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D-Index
36
Citations
6258
World Ranking
8632
National Ranking
2397

Barbara S. Minsker publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbara S. Minsker sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 211 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Barbara S. Minsker D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbara S. Minsker sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Barbara S. Minsker is affiliated with Southern Methodist University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with notable contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The body of work covers a range of topics including Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Urban Stormwater Management Solutions, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications, Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis, and Urban Green Space and Health.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Barbara S. Minsker include:

  • Arefeh Safaei-moghadam
  • Arthur R. Schmidt
  • Xinlei Wang
  • Janille Smith-Colin
  • Tingting Zhao

Barbara S. Minsker has published research in several venues, with repeated publications in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. Other publication venues include Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Environmental Management, Water Resources Research, and Cities.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Estimating the likelihood of roadway pluvial flood based on crowdsourced traffic data and depression-based DEM analysis," 2023, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • "Cost/benefit assessment of green infrastructure: Spatial scale effects on uncertainty and sensitivity," 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Hypoxia in the Central Basin of Lake Erie of North America," 2021, Water Resources Research
  • "Predicting real-time roadway pluvial flood risk: A hybrid machine learning approach coupling a graph-based flood spreading model, historical vulnerabilities, and Waze data," 2024, Journal of Hydrology
  • "Do infrastructure deserts exist? Measuring and mapping infrastructure equity: A case study in Dallas, Texas, USA," 2022, Cities

Barbara S. Minsker has also contributed to academic literature through book publication with the American Society of Civil Engineers, notably the "Education Summit" published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary algorithms and other metaheuristics in water resources

    H.R. Maier;Z. Kapelan;J. Kasprzyk;J. Kollat

  • State of the Art for Genetic Algorithms and Beyond in Water Resources Planning and Management

    John Nicklow;Patrick Reed;Dragan Savic;Tibebe Dessalegne

  • Anomaly detection in streaming environmental sensor data: A data-driven modeling approach

    David J. Hill;Barbara S. Minsker

  • Designing a competent simple genetic algorithm for search and optimization

    Patrick Reed;Barbara Minsker;David E. Goldberg

  • Cost-effective long-term groundwater monitoring design using a genetic algorithm and global mass interpolation

    Patrick Reed;Barbara Minsker;Albert J. Valocchi

  • Striking the Balance: Long-Term Groundwater Monitoring Design for Conflicting Objectives

    Patrick M. Reed;Barbara S. Minsker

  • Risk-based in situ bioremediation design using a noisy genetic algorithm.

    J. Bryan Smalley;Barbara S. Minsker;David E. Goldberg

  • Optimal groundwater remediation design using an Adaptive Neural Network Genetic Algorithm

    Shengquan Yan;Barbara Minsker

  • Simplifying multiobjective optimization: An automated design methodology for the nondominated sorted genetic algorithm-II

    Patrick Reed;Barbara S. Minsker;David E. Goldberg

  • Real-time Bayesian Anomaly Detection for Environmental Sensor Data

    David J. Hill;Barbara S. Minsker;Eyal Amir

  • Crowdsourcing Methods for Data Collection in Geophysics : State of the Art, Issues, and Future Directions

    Feifei Zheng;Ruoling Tao;Holger R. Maier;Holger R. Maier;Holger R. Maier;Linda See

  • A multiobjective approach to cost effective long-term groundwater monitoring using an elitist nondominated sorted genetic algorithm with historical data

    Patrick Reed;Barbara S. Minsker;David E. Goldberg

  • DYNAMIC OPTIMAL CONTROL OF IN-SITU BIOREMEDIATION OF GROUND WATER

    Barbara Spang Minsker;Christine A. Shoemaker

  • Uncertainty-based multiobjective optimization of groundwater remediation design

    Abhishek Singh;Barbara S. Minsker

  • Adaptive Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Groundwater Remediation Design

    Felipe P. Espinoza;Barbara S. Minsker;David E. Goldberg

  • Optimal sampling in a noisy genetic algorithm for risk-based remediation design

    Gayathri Gopalakrishnan;Barbara S. Minsker;David E. Goldberg

  • Machine learning assessments of soil drying for agricultural planning

    Evan J. Coopersmith;Barbara S. Minsker;Craig E. Wenzel;Brian J. Gilmore

  • Interactive Genetic Algorithm with Mixed Initiative Interaction for multi-criteria ground water monitoring design

    Meghna Babbar-Sebens;Barbara S. Minsker

  • Real-time Bayesian anomaly detection in streaming environmental data

    David J. Hill;Barbara S. Minsker;Eyal Amir

  • Spatial Interpolation Methods for Nonstationary Plume Data

    Patrick M. Reed;Timothy R. Ellsworth;Barbara S. Minsker

  • Exploring the Role of Social Media and Individual Behaviors in Flood Evacuation Processes: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

    Erhu Du;Ximing Cai;Zhiyong Sun;Barbara Minsker

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. Goldberg
David E. Goldberg University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick M. Reed
Patrick M. Reed Cornell University
Albert J. Valocchi
Albert J. Valocchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Avi Ostfeld
Avi Ostfeld Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Jerald L. Schnoor
Jerald L. Schnoor University of Iowa
Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia
Charles N. Haas
Charles N. Haas Drexel University
David R. Maidment
David R. Maidment The University of Texas at Austin
William C. Sullivan
William C. Sullivan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Murugesu Sivapalan
Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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