Tom Gleeson

21.8k citations

114 papers · 10.9k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 42

Impact in

Geochemistry and Petrology top 0.05%
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
Water Science and Technology top 0.05%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Papers in

Geochemistry and Petrology 54
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry 53
Environmental Engineering 63
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies 58

Co-authors: Yoshihide Wada Rens van Beek Marc F. P. Bierkens Grant Ferguson Werner Aeschbach Elco Luijendijk Nils Moosdorf Kevin M. Befus
Journals: Water Resources Research (18 papers)Nature Geoscience (9 papers)Ground Water (7 papers)Geofluids (7 papers)Geophysical Research Letters (7 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Tom Gleeson

112 papers receiving 10.7k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle 2025 · 19 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Reviews of Geophysics
2024 Science
2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2020 Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
2020 Nature Communications
2019 Nature
2019 Nature Climate Change
2017 Nature Geoscience
2016 Hydrology and earth system sciences
2016 Nature Geoscience
2015 Nature Geoscience
2013 Earth-Science Reviews
2012 Nature Geoscience
2012 Nature
2012 Nature Climate Change

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All Works

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1	Streamflow Depletion Caused by Groundwater Pumping: Fundamental Research Priorities for Management‐Relevant Science Water Resources Research ·Samuel C. Zipper, Andrea E. Brookfield, Hoori Ajami, 佳朗平沢, 袁建辉, Michael N. Fienen, Tom Gleeson, John C. Hammond, Mary C. Hill, A. D. Kendall, Ben Kerr, Yang Zhou, Mayra Linné Almanza-Sepúlveda, 重彦今川, Melissa M. Rohde, Chloe B. Wardropper	2024	9
2	Comparing Global Violations of Environmentally Critical Groundwater Discharge Thresholds Water Resources Research ·L Yény, Chinchu Mohan, Tom Gleeson, Fulco Ludwig, Inge de Graaf	2024	0
3	Quantifying Groundwater's Contribution to Regional Environmental‐Flows in Diverse Hydrologic Landscapes Water Resources Research ·Chinchu Mohan, Tom Gleeson, بهمن رمضانی گورابی, J. S. Famiglietti, Inge de Graaf	2023	11
4	Defining Renewable Groundwater Use and Its Relevance to Sustainable Groundwater Management Water Resources Research ·Mark Cuthbert, Tom Gleeson, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Grant Ferguson, Richard G. Taylor	2023	22
5	GroMoPo : A Groundwater Model Portal for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Modeling Ground Water ·Samuel C. Zipper, Kevin M. Befus, Robert Reinecke, Kamila Wojdyøo, Tom Gleeson, Sacha Ruzzante, K. Ishikawa, Kenji Hagiwara, BY ANN MARIE DENTE-CASSSIDY, Mark Cuthbert, Anthony M. Castronova, Thorsten Wagener, Marc F. P. Bierkens	2023	6
6	On doing hydrology with dragons: Realizing the value of perceptual models and knowledge accumulation Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water ·Thorsten Wagener, Tom Gleeson, Gemma Coxon, Andreas Hartmann, Nicholas Howden, Francesca Pianosi, Mostaquimur Rahman, Rafael Rosolem, Lina Stein, Ross Woods	2021	38
7	Renewed thinking on groundwater age Grant Ferguson, Mark Cuthbert, Kevin M. Befus, Tom Gleeson, Sergiu Buzdugan, Kun Li	2021	1
8	Karst spring recession curve analysis: efficient, accurate methods for both fast and slow flow components B Feiner, Tom Gleeson, Andreas Hartmann	2021	1
9	Integrating the Water Planetary Boundary With Water Management From Local to Global Scales Earth s Future ·Samuel C. Zipper, Fernando Jaramillo, Lan Wang‐Erlandsson, Sarah Cornell, Tom Gleeson, Miina Porkka, Tiina Häyhä, Anne‐Sophie Crépin, Ingo Fetzer, Dieter Gerten, Holger Hoff, Nathanial Matthews, Constanza Ricaurte‐Villota, Matti Kummu, Yoshihide Wada, Line Gordon	2020	76
10	Rethinking groundwater age Nature Geoscience ·Grant Ferguson, Mark Cuthbert, Kevin M. Befus, Tom Gleeson, Jennifer C. McIntosh	2020	28
