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Georgia Destouni

Georgia Destouni

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Earth Science
Sweden
2026

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.

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38 publications 510+

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

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.

30 D-Index: 15 scientists 31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32 D-Index: 60 scientists 33 D-Index: 90 scientists 34 D-Index: 103 scientists 35 D-Index: 108 scientists 36 D-Index: 142 scientists 37 D-Index: 147 scientists 38 D-Index: 147 scientists 39 D-Index: 152 scientists 40 D-Index: 143 scientists 41 D-Index: 157 scientists 42 D-Index: 141 scientists 43 D-Index: 151 scientists 44 D-Index: 140 scientists 45 D-Index: 135 scientists 46 D-Index: 121 scientists 47 D-Index: 108 scientists 48 D-Index: 128 scientists 49 D-Index: 111 scientists 50 D-Index: 106 scientists 51 D-Index: 112 scientists 52 D-Index: 102 scientists 53 D-Index: 103 scientists 54 D-Index: 94 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 101 scientists 57 D-Index: 71 scientists 58 D-Index: 65 scientists 59 D-Index: 78 scientists 60 D-Index: 93 scientists 61 D-Index: 56 scientists 62 D-Index: 58 scientists 63 D-Index: 52 scientists 64 D-Index: 63 scientists 65 D-Index: 49 scientists 66 D-Index: 53 scientists 67 D-Index: 57 scientists 68 D-Index: 50 scientists 69 D-Index: 44 scientists 70 D-Index: 44 scientists 71 D-Index: 31 scientists 72 D-Index: 33 scientists 73 D-Index: 33 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 32 scientists 76 D-Index: 24 scientists 77 D-Index: 17 scientists 78 D-Index: 19 scientists 79 D-Index: 9 scientists 80 D-Index: 21 scientists 81 D-Index: 20 scientists 82 D-Index: 17 scientists 83 D-Index: 19 scientists 84 D-Index: 19 scientists 85 D-Index: 14 scientists 86 D-Index: 6 scientists 87 D-Index: 14 scientists 88 D-Index: 17 scientists 89 D-Index: 10 scientists 90 D-Index: 8 scientists 91 D-Index: 8 scientists 92 D-Index: 9 scientists 93 D-Index: 6 scientists 94+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 94+

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

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
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
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre
Scott L. Painter
Scott L. Painter Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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