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Hydrological Research Letters
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Hydrological Research Letters

1882-3416

Published by: THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES

http://www.hrljournal.org/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 770 7 10 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 11
Documents by Best Scientists*: 16
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 16
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.272
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Hydrological Research Letters?

The journal investigates studies in Hydrology, Climatology, Precipitation, Meteorology and Drainage basin. Studies on Hydrology discussed in Hydrological Research Letters link to the field of Structural basin. The work on Climatology tackled in Hydrological Research Letters brings together disciplines like Global warming, Climate change, Climate model and Downscaling.

The journal explores research in Climate change and the adjacent study of Flood myth. It focused on Precipitation research but expanded to cover Atmospheric sciences. The main emphasis of it is the subject of Meteorology, focusing on Typhoon.

  • Hydrology (34.01%)
  • Climatology (29.96%)
  • Precipitation (17.00%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Projection of Extreme Wave Climate Change under Global Warming (161 citations)
  • Projection of changes in future weather extremes using super-high-resolution global and regional atmospheric models in the KAKUSHIN Program: Results of preliminary experiments (139 citations)
  • Characteristics of the 2011 Chao Phraya River flood in Central Thailand (138 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Hydrological Research Letters:

The journal publications are organized to reinforce research efforts on Climatology, Hydrology, Precipitation, Drainage basin and Meteorology. The studies on Climatology discussed at the journal articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Climate model, Projection (set theory), Atmospheric sciences, Global warming and General Circulation Model. The journal articles are mostly focused on Hydrology, specifically River flood.

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

  • Ecology
  • Agriculture
  • Hydrology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal mainly tackles studies in Hydrology, Water resource management, Estimation, Watershed Central and Agroforestry. Hydrological Research Letters primarily discusses Hydrology topics, particularly Rainfall runoff and Streamflow. The journal facilitates discussions on Water resource management that incorporate concepts from other fields like Flood mitigation and Paddy field.

It facilitates the exploration of Estimation in relation to the other disciplines, such as Distribution (number theory), Remote sensing and High resolution. While it primarily focused on Agroforestry, it also opened dialogues on the discipline of Humid subtropical climate.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Evaluation of drought features in the dakbla watershed, central highlands of Vietnam (0 citations)
  • DEM-based river cross-section extraction and 1-D streamflow simulation for eco-hydrological modeling: a case study in upstream Hiikawa River, Japan (0 citations)
  • Estimation of paddy field dam effect on flood mitigation focusing on Suse region of Hyogo, Japan (0 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 Hydrological Research Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Taikan Oki (14 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Shinjiro Kanae (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tosiyuki Nakaegawa (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • So Kazama (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yutaka Ichikawa (8 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 Hydrological Research Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kyoto University (61 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tokyo (48 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tsukuba (24 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hokkaido University (13 papers) absent at the last 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 75.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 16.67% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 8.33% 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

  • Seasonal characteristics of future climate change over Japan and the associated atmospheric circulation anomalies in global model experiments

    Rui Ito;Tomoaki Ose;Hirokazu Endo;Ryo Mizuta

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Long-term effects of evapotranspiration on the flow duration curve in a coniferous plantation forest over 40 years

    Kenji Tsuruta;Yoshiko Kosugi;Masanori Katsuyama;Ken’ichirou Kosugi

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Flood projections for selected Costa Rican main basins using CMIP6 climate models downscaled output in the HBV hydrological model for scenario SSP5-8.5

    (2024)
    6 Citations
  • Global high-resolution estimation of cropland suitability and its comparative analysis to actual cropland distribution

    Yuki Ishikawa;Dai Yamazaki

    (2021)
    4 Citations
  • Automatic levee detection using a high-resolution DEM − Case study in Kinu river basin, Japan

    (2023)
    4 Citations
  • Uncertainty of internal climate variability in probabilistic flood simulations using d4PDF

    (2023)
    2 Citations
  • Correction of the surface water formation parameter used in a malaria transmission model and future malaria projections for Africa

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • Detectability of variation in river flood from satellite images

    Yukiko Hirabayashi;Haireti Alifu;Dai Yamazaki;Gennadii Donchyts

    (2021)
    0 Citations
  • A 60-cm water body map obtained using aerial photography: Application to the Tama and Tsurumi rivers

    (2024)
    0 Citations
  • Improving river routing algorithms to efficiently implement canal water diversion schemes in global hydrological models

    (2024)
    0 Citations

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