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Journal of Flood Risk Management

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 249 73 82 21
Earth Science 270 30 36 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 133
Documents by Best Scientists*: 134
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 59
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.979
Impact Factor: 3.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Flood Risk Management?

Journal of Flood Risk Management primarily focuses on research topics in Flood myth, Hydrology, Environmental resource management, Flooding (psychology) and Environmental planning. The concepts on Flood myth presented in Journal of Flood Risk Management can also apply to other research fields, including Floodplain, Climate change and Water resource management. In the Hydrology research discussed, Drainage basin, Surface runoff, Hydrograph, Flood forecasting and Flash flood are all tackled.

Flood forecasting research discussed connects with the study of Meteorology. The Environmental resource management study featured in Journal of Flood Risk Management draws connections with the study of Risk management. The studies on Flooding (psychology) discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Natural disaster and Vulnerability.

In addition to Environmental planning research, the journal aims to explore topics under Flood risk management and Resilience (network).

  • Flood myth (61.68%)
  • Hydrology (29.62%)
  • Environmental resource management (18.21%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Loss of life due to floods: Loss of life due to floods (158 citations)
  • Post‐flood field investigations in upland catchments after major flash floods: proposal of a methodology and illustrations (136 citations)
  • Assessing the utility of social media as a data source for flood risk management using a real-time modelling framework (130 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Flood Risk Management:

The journal articles aim to foster the development of research in Flood myth, Hydrology, Flooding (psychology), Environmental resource management and Flood control. The journal papers facilitate discussions on Flood myth that incorporate concepts from other fields like Climate change, Risk management and Environmental planning. The most cited papers with studies in Hydrology featured incorporate elements of Natural disaster and Risk assessment.

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

  • Statistics
  • China
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Flood myth, Flood risk management, Environmental planning, Hydrology and Water resource management are the subjects of interest in Journal of Flood Risk Management. The featured Flood myth studies mainly concentrate on Environmental resource management but also cover areas of interest in Resilience (network). It connects the study in Flood risk management with the closely related area of Flood mitigation.

Environmental planning research presented in Journal of Flood Risk Management encompasses a variety of subjects, including Urbanization and Risk assessment. The journal facilitates discussions on Risk assessment that incorporate concepts from other fields like Risk analysis, Disaster risk reduction and Social vulnerability. Natural (archaeology) and Monte Carlo method are some topics wherein Hydrology research discussed in Journal of Flood Risk Management have an impact.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Impact of temporal rainfall patterns on flash floods in Hue City, Vietnam (23 citations)
  • Flood susceptibility mapping and assessment using a novel deep learning model combining multilayer perceptron and autoencoder neural networks (9 citations)
  • Data‐driven flood emulation: Speeding up urban flood predictions by deep convolutional neural networks (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 Journal of Flood Risk Management (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Paul Samuels (13 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Sebastiaan N. Jonkman (13 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Kaoru Takara (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jim W. Hall (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jochen Schanze (8 papers) absent 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 Journal of Flood Risk Management (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Delft University of Technology (32 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • HR Wallingford (29 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (20 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Middlesex University (18 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Environment Agency (17 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as 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, 2.47% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.25% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.59% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.25% of all publications and 51.90% 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

  • Impact of temporal rainfall patterns on flash floods in Hue City, Vietnam

    Dengrui Mu;Pingping Luo;Jiqiang Lyu;Meimei Zhou

    (2021)
    105 Citations
  • Flood susceptibility mapping and assessment using a novel deep learning model combining multilayer perceptron and autoencoder neural networks

    Mohammad Ahmadlou;A'kif Al‐Fugara;Abdel Rahman Al‐Shabeeb;Aman Arora

    (2021)
    103 Citations
  • Land raising as a solution to sea-level rise: An analysis of coastal flooding on an artificial island in the Maldives

    Sally Brown;Sally Brown;Matthew P. Wadey;Robert J. Nicholls;Ali Shareef

    (2020)
    59 Citations
  • Flood impact on Mainland Southeast Asia between 1985 and 2018—The role of tropical cyclones

    Aifang Chen;Markus Giese;Deliang Chen

    (2020)
    57 Citations
  • Design of low impact development in the urban context considering hydrological performance and life‐cycle cost

    Yu Li;Yu Li;Jeanne J. Huang;Maochuan Hu;Maochuan Hu;Hong Yang;Hong Yang

    (2020)
    57 Citations
  • Sensitivity of flood frequency analysis to data record, statistical model, and parameter estimation methods: An evaluation over the contiguous United States

    Lanxin Hu;Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos;Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos;Francesco Marra;Emmanouil N. Anagnostou

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • Natural flood management, lag time and catchment scale: Results from an empirical nested catchment study

    Andrew Black;Leo Peskett;Alan MacDonald;Alan MacDonald;Andy Young

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • Urban pluvial flood adaptation: Results of a household survey across four German municipalities

    Lisa Dillenardt;Paul Hudson;Annegret H. Thieken

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • Assessing flash flood hazard and damages in the southeast United States

    Atieh Alipour;Ali Ahmadalipour;Hamid Moradkhani

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Integration of catastrophe and entropy theories for flood risk mapping in peninsular Malaysia

    Ghaith Falah Ziarh;Asaduzzaman;Ashraf Dewan;Mohamed Salem Nashwan

    (2021)
    43 Citations

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