2026 Jeff Warburton: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	34	8043	7460	820	761	159	3955

Overview

Jeff Warburton is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions across ecology, soil science, global and planetary change, water science and technology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The main research topics that Warburton has worked on include:

Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Soil erosion and sediment transport
Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Landslides and related hazards
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

They have published several papers recently, including:

"A multiproxy approach to long-term herbivore grazing dynamics in peatlands based on pollen, coprophilous fungi and faecal biomarkers" (2022, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
"A catchment scale assessment of patterns and controls of historic 2D river planform adjustment" (2020, Geomorphology)
"Assessing the hydrological and geomorphic behaviour of a landscape evolution model within a limits-of-acceptability uncertainty analysis framework" (2021, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
"Extreme Flood Sediment Production and Export Controlled by Reach-Scale Morphology" (2023, Geophysical Research Letters)
"Metals, mines and moorland: the changing lead mining landscapes of the North Pennines, UK, 1700-1948" (2022, Post-Medieval Archaeology)

Warburton frequently publishes in the following venues:

Geomorphology
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
Geophysical Research Letters
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Mark Kincey
Edwin Baynes
Althea L. Davies
Loïc Harrault
Karen Milek

Best Publications

Carbon budget for a British upland peat catchment

Fred Worrall;Mark Reed;Jeff Warburton;Tim Burt

266
Citations
Eroding blanket peat catchments : global and local implications of upland organic sediment budgets.

Martin Evans;Jeff Warburton;Juan Yang

182
Citations
Relative Rates of Glacial and Nonglacial Erosion in Alpine Environments

Jon Harbor;Jeff Warburton

182
Citations
Release of dissolved organic carbon from upland peat

F. Worrall;T. P. Burt;R. Y. Jaeban;J. Warburton

171
Citations
Geomorphology of Upland Peat: Erosion, Form and Landscape Change

Martin Evans;Jeff Warburton

162
Citations
Teaching Geography in Higher Education: A Manual of Good Practice

Jeff Warburton;John R. Gold;Alan Jenkins;Roger Lee

162
Citations
The multi-annual carbon budget of a peat-covered catchment

Fred Worrall;Tim Burt;James Rowson;Jeff Warburton

145
Citations
Sediment budget for an eroding peat-moorland catchment in northern England

Martin Evans;Jeff Warburton

136
Citations
Observations of Bed Load Transport and Channel Bed Changes in a Proglacial Mountain Stream

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123
Citations
Contemporary geomorphological activity throughout the proglacial area of an alpine catchment

Jonathan L. Carrivick;Martin Geilhausen;Jeff Warburton;Neil E. Dickson

113
Citations
An alpine proglacial fluvial sediment budget

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112
Citations
Geomorphology of Upland Peat

Martin Evans;Jeff Warburton

109
Citations
Hydrological controls of surficial mass movements in peat

Jeff Warburton;Joseph Holden;Andrew J. Mills

102
Citations
Gravel extraction and planform change in a wandering gravel-bed river: The River Wear, Northern England

Duncan Wishart;Jeff Warburton;Louise Bracken

101
Citations
Limits on the validity of infinite length assumptions for modelling shallow landslides

D. G. Milledge;D. V. Griffiths;S. N. Lane;J. Warburton

97
Citations
Mass movements in peat: A formal classification scheme

Alan P. Dykes;Jeff Warburton

77
Citations
Estimating depth‐averaged velocities in rough channels

Tracy C. Byrd;David Jon Furbish;Jeff Warburton

75
Citations
Improving the preparation for fieldwork with ‘IT’: Two examples from physical geography

Jeff Warburton;Martin Higgitt

68
Citations
A FRAMEWORK FOR CHARACTERIZING FLUVIAL SEDIMENT FLUXES FROM SOURCE TO SINK IN COLD ENVIRONMENTS

John F. Orwin;Scott F. Lamoureux;Jeff Warburton;Achim Beylich

68
Citations
Wind-splash erosion of bare peat on UK upland moorlands

Jeff Warburton

63
Citations
Grain-Shape Analysis—A New Method for Determining Representative Particle Shapes for Populations of Natural Grains

Robert J. Oakey;Michael Green;Paul A. Carling;Mark W.E. Lee

61
Citations
Fitting concentration and load rating curves with generalized linear models

Nicholas J. Cox;Jeff Warburton;Alona Armstrong;Victoria J. Holliday

60
Citations
Glaciation and denudation rates

Jon Harbor;Jeff Warburton

58
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Evans University of Manchester

Stuart N. Lane University of Lausanne

Tim Burt Durham University

David Sear University of Southampton

Bernd Etzelmüller University of Oslo

Fred Worrall Durham University

Andrew J. Russell Newcastle University

Tim Davies University of Canterbury

Mark G. Macklin University of Lincoln

Scott F. Lamoureux Queen's University

External Links

Personal website of Jeff Warburton

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