Stephen Dorling

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Stephen Dorling is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Dorling has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Atmospheric Science, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 21 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephen Dorling's work include Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (15 papers), Climate variability and models (13 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (12 papers). Stephen Dorling is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (15 papers), Climate variability and models (13 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (12 papers). Stephen Dorling collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Germany. Stephen Dorling's co-authors include T. D. Davies, Gavin C. Cawley, Uwe Schlink, G. Nunnari, Rob Foxall, Tim Chatterton, Matthias Richter, Emil Pelikán, Ian A. Renfrew and Danilo P. Mandic and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Geophysical Research Letters and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Dorling

49 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Artificial neural networks (the multilayer perceptron)—a review of applications in the atmospheric sciences

1998 2.4k citations Stephen Dorling et al. Atmospheric Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Dorling United Kingdom	23	1.6k	1.2k	959	949	676	50	4.2k
Tianfeng Chai United States	28	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.6×	759 0.8×	2.0k 2.1×	675 1.0×	60	6.6k
Wei Gong China	39	1.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.6×	823 0.9×	2.4k 2.5×	485 0.7×	310	5.9k
Jane W. Z. Lu China	38	1.8k 1.1×	363 0.3×	1.2k 1.3×	337 0.4×	326 0.5×	293	5.6k
Hong Zhang China	49	761 0.5×	794 0.6×	479 0.5×	1.5k 1.6×	494 0.7×	525	9.6k
Qi Chen China	39	789 0.5×	2.4k 1.9×	2.3k 2.4×	853 0.9×	155 0.2×	160	6.0k
Meng Fan China	30	849 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	942 1.0×	221 0.3×	224	4.4k
Ali Najah Ahmed Malaysia	51	4.6k 2.9×	618 0.5×	555 0.6×	2.3k 2.4×	1.2k 1.8×	326	9.1k
Li‐Chiu Chang Taiwan	40	2.4k 1.5×	566 0.5×	495 0.5×	1.6k 1.7×	423 0.6×	90	4.6k
Xiaodong Li China	46	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	868 0.9×	1.8k 1.9×	1.3k 2.0×	268	11.5k
Li Xiang China	27	1.3k 0.8×	363 0.3×	722 0.8×	368 0.4×	340 0.5×	159	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Dorling

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Dorling

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Dorling

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephen Dorling. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephen Dorling based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stephen Dorling. Stephen Dorling is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Jayakumar, A., Shweta Bhati, M. A. Hendry, et al.. (2025). Development of an Integrated Modeling Framework for Visibility and Air Quality Forecasting in Delhi. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 106(2). E261–E274. 2 indexed citations

Reka, Srinivas, Stephen Dorling, Andrew Ross, et al.. (2024). Forecasts of fog events in northern India dramatically improve when weather prediction models include irrigation effects. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 7 indexed citations

Mackay, Ian, et al.. (2023). Combining historical agricultural and climate datasets sheds new light on early 20th century barley performance. Annals of Applied Biology. 182(3). 381–396. 1 indexed citations

Arola, Antti, et al.. (2023). Smart Approaches for Evaluating Photosynthetically Active Radiation at Various Stations Based on MSG Prime Satellite Imagery. Atmosphere. 14(8). 1259–1259. 5 indexed citations

Dorling, Stephen, et al.. (2022). Climate change projections for UK viticulture to 2040: a focus on improving suitability for Pinot Noir. OENO One. 56(3). 69–87. 14 indexed citations

Dorling, Stephen, et al.. (2022). Fog trends in India: Relationships to fog type and western disturbances. International Journal of Climatology. 43(2). 818–836. 17 indexed citations

Renfrew, Ian A., et al.. (2020). Sub‐km scale numerical weather prediction model simulations of radiation fog. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 147(735). 746–763. 35 indexed citations

Dorling, Stephen, et al.. (2020). The status of the radiation safety culture within the higher education, research and teaching sectors in the UK. Journal of Radiological Protection. 40(4). 1406–1419.

Dorling, Stephen, et al.. (2019). Assessment of five different methods for the estimation of surface photosynthetically active radiation from satellite imagery at three sites – application to the monitoring of indoor soft fruit crops in southern UK. Advances in science and research. 16. 229–240. 5 indexed citations

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Goodess, C. M., Alberto Troccoli, Juan Antonio Añel, et al.. (2019). Advancing climate services for the European renewable energy sector through capacity building and user engagement. Climate Services. 16. 100139–100139. 30 indexed citations

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Jones, P. D., Colin Harpham, Alberto Troccoli, et al.. (2017). Using ERA-Interim reanalysis for creating datasets of energy-relevant climate variables. Earth system science data. 9(2). 471–495. 43 indexed citations

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Dorling, Stephen, et al.. (2014). A climatology of convective available potential energy in Great Britain. International Journal of Climatology. 34(14). 3811–3824. 56 indexed citations

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Kong, Xianghao & Stephen Dorling. (2005). The Retrieval of Soil Moisture from Medium Resolution Envisat ASAR Wide Swath Data (25). 572. 1 indexed citations

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Cawley, Gavin C., M. R. Haylock, Stephen Dorling, C. M. Goodess, & P. D. Jones. (2003). Statistical downscaling with artificial neural networks. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 167–172. 11 indexed citations

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Cawley, Gavin C., Nicola L. C. Talbot, Robert J. Foxall, Stephen Dorling, & Danilo P. Mandic. (2003). Approximately Unbiased Estimation of Conditional Variance in Heteroscedastic Kernel Ridge Regression. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 209–214. 2 indexed citations

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Foxall, Robert J., Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot, Stephen Dorling, & Danilo P. Mandic. (2002). Heteroscedastic regularised kernel regression for prediction of episodes of poor air quality. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 19–24. 4 indexed citations

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Dorling, Stephen, et al.. (1998). Artificial neural networks (the multilayer perceptron)—a review of applications in the atmospheric sciences. Atmospheric Environment. 32(14-15). 2627–2636. 2351 indexed citations breakdown →

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Davies, T. D., et al.. (1992). Towards an assessment of the influence of climate on wet acidic deposition in Europe. Environmental Pollution. 75(2). 111–119. 9 indexed citations

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Dorling, Stephen, et al.. (1992). Cluster analysis: A technique for estimating the synoptic meteorological controls on air and precipitation chemistry—Results from Eskdalemuir, South Scotland. Atmospheric Environment Part A General Topics. 26(14). 2583–2602. 57 indexed citations

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Dorling, Stephen, et al.. (1992). Cluster analysis: A technique for estimating the synoptic meteorological controls on air and precipitation chemistry—Method and applications. Atmospheric Environment Part A General Topics. 26(14). 2575–2581. 260 indexed citations

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