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Georgia Destouni

Georgia Destouni

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Earth Science
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 69 1064 941 7 6 348 15778

Georgia Destouni publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Georgia Destouni between 1989 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Georgia Destouni published across 38 years, from 1989 to 2026, averaging 12.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 33 publications in 2022. 26 of the 480 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 33. Peak 33 publications in 2022. 1989: 1 publication 1990: 1 publication 1991: 2 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 1 publication 1997: 4 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 3 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 11 publications 2007: 15 publications 2008: 13 publications 2009: 19 publications 2010: 19 publications 2011: 15 publications 2012: 24 publications 2013: 28 publications 2014: 26 publications 2015: 27 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 15 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 28 publications 2020: 26 publications 2021: 27 publications 2022: 33 publications 2023: 23 publications 2024: 21 publications 2025: 24 publications 2026: 2 publications
1989 2026

480 publications in total across all disciplines

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Georgia Destouni: publications per year, 1989 to 2026
Year Publications
1989 1
1990 1
1991 2
1992 3
1993 2
1994 3
1995 3
1996 1
1997 4
1998 3
1999 2
2000 5
2001 6
2002 1
2003 3
2004 8
2005 9
2006 11
2007 15
2008 13
2009 19
2010 19
2011 15
2012 24
2013 28
2014 26
2015 27
2016 13
2017 15
2018 14
2019 28
2020 26
2021 27
2022 33
2023 23
2024 21
2025 24
2026 2
Total 480
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Georgia Destouni 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 Georgia Destouni sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 348–357 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 348 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87 348
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Georgia Destouni 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 Georgia Destouni sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 69 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 89th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78 69
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Georgia Destouni is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily spans subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of Destouni's work include:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Water resources management and optimization

Frequent collaborators in Destouni's research include Zahra Kalantari, Carla Ferreira, Guillaume Vigouroux, Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni, and Jerker Jarsjö.

Destouni's work has been published extensively in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Water Resources Research, Earth's Future, The Science of The Total Environment, and Scientific Reports.

Selected recent papers by Georgia Destouni include:

  • "Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis" (2020) published in AMBIO
  • "Soil degradation in the European Mediterranean region: Processes, status and consequences" (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement" (2022) published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives" (2021) published in Air Soil and Water Research
  • "Variability and change in the hydro-climate and water resources of Iran over a recent 30-year period" (2020) published in Scientific Reports

Georgia Destouni was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Scientists' warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis.

    James S. Albert;Georgia Destouni;Scott M. Duke-Sylvester;Anne E. Magurran

  • Hypoxia-Related Processes in the Baltic Sea

    Daniel J. Conley;Svante Björck;Erik Bonsdorff;Jacob Carstensen

  • Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity

    Nandita B. Basu;Georgia Destouni;James W. Jawitz;Sally E. Thompson

  • Soil degradation in the European Mediterranean region: Processes, status and consequences.

    Carla S.S. Ferreira;Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni;Georgia Destouni;Navid Ghajarnia

  • Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement

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  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • Wetlands as large-scale nature-based solutions : Status and challenges for research, engineering and management

    Josefin Thorslund;Jerker Jarsjo;Fernando Jaramillo;James W. Jawitz

  • Local flow regulation and irrigation raise global human water consumption and footprint.

    Fernando Jaramillo;Fernando Jaramillo;Georgia Destouni

  • Hydroclimatic shifts driven by human water use for food and energy production

    Georgia Destouni;Fernando Jaramillo;Carmen Prieto

  • Climatic or regionally induced by humans? Tracing hydro-climatic and land-use changes to better understand the Lake Urmia tragedy

    Bahram Khazaei;Sina Khatami;Seyed Hamed Alemohammad;Lida Rashidi

  • Resolving the scale-dependence of mineral weathering rates.

    Maria E. Malmström;Georgia Destouni;Steven A. Banwart;Bo H. E. Strömberg

  • Thermokarst lake, hydrological flow and water balance indicators of permafrost change in Western Siberia

    Johanna MÃ¥rd Karlsson;Steve W. Lyon;Georgia Destouni

  • Comment on “Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet”

    Fernando Jaramillo;Georgia Destouni

  • Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives

    Nieves Fernandez-Anez;Andrey Krasovskiy;Mortimer Müller;Harald Vacik

  • Nature-based solutions for flood-drought risk mitigation in vulnerable urbanizing parts of East-Africa

    Zahra Kalantari;Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira;Saskia Keesstra;Georgia Destouni

  • Distinction, quantification and mapping of potential and realized supply-demand of flow-dependent ecosystem services

    Romain Goldenberg;Zahra Kalantari;Vladimir Cvetkovic;Ulla Mörtberg

  • Drought reduces blue-water fluxes more strongly than green-water fluxes in Europe.

    René Orth;Georgia Destouni

  • Field Scale Mass Arrival of Sorptive Solute Into the Groundwater

    Georgia Destouni;Vladimir Cvetkovic

  • Economic Analysis of Mine Water Pollution Abatement in a Catchment

    Christian Baresel;Karin Larsén;Georgia Destouni;Ing-Marie Gren

  • Solute transport through preferential pathways in municipal solid waste

    Håkan Rosqvist;Georgia Destouni

  • Hydrological responses to climate change and irrigation in the Aral Sea drainage basin

    Yoshihiro Shibuo;Jerker Jarsjö;Georgia Destouni

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerker Jarsjö
Jerker Jarsjö Stockholm University
Zahra Kalantari
Zahra Kalantari Royal Institute of Technology
Steve W. Lyon
Steve W. Lyon The Ohio State University
Vladimir Cvetkovic
Vladimir Cvetkovic Royal Institute of Technology
Mark Howells
Mark Howells Loughborough University
Ing-Marie Gren
Ing-Marie Gren Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Reiner Giesler
Reiner Giesler Umeå University
Christoph Humborg
Christoph Humborg Stockholm University
Rene Orth
Rene Orth Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Scott L. Painter
Scott L. Painter Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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