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John L. Nieber publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John L. Nieber sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 184 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

John L. Nieber D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John L. Nieber sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

John L. Nieber is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and contributes to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Ecology.

Their work focuses on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Urban Stormwater Management Solutions, and Landslides and related hazards.

John L. Nieber has published in a number of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water Resources Research
  • Vadose Zone Journal
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nieber include:

  • It Is Not Easy Being Green: Recognizing Unintended Consequences of Green Stormwater Infrastructure, 2020, Water
  • Regionalization in a Global Hydrologic Deep Learning Model: From Physical Descriptors to Random Vectors, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Physics Guided Machine Learning Methods for Hydrology, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Reduction of nutrient loads from agricultural subsurface drainage water in a small, edge-of-field constructed treatment wetland, 2021, Ecological Engineering
  • Bias of stormwater infiltration measurement methods evaluated using numerical experiments, 2022, Vadose Zone Journal

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Rahul Ghosh
  • Vipin Kumar
  • Arvind Renganathan
  • Christopher Duffy
  • Michael Steinbach

Best Publications

  • Regionalized drought flow hydrographs from a mature glaciated plateau

    Wilfried Brutsaert;John L. Nieber

  • Physics of water repellent soils

    T. W.J. Bauters;T. S. Steenhuis;David DiCarlo;J. L. Nieber

  • Modeling and field evidence of finger formation and finger recurrence in a water repellent sandy soil

    Coen J. Ritsema;Louis W. Dekker;John L. Nieber;Tammo S. Steenhuis

  • Performance assessment of rain gardens

    Brooke C. Asleson;Rebecca S. Nestingen;John S. Gulliver;Raymond M. Hozalski

  • