Simon Michael Papalexiou

9.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
111 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Simon Michael Papalexiou is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Michael Papalexiou has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 49 papers in Atmospheric Science and 35 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Simon Michael Papalexiou's work include Climate variability and models (69 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (51 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (39 papers). Simon Michael Papalexiou is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (69 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (51 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (39 papers). Simon Michael Papalexiou collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Czechia and United States. Simon Michael Papalexiou's co-authors include Demetris Koutsoyiannis, Alberto Montanari, Martyn Clark, Guoqiang Tang, Amir AghaKouchak, Ziqiang Ma, Yang Hong, Yannis Markonis, Sofia D. Nerantzaki and Chandra Rupa Rajulapati and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Simon Michael Papalexiou

101 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Climate Extremes and Compound Hazards in a Warming World

2020 606 citations Amir AghaKouchak, Simon Michael Papalexiou et al. profile →
Global and Regional Increase of Precipitation Extremes Under Global Warming

2019 481 citations Simon Michael Papalexiou et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Have satellite precipitation products improved over last two decades? A comprehensive comparison of GPM IMERG with nine satellite and reanalysis datasets

2020 461 citations Guoqiang Tang, Martyn Clark et al. profile →
Review of GPM IMERG performance: A global perspective

2021 242 citations Rajani Kumar Pradhan, Yannis Markonis et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Michael Papalexiou Canada	34	3.7k	2.5k	1.4k	710	204	111	4.8k
Fiona Johnson Australia	30	3.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	722 1.0×	197 1.0×	106	3.9k
Stephen Blenkinsop United Kingdom	36	4.9k 1.3×	3.1k 1.3×	2.0k 1.4×	698 1.0×	230 1.1×	88	6.1k
Ervin Zsótér United Kingdom	23	2.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	849 1.2×	385 1.9×	48	4.1k
Gab Abramowitz Australia	35	3.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	779 1.1×	361 1.8×	93	4.2k
Shaun Harrigan United Kingdom	26	3.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	996 1.4×	468 2.3×	55	4.8k
Fredrik Wetterhall United Kingdom	36	4.6k 1.2×	2.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.7×	715 1.0×	213 1.0×	76	5.3k
Laxmi Sushama Canada	32	2.6k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	846 0.6×	416 0.6×	204 1.0×	108	3.6k
Jianfeng Li China	41	3.6k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	831 1.2×	338 1.7×	157	4.9k
Xin‐Zhong Liang United States	33	2.7k 0.7×	2.3k 1.0×	965 0.7×	655 0.9×	183 0.9×	108	3.9k
Michael Leonard Australia	26	3.7k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	466 0.7×	330 1.6×	65	5.0k

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Nerantzaki, Sofia D., et al.. (2025). The influence of atmospheric drivers, environmental factors, and urban land use on extreme hourly precipitation trends over the CONtiguous United States for 40 years at 4-km resolution (CONUS404). The Science of The Total Environment. 969. 178407–178407. 2 indexed citations

Pradhan, Rajani Kumar, Yannis Markonis, Francesco Marra, et al.. (2025). Diurnal variability of global precipitation: insights from hourly satellite and reanalysis datasets. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(19). 4929–4949.

Papalexiou, Simon Michael, Giuseppe Mascaro, Angeline G. Pendergrass, et al.. (2025). Sustainability Nexus AID: storms. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 33(1). 2 indexed citations

Rajulapati, Chandra Rupa, Zelalem Tesemma, Kevin Shook, Simon Michael Papalexiou, & John W. Pomeroy. (2024). A blueprint for coupling a hydrological model with fine- and coarse-scale atmospheric regional climate change models for probabilistic streamflow projections. Journal of Hydrology. 645. 132080–132080. 1 indexed citations

Papalexiou, Simon Michael, Sofia D. Nerantzaki, Giuseppe Mascaro, et al.. (2024). Snow depth time series Generation: Effective simulation at multiple time scales. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23. 100177–100177. 1 indexed citations

Knoben, Wouter, et al.. (2024). Impacts of agriculture and snow dynamics on catchment water balance in the U.S. and Great Britain. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 733–733. 7 indexed citations

Tang, Guoqiang, Martyn Clark, Wouter Knoben, et al.. (2024). Uncertainty Hotspots in Global Hydrologic Modeling: The Impact of Precipitation and Temperature Forcings. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(1). E146–E166. 3 indexed citations

Wendland, Edson, et al.. (2024). Frequency Rather Than Intensity Drives Projected Changes of Rainfall Events in Brazil. Earth s Future. 12(1). 7 indexed citations

Godoy, Mijael Rodrigo Vargas, et al.. (2024). Drought intensification in Brazilian catchments: implications for water and land management. Environmental Research Letters. 19(5). 54030–54030. 4 indexed citations

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Rajulapati, Chandra Rupa & Simon Michael Papalexiou. (2023). Precipitation Bias Correction: A Novel Semi‐parametric Quantile Mapping Method. Earth and Space Science. 10(4). 21 indexed citations

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Nerantzaki, Sofia D., Simon Michael Papalexiou, Chandra Rupa Rajulapati, & Martyn Clark. (2023). Nonstationarity in High and Low‐Temperature Extremes: Insights From a Global Observational Data Set by Merging Extreme‐Value Methods. Earth s Future. 11(11). 6 indexed citations

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Clark, Martyn, Richard M. Vogel, Jonathan Lamontagne, et al.. (2021). The Abuse of Popular Performance Metrics in Hydrologic Modeling. Water Resources Research. 57(9). 149 indexed citations

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Tang, Guoqiang, Martyn Clark, Simon Michael Papalexiou, et al.. (2021). EMDNA: an Ensemble Meteorological Dataset for North America. Earth system science data. 13(7). 3337–3362. 36 indexed citations

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Papalexiou, Simon Michael, et al.. (2019). CoSMoS: A Platform for Complete Stochastic Modelling Solution. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Papalexiou, Simon Michael, Amir AghaKouchak, & Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou. (2018). A Diagnostic Framework for Understanding Climatology of Tails of Hourly Precipitation Extremes in the United States. Water Resources Research. 54(9). 6725–6738. 61 indexed citations

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Papalexiou, Simon Michael, Yannis Markonis, Federico Lombardo, Amir AghaKouchak, & Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou. (2018). Precise Temporal Disaggregation Preserving Marginals and Correlations (DiPMaC) for Stationary and Nonstationary Processes. Water Resources Research. 54(10). 7435–7458. 46 indexed citations

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Papalexiou, Simon Michael, Amir AghaKouchak, Kevin E. Trenberth, & Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou. (2018). Global, Regional, and Megacity Trends in the Highest Temperature of the Year: Diagnostics and Evidence for Accelerating Trends. Earth s Future. 6(1). 71–79. 86 indexed citations

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Lombardo, Federico, Elena Volpi, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, & Simon Michael Papalexiou. (2014). Just two moments! A cautionary note against use of high-order moments in multifractal models in hydrology. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(1). 243–255. 47 indexed citations

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Papalexiou, Simon Michael, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, & Christos Makropoulos. (2013). How extreme is extreme? An assessment of daily rainfall distribution tails. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(2). 851–862. 166 indexed citations

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Efstratiadis, Andreas & Simon Michael Papalexiou. (2010). The quest for consistent representation of rainfall and realistic simulation of process interactions in flood risk assessment. DSpace - NTUA (National Technical University of Athens). 11101. 1 indexed citations

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