Sam Almond

766 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 577 citations indexed

About

Sam Almond is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Almond has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 577 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 5 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 4 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Sam Almond's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (5 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (4 papers). Sam Almond is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (5 papers) and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (4 papers). Sam Almond collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Sam Almond's co-authors include Richard Davies, Fred Worrall, Jon Gluyas, Charlotte Adams, Mark Whitehead, Robert S. Ward, Liam Herringshaw, Robert B. Jackson, Miles Wilson and Richard J. Davies and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Environmental Science and Pollution Research and Marine and Petroleum Geology.

In The Last Decade

Sam Almond

9 papers receiving 561 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Oil and gas wells and their integrity: Implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation

2014 351 citations Richard Davies, Sam Almond et al. Marine and Petroleum Geology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam Almond United Kingdom	8	256	253	228	168	145	9	577
Charlotte Adams United Kingdom	8	212 0.8×	141 0.6×	191 0.8×	106 0.6×	123 0.8×	11	459
Robin Petrusak United States	10	268 1.0×	141 0.6×	269 1.2×	395 2.4×	321 2.2×	20	623
Greg Lackey United States	13	300 1.2×	225 0.9×	312 1.4×	184 1.1×	309 2.1×	33	648
Frank Male United States	15	540 2.1×	263 1.0×	571 2.5×	511 3.0×	149 1.0×	37	932
Ashkan Zolfaghari Canada	14	436 1.7×	308 1.2×	548 2.4×	584 3.5×	147 1.0×	27	923
Johnathan Moore United States	11	153 0.6×	105 0.4×	211 0.9×	229 1.4×	155 1.1×	36	406
Florian Osselin France	10	71 0.3×	84 0.3×	94 0.4×	143 0.9×	135 0.9×	21	348
Andrew Garnett Australia	11	168 0.7×	87 0.3×	190 0.8×	146 0.9×	180 1.2×	48	539
Qingchun Yu China	18	450 1.8×	147 0.6×	372 1.6×	712 4.2×	312 2.2×	54	981

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Almond

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Almond

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Almond

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All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

1.

Almond, Sam, et al.. (2018). Assessing fugitive emissions of CH4 from high-pressure gas pipelines in the UK. The Science of The Total Environment. 631-632. 1638–1648. 23 indexed citations

2.

Wilson, Miles, Fred Worrall, Richard Davies, & Sam Almond. (2018). Fracking: How far from faults?. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources. 4(2). 193–199. 30 indexed citations

3.

Almond, Sam, et al.. (2018). A Summary of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Multiyear Study of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing on Drinking Water Resources. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition. 3 indexed citations

4.

Almond, Sam, et al.. (2016). Fugitive emissions of methane from abandoned, decommissioned oil and gas wells. The Science of The Total Environment. 547. 461–469. 92 indexed citations

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Almond, Sam, et al.. (2016). Assessing the fugitive emission of CH4 via migration along fault zones – Comparing potential shale gas basins to non-shale basins in the UK. The Science of The Total Environment. 580. 412–424. 11 indexed citations

6.

Wilson, Miles, Richard J. Davies, G. R. Foulger, et al.. (2015). Anthropogenic earthquakes in the UK: A national baseline prior to shale exploitation. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 68. 1–17. 42 indexed citations

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Davies, Richard, Sam Almond, Robert S. Ward, et al.. (2014). Oil and gas wells and their integrity: Implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 56. 239–254. 351 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Davies, Richard, Sam Almond, Robert S. Ward, et al.. (2014). Reply: “Oil and gas wells and their integrity: Implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation”. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 59. 674–675. 8 indexed citations

9.

Almond, Sam, et al.. (2014). The flux of radionuclides in flowback fluid from shale gas exploitation. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 21(21). 12316–12324. 17 indexed citations

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