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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

1561-8633

Published by: Copernicus Publications

https://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 67 330 879 33
Environmental Sciences 90 272 773 40

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 716
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1703
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 16
SCIMAGO H-index: 131
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.348
Impact Factor: 4.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences?

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Seismology, Landslide, Climatology, Flood myth and Meteorology. It focuses on Seismology research which is adjacent to topics in Magnitude (mathematics). The study on Landslide presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Debris.

While the journal focused on Climatology, it was also able to explore topics like Storm, Climate change, Mediterranean climate and Precipitation. The presentations focused mostly on Flood myth in an attempt to further explore topics in Hydrology.

  • Seismology (13.79%)
  • Landslide (11.42%)
  • Climatology (11.21%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Review article "Assessment of economic flood damage" (696 citations)
  • Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey (555 citations)
  • Spatial prediction models for landslide hazards: review, comparison and evaluation (402 citations)

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

The journal articles focus largely on the fields of Landslide, Flood myth, Hydrology, Climatology and Seismology. The journal papers tackle studies in Debris and the interrelated subject of Hazard analysis to gain insights into Landslide. Aside from discussions in Climatology, the most cited papers also deal with the subject of Meteorology which intersects with Physical geography disciplines.

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 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Masashi Hayakawa (51 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Heidi Kreibich (40 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Fausto Guzzetti (37 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Annegret H. Thieken (36 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • O. A. Molchanov (33 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 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (107 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Research Council (98 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (94 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (73 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Bologna (64 papers) published 3 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, 64.18% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.71% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.94% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.99% of all publications and 57.37% 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

  • Attribution of the Australian bushfire risk to anthropogenic climate change

    Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Folmer Krikken;Sophie Lewis;Nicholas J. Leach

    (2021)
    421 Citations
  • Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteorological risk reduction: a state-of-the-art review of the research area

    Laddaporn Ruangpan;Laddaporn Ruangpan;Zoran Vojinovic;Zoran Vojinovic;Silvana Di Sabatino;Laura Sandra Leo

    (2020)
    381 Citations
  • Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale

    Anaïs Couasnon;Dirk Eilander;Sanne Muis;Ted I. E. Veldkamp

    (2020)
    298 Citations
  • Review article: Natural hazard risk assessments at the global scale

    Philip J. Ward;Veit Blauhut;Nadia Bloemendaal;James E. Daniell

    (2020)
    281 Citations
  • Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems

    Isabel Meza;Stefan Siebert;Petra Döll;Jürgen Kusche

    (2020)
    248 Citations
  • Back calculation of the 2017 Piz Cengalo–Bondo landslide cascade with r.avaflow: what we can do and what we can learn

    Martin Mergili;Michel Jaboyedoff;José Pullarello;Shiva P. Pudasaini

    (2020)
    198 Citations
  • Global-scale benefit-cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures

    Timothy Tiggeloven;Hans de Moel;Hessel C. Winsemius;Dirk Eilander

    (2020)
    186 Citations

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