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Heiko Apel 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 Heiko Apel sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 129 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Heiko Apel 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 Heiko Apel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Heiko Apel is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany, focusing on research at the intersection of environmental and earth sciences. Their work primarily addresses flood risk assessment and management as well as hydrology and watershed management studies.

The scientist has contributed to several notable papers, including:

  • "Future projections of flood dynamics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Brief communication: Impact forecasting could substantially improve the emergency management of deadly floods: case study July 2021 floods in Germany" (2022) published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "High-resolution impact-based early warning system for riverine flooding" (2024) published in Nature Communications
  • "Groundwater dynamics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: Trends, memory effects, and response times" (2020) published in Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • "Brief communication: Seasonal prediction of salinity intrusion in the Mekong Delta" (2020) published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences

Frequent coauthors in their work include Bruno Merz, Nguyễn Việt Dũng, Sergiy Vorogushyn, Nguyen Van Khanh Triet, and Hồng Quân Nguyễn. These collaborations indicate a network focused on hydrological and environmental phenomena with a geographic emphasis on regions such as Germany and the Vietnamese Mekong Delta.

Heiko Apel's research is published in various scientific venues, most prominently:

  • Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • GFZpublic

Their main fields of study involve Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Research efforts delve into specific subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering

The scientist's core topics of interest are:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate variability and models

Best Publications

  • Flood risk assessment and associated uncertainty

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

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

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

  • Comparative flood damage model assessment: towards a European approach

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

  • A Probabilistic Modelling System for Assessing Flood Risks

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

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

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

  • Flood trends and variability in the Mekong river

    J. M. Delgado;H. Apel;B. Merz

  • Quantification of uncertainties in flood risk assessments

    Heiko Apel;Bruno Merz;Annegret H. Thieken

  • Future sediment dynamics in the Mekong Delta floodplains: Impacts of hydropower development, climate change and sea level rise

    Nguyen Van Manh;Nguyen Viet Dung;Nguyen Nghia Hung;Matti Kummu

  • A new methodology for flood hazard assessment considering dike breaches

    S. Vorogushyn;B. Merz;K.-E. Lindenschmidt;H. Apel

  • Sand mining in the Mekong Delta revisited - current scales of local sediment deficits

    Christian Jordan;Jan Tiede;Oliver Lojek;Jan Visscher

  • Spatially coherent flood risk assessment based on long-term continuous simulation with a coupled model chain

    Daniela Falter;Kai Schröter;Nguyen Viet Dung;Sergiy Vorogushyn

  • Development of dike fragility curves for piping and micro-instability breach mechanisms

    S. Vorogushyn;B. Merz;H. Apel

  • Large-scale suspended sediment transport and sediment deposition in the Mekong Delta

    N. V. Manh;N. V. Dung;N. N. Hung;B. Merz

  • Continuous, large‐scale simulation model for flood risk assessments: proof‐of‐concept

    D. Falter;N.V. Dung;S. Vorogushyn;K. Schröter

  • Multi-objective automatic calibration of hydrodynamic models utilizing inundation maps and gauge data

    N. V. Dung;B. Merz;A. Bárdossy;T. D. Thang

  • A climate-flood link for the lower Mekong River

    J. M. Delgado;B. Merz;H. Apel

  • Has dyke development in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta shifted flood hazard downstream

    Nguyen Van Khanh Triet;Nguyen Viet Dung;Hideto Fujii;Matti Kummu

  • Floodplain hydrology of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

    Nguyen Nghia Hung;José Miguel Delgado;Vo Khac Tri;Le Manh Hung

  • Analysis of a detention basin impact on dike failure probabilities and flood risk for a channel-dike-floodplain system along the river Elbe, Germany

    Sergiy Vorogushyn;Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt;Heidi Kreibich;Heiko Apel

  • Combined fluvial and pluvial urban flood hazard analysis: concept development and application to Can Tho city, Mekong Delta, Vietnam

    Heiko Apel;Oriol Martínez Trepat;Nguyen Nghia Hung;Do Thi Chinh

  • Influence of dike breaches on flood frequency estimation

    H. Apel;B. Merz;A. H. Thieken

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Merz
Bruno Merz University of Potsdam
Sergiy Vorogushyn
Sergiy Vorogushyn Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Heidi Kreibich
Heidi Kreibich Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Annegret H. Thieken
Annegret H. Thieken University of Potsdam
Andreas Güntner
Andreas Güntner University of Potsdam
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart
Matti Kummu
Matti Kummu Aalto University
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hanno Meyer
Hanno Meyer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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