2026 Brian Berkowitz: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	76	1198	1136	4	4	303	21304

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Israel Leader Award
2005 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Brian Berkowitz is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research primarily spans environmental science and medicine, with significant contributions in related subfields.

The main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Medicine

Among subfields of study, the notable areas are:

Environmental Engineering
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Pollution
Civil and Structural Engineering
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Berkowitz's research topics cover a range of issues:

Groundwater flow and contamination studies
Kidney Stones and Urolithiasis Treatments
Soil and Unsaturated Flow
Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
Extraction and Separation Processes
Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Significant recent publications include:

"The Mobility of Plastic Nanoparticles in Aqueous and Soil Environments: A Critical Review" (2020) published in ACS ES&T Water
"The Human Impact on All Soil-Forming Factors during the Anthropocene" (2021) published in ACS Environmental Au
"Experimental and modeling evidence of kilometer-scale anomalous tracer transport in an alpine karst aquifer" (2020) published in Water Research
"Effects of particle size and surface chemistry on plastic nanoparticle transport in saturated natural porous media" (2020) published in Chemosphere
"Surface water and groundwater: unifying conceptualization and quantification of the two "water worlds"" (2020) published in Hydrology and earth system sciences

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations are Ishai Dror, Yaniv Shilo, Dan Leibovici, Erwin Zehe, and Ashish Rajyaguru.

The most common publication venues for Berkowitz include:

Hydrology and earth system sciences
Water Resources Research
Chemosphere
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Endourology

They have been recognized with the following awards:

Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2005
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Best Publications

Characterizing flow and transport in fractured geological media: A review

Brian Berkowitz

1863
Citations
Scaling of fracture systems in geological media

E. Bonnet;O. Bour;N. E. Odling;P. Davy

1651
Citations
Modeling non‐Fickian transport in geological formations as a continuous time random walk

Brian Berkowitz;Andrea Cortis;Marco Dentz;Harvey Scher

1304
Citations
Time behavior of solute transport in heterogeneous media: transition from anomalous to normal transport

Marco Dentz;Andrea Cortis;Harvey Scher;Brian Berkowitz

477
Citations
Measurement and analysis of non-Fickian dispersion in heterogeneous porous media.

Melissa Levy;Brian Berkowitz

475
Citations
FLOW IN ROCK FRACTURES : THE LOCAL CUBIC LAW ASSUMPTION REEXAMINED

Assaf P. Oron;Brian Berkowitz

470
Citations
Anomalous transport in laboratory-scale, heterogeneous porous media

Brian Berkowitz;Harvey Scher;Stephen E. Silliman

467
Citations
PERCOLATION THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY

Brian Berkowitz;Isaac Balberg

416
Citations
Theory of anomalous chemical transport in random fracture networks

Brian Berkowitz;Harvey Scher

405
Citations
ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT IN RANDOM FRACTURE NETWORKS

Brian Berkowitz;Harvey Scher

396
Citations
Percolation theory and network modeling applications in soil physics

Brian Berkowitz;Robert P. Ewing

358
Citations
Physical pictures of transport in heterogeneous media: Advection-dispersion, random-walk, and fractional derivative formulations

Brian Berkowitz;Joseph Klafter;Ralf Metzler;Harvey Scher

328
Citations
Anomalous Transport in “Classical” Soil and Sand Columns

Andrea Cortis;Brian Berkowitz

310
Citations
Analysis of fracture network connectivity using percolation theory

Brian Berkowitz

296
Citations
Transport behavior of a passive solute in continuous time random walks and multirate mass transfer

Marco Dentz;Marco Dentz;Brian Berkowitz

285
Citations
Transport of metal oxide nanoparticles in saturated porous media.

Tal Ben-Moshe;Ishai Dror;Brian Berkowitz

279
Citations
Continuum models for contaminant transport in fractured porous formations

Brian Berkowitz;Jacob Bear;Carol Braester

274
Citations
Effect of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles on Microbial Community Structure and Function in Two Different Soil Types

Sammy Frenk;Tal Ben-Moshe;Ishai Dror;Brian Berkowitz

267
Citations
On Characterization of Anomalous Dispersion in Porous and Fractured Media

Brian Berkowitz;Harvey Scher

267
Citations
Effects of metal oxide nanoparticles on soil properties.

Tal Ben-Moshe;Sammy Frenk;Ishai Dror;Dror Minz

238
Citations
The dynamical foundation of fractal stream chemistry: The origin of extremely long retention times

Harvey Scher;Gennady Margolin;Ralf Metzler;Joseph Klafter

232
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Guadagnini Polytechnic University of Milan

Marco Dentz Spanish National Research Council

Joseph Klafter Tel Aviv University

Ralf Metzler University of Potsdam

Robert P. Lowell Virginia Tech

Pierre M. Adler Sorbonne University

Ofer Dahan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Kang-Kun Lee Seoul National University

Erwin Zehe Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Philippe Davy University of Rennes

External Links

Personal website of Brian Berkowitz Google Scholar page

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