Scott McDougall

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Scott McDougall is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Civil and Structural Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott McDougall has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 19 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Scott McDougall's work include Landslides and related hazards (40 papers), Dam Engineering and Safety (14 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (12 papers). Scott McDougall is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (40 papers), Dam Engineering and Safety (14 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (12 papers). Scott McDougall collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Switzerland and United States. Scott McDougall's co-authors include Oldrich Hungr, Jordan Aaron, W. Andy Take, Stephen G. Evans, Natalia Nolde, A. Mitchell, Ryan P. Mulligan, Olga Tutubalina, Sergey Chernomorets and Dmitry Petrakov and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Scott McDougall

52 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

A model for the analysis of rapid landslide motion across three-dimensional terrain

2004 448 citations Scott McDougall, Oldrich Hungr Canadian Geotechnical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott McDougall Canada	21	2.1k	869	713	558	421	57	2.4k
Martin Mergili Austria	30	1.9k 0.9×	431 0.5×	1.2k 1.7×	722 1.3×	302 0.7×	80	2.5k
Alessandro Simoni Italy	23	1.9k 0.9×	653 0.8×	768 1.1×	828 1.5×	320 0.8×	52	2.4k
Sabatino Cuomo Italy	25	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	277 0.4×	319 0.6×	513 1.2×	83	2.3k
Marcel Hürlimann Spain	31	2.3k 1.1×	579 0.7×	842 1.2×	1.1k 2.0×	327 0.8×	97	3.0k
J. N. Hutchinson United Kingdom	22	2.2k 1.1×	948 1.1×	757 1.1×	457 0.8×	690 1.6×	50	2.8k
Kunlong Yin China	20	1.4k 0.7×	817 0.9×	419 0.6×	314 0.6×	417 1.0×	51	1.7k
Olivier Maquaire France	26	1.5k 0.7×	402 0.5×	491 0.7×	679 1.2×	260 0.6×	71	2.1k
William H. Schulz United States	24	2.1k 1.0×	635 0.7×	884 1.2×	538 1.0×	416 1.0×	47	2.3k
Jia‐Jyun Dong Taiwan	25	1.2k 0.6×	732 0.8×	241 0.3×	467 0.8×	358 0.9×	84	2.1k
J. A. Fernández Merodo Spain	26	1.1k 0.5×	741 0.9×	419 0.6×	166 0.3×	213 0.5×	59	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Scott McDougall

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott McDougall

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Barlow, Kirsten, M. McKellar, Ryan P. Mulligan, et al.. (2024). Effect of the presence of a tailings dam beach on breach outflow and erosion during overtopping failure. Engineering Geology. 344. 107805–107805. 1 indexed citations

McDougall, Scott, et al.. (2024). Wet inrush susceptibility assessment at the Deep Ore Zone mine using a random forest machine learning model. 133(3). 276–288. 1 indexed citations

McDougall, Scott, et al.. (2024). Analysis of Uncertainty and Sensitivity in Tailings Dam Breach-Runout Numerical Modelling. Mine Water and the Environment. 43(1). 87–103. 1 indexed citations

Mitchell, A., et al.. (2023). A multi-year record of topographic changes on debris-flow fans in south-western British Columbia, Canada. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 415. 3019–3019.

McDougall, Scott, et al.. (2023). Quantifying debris-flow hazard and risk based on fan sector. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 415. 5026–5026. 1 indexed citations

McDougall, Scott, et al.. (2023). Insights from the Compilation and Critical Assessment of Breach and Runout Characteristics from Historical Tailings Dam Failures: Implications for Numerical Modelling. Mine Water and the Environment. 42(4). 650–669. 1 indexed citations

Mitchell, A., Scott McDougall, Jordan Aaron, et al.. (2022). Variable hydrograph inputs for a numerical debris-flow runout model. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(5). 1627–1654. 8 indexed citations

Aaron, Jordan, Scott McDougall, Julia Kowalski, A. Mitchell, & Natalia Nolde. (2022). Probabilistic prediction of rock avalanche runout using a numerical model. Landslides. 19(12). 2853–2869. 12 indexed citations

McDougall, Scott, et al.. (2022). A benchmarking study of four numerical runout models for the simulation of tailings flows. The Science of The Total Environment. 827. 154245–154245. 20 indexed citations

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McDougall, Scott, et al.. (2022). Individual risk evaluation for landslides: key details. Landslides. 19(4). 977–991. 19 indexed citations

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Mitchell, A., et al.. (2021). Exploring new methods to analyse spatial impact distributions on debris‐flow fans using data from south‐western British Columbia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 46(12). 2395–2413. 17 indexed citations

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Evans, Stephen G., et al.. (2021). Catastrophic mass flows resulting from tailings impoundment failures. Engineering Geology. 292. 106262–106262. 63 indexed citations

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Whittall, John, A. Mitchell, & Scott McDougall. (2020). Runout of open pit slope failures: an update. 1149–1162.

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Jakob, Matthias, et al.. (2020). Regional debris‐flow and debris‐flood frequency–magnitude relationships. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 45(12). 2954–2964. 23 indexed citations

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Mitchell, A., et al.. (2020). Tailings-flow runout analysis: examining the applicability of a semi-physical area–volume relationship using a novel database. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(12). 3425–3438. 17 indexed citations

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Bevington, Alexandre, et al.. (2019). Semi-automated detection of landslide timing using harmonic modelling of satellite imagery, Buckinghorse River, Canada. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 84. 101943–101943. 30 indexed citations

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Mitchell, A., et al.. (2017). REGIONAL-SCALE LANDSLIDE AND EROSION MONITORING UTILIZING AIRBORNE LIDAR CHANGE DETECTION ANALYSIS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 2 indexed citations

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Evans, Stephen G., Olga Tutubalina, Sergey Chernomorets, et al.. (2008). Catastrophic detachment and high-velocity long-runout flow of Kolka Glacier, Caucasus Mountains, Russia in 2002. Geomorphology. 105(3-4). 314–321. 119 indexed citations

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McDougall, Scott, et al.. (2006). The Zymoetz River landslide, British Columbia, Canada: description and dynamic analysis of a rock slide–debris flow. Landslides. 3(3). 195–204. 61 indexed citations

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McDougall, Scott & Oldrich Hungr. (2004). A model for the analysis of rapid landslide motion across three-dimensional terrain. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. 41(6). 1084–1097. 448 indexed citations breakdown →

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