Simon Dadson

10.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
120 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Simon Dadson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Dadson has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 65 papers in Water Science and Technology and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Simon Dadson's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (60 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (42 papers) and Climate variability and models (34 papers). Simon Dadson is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (60 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (42 papers) and Climate variability and models (34 papers). Simon Dadson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Simon Dadson's co-authors include Hongey Chen, Niels Hovius, Jim W. Hall, Ming‐Jame Horng, Christel Prudhomme, W. Brian Dade, C. P. Stark, Thomas Lafon, Jiun‐Chuan Lin and Gwen Buys and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Simon Dadson

116 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Links between erosion, runoff variability and seismicity in the Taiwan orogen

2003 779 citations Simon Dadson et al. profile →
Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management

2021 170 citations Louise Slater, Bailey Anderson et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
Warming accelerates global drought severity

2025 41 citations Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Simon Dadson	2.8k	2.1k	2.0k	1.2k	1.1k	120	6.2k
Rajiv Sinha	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	2.4k 2.0×	644 0.6×	177	6.9k
Gerardo Benito	3.0k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	3.5k 1.8×	2.3k 1.9×	1.0k 0.9×	182	8.5k
Garry Willgoose	1.6k 0.5×	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	2.2k 1.8×	934 0.8×	135	6.3k
Jean‐Loup Guyot	3.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.2×	2.9k 1.5×	2.2k 1.9×	270 0.2×	193	8.2k
Anming Bao	4.0k 1.4×	1.7k 0.8×	2.4k 1.2×	1.7k 1.4×	746 0.7×	247	6.7k
Veerle Vanacker	1.4k 0.5×	938 0.4×	911 0.5×	1.5k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	132	4.5k
Gordon E. Grant	2.0k 0.7×	3.0k 1.4×	1.0k 0.5×	3.1k 2.6×	716 0.6×	101	6.0k
H. Middelkoop	1.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	2.4k 2.0×	295 0.3×	151	5.3k
Albert J. Kettner	3.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.5×	4.2k 3.5×	497 0.4×	109	9.3k
Mark G. Macklin	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	4.3k 2.2×	3.4k 2.8×	867 0.8×	228	11.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Dadson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Robinson, Tom, Alexander L. Densmore, Nick Rosser, et al.. (2025). Impacts from cascading multi-hazards using hypergraphs: a case study from the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(1). 267–285. 2 indexed citations

Vicente‐Serrano, Sergio M., Ahmed El Kenawy, Dhais Peña‐Angulo, et al.. (2025). Forest expansion and irrigated agriculture reinforce low river flows in southern Europe during dry years. Journal of Hydrology. 653. 132818–132818. 1 indexed citations

Buechel, Marcus, Louise Slater, & Simon Dadson. (2024). Broadleaf afforestation impacts on terrestrial hydrology insignificant compared to climate change in Great Britain. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(9). 2081–2105. 8 indexed citations

Buechel, Marcus, Ségolène Berthou, Louise Slater, et al.. (2024). Hydrometeorological response to afforestation in the UK: findings from a kilometer-scale climate model. Environmental Research Letters. 19(6). 64060–64060. 3 indexed citations

Anderson, Bailey, Manuela I. Brunner, Louise Slater, & Simon Dadson. (2024). Elasticity curves describe streamflow sensitivity to precipitation across the entire flow distribution. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(7). 1567–1583. 9 indexed citations

Gebrechorkos, Solomon H., Jian Peng, Ellen Dyer, et al.. (2023). Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–2022. Earth system science data. 15(12). 5449–5466. 45 indexed citations

Slater, Louise, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the Geomorphic Effect of Floods Using Satellite Observations of River Mobility. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(16). 5 indexed citations

Davies, Helen, Ponnambalam Rameshwaran, Victoria A. Bell, & Simon Dadson. (2023). Spatially consistent physical characteristics of UK rivers: 1‐km data. Geoscience Data Journal. 11(3). 284–291. 1 indexed citations

Buechel, Marcus, Louise Slater, & Simon Dadson. (2022). Hydrological impact of widespread afforestation in Great Britain using a large ensemble of modelled scenarios. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 34 indexed citations

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Lees, Thomas, Steven Reece, Frederik Kratzert, et al.. (2021). Hydrological Concept Formation inside Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. 12 indexed citations

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Cooper, Elizabeth, Eleanor Blyth, Hollie Cooper, et al.. (2021). Using data assimilation to optimize pedotransfer functions using field-scale in situ soil moisture observations. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(5). 2445–2458. 10 indexed citations

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Peng, Jian, Clément Albergel, Anna Balenzano, et al.. (2021). A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications. Lirias (KU Leuven). 2 indexed citations

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Marthews, Toby R., Simon Dadson, Douglas B. Clark, et al.. (2021). Inundation prediction in tropical wetlands from JULES-CaMa-Flood global land surface simulations. 2 indexed citations

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Slater, Louise, Bailey Anderson, Marcus Buechel, et al.. (2021). Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(7). 3897–3935. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peng, Jian, Simon Dadson, Feyera A. Hirpa, et al.. (2020). A pan-African high-resolution drought index dataset. 1 indexed citations

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Peng, Jian, Simon Dadson, Feyera A. Hirpa, et al.. (2020). A pan-African high-resolution drought index dataset. Earth system science data. 12(1). 753–769. 90 indexed citations

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Lim, Wee Ho, Dai Yamazaki, Sujan Koirala, et al.. (2018). Long‐Term Changes in Global Socioeconomic Benefits of Flood Defenses and Residual Risk Based on CMIP5 Climate Models. Earth s Future. 6(7). 938–954. 28 indexed citations

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Guillod, Benoît P., Richard Jones, Simon Dadson, et al.. (2018). A large set of potential past, present and future hydro-meteorological time series for the UK. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(1). 611–634. 59 indexed citations

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Sadoff, Claudia, Jim W. Hall, D. R. Grey, et al.. (2015). Securing Water, Sustaining Growth: Report of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 109 indexed citations

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Dadson, Simon & Michael Church. (2005). Postglacial topographic evolution of glaciated valleys: a stochastic landscape evolution model. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 30(11). 1387–1403. 68 indexed citations

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