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69
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1025
National Ranking
30

C.J. van Westen 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 C.J. van Westen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 311 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

C.J. van Westen 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 C.J. van Westen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

C.J. van Westen is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, engineering, and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant concentration on landslides and related hazards. Their work also spans flood risk assessment and management, cryospheric studies and observations, fire effects on ecosystems, tree root and stability studies, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, and disaster management and resilience.

The scientist's publication record includes a variety of articles in prominent journals and collaborative work with several frequent co-authors. These co-authors include Luigi Lombardo, Hakan Tanyaş, Bastian van den Bout, Victor Jetten, and Sansar Raj Meena.

Their research has appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • Landslides
  • Engineering Geology
  • Geomorphology
  • CATENA
  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences

Some of the recent papers by this researcher include:

  • Landslide detection in the Himalayas using machine learning algorithms and U-Net (2022), Landslides
  • Rapid mapping of landslides in the Western Ghats (India) triggered by 2018 extreme monsoon rainfall using a deep learning approach (2021), Landslides
  • Constructing a complete landslide inventory dataset for the 2018 monsoon disaster in Kerala, India, for land use change analysis (2020), Earth system science data
  • Use of UAV-based photogrammetry products for semi-automatic detection and classification of asphalt road damage in landslide-affected areas (2021), Engineering Geology
  • Generating multi-temporal landslide inventories through a general deep transfer learning strategy using HR EO data (2023), Scientific Reports

Their research covers several subfields within their main domains, including management, monitoring, policy and law, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, civil and structural engineering, and mechanical engineering.

Main topics in their work consist of:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Flood risk assessment and management
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Tree root and stability studies
  • Tropical and extratropical cyclones research
  • Disaster management and resilience

Best Publications

  • Spatial data for landslide susceptibility, hazard, and vulnerability assessment: An overview

    Cees J. van Westen;Enrique Castellanos;Sekhar L. Kuriakose

  • Landslide hazard and risk zonation—why is it still so difficult?

    C.J. van Westen;T.W.J. van Asch;R. Soeters

  • Slope instability recognition, analysis, and zonation

    R. Soeters;C.J. van Westen

  • Recommendations for the quantitative analysis of landslide risk

    J. Corominas;C.J. van Westen;P. Frattini;L. Cascini

  • Earthquake-Induced Chains of Geologic Hazards: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts

    Xuanmei Fan;Gianvito Scaringi;Gianvito Scaringi;Oliver Korup;A. Joshua West

  • Use of Geomorphological Information in Indirect Landslide Susceptibility Assessment

    C. J. Van Westen;N. Rengers;R. Soeters

  • Distribution pattern of earthquake-induced landslides triggered by the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

    Tolga Gorum;Xuanmei Fan;Xuanmei Fan;Cees J. van Westen;Run Qiu Huang

  • Characterising spectral, spatial and morphometric properties of landslides for semi-automatic detection using object-oriented methods

    Tapas R. Martha;Tapas R. Martha;Norman Kerle;Victor Jetten;Cees J. van Westen

  • Remote sensing techniques for landslide studies and hazard zonation in Europe

    F. Mantovani;R. Soeters;C. J. Van Westen

  • Prediction of the occurrence of slope instability phenomenal through GIS-based hazard zonation

    C. J. van Westen;N. Rengers;M. T. J. Terlien;R. Soeters

  • Comparing heuristic landslide hazard assessment techniques using GIS in the Tirajana basin, Gran Canaria Island, Spain

    JoséI. Barredo;Annetty Benavides;Javier Hervás;Cees J. van Westen

  • Application of geographic information systems to landslide hazard zonation

    C.J. van Westen

  • Segment Optimization and Data-Driven Thresholding for Knowledge-Based Landslide Detection by Object-Based Image Analysis

    T. R. Martha;N. Kerle;C. J. van Westen;V. Jetten

  • Landslide susceptibility assessment using logistic regression and its comparison with a rock mass classification system, along a road section in the northern Himalayas (India)

    Iswar Das;Iswar Das;Sashikant Sahoo;Cees van Westen;Alfred Stein

  • The Modelling Of Landslide Hazards Using Gis

    C.J. van Westen

  • An approach towards deterministic landslide hazard analysis in GIS. A case study from Manizales (Colombia)

    C.J. van Westen;M.T.J. Terlien

  • What we have learned from the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake and its aftermath: A decade of research and challenges

    Xuanmei Fan;C. Hsein Juang;Janusz Wasowski;Runqiu Huang

  • Presentation and Analysis of a Worldwide Database of Earthquake-Induced Landslide Inventories

    Hakan Tanyaş;Cees J. van Westen;Kate E. Allstadt;M. Anna Nowicki Jessee

  • Generation of a landslide risk index map for Cuba using spatial multi-criteria evaluation

    E. A. Castellanos Abella;C. J. Van Westen

  • Landslide dams triggered by the Wenchuan Earthquake, Sichuan Province, south west China

    Qiang Xu;Xuan-Mei Fan;Xuan-Mei Fan;Run-Qiu Huang;Cee Van Westen;Cee Van Westen

  • Qualitative landslide susceptibility assessment by multicriteria analysis: A case study from San Antonio del Sur, Guantánamo, Cuba

    Enrique A. Castellanos Abella;Cees J. Van Westen

  • Distribution pattern of earthquake - induced landslides triggered by the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake : abstract.

    C.J. van Westen;Tolga Gorum;Xuanmei Fan

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Jetten
Victor Jetten University of Twente
Jean-Philippe Malet
Jean-Philippe Malet University of Strasbourg
Th.W.J. van Asch
Th.W.J. van Asch Utrecht University
Luigi Lombardo
Luigi Lombardo University of Twente
Runqiu Huang
Runqiu Huang Chengdu University of Technology
Norman Kerle
Norman Kerle University of Twente
L.P.H. van Beek
L.P.H. van Beek Utrecht University
Qiang Xu
Qiang Xu Chengdu University of Technology
Thomas Glade
Thomas Glade University of Vienna
Michel Jaboyedoff
Michel Jaboyedoff University of Lausanne

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