Sylvia Knight

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sylvia Knight is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Knight has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 2 papers in Atmospheric Science and 1 paper in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Knight's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (3 papers), Climate variability and models (3 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (2 papers). Sylvia Knight is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (3 papers), Climate variability and models (3 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (2 papers). Sylvia Knight collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Slovakia. Sylvia Knight's co-authors include Myles Allen, David J. Frame, T. Aina, C. Christensen, David A. Stainforth, Andrew Martin, J. Kettleborough, C. Piani, N. Faull and James M. Murphy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Knight

6 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases

2005 857 citations David A. Stainforth, T. Aina et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvia Knight United Kingdom	6	810	616	93	91	74	8	1.1k
N. Faull United Kingdom	6	743 0.9×	545 0.9×	78 0.8×	100 1.1×	65 0.9×	6	1.0k
David N. Barnett United Kingdom	6	1.1k 1.3×	793 1.3×	142 1.5×	112 1.2×	105 1.4×	6	1.6k
Jared Rennie United States	12	791 1.0×	654 1.1×	54 0.6×	81 0.9×	72 1.0×	22	1.1k
Lukas Brunner Switzerland	14	1.1k 1.3×	799 1.3×	111 1.2×	46 0.5×	145 2.0×	28	1.3k
C. Serra Spain	20	1.1k 1.4×	476 0.8×	165 1.8×	173 1.9×	44 0.6×	60	1.3k
Lisa Goddard United States	14	897 1.1×	659 1.1×	128 1.4×	29 0.3×	130 1.8×	27	1.1k
Roxana Bojariu Romania	14	625 0.8×	481 0.8×	39 0.4×	57 0.6×	154 2.1×	38	829
Ag Stephens United Kingdom	11	550 0.7×	569 0.9×	58 0.6×	35 0.4×	92 1.2×	23	1.1k
Scott Applequist United States	9	542 0.7×	405 0.7×	44 0.5×	45 0.5×	51 0.7×	13	859
M. D. Martínez Spain	19	803 1.0×	341 0.6×	98 1.1×	168 1.8×	21 0.3×	66	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvia Knight

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvia Knight

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sylvia Knight. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sylvia Knight. The network helps show where Sylvia Knight may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvia Knight

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sylvia Knight. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sylvia Knight 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 Sylvia Knight. Sylvia Knight is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

1.

Knight, Sylvia. (2018). Book review. Weather. 74(2). 73–73.

2.

Read, P. L., J. K. Barstow, B. Charnay, et al.. (2015). Global energy budgets and ‘Trenberth diagrams’ for the climates of terrestrial and gas giant planets. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 142(695). 703–720. 24 indexed citations

3.

Ackerley, Duncan, Ben Booth, Sylvia Knight, et al.. (2011). Sensitivity of Twentieth-Century Sahel Rainfall to Sulfate Aerosol and CO₂ Forcing. Journal of Climate. 24(19). 4999–5014. 116 indexed citations

4.

Knight, Sylvia, Claire Smith, & Michael J. Roberts. (2010). Mapping Manchester's urban heat island. Weather. 65(7). 188–193. 23 indexed citations

5.

Frame, David J., T. Aina, N. Faull, et al.. (2008). The climate prediction .net BBC climate change experiment: design of the coupled model ensemble. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 367(1890). 855–870. 30 indexed citations

6.

Knight, Christopher G., Sylvia Knight, Neil Massey, et al.. (2007). Association of parameter, software, and hardware variation with large-scale behavior across 57,000 climate models. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(30). 12259–12264. 65 indexed citations

7.

Stainforth, David A., T. Aina, C. Christensen, et al.. (2005). Uncertainty in predictions of the climate response to rising levels of greenhouse gases. Nature. 433(7024). 403–406. 857 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Knight, Sylvia. (2000). GMC speeds up disciplinary action against doctors. BMJ. 320(7233). 466–466.

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