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Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
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Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

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Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 103 186 239 27

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Number of Best Scientists*: 534
Documents by Best Scientists*: 548
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 66
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.323
Impact Factor: 5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies?

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies generally zeroes in on subjects such as Hydrology, Drainage basin, Groundwater, Precipitation and Streamflow. The work tackled in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies goes beyond the discipline of Hydrology as it also encompasses Structural basin. In addition to Drainage basin research, the journal aims to explore topics under Flood myth, Climate change, Hydrology (agriculture) and Water resources.

Climate model is a focus of the presented Climate change works and it dives deep in Climate model. Water resources research in it involves the investigation of Water resource management studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Irrigation. The work on Groundwater tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Hydrogeology, Geochemistry and Surface water.

The Precipitation works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Climatology and Physical geography. It facilitates discussions on Streamflow that incorporate concepts from other fields like Land cover and Hydrological modelling. It links adjacent topics like Aquifer with Water quality.

  • Hydrology (49.54%)
  • Drainage basin (27.71%)
  • Groundwater (23.79%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A review of the current state of research on the water, energy, and food nexus (284 citations)
  • Status of wetlands in India: A review of extent, ecosystem benefits, threats and management strategies (184 citations)
  • The impacts of urbanisation and climate change on urban flooding and urban water quality: A review of the evidence concerning the United Kingdom (172 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies:

The published articles investigate areas of study like Hydrology, Drainage basin, Climate change, Groundwater and Streamflow. The Hydrology study tackled in the journal publications is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Structural basin. The published articles address concerns in Climate change which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Climatology, Soil and Water Assessment Tool, Precipitation and Water resource management.

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

  • Statistics
  • Agriculture
  • Climate change

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The topics of Hydrology, Groundwater, Drainage basin, Precipitation and Streamflow are the focal point of discussions in the journal. The Hydrology study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Structural basin. While Groundwater is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Hydrogeology and Watershed.

It focuses on Drainage basin but sometimes tackles the closely related disciplines such as

  • Water resources that connect with fields like Water resource management,
  • Flood myth which is related to area like Hydrology (agriculture).. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies explores issues in Precipitation which can be linked to other research areas like Climatology, Forcing (mathematics), Climate change, Physical geography and Scale (map). Some problems in Streamflow that were presented in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies overlapped with concepts under Snowpack, Seasonality and Hydrograph.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Evaluation of precipitation elasticity using precipitation data from ground and satellite-based estimates and watershed modeling in Western Nepal (8 citations)
  • Probability distributions of daily rainfall extremes in Lazio and Sicily, Italy, and design rainfall inferences (6 citations)
  • Application of the Least-Squares Wavelet software in hydrology: Athabasca River Basin (5 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 Hydrology: Regional Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Makoto Taniguchi (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Denis A. Hughes (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John J. Gibson (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Peter W. Swarzenski (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Okke Batelaan (6 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 Hydrology: Regional Studies (based on the number of publications) are:

  • United States Geological Survey (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (18 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Addis Ababa University (13 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (12 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition,
  • Flinders University (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 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, 11.73% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 18.99% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.13% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.46% of all publications and 54.43% 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

  • Modeling groundwater potential using novel GIS-based machine-learning ensemble techniques

    Alireza Arabameri;Subodh Chandra Pal;Fatemeh Rezaie;Omid Asadi Nalivan

    (2021)
    90 Citations
  • Optimal floodgate operation for river flood management: The case study of Padova (Italy)

    Riccardo A. Mel;Riccardo A. Mel;Daniele P. Viero;Luca Carniello;Luigi D’Alpaos

    (2020)
    60 Citations
  • Appraising standardized moisture anomaly index (SZI) in drought projection across China under CMIP6 forcing scenarios

    Gengxi Zhang;Xiaoling Su;Vijay P. Singh;Vijay P. Singh;Olusola O. Ayantobo;Olusola O. Ayantobo

    (2021)
    50 Citations
  • Central Asian rivers under climate change: Impacts assessment in eight representative catchments

    Iulii Didovets;Anastasia Lobanova;Valentina Krysanova;Christoph Menz

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • Trends in streamflow, evapotranspiration, and groundwater storage across the Amazon Basin linked to changing precipitation and land cover

    Brent Porter Heerspink;Anthony D. Kendall;Michael T. Coe;David W. Hyndman

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • From meteorological to agricultural drought: Propagation time and probabilistic linkages

    (2023)
    43 Citations
  • Impacts of multi-purpose reservoir construction, land-use change and climate change on runoff characteristics in the Poyang Lake basin, China

    Diandian Xu;Diandian Xu;Steve W. Lyon;Steve W. Lyon;Jingqiao Mao;Huichao Dai

    (2020)
    41 Citations
  • Convolutional neural network and long short-term memory algorithms for groundwater potential mapping in Anseong, South Korea

    (2022)
    40 Citations
  • Drought and post-drought rain effect on stream phosphorus and other nutrient losses in the Northeastern USA

    M. Sol Lisboa;Rebecca L. Schneider;Patrick J. Sullivan;M. Todd Walter

    (2020)
    40 Citations
  • Validation of seven global remotely sensed ET products across Thailand using water balance measurements and land use classifications

    Nutchanart Sriwongsitanon;Thienchart Suwawong;Sansarith Thianpopirug;James Williams

    (2020)
    39 Citations

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