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D-Index
60
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18812
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1850
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Andrew W. Western publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew W. Western sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 267 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Andrew W. Western D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew W. Western sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Andrew W. Western is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and focuses on Environmental Science, contributing extensively to the understanding of hydrological and watershed systems. Their research covers several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Plant Science.

The main topics of their work encompass Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Climate Variability and Models, and Urban Stormwater Management Solutions.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Andrew W. Western include Dongryeol Ryu, Danlu Guo, Quan J. Wang, J. Angus Webb, and Anna Lintern.

They regularly publish research in venues such as the Journal of Hydrology, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Hydrological Processes, Remote Sensing, and Agricultural Water Management.

Selected recent papers are:

  • Many Commonly Used Rainfall-Runoff Models Lack Long, Slow Dynamics: Implications for Runoff Projections, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • A data-based predictive model for spatiotemporal variability in stream water quality, 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Explaining changes in rainfall-runoff relationships during and after Australia's Millennium Drought: a community perspective, 2022, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Performance of a wheat yield prediction model and factors influencing the performance: A review and meta-analysis, 2021, Agricultural Systems
  • Improving the representation of cropland sites in the Community Land Model (CLM) version 5.0, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development

Andrew W. Western's research has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2020.

Best Publications

  • A review of paired catchment studies for determining changes in water yield resulting from alterations in vegetation

    Alice E. Brown;Lu Zhang;Thomas A. McMahon;Andrew W. Western

  • A rational function approach for estimating mean annual evapotranspiration

    L. Zhang;K. Hickel;W. R. Dawes;F. H. S. Chiew

  • Observed spatial organization of soil moisture and its relation to terrain indices

    Andrew W. Western;Rodger B. Grayson;Günter Blöschl;Garry R. Willgoose

  • Preferred states in spatial soil moisture patterns: Local and nonlocal controls

    Rodger B. Grayson;Andrew W. Western;Francis H. S. Chiew;Günter Blöschl

  • Spatial correlation of soil moisture in small catchments and its relationship to dominant spatial hydrological processes

    Andrew W Western;Sen-Lin Zhou;Rodger B Grayson;Thomas A McMahon

  • Scaling of Soil Moisture: A Hydrologic Perspective

    Andrew W. Western;Rodger B. Grayson;Günter Blöschl

  • On the spatial scaling of soil moisture

    Andrew W. Western;Günter Blöschl

  • Towards areal estimation of soil water content from point measurements: time and space stability of mean response

    Rodger B. Grayson;Andrew W. Western

  • Geostatistical characterisation of soil moisture patterns in the Tarrawarra catchment

    Andrew W. Western;Günter Blöschl;Rodger B. Grayson

  • Toward capturing hydrologically significant connectivity in spatial patterns

    Andrew W. Western;Günter Blöschl;Rodger B. Grayson

  • The Murrumbidgee soil moisture monitoring network data set

    A. B. Smith;A. B. Smith;J. P. Walker;A. W. Western;R. I. Young

  • Seasonal and event dynamics of spatial soil moisture patterns at the small catchment scale

    U. Rosenbaum;H. R. Bogena;M. Herbst;J. A. Huisman

  • Application and testing of the simple rainfall-runoff model SIMHYD.

    F. H. S. Chiew;M. C. Peel;A. W. Western

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • The Tarrawarra data set: Soil moisture patterns, soil characteristics, and hydrological flux measurements

    Andrew W. Western;Rodger B. Grayson

  • Key factors influencing differences in stream water quality across space

    A. Lintern;J. A. Webb;D. Ryu;Shuci Liu

  • Advances in the use of observed spatial patterns of catchment hydrological response

    Rodger B Grayson;Günter Blöschl;Andrew W Western;Thomas A McMahon

  • The influence of multiyear drought on the annual rainfall-runoff relationship: An Australian perspective†

    Margarita Saft;Andrew W. Western;Lu Zhang;Murray C. Peel

  • Characteristic space scales and timescales in hydrology

    J. O. Skøien;G. Blöschl;A. W. Western

  • Hydropedology: Synergistic integration of pedology and hydrology

    Henry Lin;Johan Bouma;Yakov Pachepsky;Andrew Western

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodger B. Grayson
Rodger B. Grayson University of Melbourne
Murray C. Peel
Murray C. Peel University of Melbourne
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Thomas A. McMahon
Thomas A. McMahon University of Melbourne
Francis H. S. Chiew
Francis H. S. Chiew Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Wade T. Crow
Wade T. Crow Agricultural Research Service
Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell University of Saskatchewan
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol

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