2026 Günter Blöschl: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	120	125	118	1	1	557	55849

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
2020 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For international leadership in the prediction and management of extreme hydrological events.

Overview

Günter Blöschl is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on hydrology and watershed management. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main topics covered by Blöschl's work include:

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Cryospheric Studies and Observations
Climate Variability and Models
Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
Soil and Unsaturated Flow

They have published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues being:

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Water Resources Research
Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics
Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft
Geophysical Research Letters

Among their recent papers are:

"Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
"The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management," 2022, Nature
"The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade," 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
"Current European flood-rich period exceptional compared with past 500 years," 2020, Nature
"Soil hydrology in the Earth system," 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors in Blöschl's research include Juraj Párajka, Peter Strauß, Miriam Bertola, Alberto Viglione, and Borbála Széles, with collaborations reflecting consistent research output.

In addition to journal publications, Blöschl has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Soproni Egyetem Kiadó eBooks titled "Hydro-Carpath-2022, Hydrology Of The Carpathian Basin: Synthesis Of Data, Driving Factors And Processes Across Scales: Abstracts and Posters of the Conference" in 2022.

The scientist has been recognized with awards including becoming a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for international leadership in the prediction and management of extreme hydrological events.

Best Publications

Scale issues in hydrological modelling: A review

G. Blöschl;M. Sivapalan

2636
Citations
A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

1379
Citations
Socio‐hydrology: A new science of people and water

Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Hubert H. G. Savenije;Günter Blöschl

1296
Citations
Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Alberto Viglione;Alberto Viglione;Rui A P Perdigão

1216
Citations
Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Juraj Parajka;Rui A. P. Perdigão

1010
Citations
Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

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

1009
Citations
Observed spatial organization of soil moisture and its relation to terrain indices

Andrew W. Western;Rodger B. Grayson;Günter Blöschl;Garry R. Willgoose

995
Citations
A compilation of data on European flash floods

Eric Gaume;Valerie Bain;Pietro Bernardara;Olivier Newinger

964
Citations
Preferred states in spatial soil moisture patterns: Local and nonlocal controls

Rodger B. Grayson;Andrew W. Western;Francis H. S. Chiew;Günter Blöschl

940
Citations
Regionalisation of catchment model parameters

Ralf Merz;Günter Blöschl

903
Citations
“Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

844
Citations
Runoff prediction in ungauged basins: Synthesis across processes, places and scales

Günter Blöschl;Murugesu Sivapalan;Thorsten Wagener;Alberto Viglione

763
Citations
Spatial correlation of soil moisture in small catchments and its relationship to dominant spatial hydrological processes

Andrew W Western;Sen-Lin Zhou;Rodger B Grayson;Thomas A McMahon

740
Citations
Flood risk assessment and associated uncertainty

Heiko Apel;Annegret H. Thieken;Bruno Merz;Günter Blöschl

724
Citations
The ASCAT Soil Moisture Product: A Review of its Specifications, Validation Results, and Emerging Applications

Wolfgang Wagner;Sebastian Hahn;Richard Kidd;Thomas Melzer

695
Citations
Scaling of Soil Moisture: A Hydrologic Perspective

Andrew W. Western;Rodger B. Grayson;Günter Blöschl

680
Citations
Socio-hydrology: conceptualising human-flood interactions

G. Di Baldassarre;A. Viglione;G. Carr;L. Kuil

666
Citations
Understanding Flood Regime Changes in Europe: A state of the art assessment

J Hall;B Arheimer;M Borga;R Brazdil;R Brazdil

657
Citations
On the spatial scaling of soil moisture

Andrew W. Western;Günter Blöschl

607
Citations
Operational readiness of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrologic applications

Wolfgang Wagner;Günter Blöschl;Paolo Pampaloni;Jean-Christophe Calvet

607
Citations
Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods

Bruno Merz;Günter Blöschl;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Francesco Dottori

606
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Juraj Parajka TU Wien

Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin

Ralf Merz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Alberto Montanari University of Bologna

Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna

Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology

Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens

Bruno Merz University of Potsdam

András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

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