Tom Matthews

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
63 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Tom Matthews is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Matthews has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 35 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Tom Matthews's work include Climate variability and models (27 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (17 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (15 papers). Tom Matthews is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (27 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (17 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (15 papers). Tom Matthews collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States. Tom Matthews's co-authors include Conor Murphy, Robert L. Wilby, Colin Raymond, Radley M. Horton, Shaun Harrigan, Ciarán Broderick, Donal Mullan, L. Baker Perry, Simon Noone and Louise Slater 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

Tom Matthews

58 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

2020 464 citations Colin Raymond, Tom Matthews et al. profile →
Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management

2021 170 citations Louise Slater, Bailey Anderson et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events

2025 16 citations Tom Matthews, Colin Raymond et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Matthews United Kingdom	23	1.3k	815	496	400	340	63	2.2k
Christopher J. White United Kingdom	27	1.2k 0.9×	812 1.0×	474 1.0×	278 0.7×	299 0.9×	64	2.3k
Colin Raymond United States	17	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	648 1.3×	180 0.5×	334 1.0×	34	2.8k
Simone Russo Italy	22	2.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	950 1.9×	167 0.4×	550 1.6×	60	3.1k
Mark McCarthy United Kingdom	26	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	582 1.2×	263 0.7×	725 2.1×	57	2.9k
Ana Casanueva Spain	21	964 0.8×	671 0.8×	489 1.0×	149 0.4×	238 0.7×	36	1.6k
John McAneney Australia	21	1.5k 1.2×	781 1.0×	230 0.5×	191 0.5×	254 0.7×	43	2.4k
Elisa Ragno Netherlands	14	1.4k 1.1×	636 0.8×	226 0.5×	335 0.8×	206 0.6×	23	1.9k
Kai Kornhuber United States	25	2.2k 1.7×	1.6k 2.0×	390 0.8×	120 0.3×	210 0.6×	41	3.1k
Sebastian Sippel Switzerland	27	2.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	270 0.5×	169 0.4×	228 0.7×	63	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Matthews

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Matthews

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tom Matthews. 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 Tom Matthews. The network helps show where Tom Matthews may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Matthews

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lane, Timothy, et al.. (2025). Divided by a common language? The impact of a joint international field trip on student skills. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 49(3). 398–421.

Vries, Maximillian Van Wyk de, et al.. (2024). At-scale Model Output Statistics in mountain environments (AtsMOS v1.0). Geoscientific model development. 17(21). 7629–7643.

Hodgkins, Richard, Long Seng To, & Tom Matthews. (2024). The IPCC reports and HE Geography: opportunities lost and found. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 49(1). 141–153. 2 indexed citations

Raymond, Colin, Tom Matthews, & Cascade Tuholske. (2024). Evening humid-heat maxima near the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 5 indexed citations

Matthews, Tom, Fahad Saeed, Steven C. Sherwood, et al.. (2024). Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality. Nature Climate Change. 15(1). 4–6. 7 indexed citations

Sherpa, Tenzing Chogyal, Tom Matthews, L. Baker Perry, et al.. (2023). Insights from the first winter weather observations near Mount Everest's summit. Weather. 78(12). 344–348. 4 indexed citations

You, Jiewen, Shuo Wang, Boen Zhang, Colin Raymond, & Tom Matthews. (2023). Growing Threats From Swings Between Hot and Wet Extremes in a Warmer World. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(14). 21 indexed citations

Wilby, Robert L., et al.. (2023). Google Trends indicators to inform water planning and drought management. Geographical Journal. 190(3).

Wilby, Robert L., Madeleine Orr, Richard Giulianotti, et al.. (2022). The impacts of sport emissions on climate: Measurement, mitigation, and making a difference. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1519(1). 20–33. 40 indexed citations

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Potocki, Mariusz, Paul A. Mayewski, Tom Matthews, et al.. (2022). Mt. Everest’s highest glacier is a sentinel for accelerating ice loss. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 5(1). 27 indexed citations

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Matthews, Tom, L. Baker Perry, Dibas Shrestha, et al.. (2022). Weather Observations Reach the Summit of Mount Everest. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 103(12). E2827–E2835. 3 indexed citations

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Wilby, Robert L., Raymond Abudu Kasei, Katherine V. Gough, et al.. (2021). Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 24033–24033. 27 indexed citations

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Matthews, Tom, L. Baker Perry, Inka Koch, et al.. (2021). Himalayan High: Weather Stations on Mount Everest Reach New Heights. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(5). 422–428. 1 indexed citations

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Raymond, Colin, Tom Matthews, Radley M. Horton, et al.. (2021). On the Controlling Factors for Globally Extreme Humid Heat. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(23). 44 indexed citations

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Murphy, Conor, Shaun Harrigan, Ciarán Broderick, et al.. (2021). Conditioning ensemble streamflow prediction with the North Atlantic Oscillation improves skill at longer lead times. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(7). 4159–4183. 20 indexed citations

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Slater, Louise, Bailey Anderson, Marcus Buechel, et al.. (2021). Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(7). 3897–3935. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thompson, Joshua, Robert L. Wilby, Tom Matthews, & Conor Murphy. (2021). The utility of Google Trends as a tool for evaluating flooding in data‐scarce places. Area. 54(2). 203–212. 17 indexed citations

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Perry, L. Baker, et al.. (2019). Meteorological Analysis of High Altitude Automatic Weather Station Data from the Everest Region. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019.

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Murphy, Conor, Robert L. Wilby, Tom Matthews, et al.. (2019). Multi‐century trends to wetter winters and drier summers in the England and Wales precipitation series explained by observational and sampling bias in early records. International Journal of Climatology. 40(1). 610–619. 38 indexed citations

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Murphy, Conor, Ciarán Broderick, Timothy P. Burt, et al.. (2018). A 305-year continuous monthly rainfall series for the island of Ireland (1711–2016). Climate of the past. 14(3). 413–440. 46 indexed citations

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