Sonam Sherpa

536 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 348 citations indexed

About

Sonam Sherpa is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonam Sherpa has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 348 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Atmospheric Science, 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 3 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sonam Sherpa's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (6 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (4 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (3 papers). Sonam Sherpa is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (6 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (4 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (3 papers). Sonam Sherpa collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and France. Sonam Sherpa's co-authors include Manoochehr Shirzaei, Chandrakanta Ojha, Fanny Brun, Patrick Wagnon, Yves Arnaud, Christian Vincent, Étienne Berthier, Philip Kraaijenbrink, Álvaro Soruco and Dibas Shrestha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Glaciology.

In The Last Decade

Sonam Sherpa

14 papers receiving 345 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.

Disappearing cities on US coasts

2024 51 citations Manoochehr Shirzaei, Chandrakanta Ojha et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonam Sherpa United States	9	235	91	80	65	26	14	348
Ian A. Brown Sweden	11	265 1.1×	77 0.8×	57 0.7×	52 0.8×	24 0.9×	28	371
Alexandr Yegorov Kazakhstan	5	273 1.2×	72 0.8×	43 0.5×	107 1.6×	8 0.3×	8	367
Carlo Maria Carmagnola France	11	490 2.1×	210 2.3×	72 0.9×	78 1.2×	15 0.6×	18	557
Davide Maragno Italy	14	428 1.8×	92 1.0×	67 0.8×	79 1.2×	6 0.2×	19	524
Julie Z. Miller United States	12	355 1.5×	121 1.3×	96 1.2×	108 1.7×	8 0.3×	26	436
Baosheng An China	11	280 1.2×	81 0.9×	45 0.6×	139 2.1×	23 0.9×	22	349
I. M. Bahuguna India	11	426 1.8×	73 0.8×	52 0.7×	94 1.4×	4 0.2×	22	472
Jean-Marie Willemet France	5	574 2.4×	131 1.4×	82 1.0×	177 2.7×	9 0.3×	7	595
Taigang Zhang China	11	307 1.3×	96 1.1×	43 0.5×	119 1.8×	13 0.5×	16	359
Jorge Arigony‐Neto Brazil	14	347 1.5×	66 0.7×	99 1.2×	53 0.8×	12 0.5×	54	455

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sonam Sherpa

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All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

Sherpa, Sonam & Susanna Werth. (2025). Investigating the Influence of Climate Seasonality on Glacier Mass Changes in High Mountain Asia via GRACE Observations. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 18. 20545–20562. 1 indexed citations

Shirzaei, Manoochehr, et al.. (2024). Disappearing cities on US coasts. Nature. 627(8002). 108–115. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

Rossiter, David G., et al.. (2024). Characterizing soil hydrology in the Indo-Gangetic plain of Bihar, India: Methods and preliminary results. Geoderma Regional. 37. e00784–e00784. 2 indexed citations

Sherpa, Sonam, Manoochehr Shirzaei, & Chandrakanta Ojha. (2023). Disruptive Role of Vertical Land Motion in Future Assessments of Climate Change‐Driven Sea‐Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Hazards in the Chesapeake Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(4). 14 indexed citations

Woolf, Dominic, Sonam Sherpa, Shishpal Poonia, et al.. (2023). The fate of rice crop residues and context-dependent greenhouse gas emissions: Model-based insights from Eastern India. Journal of Cleaner Production. 435. 140240–140240. 10 indexed citations

Sherpa, Sonam & Manoochehr Shirzaei. (2021). Country‐wide flood exposure analysis using Sentinel‐1 synthetic aperture radar data: Case study of 2019 Iran flood. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 15(1). 14 indexed citations

Shirzaei, Manoochehr, Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth, et al.. (2021). Persistent impact of spring floods on crop loss in U.S. Midwest. Weather and Climate Extremes. 34. 100392–100392. 24 indexed citations

Sherpa, Sonam, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth, & Renaud Hostache. (2020). Probabilistic Mapping of August 2018 Flood of Kerala, India, Using Space-Borne Synthetic Aperture Radar. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 13. 896–913. 22 indexed citations

Sherpa, Sonam, Milan Shrestha, Hallie Eakin, & Christopher G. Boone. (2019). Cryospheric hazards and risk perceptions in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal. Natural Hazards. 96(2). 607–626. 18 indexed citations

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Sherpa, Sonam, et al.. (2019). Deadlock Detection for Concurrent Programs Using Resource Footprints. 137–138. 3 indexed citations

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Sherpa, Sonam, Patrick Wagnon, Fanny Brun, et al.. (2017). Contrasted surface mass balances of debris-free glaciers observed between the southern and the inner parts of the Everest region (2007–15). Journal of Glaciology. 63(240). 637–651. 57 indexed citations

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Vincent, Chris, Patrick Wagnon, J. M. Shea, et al.. (2016). Reduced melt on debris-covered glaciers: investigations from Changri Nup Glacier, Nepal. 8 indexed citations

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Vincent, Christian, Patrick Wagnon, J. M. Shea, et al.. (2016). Reduced melt on debris-covered glaciers: investigations from Changri NupGlacier, Nepal. The cryosphere. 10(4). 1845–1858. 123 indexed citations

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Sherpa, Sonam, Patrick Wagnon, Fanny Brun, et al.. (2016). Contrasted Glacier Mass Wastage Between the Southern and the Inner Part of Everest Region Revealed from In-Situ Measurements since 2007.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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