2026 Heidi Kreibich: 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	73	1409	1336	97	95	289	21246

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

1541
Citations
Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

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

1009
Citations
Flood risk analyses—how detailed do we need to be?

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

722
Citations
Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods

Bruno Merz;Günter Blöschl;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Francesco Dottori

606
Citations
Estimation uncertainty of direct monetary flood damage to buildings

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

599
Citations
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

576
Citations
The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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549
Citations
Flood damage and influencing factors: New insights from the August 2002 flood in Germany

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

527
Citations
Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach

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

514
Citations
Review article: assessing the costs of natural hazards - state of the art and knowledge gaps

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

483
Citations
Flood-risk mapping: contributions towards an enhanced assessment of extreme events and associated risks

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

441
Citations
Sociohydrology : Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

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

440
Citations
Flood risk assessments at different spatial scales.

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

426
Citations
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

410
Citations
Coping with floods: preparedness, response and recovery of flood-affected residents in Germany in 2002

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

409
Citations
Is flow velocity a significant parameter in flood damage modelling

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

360
Citations
Impact Forecasting to Support Emergency Management of Natural Hazards

Bruno Merz;Christian Kuhlicke;Michael Kunz;Massimiliano Pittore

289
Citations
Insurability and mitigation of flood losses in private households in Germany.

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

285
Citations
Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

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

284
Citations
The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

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

284
Citations
Multi-variate flood damage assessment: a tree-based data-mining approach

B. Merz;H. Kreibich;U. Lall

274
Citations
Social media as an information source for rapid flood inundation mapping

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

250
Citations
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

234
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Merz University of Potsdam

Annegret H. Thieken University of Potsdam

Sergiy Vorogushyn Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Heiko Apel University of Potsdam

Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin

Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Laurens M. Bouwer Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research

Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna

Giuliano Di Baldassarre Uppsala University

Günter Blöschl TU Wien

External Links

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