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Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
9008
World Ranking
4299
National Ranking
296

Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen 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 Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 211 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen 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 Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, conducting research primarily within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, water science and technology, and civil and structural engineering.

The researcher's academic output extensively covers topics such as soil moisture and remote sensing, hydrology and watershed management studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil and unsaturated flow, climate variability and models, climate change and permafrost, and precipitation measurement and analysis.

Recent publications by Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen include:

  • A dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture observation in a highly instrumented pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Germany, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Toward Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis, 2021, Reviews of Geophysics
  • A 3 km spatially and temporally consistent European daily soil moisture reanalysis from 2000 to 2015, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Multi-mission satellite remote sensing data for improving land hydrological models via data assimilation, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Performance of a wheat yield prediction model and factors influencing the performance: A review and meta-analysis, 2021, Agricultural Systems

Frequent coauthors of Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen are:

  • Harry Vereecken (35 collaborations)
  • Heye Bogena (20 collaborations)
  • Carsten Montzka (14 collaborations)
  • Christian Poppe Terán (10 collaborations)
  • Roland Baatz (9 collaborations)

The scientist commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • Water Resources Research (9 publications)
  • Frontiers in Water (6 publications)
  • Geoscientific Model Development (5 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (5 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Modeling Soil Processes: Review, Key Challenges, and New Perspectives

    H. Vereecken;A. Schnepf;J. W. Hopmans;M. Javaux

  • Advancing data assimilation in operational hydrologic forecasting: progresses, challenges, and emerging opportunities

    Yuqiong Liu;Yuqiong Liu;A. Weerts;M. Clark;H.-J Hendricks Franssen

  • Real-time groundwater flow modeling with the Ensemble Kalman Filter: Joint estimation of states and parameters and the filter inbreeding problem

    H. J. Hendricks Franssen;W. Kinzelbach

  • Hydraulic parameter estimation by remotely-sensed top soil moisture observations with the particle filter

    Carsten Montzka;Hamid Moradkhani;Lutz Weihermüller;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

  • Advances in understanding river-groundwater interactions

    Philip Brunner;René Therrien;Philippe Renard;Craig T. Simmons

  • Energy balance closure of eddy-covariance data: a multisite analysis for European FLUXNET stations.

    H.J. Hendricks Franssen;H.J. Hendricks Franssen;R. Stöckli;I. Lehner;E. Rotenberg

  • SMOS soil moisture assimilation for improved hydrologic simulation in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia

    H. Lievens;S.K. Tomer;A. Al Bitar;G.J.M. De Lannoy

  • Soil hydrology: Recent methodological advances, challenges, and perspectives

    H. Vereecken;J. A. Huisman;H. J. Hendricks Franssen;N. Brüggemann

  • Accuracy of the cosmic-ray soil water content probe in humid forest ecosystems: The worst case scenario

    H. R. Bogena;J. A. Huisman;R. Baatz;H.-J. Hendricks Franssen

  • Parameter estimation by ensemble Kalman filters with transformed data: Approach and application to hydraulic tomography

    A. Schöniger;W. Nowak;H.-J. Hendricks Franssen

  • Actual evapotranspiration and precipitation measured by lysimeters: a comparison with eddy covariance and tipping bucket

    S. Gebler;H.-J. Hendricks Franssen;T. Pütz;H. Post

  • How can remote sensing contribute in groundwater modeling

    P. Brunner;H.-J.Hendricks Franssen;L. Kgotlhang;Peter Bauer-Gottwein

  • An empirical vegetation correction for soil water content quantification using cosmic ray probes

    R. Baatz;H. R. Bogena;H.-J. Hendricks Franssen;J. A. Huisman

  • Analysis of the impact of climate change on groundwater related hydrological fluxes: a multi-model approach including different downscaling methods

    S. Stoll;H. J. Hendricks Franssen;H. J. Hendricks Franssen;M. Butts;W. Kinzelbach

  • Calibration of a catchment scale cosmic-ray probe network: A comparison of three parameterization methods

    R. Baatz;H.R. Bogena;H.-J. Hendricks Franssen;J.A. Huisman

  • Heterogeneous or homogeneous? Implications of simplifying heterogeneous streambeds in models of losing streams

    Dylan Irvine;Philip Brunner;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen;Craig Trevor Simmons

  • Jointly Mapping Hydraulic Conductivity and Porosity by Assimilating Concentration Data via Ensemble Kalman Filter

    Liangping Li;Haiyan Zhou;J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

  • Ensemble Kalman filtering versus sequential self-calibration for inverse modelling of dynamic groundwater flow systems

    H.J. Hendricks Franssen;W. Kinzelbach

  • Multivariate and Multiscale Data Assimilation in Terrestrial Systems: A Review

    Carsten Montzka;Valentijn Rachel Noel Pauwels;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen;Xujun Han

  • Soil moisture and soil properties estimation in the Community Land Model with synthetic brightness temperature observations

    Xujun Han;Xujun Han;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen;Carsten Montzka;Harry Vereecken

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Carsten Montzka
Carsten Montzka Forschungszentrum Jülich
Stefan Kollet
Stefan Kollet Forschungszentrum Jülich
Heye Bogena
Heye Bogena Forschungszentrum Jülich
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels
Valentijn R. N. Pauwels Monash University
Philip Brunner
Philip Brunner University of Neuchâtel
Johan Alexander Huisman
Johan Alexander Huisman Forschungszentrum Jülich
Clemens Simmer
Clemens Simmer University of Bonn
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency

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