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D-Index
51
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9207
World Ranking
4761
National Ranking
47

D. Nagesh Kumar 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 D. Nagesh Kumar sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 173 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

D. Nagesh Kumar 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 D. Nagesh Kumar sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 52nd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

D. Nagesh Kumar is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Science in India and has made significant contributions to the field of Environmental Science, with 84 publications in this domain. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, and Ocean Engineering.

Their work covers a range of topics in environmental and water resource research. Key areas of focus include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation

D. Nagesh Kumar has co-authored frequently with several researchers, including Subir Paul, Cécile Gomez, K. Srinivasa Raju, Ruchi Bala, and Vijay Pratap Yadav, each with multiple joint publications.

The scientist has contributed to numerous research papers published in a variety of academic venues. Key publication venues where their work appears repeatedly include:

  • Journal of Water and Climate Change
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Advances in Space Research
  • International Journal of Research in Agronomy
  • Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by D. Nagesh Kumar are:

  • Review of approaches for selection and ensembling of GCMs (2020, Journal of Water and Climate Change)
  • An Overview of Flood Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions (2022, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering)
  • Evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence methods, and their applications in water resources engineering: a state-of-the-art review (2020, H2Open Journal)
  • Review of recent advances in climate change detection and attribution studies: a large-scale hydroclimatological perspective (2020, Journal of Water and Climate Change)
  • Canopy Averaged Chlorophyll Content Prediction of Pear Trees Using Convolutional Autoencoder on Hyperspectral Data (2020, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing)

In addition to journal articles, D. Nagesh Kumar has contributed to book publications. A notable contribution includes a book titled Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering, published by Springer Nature in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Review of trend detection methods and their application to detect temperature changes in India

    P. Sonali;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Multipurpose Reservoir Operation Using Particle Swarm Optimization

    D. Nagesh Kumar;M. Janga Reddy

  • Optimal Reservoir Operation Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm

    M. Janga Reddy;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Downscaling precipitation to river basin in India for IPCC SRES scenarios using support vector machine

    Aavudai Anandhi;V. V. Srinivas;Ravi S. Nanjundiah;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • RIVER FLOW FORECASTING USING RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS

    D. Nagesh Kumar;K. Srinivasa Raju;T. Sathish

  • Multi-objective particle swarm optimization for generating optimal trade-offs in reservoir operation

    M. Janga Reddy;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Ranking alternatives with fuzzy weights using maximizing set and minimizing set

    P. Anand Raj;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Ant Colony Optimization for Multi-Purpose Reservoir Operation

    D. Nagesh Kumar;M. Janga Reddy

  • Multiobjective Differential Evolution with Application to Reservoir System Optimization

    M. Janga Reddy;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • An Integrated Model for Optimal Reservoir Operation for Irrigation of Multiple Crops

    S. Vedula;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Predictability of nonstationary time series using wavelet and EMD based ARMA models

    L. Karthikeyan;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Optimal Reservoir Operation for Irrigation of Multiple Crops Using Genetic Algorithms

    D. Nagesh Kumar;D. Nagesh Kumar;D. Nagesh Kumar;K. Srinivasa Raju;K. Srinivasa Raju;K. Srinivasa Raju;B. Ashok;B. Ashok;B. Ashok

  • Four decades of microwave satellite soil moisture observations: Part 1. A review of retrieval algorithms

    L. Karthikeyan;L. Karthikeyan;Ming Pan;Niko Wanders;Niko Wanders;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Irrigation planning using Genetic Algorithms

    K. Srinivasa Raju;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Review of approaches for selection and ensembling of GCMs

    Komaragiri Srinivasa Raju;Dasika Nagesh Kumar

  • Estimation of the climate change impact on a catchment water balance using an ensemble of GCMs

    T.V. Reshmidevi;D. Nagesh Kumar;R. Mehrotra;A. Sharma

  • Ranking of CMIP5-based global climate models for India using compromise programming

    K. Srinivasa Raju;P. Sonali;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • An Overview of Flood Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions

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  • An efficient multi-objective optimization algorithm based on swarm intelligence for engineering design

    M. Janga Reddy;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Role of predictors in downscaling surface temperature to river basin in India for IPCC SRES scenarios using support vector machine

    Aavudai Anandhi;V. V. Srinivas;D. Nagesh Kumar;Ravi S. Nanjundiah

  • Optimal Irrigation Allocation: A Multilevel Approach

    Sabu Paul;Sudhindra Nath Panda;D. Nagesh Kumar

  • Ranking of global climate models for India using multicriterion analysis

    Srinivasa K Raju;Nagesh D Kumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashish Sharma
Ashish Sharma University of New South Wales
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University
Eric F. Wood
Eric F. Wood Princeton University
Francesco Fatone
Francesco Fatone Marche Polytechnic University
Ming Pan
Ming Pan Princeton University
Bruce Jefferson
Bruce Jefferson Cranfield University
Sudhindra N. Panda
Sudhindra N. Panda C.V. Raman Global University
Subhasish Dey
Subhasish Dey Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Bellie Sivakumar
Bellie Sivakumar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Nicholas M. Holden
Nicholas M. Holden University College Dublin

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