William Colgan

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

William Colgan is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, William Colgan has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Atmospheric Science, 38 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 33 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in William Colgan's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (90 papers), Climate change and permafrost (52 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (38 papers). William Colgan is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (90 papers), Climate change and permafrost (52 papers) and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance (38 papers). William Colgan collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Canada. William Colgan's co-authors include Jason E. Box, Robert S. Fausto, Dirk van As, Konrad Steffen, W. Abdalati, Harihar Rajaram, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm and Kristian K. Kjeldsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William Colgan

95 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Key indicators of Arctic ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017
    2019 548 citations Jason E. Box, William Colgan et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William Colgan 3.1k 838 753 534 247 101 3.5k
Horst Machguth 3.9k 1.2× 870 1.0× 941 1.2× 647 1.2× 192 0.8× 82 4.2k
Hamish D. Pritchard 3.6k 1.2× 1.4k 1.6× 807 1.1× 555 1.0× 388 1.6× 52 4.1k
Luke Copland 3.3k 1.1× 775 0.9× 849 1.1× 287 0.5× 345 1.4× 145 3.8k
J. T. Harper 2.6k 0.8× 690 0.8× 1.1k 1.5× 454 0.9× 281 1.1× 96 3.4k
Andrés Rivera 4.1k 1.3× 967 1.2× 719 1.0× 702 1.3× 622 2.5× 133 4.8k
Fabien Maussion 4.5k 1.4× 671 0.8× 468 0.6× 1.4k 2.6× 256 1.0× 77 4.9k
Sarah B. Das 3.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.4× 655 0.9× 513 1.0× 526 2.1× 63 3.9k
Ruth Mottram 2.6k 0.8× 727 0.9× 546 0.7× 487 0.9× 179 0.7× 61 2.7k
Frank Pattyn 4.4k 1.4× 2.0k 2.4× 1.2k 1.6× 459 0.9× 396 1.6× 151 4.7k
Tamsin Edwards 1.8k 0.6× 495 0.6× 334 0.4× 692 1.3× 197 0.8× 49 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Colgan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Colgan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Colgan, William, Jörg Ebbing, Anne Gravsholt Busck, et al.. (2025). Community Heat Flow Recommendations: Suitable Basal Boundary Conditions for Greenland and Antarctica in ISMIP7. California Digital Library.
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Barletta, Valentina R., Javed Hassan, William Colgan, et al.. (2024). Vertical Land Motion Due To Present‐Day Ice Loss From Greenland's and Canada's Peripheral Glaciers. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(2). 5 indexed citations
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Colgan, William, Pavel G. Тalalay, Joshua Elliott, et al.. (2023). Design and performance of the Hotrod melt-tip ice-drilling system. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 12(2). 121–140.
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Colgan, William, Hans Jørgen Henriksen, Ole Bennike, et al.. (2022). Sea-level rise in Denmark: paleo context, recent projections and policy implications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 49. 3 indexed citations
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Colgan, William, Jakob Jakobsen, Anne Solgaard, et al.. (2022). Sixty years of ice form and flow at Camp Century, Greenland. Journal of Glaciology. 69(276). 919–929. 1 indexed citations
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Bennike, Ole, William Colgan, Lars Hedenäs, et al.. (2022). An Early Pleistocene interglacial deposit at Pingorsuit, North‐West Greenland. Boreas. 52(1). 27–41. 3 indexed citations
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Fausto, Robert S., Dirk van As, Kenneth D. Mankoff, et al.. (2021). PROMICE automatic weather station data. 4 indexed citations
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Colgan, William, Joseph A. MacGregor, Kenneth D. Mankoff, et al.. (2021). Topographic Correction of Geothermal Heat Flux in Greenland and Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 126(2). 21 indexed citations
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Fausto, Robert S., Dirk van As, Kenneth D. Mankoff, et al.. (2021). Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet (PROMICE) automatic weather station data. Earth system science data. 13(8). 3819–3845. 98 indexed citations
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Mankoff, Kenneth D., Anne Solgaard, William Colgan, et al.. (2020). Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through March 2020. Earth system science data. 12(2). 1367–1383. 88 indexed citations
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Vandecrux, Baptiste, Robert S. Fausto, Dirk van As, et al.. (2020). Firn cold content evolution at nine sites on the Greenland ice sheet between 1998 and 2017. Journal of Glaciology. 66(258). 591–602. 21 indexed citations
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Mankoff, Kenneth D., Anne Solgaard, William Colgan, et al.. (2020). Greenland Ice Sheet solid ice discharge from 1986 through 2019. 4 indexed citations
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Vandecrux, Baptiste, Michael MacFerrin, Horst Machguth, et al.. (2019). Firn data compilation reveals widespread decrease of firn air content in western Greenland. ˜The œcryosphere. 13(3). 845–859. 48 indexed citations
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Box, Jason E., William Colgan, Torben R. Christensen, et al.. (2019). Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017. Environmental Research Letters. 14(4). 45010–45010. 548 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fausto, Robert S., S. B. Andersen, Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, et al.. (2018). Greenland ice sheet – snowline elevations at the end of the melt seasons from 2000 to 2017. Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 1 indexed citations
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Vandecrux, Baptiste, Robert S. Fausto, Peter L. Langen, et al.. (2018). Drivers of Firn Density on the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed by Weather Station Observations and Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(10). 2563–2576. 21 indexed citations
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Vandecrux, Baptiste, Michael MacFerrin, Horst Machguth, et al.. (2018). Brief communication: Firn data compilation reveals the evolution ofthe firn air content on the Greenland ice sheet. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations
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Bjørk, Anders Anker, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Jason E. Box, et al.. (2017). Changes in Greenland’s peripheral glaciers linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation. Nature Climate Change. 8(1). 48–52. 52 indexed citations
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Machguth, Horst, Michael MacFerrin, Dirk van As, et al.. (2016). Greenland meltwater storage in firn limited by near-surface ice formation. Nature Climate Change. 6(4). 390–393. 178 indexed citations
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Charalampidis, Charalampos, Dirk van As, Jason E. Box, et al.. (2015). Changing surface–atmosphere energy exchange and refreezing capacity of the lower accumulation area, West Greenland. ˜The œcryosphere. 9(6). 2163–2181. 34 indexed citations

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