2026 Hugo A. Loáiciga: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	47	3982	3654	1560	1384	314	9050

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Hugo A. Loáiciga is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans environmental science and engineering, with a particular focus on water-related topics.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

Environmental Science
Engineering

Within these broader fields, their work concentrates on several subfields:

Water Science and Technology
Ocean Engineering
Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering

Key topics addressed in their research cover:

Water resources management and optimization
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
Water Systems and Optimization
Transboundary Water Resource Management
Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Loáiciga has contributed to multiple publication venues, with repeated appearances in:

Scientific Reports
Water Resources Management
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Journal of Hydrology
Environment Development and Sustainability

Some of their recent papers include:

Application of particle swarm optimization to water management: an introduction and overview (2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment)
Long short-term memory neural network (LSTM-NN) for aquifer level time series forecasting using in-situ piezometric observations (2021, Journal of Hydrology)
Machine-learning algorithms for forecast-informed reservoir operation (FIRO) to reduce flood damages (2021, Scientific Reports)
Integrated strategic planning and multi-criteria decision-making framework with its application to agricultural water management (2022, Scientific Reports)
Optimal Water Allocation of Surface and Ground Water Resources Under Climate Change with WEAP and IWOA Modeling (2022, Water Resources Management)

Their frequent co-authors include:

Omid Bozorg-Haddad
Parisa-Sadat Ashofteh
Parvin Golfam
Ryan Solgi
Mohammad Delpasand

Hugo A. Loáiciga was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

Global warming and the hydrologic cycle

Hugo A. Loaiciga;Juan B. Valdes;Richard Vogel;Jeff Garvey

409
Citations
Groundwater fluxes in the global hydrologic cycle: past, present and future

I.S. Zektser;Hugo A. Loaiciga

356
Citations
Review of Ground‐Water Quality Monitoring Network Design

Hugo A. Loaiciga;Randall J. Charbeneau;Lorne G. Everett;Graham E. Fogg

319
Citations
Environmental impacts of groundwater overdraft: selected case studies in the southwestern United States

S. Zektser;H. A. Loáiciga;J. T. Wolf

314
Citations
Climate-change impacts in a regional karst aquifer, Texas, USA

H. A. Loáiciga;David R Maidment;J. B. Valdes

300
Citations
An optimization approach for groundwater quality monitoring network design

Hugo A. Loaiciga

208
Citations
Distributed hydrological modelling in California semi-arid shrublands: MIKE SHE model calibration and uncertainty estimation

Christine E. McMichael;Allen S. Hope;Hugo A. Loaiciga

191
Citations
Climate Change and Ground Water

Hugo A. Loáiciga

176
Citations
Application of the Water Cycle Algorithm to the Optimal Operation of Reservoir Systems

Omid Bozorg Haddad;Mojtaba Moravej;Hugo A. Loáiciga

164
Citations
dendrohydrology and long‐term hydrologic phenomena

Hugo A. Loaiciga;Laura Haston;Joel Michaelsen

147
Citations
Evaluation of Climatic-Change Impacts on Multiobjective Reservoir Operation with Multiobjective Genetic Programming

Parisa-Sadat Ashofteh;Omid Bozorg Haddad;Hugo A. Loáiciga

141
Citations
Sea Water Intrusion by Sea-Level Rise: Scenarios for the 21st Century

Hugo A. Loáiciga;Thomas J. Pingel;Elizabeth S. Garcia

141
Citations
Development and Application of the Bat Algorithm for Optimizing the Operation of Reservoir Systems

Omid Bozorg-Haddad;Iman Karimirad;Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni;Hugo A. Loáiciga

131
Citations
Analytic game—theoretic approach to ground-water extraction

Hugo A. Loáiciga

128
Citations
Application of particle swarm optimization to water management: an introduction and overview.

Mahsa Jahandideh-Tehrani;Omid Bozorg-Haddad;Hugo A Loáiciga

121
Citations
Adaptive Reservoir Operation Rules Under Climatic Change

Mohsen Ahmadi;Omid Bozorg Haddad;Hugo A. Loáiciga

117
Citations
Long short-term memory neural network (LSTM-NN) for aquifer level time series forecasting using in-situ piezometric observations

Ryan Solgi;Hugo A. Loáiciga;Mark Kram

111
Citations
Air Permeability of Porous Materials Under Controlled Laboratory Conditions

David S. Springer;Hugo A. Loaiciga;Stephen J. Cullen;Lome G. Everett

110
Citations
Optimal Monthly Reservoir Operation Rules for Hydropower Generation Derived with SVR-NSGAII

Mahyar Aboutalebi;Omid Bozorg Haddad;Hugo A. Loáiciga

108
Citations
Evaluation of water shortage crisis in the Middle East and possible remedies

Omid Bozorg-Haddad;Babak Zolghadr-Asli;Parisa Sarzaeim;Mahyar Aboutalebi

105
Citations
Biogeography-Based Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Operation of Reservoir Systems

Omid Bozorg Haddad;Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari;Hugo A. Loáiciga

93
Citations
A Location Modeling Approach for Groundwater Monitoring Network Augmentation

Paul F. Hudak;Hugo A. Loaiciga

91
Citations
Implementation of GIS for Water Resources Planning and Management

Mark R. Leipnik;Karen K. Kemp;Hugo A. Loaiciga

91
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel A. Mariño University of California, Davis

Omid Bozorg Haddad University of Tehran

William W.-G. Yeh University of California, Los Angeles

Joel Michaelsen University of California, Santa Barbara

Vijay P. Singh Texas A&M University

Dragan Savic University of Exeter

Graham E. Fogg University of California, Davis

Benjamin F. Hobbs Johns Hopkins University

Juan B. Valdés University of Arizona

Jordan F. Clark University of California, Santa Barbara

External Links

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