024). Collapse of a giant iceberg in a dynamic Southern Ocean marine ecosystem: In situ observations of A-68A at South Georgia. Progress In Oceanography. 226. 103297–103297. 3 indexed citations

Whitehouse, Michael J., Katharine Hendry, Geraint A. Tarling, Sally Thorpe, & Petra ten Hoopen. (2023). A database of marine macronutrient, temperature and salinity measurements made around the highly productive island of South Georgia, the Scotia Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula between 1980 and 2009. Earth system science data. 15(1). 211–224. 3 indexed citations

Thorpe, Sally, et al.. (2023). Plasticity and seasonality of the vertical migration behaviour of Antarctic krill using acoustic data from fishing vessels. Royal Society Open Science. 10(9). 230520–230520. 11 indexed citations

Merkel, Benjamin, Philip N. Trathan, Sally Thorpe, et al.. (2023). Quantifying circumpolar summer habitat for Antarctic krill and Ice krill, two key species of the Antarctic marine ecosystem. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 80(6). 1773–1786. 8 indexed citations

Rowlands, Emily, Tamara S. Galloway, Matthew Cole, et al.. (2023). Scoping intergenerational effects of nanoplastic on the lipid reserves of Antarctic krill embryos. Aquatic Toxicology. 261. 106591–106591. 6 indexed citations

Rowlands, Emily, Tamara S. Galloway, Matthew Cole, et al.. (2023). Vertical flux of microplastic, a case study in the Southern Ocean, South Georgia. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 193. 115117–115117. 19 indexed citations

Manno, Clara, Sophie Fielding, Gabriele Stowasser, et al.. (2020). Continuous moulting by Antarctic krill drives major pulses of carbon export in the north Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6051–6051. 59 indexed citations

Balestreri, Cecilia, Sally Thorpe, Finlo Cottier, et al.. (2020). Implications of increasing Atlantic influence for Arctic microbial community structure. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 19262–19262. 14 indexed citations

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Belcher, Anna, Stephanie Henson, Clara Manno, et al.. (2019). Krill faecal pellets drive hidden pulses of particulate organic carbon in the marginal ice zone. Nature Communications. 10(1). 889–889. 50 indexed citations

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Flaviani, Flavia, Declan C. Schroeder, Karen Lebret, et al.. (2018). Distinct Oceanic Microbiomes From Viruses to Protists Located Near the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1474–1474. 22 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Katrin, Thomas A. Brown, Simon T. Belt, et al.. (2018). Do pelagic grazers benefit from sea ice? Insights from the Antarctic sea ice proxy IPSO ₂₅. Biogeosciences. 15(7). 1987–2006. 24 indexed citations

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Murphy, Eugene J., et al.. (2017). Restricted regions of enhanced growth of Antarctic krill in the circumpolar Southern Ocean. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 6963–6963. 35 indexed citations

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Tarling, Geraint A. & Sally Thorpe. (2017). Oceanic swarms of Antarctic krill perform satiation sinking. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1869). 20172015–20172015. 21 indexed citations

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Waller, Catherine, Huw J. Griffiths, Claire M. Waluda, et al.. (2017). Microplastics in the Antarctic marine system: An emerging area of research. The Science of The Total Environment. 598. 220–227. 568 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thorpe, Sally, et al.. (2014). Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement. 4(2). 27. 4 indexed citations

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Boehme, Lars, Phil Lovell, Martin Biuw, et al.. (2009). Technical Note: Animal-borne CTD-Satellite Relay Data Loggers for real-time oceanographic data collection. Ocean science. 5(4). 685–695. 135 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Sally, et al.. (2008). Murray Darling Basin: Economic Implications of Water Scarcity. 15(1). 265. 4 indexed citations

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Hogan, Lindsay, et al.. (2002). Mineral Exploration in Australia: Trends, Economic Impacts and Policy Issues. 9(4). 601. 11 indexed citations

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Hogan, Lindsay, Sally Thorpe, & Peter Berry. (1999). Regional Australia: incomes, industry location and infrastructure.. 6(4). 674. 3 indexed citations

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