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Hydrology
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Hydrology

2306-5338

Published by: MDPI

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/hydrology

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 232 54 77 16
Engineering and Technology 668 23 28 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 168
Documents by Best Scientists*: 205
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 41
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.735
Impact Factor: 3.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Hydrology?

Hydrology aims to foster the development of research in Hydrology, Surface runoff, Drainage basin, Flood myth and Groundwater. The Hydrology study featured in Hydrology draws parallels with the field of Structural basin. The presented research on Surface runoff deals specifically with Water balance but it also addresses topics in Evapotranspiration.

It focuses on Drainage basin but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Climate change and Precipitation. The tackled Climate change research is interrelated with Climatology which concerns subjects like Meteorology. While Hydrology focused on Flood myth, it was also able to explore topics like Floodplain and Flooding (psychology).

Groundwater research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Hydrogeology and Surface water. The Streamflow works, particularly on Soil and Water Assessment Tool are tackled in the journal. Discussions in Hydrology are anchored in the subject of Water resources and the similar topic of Water resource management.

  • Hydrology (41.73%)
  • Surface runoff (16.44%)
  • Drainage basin (14.96%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Evaluating Three Hydrological Distributed Watershed Models: MIKE-SHE, APEX, SWAT (94 citations)
  • Development and Evaluation of a Water Quality Index for the Iraqi Rivers (79 citations)
  • Soil Erosion Processes in European Vineyards: A Qualitative Comparison of Rainfall Simulation Measurements in Germany, Spain and France (60 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Hydrology:

The journal articles cover a variety of subjects, including Hydrology, Water resources, Surface runoff, Climatology and Precipitation. The most cited papers hold forums on Climatology that merge themes from other disciplines such as Water year, Snow, Meteorology, Streamflow and Evapotranspiration. The journal papers focus on Precipitation but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Image resolution and Climate change.

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

  • Statistics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Hydrology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Hydrology, Surface runoff, Groundwater, Climate change and Flood myth. Drainage basin, Streamflow, Watershed, Surface water and Water quality are Hydrology topics of special interest in it. The work on Surface runoff tackled in it brings together disciplines like Land use, Water resource management, Water balance, Drainage and Hydrological modelling.

The study of Water balance encompasses disciplines such as Evapotranspiration, as well as fields such as Climatology, all of which overlap with one another. Hydrology holds forums on Climate change that merges themes from other disciplines such as Soil and Water Assessment Tool, Physical geography and Precipitation. The Flood myth works featured in it incorporate elements from Floodplain, Flooding (psychology) and Environmental planning.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A Global-Scale Investigation of Stochastic Similarities in Marginal Distribution and Dependence Structure of Key Hydrological-Cycle Processes (12 citations)
  • Assessing the Impact of Land Use and Climate Change on Surface Runoff Response Using Gridded Observations and SWAT (7 citations)
  • Quantitative Classification of Desertification Severity for Degraded Aquifer Based on Remotely Sensed Drought Assessment (4 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 Hydrology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Gustavious P. Williams (11 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Ajay Kalra (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Abel Afouda (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bernd Diekkrüger (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • James M. Raude (7 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 Hydrology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hohai University (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Dalian University of Technology (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wuhan University (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tsinghua University (4 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, 98.79% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 50.00% 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 50.00% 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

  • Rainfall-runoff modeling using the hec-hms model for the al-adhaim river catchment, northern iraq

    Ahmed Naseh Ahmed Hamdan;Suhad Almuktar;Suhad Almuktar;Miklas Scholz;Miklas Scholz;Miklas Scholz

    (2021)
    99 Citations
  • A New Physically-Based Spatially-Distributed Groundwater Flow Module for SWAT+

    Ryan T. Bailey;Katrin Bieger;Jeffrey G. Arnold;David D. Bosch

    (2020)
    74 Citations
  • Drought Forecasting: A Review and Assessment of the Hybrid Techniques and Data Pre-Processing

    (2022)
    45 Citations
  • Simulating Groundwater Potential Zones in Mountainous Indian Himalayas—A Case Study of Himachal Pradesh

    (2023)
    45 Citations
  • Estimation of Reference Evapotranspiration Using Spatial and Temporal Machine Learning Approaches

    Ali Rashid Niaghi;Oveis Hassanijalilian;Jalal Shiri

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Modeling the Impact of Climate and Land Use/Land Cover Change on Water Availability in an Inland Valley Catchment in Burkina Faso

    (2022)
    36 Citations
  • Predicting Optical Water Quality Indicators from Remote Sensing Using Machine Learning Algorithms in Tropical Highlands of Ethiopia

    (2023)
    31 Citations
  • Rainwater Harvesting Potentials in Commercial Buildings in Dhaka: Reliability and Economic Analysis

    Md. Rezaul Karim;B. M. Sadman Sakib;Sk. Sadman Sakib;Monzur Alam Imteaz

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • A GIS-Based Multicriteria Analysis in Modeling Optimum Sites for Rainwater Harvesting

    (2020)
    30 Citations

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