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76
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1198
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Brian Berkowitz publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian Berkowitz sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 303 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Brian Berkowitz D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian Berkowitz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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

  • Scaling of fracture systems in geological media

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

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

    Brian Berkowitz;Andrea Cortis;Marco Dentz;Harvey Scher

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

    Marco Dentz;Andrea Cortis;Harvey Scher;Brian Berkowitz

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

    Melissa Levy;Brian Berkowitz

  • FLOW IN ROCK FRACTURES : THE LOCAL CUBIC LAW ASSUMPTION REEXAMINED

    Assaf P. Oron;Brian Berkowitz

  • Anomalous transport in laboratory-scale, heterogeneous porous media

    Brian Berkowitz;Harvey Scher;Stephen E. Silliman

  • PERCOLATION THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY

    Brian Berkowitz;Isaac Balberg

  • Theory of anomalous chemical transport in random fracture networks

    Brian Berkowitz;Harvey Scher

  • ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT IN RANDOM FRACTURE NETWORKS

    Brian Berkowitz;Harvey Scher

  • Percolation theory and network modeling applications in soil physics

    Brian Berkowitz;Robert P. Ewing

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

    Brian Berkowitz;Joseph Klafter;Ralf Metzler;Harvey Scher

  • Anomalous Transport in “Classical” Soil and Sand Columns

    Andrea Cortis;Brian Berkowitz

  • Analysis of fracture network connectivity using percolation theory

    Brian Berkowitz

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

    Marco Dentz;Marco Dentz;Brian Berkowitz

  • Transport of metal oxide nanoparticles in saturated porous media.

    Tal Ben-Moshe;Ishai Dror;Brian Berkowitz

  • Continuum models for contaminant transport in fractured porous formations

    Brian Berkowitz;Jacob Bear;Carol Braester

  • 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

  • On Characterization of Anomalous Dispersion in Porous and Fractured Media

    Brian Berkowitz;Harvey Scher

  • Effects of metal oxide nanoparticles on soil properties.

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

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

    Harvey Scher;Gennady Margolin;Ralf Metzler;Joseph Klafter

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Guadagnini
Alberto Guadagnini Polytechnic University of Milan
Marco Dentz
Marco Dentz Spanish National Research Council
Joseph Klafter
Joseph Klafter Tel Aviv University
Ralf Metzler
Ralf Metzler University of Potsdam
Robert P. Lowell
Robert P. Lowell Virginia Tech
Pierre M. Adler
Pierre M. Adler Sorbonne University
Ofer Dahan
Ofer Dahan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Kang-Kun Lee
Kang-Kun Lee Seoul National University
Erwin Zehe
Erwin Zehe Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Philippe Davy
Philippe Davy University of Rennes

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