Sarah Thompson

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Thompson is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Thompson has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Atmospheric Science, 10 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 10 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Sarah Thompson's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (22 papers), Climate change and permafrost (12 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (10 papers). Sarah Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (22 papers), Climate change and permafrost (12 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (10 papers). Sarah Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Sarah Thompson's co-authors include Douglas I. Benn, Adrian Luckman, Jason Gulley, Lindsey Nicholson, Jordan Mertes, Duncan J. Quincey, Tobias Bolch, Bernd Kulessa, Kathryn Dennis and Adam Booth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Thompson

26 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards

2012 480 citations Douglas I. Benn, Tobias Bolch et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Thompson United Kingdom	12	913	342	296	52	43	26	1.1k
P. Kanagaratnam United States	10	655 0.7×	198 0.6×	187 0.6×	62 1.2×	19 0.4×	25	764
Daniela Jansen Germany	23	1.3k 1.4×	611 1.8×	494 1.7×	67 1.3×	90 2.1×	53	1.5k
Suzanne Bevan United Kingdom	19	1.0k 1.1×	458 1.3×	230 0.8×	198 3.8×	34 0.8×	40	1.2k
Wen Jin China	13	260 0.3×	24 0.1×	296 1.0×	171 3.3×	98 2.3×	29	613
Simon Stephenson United Kingdom	16	549 0.6×	311 0.9×	253 0.9×	12 0.2×	147 3.4×	34	715
Philip C. Joerg Switzerland	10	477 0.5×	155 0.5×	120 0.4×	105 2.0×	4 0.1×	14	777
Michalea D. King United States	10	577 0.6×	142 0.4×	71 0.2×	148 2.8×	16 0.4×	16	749
Geoffrey Dawson United Kingdom	10	192 0.2×	49 0.1×	45 0.2×	46 0.9×	7 0.2×	20	327
Daniel Goldberg United Kingdom	19	1.7k 1.8×	751 2.2×	420 1.4×	119 2.3×	11 0.3×	53	1.8k
Mike Craven Australia	17	609 0.7×	211 0.6×	67 0.2×	39 0.8×	80 1.9×	30	770

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Thompson

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Miles, Katie E., Bryn Hubbard, Adrian Luckman, et al.. (2025). Influence of the grounding zone on the internal structure of ice shelves. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4383–4383. 1 indexed citations

Jordan, Tom A., Sarah Thompson, Bernd Kulessa, & Fausto Ferraccioli. (2023). Geological sketch map and implications for ice flow of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, from integrated aerogeophysical observations. Science Advances. 9(22). eadf2639–eadf2639. 13 indexed citations

Schoof, Christian, Sue Cook, Bernd Kulessa, & Sarah Thompson. (2023). The drainage of glacier and ice sheet surface lakes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 961. 1 indexed citations

Thompson, Sarah, Bernd Kulessa, Adrian Luckman, et al.. (2023). Glaciological history and structural evolution of the Shackleton Ice Shelf system, East Antarctica, over the past 60 years. The cryosphere. 17(1). 157–174. 5 indexed citations

Vance, Tessa R., Alexander Fraser, Lenneke M. Jong, et al.. (2023). Identifying atmospheric processes favouring the formation of bubble-free layers in the Law Dome ice core, East Antarctica. The cryosphere. 17(12). 5155–5173. 2 indexed citations

Cook, Sue, Keith W. Nicholls, Irena Vaňková, Sarah Thompson, & Benjamin K. Galton‐Fenzi. (2022). Data initiatives for ocean-driven melt of Antarctic ice shelves. Annals of Glaciology. 63(87-89). 27–32. 5 indexed citations

Thompson, Sarah, Bernd Kulessa, Stephen Cornford, Adrian Luckman, & JA Halpin. (2021). Glaciological setting of the Queen Mary and Knox coasts, East Antarctica, over the past 60 years, and implied dynamic stability of the Shackleton system. 1 indexed citations

Rowan, Ann V., Lindsey Nicholson, Duncan J. Quincey, et al.. (2020). Seasonally stable temperature gradients through supraglacial debris in the Everest region of Nepal, Central Himalaya. Journal of Glaciology. 67(261). 170–181. 20 indexed citations

Kulessa, Bernd, Adam Booth, Martin O’Leary, et al.. (2019). Seawater softening of suture zones inhibits fracture propagation in Antarctic ice shelves. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5491–5491. 109 indexed citations

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Rowan, Ann V., Lindsey Nicholson, Emily Collier, et al.. (2017). Multiannual observations and modelling of seasonal thermal profiles through supraglacial debris in the Central Himalaya. Aberystwyth Research portal (Aberystwyth University). 3 indexed citations

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Mertes, Jordan, Jason Gulley, Douglas I. Benn, Sarah Thompson, & Lindsey Nicholson. (2017). Using structure‐from‐motion to create glacier DEMs and orthoimagery from historical terrestrial and oblique aerial imagery. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(14). 2350–2364. 53 indexed citations

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Benn, Douglas I., Sarah Thompson, Jason Gulley, et al.. (2017). Structure and evolution of the drainage system of a Himalayan debris-covered glacier, and its relationship with patterns of mass loss. The cryosphere. 11(5). 2247–2264. 64 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sarah, Bernd Kulessa, Douglas I. Benn, & Jordan Mertes. (2017). Anatomy of terminal moraine segments and implied lake stability on Ngozumpa Glacier, Nepal, from electrical resistivity tomography (ERT). Scientific Reports. 7(1). 46766–46766. 15 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sarah, Douglas I. Benn, Jordan Mertes, & Adrian Luckman. (2016). Stagnation and mass loss on a Himalayan debris-covered glacier: processes, patterns and rates. Journal of Glaciology. 62(233). 467–485. 127 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sarah, Bernd Kulessa, Richard Essery, & Martin P. Lüthi. (2016). Bulk meltwater flow and liquid water content of snowpacks mapped using the electrical self-potential (SP) method. The cryosphere. 10(1). 433–444. 7 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sarah, Bernd Kulessa, Richard Essery, & Martin P. Lüthi. (2015). The electrical self-potential method is a non-intrusive snow-hydrological sensor. 1 indexed citations

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Benn, Douglas I., Tobias Bolch, Jason Gulley, et al.. (2012). Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards. Earth-Science Reviews. 114(1-2). 156–174. 480 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thompson, Sarah, Douglas I. Benn, Kathryn Dennis, & Adrian Luckman. (2011). A rapidly growing moraine-dammed glacial lake on Ngozumpa Glacier, Nepal. Geomorphology. 145-146. 1–11. 80 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sarah, et al.. (2010). The evolution of supraglacial lakes, Ngozumpa Glacier, Khumbu Himal, Nepal. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11396. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Sarah, et al.. (1963). Cowpea (southern pea) diseases in Georgia, 1961-1962.. The Plant disease reporter. 47(8). 746–747. 4 indexed citations

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