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1409
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Heidi Kreibich 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 Heidi Kreibich sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 289 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Heidi Kreibich 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 Heidi Kreibich sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Heidi Kreibich is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant concentration in global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, sociology and political science, and economics and econometrics.

Their work covers a variety of topics, including flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and drought analysis, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, hydrology and watershed management studies, disaster management and resilience, insurance and financial risk management, and water resources management and optimization.

Recent publications by Heidi Kreibich include the following papers:

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, Nature
  • Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards, 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies, 2020, Water Security
  • The behavioral turn in flood risk management, its assumptions and potential implications, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Heidi Kreibich include:

  • Bruno Merz
  • Nivedita Sairam
  • Kai Schröter
  • Sergiy Vorogushyn
  • Annegret H. Thieken

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Earth's Future
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Frontiers in Water

Best Publications

  • Review article "Assessment of economic flood damage"

    B. Merz;H. Kreibich;R. Schwarze;A. Thieken

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

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

  • Flood risk analyses—how detailed do we need to be?

    Heiko Apel;G. T. Aronica;Heidi Kreibich;A. H. Thieken

  • Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods

    Bruno Merz;Günter Blöschl;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Francesco Dottori

  • Estimation uncertainty of direct monetary flood damage to buildings

    B. Merz;H. Kreibich;A. Thieken;R. Schmidtke

  • Flood loss reduction of private households due to building precautionary measures - lessons learned from the Elbe flood in August 2002

    H. Kreibich;A. H. Thieken;Th. Petrow;M. Müller

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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  • Flood damage and influencing factors: New insights from the August 2002 flood in Germany

    Annegret H. Thieken;Meike Müller;Heidi Kreibich;Bruno Merz

  • Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach

    B. Jongman;H. Kreibich;H. Apel;J. I. Barredo

  • Review article: assessing the costs of natural hazards - state of the art and knowledge gaps

    V. Meyer;N. Becker;V. Markantonis;R. Schwarze

  • Flood-risk mapping: contributions towards an enhanced assessment of extreme events and associated risks

    B. Büchele;H. Kreibich;A. Kron;A. Thieken

  • Sociohydrology : Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Murugesu Sivapalan;Maria Rusca;Christophe Cudennec

  • Flood risk assessments at different spatial scales.

    H. De Moel;B. Jongman;H. Kreibich;B. Merz

  • Detailed insights into the influence of flood-coping appraisals on mitigation behaviour

    P. Bubeck;W.J.W. Botzen;H. Kreibich;J.C.J.H. Aerts

  • Coping with floods: preparedness, response and recovery of flood-affected residents in Germany in 2002

    Annegret H. Thieken;Heidi Kreibich;Meike MüLLER;Bruno Merz

  • Is flow velocity a significant parameter in flood damage modelling

    H. Kreibich;K. Piroth;I. Seifert;H. Maiwald

  • Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards

    Bruno Merz;Christian Kuhlicke;Michael Kunz;Massimiliano Pittore

  • Insurability and mitigation of flood losses in private households in Germany.

    Annegret H. Thieken;Theresia Petrow;Heidi Kreibich;Bruno Merz

  • Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

    Heidi Kreibich;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

  • The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

    Philip J. Ward;Marleen C. de Ruiter;Johanna Mård;Kai Schröter

  • Multi-variate flood damage assessment: a tree-based data-mining approach

    B. Merz;H. Kreibich;U. Lall

  • Social media as an information source for rapid flood inundation mapping

    J. Fohringer;D. Dransch;H. Kreibich;K. Schröter

  • Development of FLEMOcs – a new model for the estimation of flood losses in the commercial sector

    Heidi Kreibich;Isabel Seifert;Bruno Merz;Annegret H. Thieken

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Merz
Bruno Merz University of Potsdam
Annegret H. Thieken
Annegret H. Thieken University of Potsdam
Sergiy Vorogushyn
Sergiy Vorogushyn Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Heiko Apel
Heiko Apel University of Potsdam
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Laurens M. Bouwer
Laurens M. Bouwer Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Attilio Castellarin
Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Giuliano Di Baldassarre Uppsala University

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