Simon Allen

15.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
74 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Simon Allen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Allen has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Atmospheric Science, 42 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Simon Allen's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (54 papers), Landslides and related hazards (41 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (25 papers). Simon Allen is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (54 papers), Landslides and related hazards (41 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (25 papers). Simon Allen collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, China and India. Simon Allen's co-authors include Thomas F. Stocker, Gian‐Kasper Plattner, Melinda Tignor, Pauline M. Midgley, Dahe Qin, Christopher B. Field, Michael D. Mastrandrea, David Jon Dokken, Kristie L. Ebi and Vicente Barros and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hydrology and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Simon Allen

70 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

2012 2.4k citations Christopher B. Field, Vicente Barros et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

2020 407 citations Guoqing Zhang, Tandong Yao et al. profile →
Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation

2021 240 citations Guoxiong Zheng, Simon Allen et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya

2023 96 citations Guoqing Zhang, Tobias Bolch et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Allen Switzerland	32	3.2k	2.5k	1.6k	721	638	74	6.0k
A. B. Shrestha Nepal	41	5.0k 1.6×	3.8k 1.5×	848 0.5×	555 0.8×	2.6k 4.1×	99	8.4k
Kenneth Hewitt Canada	30	3.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	782 1.1×	373 0.6×	65	4.8k
Christian Huggel Switzerland	59	9.9k 3.1×	3.2k 1.3×	5.7k 3.6×	697 1.0×	1.3k 2.0×	218	13.2k
Alexander Robinson Spain	27	1.9k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	271 0.2×	350 0.5×	263 0.4×	72	4.2k
Sven Fuchs Austria	41	1.2k 0.4×	3.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	485 0.8×	124	4.6k
Cameron P. Wake United States	38	3.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	262 0.2×	213 0.3×	676 1.1×	123	5.1k
Claudia Kuenzer Germany	61	2.7k 0.8×	4.9k 1.9×	1.1k 0.7×	354 0.5×	1.1k 1.8×	210	11.3k
S. C. B. Raper United Kingdom	36	4.6k 1.5×	6.0k 2.4×	320 0.2×	234 0.3×	514 0.8×	61	10.3k
Peter Bebi Switzerland	42	1.8k 0.6×	3.2k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	167 0.2×	114 0.2×	133	5.0k
Sven Kotlarski Switzerland	39	3.3k 1.0×	3.7k 1.5×	261 0.2×	140 0.2×	1.1k 1.7×	89	5.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Allen

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Muccione, Veruska, et al.. (2024). Trends in climate adaptation solutions for mountain regions. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 29(7). 3 indexed citations

Wang, Xue, Guoqing Zhang, Georg Veh, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing glacial lake outburst floods in the Poiqu River basin, central Himalaya. Geomorphology. 449. 109063–109063. 9 indexed citations

Vaghefi, Saeid Ashraf, Dominik Stammbach, Veruska Muccione, et al.. (2023). ChatClimate: Grounding conversational AI in climate science. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 58 indexed citations

Wang, Xue, Guoqing Zhang, Georg Veh, et al.. (2023). Cascading hazards from two recent glacial lake outburst floods in the Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 626. 130155–130155. 17 indexed citations

Allen, Simon, Stephen G. Evans, Jeffrey S. Kargel, et al.. (2022). Geomorphic process chains in high-mountain regions - A review and classification approach for natural hazards assessment. 1 indexed citations

Allen, Simon, Ashim Sattar, Owen King, et al.. (2022). Glacial lake outburst flood hazard under current and future conditions: worst-case scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(11). 3765–3785. 30 indexed citations

Chen, Fang, Meimei Zhang, Huadong Guo, et al.. (2021). Annual 30 m dataset for glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia from 2008 to 2017. Earth system science data. 13(2). 741–766. 138 indexed citations

Frey, Holger, Matthias Huss, Simon Allen, et al.. (2021). A global inventory of potential future glacial lakes.

Zheng, Guoxiong, Martin Mergili, Adam Emmer, et al.. (2021). The 2020 glacial lake outburst flood at Jinwuco, Tibet: causes, impacts, and implications for hazard and risk assessment. The cryosphere. 15(7). 3159–3180. 59 indexed citations

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Zheng, Guoxiong, Simon Allen, Anming Bao, et al.. (2021). Increasing risk of glacial lake outburst floods from future Third Pole deglaciation. Nature Climate Change. 11(5). 411–417. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Allen, R. M., et al.. (2020). MyShake: Lessons from the first year of public earthquake early warning delivery in California. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020. 4 indexed citations

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Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Juan Antonio, José María Bodoque, Simon Allen, et al.. (2020). Recent flood hazards in Kashmir put into context with millennium-long historical and tree-ring records. The Science of The Total Environment. 722. 137875–137875. 36 indexed citations

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Paul, Jonathan D., Wouter Buytaert, Binod Parajuli, et al.. (2019). Landslide EVO: Monitoring landslides in remote western Nepal by leveraging technological advances and citizen science. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Allen, Simon, Guoqing Zhang, Weicai Wang, Tandong Yao, & Tobias Bolch. (2019). Potentially dangerous glacial lakes across the Tibetan Plateau revealed using a large-scale automated assessment approach. Science Bulletin. 64(7). 435–445. 156 indexed citations

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Anacona, Pablo Iribarren, Kevin Norton, Andrew Mackintosh, et al.. (2018). Dynamics of an outburst flood originating from a small and high-altitude glacier in the Arid Andes of Chile. Natural Hazards. 94(1). 93–119. 10 indexed citations

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Allen, Simon, Philipp Rastner, Manohar Arora, Christian Huggel, & Markus Stoffel. (2015). Rainfall and snow-melt triggered glacial lake outbursts: a systematic analysis of the Kedarnath (Uttarakhand, India), June 2013 disaster. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9936. 1 indexed citations

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Allen, Simon, et al.. (2013). Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. An overview of the Working Group 1 contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2013. 3544. 231 indexed citations

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Field, Christopher B., Vicente Barros, Thomas F. Stocker, et al.. (2012). Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 2393 indexed citations breakdown →

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Allen, Simon, Ian Owens, & Pascal Sirguey. (2008). Satellite remote sensing procedures for glacial terrain analyses and hazard assessment in the Aoraki Mount Cook region, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 51(1). 73–87. 16 indexed citations

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Allen, Simon, Ian Owens, & Christian Huggel. (2008). A first estimate of mountain permafrost distribution in the Mount Cook region of New Zealand’s southern alps. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 37–42. 11 indexed citations

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