Sean Wilkinson

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Sean Wilkinson is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Wilkinson has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Sean Wilkinson's work include Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (10 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (8 papers). Sean Wilkinson is often cited by papers focused on Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (10 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 papers) and earthquake and tectonic studies (8 papers). Sean Wilkinson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Italy. Sean Wilkinson's co-authors include Sarah Dunn, Richard Dawson, Mathaios Panteli, Pierluigi Mancarella, Hayley J. Fowler, Shu Ma, Tiziana Rossetto, Antonios Pomonis, Diana Contreras and Beth Barnes and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Sean Wilkinson

46 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Power System Resilience to Extreme Weather: Fragility Modeling, Probabilistic Impact Assessment, and Adaptation Measures

2016 485 citations Mathaios Panteli, Sean Wilkinson et al. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Wilkinson United Kingdom	21	913	384	284	268	234	47	1.6k
Abdollah Shafieezadeh United States	30	2.1k 2.3×	272 0.7×	382 1.3×	339 1.3×	106 0.5×	126	2.9k
Rachel A. Davidson United States	30	1.3k 1.4×	262 0.7×	517 1.8×	275 1.0×	910 3.9×	130	3.1k
Ross B. Corotis United States	24	1.8k 2.0×	179 0.5×	288 1.0×	159 0.6×	93 0.4×	155	2.6k
Mahesh D. Pandey Canada	34	1.9k 2.1×	114 0.3×	957 3.4×	352 1.3×	218 0.9×	214	4.3k
You Dong Hong Kong	35	3.5k 3.9×	56 0.1×	196 0.7×	201 0.8×	137 0.6×	198	4.4k
Mitthan Lal Kansal India	20	485 0.5×	158 0.4×	55 0.2×	124 0.5×	269 1.1×	97	1.7k
Abdullahi M. Salman United States	20	758 0.8×	163 0.4×	127 0.4×	124 0.5×	194 0.8×	39	1.2k
Alexandros A. Taflanidis United States	34	2.2k 2.5×	61 0.2×	113 0.4×	201 0.8×	244 1.0×	163	3.6k
D. A. Reed United States	17	1.0k 1.1×	130 0.3×	119 0.4×	238 0.9×	121 0.5×	54	1.4k
Hongyong Yuan China	22	136 0.1×	62 0.2×	443 1.6×	312 1.2×	154 0.7×	70	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Wilkinson

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Manning, Colin, Sean Wilkinson, Hayley J. Fowler, & Elizabeth Kendon. (2025). Antecedent rainfall, wind direction and seasonal effects may amplify the risk of wind-driven power outages in the UK. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Contreras, Diana, et al.. (2022). Accuracy of a pre-trained sentiment analysis (SA) classification model on tweets related to emergency response and early recovery assessment: the case of 2019 Albanian earthquake. Natural Hazards. 113(1). 403–421. 10 indexed citations

Barnes, Beth, Sarah Dunn, & Sean Wilkinson. (2022). Replicating capacity and congestion in microscale agent-based simulations. Travel Behaviour and Society. 29. 308–318. 1 indexed citations

Contreras, Diana, Sean Wilkinson, Yasemin D. Aktaş, et al.. (2022). Intensity-Based Sentiment and Topic Analysis. The Case of the 2020 Aegean Earthquake. Frontiers in Built Environment. 8. 8 indexed citations

Barnes, Beth, Sarah Dunn, Christopher Pearson, & Sean Wilkinson. (2021). Improving human behaviour in macroscale city evacuation agent-based simulation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 60. 102289–102289. 25 indexed citations

Contreras, Diana, Sean Wilkinson, Laure Fallou, et al.. (2021). ASSESSING EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND EARLY RECOVERY USING SENTIMENT ANALYSIS. THE CASE OF ZAGREB, CROATIA. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 743–752. 2 indexed citations

Wilkinson, Sean, et al.. (2021). The road to recovery: Understanding the challenges affecting school reconstruction in rural Nepal following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 56. 102120–102120. 11 indexed citations

Kumar, Ashutosh, et al.. (2020). Experimental, numerical and field study investigating a heritage structure collapse after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake. Natural Hazards. 101(1). 231–253. 8 indexed citations

Contreras, Diana, Alondra Chamorro, & Sean Wilkinson. (2020). Review article: The spatial dimension in the assessment of urban socio-economic vulnerability related to geohazards. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(6). 1663–1687. 34 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Sean, et al.. (2019). The Mw 7/8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake of the 25th April 2015. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 2 indexed citations

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Barnes, Beth, Sarah Dunn, & Sean Wilkinson. (2019). Natural hazards, disaster management and simulation: a bibliometric analysis of keyword searches. Natural Hazards. 97(2). 813–840. 48 indexed citations

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Macabuag, Joshua, Alison Raby, Antonios Pomonis, et al.. (2018). Tsunami design procedures for engineered buildings: a critical review. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering. 171(4). 166–178. 20 indexed citations

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Fu, Gaihua, Sean Wilkinson, Richard Dawson, et al.. (2017). Integrated Approach to Assess the Resilience of Future Electricity Infrastructure Networks to Climate Hazards. IEEE Systems Journal. 12(4). 3169–3180. 67 indexed citations

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Panteli, Mathaios, et al.. (2016). Power System Resilience to Extreme Weather: Fragility Modeling, Probabilistic Impact Assessment, and Adaptation Measures. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 32(5). 3747–3757. 485 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dunn, Sarah, Matthew Holmes, & Sean Wilkinson. (2015). Modelling Interdependent Cascading Failures in Real World Complex Networks using a Functional Dependency Model. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Raby, Alison, Joshua Macabuag, Antonios Pomonis, Sean Wilkinson, & Tiziana Rossetto. (2015). Implications of the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami on sea defence design. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 14. 332–346. 43 indexed citations

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Dunn, Sarah & Sean Wilkinson. (2015). Increasing the resilience of air traffic networks using a network graph theory approach. Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review. 90. 39–50. 104 indexed citations

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Alyami, Mohsen, Mohamed Rouainia, & Sean Wilkinson. (2008). Numerical analysis of deformation behaviour of quay walls under earthquake loading. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 29(3). 525–536. 39 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Sean, et al.. (2005). The Potential Application Of Geosynthetics To Reduce Structural Damage Caused By Tsunamis. 1 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Sean & David Thambiratnam. (2001). Simplified procedure for seismic analysis of asymmetric buildings. Computers & Structures. 79(32). 2833–2845. 10 indexed citations

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