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Tim Davies publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tim Davies sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 199 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Tim Davies D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tim Davies sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tim Davies is affiliated with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and focuses on research primarily in Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their research covers a range of main topics, emphasizing landslides and related hazards, flood risk assessment and management, fire effects on ecosystems, disaster management and resilience, infrastructure resilience and vulnerability analysis, advanced neural network applications, and airway management and intubation techniques.

Tim Davies has several recent publications, including:

  • Probabilistic cascading multi-hazard risk assessment methodology using graph theory, a New Zealand trial, 2020, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • People's Participation in Disaster-Risk Reduction: Recentering Power, 2020, Natural Hazards Review
  • A Review of Recent Hardware and Software Advances in GPU-Accelerated Edge-Computing Single-Board Computers (SBCs) for Computer Vision, 2024, Sensors
  • Multihazards Scenario Generator: A Network-Based Simulation of Natural Disasters, 2021, Risk Analysis
  • Edge-Computing Video Analytics Solution for Automated Plastic-Bag Contamination Detection: A Case from Remondis, 2022, Sensors

The frequent coauthors working with Tim Davies include Umair Iqbal, Pascal Perez, Johan Barthélemy, Mark Bloomberg, and Tom Robinson. This collaboration indicates interdisciplinary connections across multiple facets of disaster risk, environmental monitoring, and computational approaches.

The primary venues for their research publications are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Sensors
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Natural Hazards Review

Best Publications

  • Spreading of rock avalanche debris by mechanical fluidization

    T.R.H. Davies

  • A fragmentation-spreading model for long-runout rock avalanches

    T R Davies;M J McSaveney;K A Hodgson

  • The role of rock fragmentation in the motion of large landslides

    T.R. Davies;M.J. McSaveney

  • Sediment generation and delivery from large historic landslides in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

    Oliver Korup;Mauri J McSaveney;Timothy R.H Davies

  • Determining rheological parameters of debris flow material

    Christopher J. Phillips;Timothy R.H. Davies

  • Runout of dry granular avalanches

    T R Davies;M J McSaveney

  • Effects of debris on ice-surface melting rates: an experimental study

    Natalya Reznichenko;Tim Davies;James Shulmeister;Mauri McSaveney

  • Longitudinal ridges in mass movement deposits

    Anja Dufresne;T. R. Davies

  • Large debris flows: A macro-viscous phenomenon

    T. R. H. Davies

  • Regional coseismic landslide hazard assessment without historical landslide inventories: A new approach

    Theodosios Kritikos;Tom R. Robinson;Tim R. H. Davies

  • Dynamic simulation of the motion of fragmenting rock avalanches

    T R Davies;M J McSaveney

  • Extremal hypotheses for river behavior

    Timothy R. H. Davies;Alex J. Sutherland

  • Assessment of rainfall-generated shallow landslide/debris-flow susceptibility and runout using a GIS-based approach: application to western Southern Alps of New Zealand

    Theodosios Kritikos;Tim Davies

  • The October 1999 Mt Adams rock avalanche and subsequent landslide dam‐break flood and effects in Poerua river, Westland, New Zealand

    Graham T. Hancox;Mauri J. McSaveney;Vernon R. Manville;Tim R. Davies

  • Large ice-contact slope movements: glacial buttressing, deformation and erosion

    Samuel T. McColl;Timothy R. H. Davies

  • Effects of rock avalanches on glacier behaviour and moraine formation

    Natalya V. Reznichenko;Tim R.H. Davies;David J. Alexander

  • Geohazard cascade and mechanism of large debris flows in Tianmo gully, SE Tibetan Plateau and implications to hazard monitoring

    Rongqiang Wei;Qingli Zeng;Tim Davies;Guangxiang Yuan

  • Debris-flow surges : experimental simulation

    T. R. H. Davies

  • The Little Red Hill Seismic Experimental Study: Topographic Effects on Ground Motion at a Bedrock-Dominated Mountain Edifice

    F. Buech;T. R. Davies;J. R. Pettinga

  • Catastrophic landslides, glacier behaviour and moraine formation : a view from an active plate margin.

    James Shulmeister;Tim R. Davies;David J. A. Evans;Olivia M. Hyatt

  • Persistent alluvial fanhead trenching resulting from large, infrequent sediment inputs

    Timothy R. H. Davies;Oliver Korup

  • Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: Introduction

    Timothy R. H. Davies

Frequent Co-Authors

Mauri McSaveney
Mauri McSaveney GNS Science
James Shulmeister
James Shulmeister University of Canterbury
Derrick W. Crook
Derrick W. Crook University of Oxford
Tim E. A. Peto
Tim E. A. Peto University of Oxford
Nicole Stoesser
Nicole Stoesser University of Oxford
A. Sarah Walker
A. Sarah Walker University of Oxford
Jeff Warburton
Jeff Warburton Durham University
Karim Kelfoun
Karim Kelfoun University of Clermont Auvergne
Nicholas P. J. Day
Nicholas P. J. Day University of Oxford
James Goff
James Goff University of New South Wales

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