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Advances in Water Resources
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Advances in Water Resources

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 145 119 156 23
Engineering and Technology 226 112 212 29

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 373
Documents by Best Scientists*: 451
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 12
SCIMAGO H-index: 170
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.038
Impact Factor: 4.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Advances in Water Resources?

Advances in Water Resources aims to foster the development of research in Mechanics, Hydrology, Porous medium, Geotechnical engineering and Aquifer. The journal facilitated presentations on Mechanics research, particularly Flow (psychology), Flow (mathematics), Turbulence, Multiphase flow and Fluid dynamics. It concentrates on Hydrology topics that focus on Surface runoff, Drainage basin, Streamflow and Water resources.

The concepts on Porous medium presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Saturation (chemistry), Mineralogy, Permeability (earth sciences) and Thermodynamics. While Aquifer is the focus of Advances in Water Resources, it also provided insights into the studies of Hydraulic conductivity and Soil science. The journal focuses on Soil science research which is adjacent to topics in Water content.

Groundwater flow is a focus of the presented Groundwater works and it dives deep in Groundwater flow.

  • Mechanics (22.97%)
  • Hydrology (16.53%)
  • Porous medium (15.48%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Statistics of extremes in hydrology (1121 citations)
  • Pore-scale imaging and modelling (996 citations)
  • Characterizing flow and transport in fractured geological media: A review (951 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Advances in Water Resources:

The journal publications are organized to reinforce research efforts on Hydrology, Mechanics, Porous medium, Geotechnical engineering and Meteorology. While work presented in the journal articles provide substantial information on Hydrology, it also covers topics in Soil science and Soil water. The most cited articles explore research in Mineralogy and overlapping concepts in Saturation (chemistry) to expand the discourse in Porous medium.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Statistics
  • Ecology
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Mechanics, Porous medium, Flow (mathematics), Streamflow and Flow (psychology). While Mechanics is the key highlight in Advances in Water Resources, it also covered some subjects on Fracture (geology) and Fluid dynamics. The featured Porous medium research encompasses issues not only in the field but also those in the adjacent area of disciplines such as

  • Saturation (chemistry) and related Capillary pressure and Wetting,
  • Permeability (earth sciences) which is related to area like Porosity,
  • Dissolution which is related to area like Groundwater..

The journal explores issues in Flow (mathematics) which can be linked to other research areas like Coupling, Mathematical analysis, Applied mathematics and Finite volume method. Streamflow research presented in Advances in Water Resources encompasses a variety of subjects, including Climate change, Scale (map), Land use and Water resources. The journal explores research in Precipitation and overlapping concepts in Hydrology to expand the discourse in Climate change.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Verification benchmarks for single-phase flow in three-dimensional fractured porous media (27 citations)
  • Contact angle measurement for hydrogen/brine/sandstone system using captive-bubble method relevant for underground hydrogen storage (7 citations)
  • Three decades of depth-dependent groundwater response to climate variability and human regime in the transboundary Indus-Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna mega river basin aquifers (7 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Advances in Water Resources (based on the number of publications) are:

  • David Andrew Barry (51 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Cass T. Miller (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ling Li (40 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • William G. Gray (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe (30 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Advances in Water Resources (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Princeton University (102 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Padua (85 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Delft University of Technology (84 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Texas at Austin (82 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (80 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 7.07% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 19.30% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.53% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.05% of all publications and 49.12% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Multiphysics Data Assimilation with Application to Subsurface Transport

    Qi Zhi He;David Barajas-Solano;Guzel Tartakovsky;Alexandre M. Tartakovsky

    (2020)
    341 Citations
  • U-FNO - an enhanced Fourier neural operator based-deep learning model for multiphase flow

    (2021)
    297 Citations
  • Machine learning in geo- and environmental sciences: From small to large scale

    Pejman Tahmasebi;Serveh Kamrava;Tao Bai;Muhammad Sahimi

    (2020)
    273 Citations
  • PoreFlow-Net: A 3D convolutional neural network to predict fluid flow through porous media

    Javier E. Santos;Duo Xu;Honggeun Jo;Christopher J. Landry

    (2020)
    227 Citations
  • Multiscale groundwater level forecasting: Coupling new machine learning approaches with wavelet transforms

    A.T.M. Sakiur Rahman;Takahiro Hosono;John M. Quilty;Jayanta Das

    (2020)
    173 Citations
  • Distributed memory parallel computing of three-dimensional variable-density groundwater flow and salt transport

    J. Verkaik;J. van Engelen;S. Huizer;S. Huizer;Marc F.P. Bierkens

    (2021)
    144 Citations
  • Pore-scale dynamics for underground porous media hydrogen storage

    Unknown

    (2022)
    138 Citations
  • Multivariate data assimilation of GRACE, SMOS, SMAP measurements for improved regional soil moisture and groundwater storage estimates

    Natthachet Tangdamrongsub;Natthachet Tangdamrongsub;Shin-Chan Han;In-Young Yeo;Jianzhi Dong

    (2020)
    95 Citations
  • The potential of data driven approaches for quantifying hydrological extremes

    Sandra M. Hauswirth;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Vincent Beijk;Niko Wanders

    (2021)
    71 Citations

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