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Earth Science

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60
Citations
19192
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1847
National Ranking
808

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56
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2759
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David G. Tarboton 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 David G. Tarboton sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 329 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David G. Tarboton 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 David G. Tarboton sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David G. Tarboton is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. Their research activity focuses predominantly in the field of Environmental Science, with significant contributions to several subfields including Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Information Systems and Management, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

The scientist's work covers multiple interrelated topics, among which Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies stands out prominently. Other main topics include Scientific Computing and Data Management, Environmental Monitoring and Data Management, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, as well as Research Data Management Practices.

David G. Tarboton has authored and co-authored papers published in a variety of journals, with repeated contributions to a core set of venues. Frequent publication venues include HydroShare Resources, Environmental Modelling & Software, Water Resources Research, Water, and Hydrological Processes.

  • HydroShare Resources
  • Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Water Resources Research
  • Water
  • Hydrological Processes

Recent published papers demonstrate a focus on hydrological modeling, data services, and environmental modeling. Key recent papers include:

  • "Forests and Water Yield: A Synthesis of Disturbance Effects on Streamflow and Snowpack in Western Coniferous Forests" (2020), Journal of Forestry
  • "Integrating hydrologic modeling web services with online data sharing to prepare, store, and execute hydrologic models" (2020), Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Toward open and reproducible environmental modeling by integrating online data repositories, computational environments, and model Application Programming Interfaces" (2020), Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "A taxonomy for reproducible and replicable research in environmental modelling" (2020), Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "HydroDS: Data services in support of physically based, distributed hydrological models" (2020), Environmental Modelling & Software

Collaboration is a notable aspect of this researcher's academic activity. Frequent co-authors include Irene Garousi-Nejad, Jonathan L. Goodall, Homa Salehabadi, Jeffery S. Horsburgh, and Shaowen Wang.

  • Irene Garousi-Nejad
  • Jonathan L. Goodall
  • Homa Salehabadi
  • Jeffery S. Horsburgh
  • Shaowen Wang

David G. Tarboton was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2018, an award reflecting standing within the broader geoscience research community.

Best Publications

  • A new method for the determination of flow directions and upslope areas in grid digital elevation models

    David G. Tarboton

  • On the extraction of channel networks from digital elevation data

    David G. Tarboton;Rafael L. Bras;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • River restoration: OPINION

    Ellen Wohl;Paul L. Angermeier;Brian Bledsoe;G. Mathias Kondolf

  • An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology

    Simone Fatichi;Enrique R. Vivoni;Fred L. Ogden;Valeriy Y. Ivanov

  • The fractal nature of river networks

    David G. Tarboton;Rafael L. Bras;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • The SINMAP Approach to Terrain Stability Mapping

    Robert T. Pack;David G. Tarboton;C. N. Goodwin

  • A Physical Basis for Drainage Density

    David G. Tarboton;Rafael L. Bras;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Streamflow simulation: A nonparametric approach

    Ashish Sharma;David G. Tarboton;Upmanu L. Lall

  • Analyzing High Resolution Topography for Advancing the Understanding of Mass and Energy Transfer Through Landscapes: A Review

    Paola Passalacqua;Patrick Belmont;Dennis M. Staley;Jeffrey D. Simley

  • Utah Energy Balance Snow Accumulation and Melt Model (UEB)

    David G. Tarboton;Charles H. Luce

  • On Hack's Law

    Riccardo Rigon;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Amos Maritan;Achille Giacometti

  • Scaling and Elevation in River Networks

    David G. Tarboton;Rafael L. Bras;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe

  • Power law distributions of discharge mass and energy in river basins

    I. Rodriguez-Iturbe;E. J. Ijjasz-Vasquez;R. L. Bras;David G. Tarboton

  • The Influence of the Spatial Distribution of Snow on Basin-Averaged Snowmelt

    Charles H. Luce;David G. Tarboton;Keith R. Cooley

  • Advances in the mapping of flow networks from digital elevation data

    David G. Tarboton;Daniel P. Ames

  • A relational model for environmental and water resources data

    Jeffery S. Horsburgh;David G. Tarboton;David R. Maidment;Ilya Zaslavsky

  • A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 2. Model implementation and case studies

    Martyn P. Clark;Bart Nijssen;Jessica D. Lundquist;Dmitri Kavetski

  • Modeling soil depth from topographic and land cover attributes

    Teklu K. Tesfa;David G. Tarboton;David G. Chandler;James P. McNamara

  • Disaggregation Procedures for Stochastic Hydrology Based on Nonparametric Density Estimation

    David G. Tarboton;Ashish Sharma;Upmanu L. Lall

  • Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models in Hydrology

    David G. Tarboton

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Maidment
David R. Maidment The University of Texas at Austin
Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service
Upmanu Lall
Upmanu Lall Columbia University
Shaowen Wang
Shaowen Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Venkatesh Merwade
Venkatesh Merwade Purdue University West Lafayette
Christopher M. U. Neale
Christopher M. U. Neale University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Erkan Istanbulluoglu
Erkan Istanbulluoglu University of Washington
Rafael L. Bras
Rafael L. Bras Georgia Institute of Technology
Balaji Rajagopalan
Balaji Rajagopalan University of Colorado Boulder
Emad Habib
Emad Habib University of Louisiana at Lafayette

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