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Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
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Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

1027-5606

Published by: European Geosciences Union

https://www.hydrology-and-earth-system-sciences.net/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 36 299 426 41
Environmental Sciences 59 439 548 53

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 901
Documents by Best Scientists*: 910
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 34
SCIMAGO H-index: 181
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.916
Impact Factor: 5.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Hydrology and Earth System Sciences?

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences focuses on Hydrology, Precipitation, Climatology, Surface runoff and Drainage basin. Research on Hydrology addressed in the journal frequently intersections with the field of Soil water. It addresses concerns in the field of Soil water by exploring it in line with topics in Water content which intersect with Moisture subjects.

In the journal, Snow, Atmospheric sciences and Water cycle are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Precipitation research. It explores research in Climate change and overlapping concepts in Water resources to expand the discourse in Climatology. Many of the studies tackled connect Surface runoff with a similar field of study like Watershed.

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences focuses on Drainage basin as well as the interrelated topic of Structural basin. The Evapotranspiration works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Water balance and Vegetation. The study on Meteorology presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Remote sensing.

  • Hydrology (40.03%)
  • Precipitation (18.55%)
  • Climatology (17.45%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification (7042 citations)
  • The Surface Energy Balance System (SEBS) for estimation of turbulent heat fluxes (1281 citations)
  • The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop products (1189 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Hydrology and Earth System Sciences:

The most cited publications aim to foster the development of research in Hydrology, Precipitation, Climatology, Surface runoff and Meteorology. The published articles tackle studies in Soil water and the interrelated subject of Water content to gain insights into Hydrology. The journal articles focus on Climatology but sometimes tackle the closely related topic of Climate change which is concerned with Water resources.

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 main points discussed in the journal deals with Precipitation, Hydrology, Streamflow, Atmospheric sciences and Drainage basin. Precipitation research featured in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Climatology, Climate change, Climate model, Snow and Evapotranspiration. Surface runoff, Groundwater, Flood myth, Water quality and Watershed are all areas of Hydrology tackled in the journal.

Issues in Groundwater were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Soil science and Surface water. Atmospheric sciences research in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences involves the investigation of Water content studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Data assimilation. While Drainage basin is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Structural basin and Physical geography.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors (24 citations)
  • Comparative analysis of kernel-based versus ANN and deep learning methods in monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation (10 citations)
  • Sentinel-3 radar altimetry for river monitoring – a catchment-scale evaluation of satellite water surface elevation from Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B (9 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 and Earth System Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hubert H. G. Savenije (78 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Günter Blöschl (45 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Murugesu Sivapalan (45 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Erwin Zehe (44 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Markus Weiler (41 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous 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 and Earth System Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Delft University of Technology (234 papers) published 14 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (188 papers) published 17 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (157 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (137 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • ETH Zurich (137 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 8 less 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, 7.72% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 24.30% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.75% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.12% of all publications and 43.82% 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

  • Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis as a potential reference dataset for hydrological modelling over North America

    Mostafa Tarek;François P. Brissette;Richard Arsenault

    (2020)
    625 Citations
  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

    (2021)
    402 Citations
  • Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling

    Shufen Pan;Naiqing Pan;Naiqing Pan;Hanqin Tian;Pierre Friedlingstein

    (2020)
    296 Citations
  • Continuous streamflow prediction in ungauged basins: long short-term memory neural networks clearly outperform traditional hydrological models

    Unknown

    (2023)
    231 Citations
  • Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models

    Thomas Lees;Marcus Buechel;Bailey Anderson;Louise Slater

    (2021)
    223 Citations
  • A standardized index for assessing sub-monthly compound dry and hot conditions with application in China

    Jun Li;Zhaoli Wang;Xushu Wu;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler

    (2021)
    170 Citations
  • Concentration–discharge relationships vary among hydrological events, reflecting differences in event characteristics

    Julia L. A. Knapp;Jana von Freyberg;Jana von Freyberg;Bjørn Studer;Leonie Kiewiet

    (2020)
    132 Citations
  • Hydrological concept formation inside long short-term memory (LSTM) networks

    (2022)
    123 Citations

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