Sarah Nicholson

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sarah Nicholson is a scholar working on Oceanography, Behavioral Neuroscience and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Nicholson has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Oceanography, 11 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sarah Nicholson's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (11 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (11 papers). Sarah Nicholson is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (20 papers), Stress Responses and Cortisol (11 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (11 papers). Sarah Nicholson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and Sweden. Sarah Nicholson's co-authors include Brian Gillham, Sebastiaan Swart, Terence J. Wilkin, M. T. Jones, Marcel du Plessis, Pedro M. S. Monteiro, Thomas Ryan‐Keogh, Sandy Thomalla, Thomas E. Adrian and Stephen R. Bloom and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Nicholson

44 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

The nature of rainfall variability over Africa on time scales of decades to millenia

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Nicholson United Kingdom	19	459	428	363	178	176	48	1.4k
Mats Rundgren Sweden	29	1.2k 2.7×	126 0.3×	147 0.4×	55 0.3×	57 0.3×	133	3.1k
Silvia M. Delgado Argentina	16	494 1.1×	251 0.6×	28 0.1×	50 0.3×	66 0.4×	44	1.1k
Stephen C. Phillips Australia	29	254 0.6×	209 0.5×	71 0.2×	9 0.1×	229 1.3×	89	3.0k
Tony E. Wong United States	19	558 1.2×	453 1.1×	145 0.4×	10 0.1×	32 0.2×	53	1.9k
Mark Lewis United Kingdom	23	185 0.4×	37 0.1×	54 0.1×	20 0.1×	365 2.1×	79	1.6k
Richard G. Williams United Kingdom	47	1.8k 3.9×	2.4k 5.6×	3.8k 10.3×	36 0.2×	78 0.4×	176	6.8k
Humberto Fuenzalida Chile	19	1.0k 2.2×	707 1.7×	212 0.6×	18 0.1×	13 0.1×	34	1.7k
F Girard France	23	64 0.1×	171 0.4×	107 0.3×	90 0.5×	619 3.5×	85	1.7k
Nicole S. Khan United States	26	1.0k 2.2×	213 0.5×	446 1.2×	25 0.1×	8 0.0×	68	2.0k
Nicolas Martin France	25	390 0.8×	304 0.7×	643 1.8×	17 0.1×	35 0.2×	75	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Nicholson

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Nicholson, Sarah, Thomas Ryan‐Keogh, Sandy Thomalla, Nicolette Chang, & Marié Smith. (2025). Satellite-derived global-ocean phytoplankton phenology indices. Earth system science data. 17(5). 1959–1975. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Todd G., Sarah Nicholson, Nicolette Chang, & Pedro M. S. Monteiro. (2025). Evolution of Air-Sea Fluxes in Modeled Long-Lived Mesoscale Eddies in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Plessis, Marcel du, et al.. (2025). Southern Ocean summer warming is regulated by storm-driven mixing. Nature Geoscience. 19(1). 75–83.

Hassan, Maged, et al.. (2025). The effect of sampling method on the success of tissue diagnosis and molecular profiling in ultrasound guided biopsies for lung cancer. Respiratory Medicine. 248. 108352–108352.

Lueck, Rolf G., Ilker Fer, Cynthia Bluteau, et al.. (2024). Best practices recommendations for estimating dissipation rates from shear probes. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11. 8 indexed citations

Nicholson, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Storm‐Driven pCO₂ Feedback Weakens the Response of Air‐Sea CO₂ Fluxes in the Sub‐Antarctic Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(9). 1 indexed citations

Thomalla, Sandy, Marcel du Plessis, Nicolas Fauchereau, et al.. (2023). Southern Ocean phytoplankton dynamics and carbon export: insights from a seasonal cycle approach. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 381(2249). 20220068–20220068. 7 indexed citations

Swart, Sebastiaan, Marcel du Plessis, Sarah Nicholson, et al.. (2023). The Southern Ocean mixed layer and its boundary fluxes: fine-scale observational progress and future research priorities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 381(2249). 20220058–20220058. 12 indexed citations

Nicholson, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Sea‐Ice Impacts Inter‐Annual Variability of Phytoplankton Bloom Characteristics and Carbon Export in the Weddell Sea. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(16). 6 indexed citations

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Thomalla, Sandy, Sarah Nicholson, Thomas Ryan‐Keogh, & Marié Smith. (2023). Widespread changes in Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms linked to climate drivers. Nature Climate Change. 13(9). 975–984. 51 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Improving Outcomes in Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome With the Eat, Sleep, Console Method. Advances in Neonatal Care. 23(6). 509–515. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Todd G., et al.. (2023). The Heat and Carbon Characteristics of Modeled Mesoscale Eddies in the South–East Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(12). 4 indexed citations

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Munavvar, Mohammed, et al.. (2023). Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the trachea mimicking asthma. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(5). e01148–e01148. 2 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Sarah, Daniel Whitt, Ilker Fer, et al.. (2022). Storms drive outgassing of CO2 in the subpolar Southern Ocean. Nature Communications. 13(1). 158–158. 44 indexed citations

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Swart, Sebastiaan, et al.. (2021). Stirring of Sea‐Ice Meltwater Enhances Submesoscale Fronts in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(4). 27 indexed citations

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Mtshali, Thato N., Sandy Thomalla, Thomas Ryan‐Keogh, et al.. (2019). Seasonal Depletion of the Dissolved Iron Reservoirs in the Sub‐Antarctic Zone of the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(8). 4386–4395. 21 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Sarah & Brian Gillham. (1989). Glucocorticoids act rapidly in vitro to attenuate second messenger responses to ACTH secretagogues in rats. Journal of Endocrinology. 122(2). 545–551. 11 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Sarah. (1989). Stimulatory effect of caffeine on the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in the rat. Journal of Endocrinology. 122(2). 535–543. 33 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Sarah, et al.. (1985). Diurnal Variations in Responsiveness of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenocortical Axis of the Rat. Neuroendocrinology. 40(3). 217–224. 51 indexed citations

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Wilkin, Terence J. & Sarah Nicholson. (1984). Autoantibodies against human insulin.. BMJ. 288(6414). 349–352. 48 indexed citations

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