11	Rapid and Accurate Estimates of Streamflow Depletion Caused by Groundwater Pumping Using Analytical Depletion Functions Water Resources Research ·Samuel C. Zipper, Tom Gleeson, Ben Kerr, Jeanette K. Howard, Melissa M. Rohde, Jennifer Carah, Julie K. H. Zimmerman	2019	39
12	Balancing Open Science and Data Privacy in the Water Sciences Water Resources Research ·Samuel C. Zipper, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Jillian M. Deines, Kevin M. Befus, Udit Bhatia, Sam Albers, Janice A. Beecher, Christa Brelsford, Margaret Garcia, Tom Gleeson, F. C. O'Donnell, David B. Resnik, Edella Schlager	2019	52
13	Global patterns and dynamics of climate–groundwater interactions Nature Climate Change ·Mark Cuthbert, Tom Gleeson, Nils Moosdorf, Kevin M. Befus, A. Schneider, Jens Hartmann, Bernhard Lehner Hit paper breakdown →	2019	310
14	Groundwater Pumping Impacts on Real Stream Networks: Testing the Performance of Simple Management Tools Water Resources Research ·Samuel C. Zipper, 赵洪山, Tom Gleeson, Masha Baryakhtar, Andreas Hartmann	2018	31
15	HESS Opinions: Science in today's media landscape – challenges and lessons from hydrologists and journalists Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Stefanie Lutz, Andrea Popp, Tim van Emmerik, Tom Gleeson, 忠廣植村, Jiaqi Shi, Ron Setties, Leo F. Godley, Rolf Hut, H. H. G. Savenije, Louise Slater, Anna Solcerová, Cathelijne R. Stoof, Matthias Zink	2018	4
16	A global-scale two-layer transient groundwater model: Development and application to groundwater depletion Advances in Water Resources ·Inge de Graaf, Rens van Beek, Tom Gleeson, Nils Moosdorf, Oliver Schmitz, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Marc F. P. Bierkens	2017	170
17	A global-scale two-layer transient groundwater model: development and application to groundwater depletion Inge de Graaf, Rens van Beek, Tom Gleeson, Nils Moosdorf, Oliver Schmitz, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Marc F. P. Bierkens	2016	5
18	A large-scale simulation model to assess karstic groundwater recharge over Europe and the Mediterranean Geoscientific model development ·Andreas Hartmann, Tom Gleeson, Rafael Rosolem, Francesca Pianosi, Yoshihide Wada, Thorsten Wagener	2015	95
19	A simulation model to assess groundwater recharge over Europe's karst regions Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·Andreas Hartmann, Tom Gleeson, Rafael Rosolem, Francesca Pianosi, Yoshihide Wada, Thorsten Wagener	2014	4
20	Understanding recharge elasticity through large-scale simulations of Europe's karst regions under varying climatic boundary conditions EGUGA ·Andreas Hartmann, Tom Gleeson, Thorsten Wagener	2014	1

About Tom Gleeson

Tom Gleeson is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Geophysics and Ocean Engineering, having authored 114 papers that have together received 10.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Groundwater flow and contamination studies (58 papers), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (53 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (46 papers), Water resources management and optimization (18 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (12 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (11 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (10 papers) and Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Geochemistry and Petrology (3.5k citations), Water Science and Technology (4.8k citations), Environmental Engineering (4.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.0k citations) and Ocean Engineering (1.8k citations). Tom Gleeson has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Yoshihide Wada, Rens van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Grant Ferguson, Werner Aeschbach, Elco Luijendijk, Nils Moosdorf, Kevin M. Befus, Scott Jasechko and Andrew H. Manning. Their work appears in journals such as Water Resources Research, Nature Geoscience, Ground Water, Geofluids and Geophysical Research Letters.

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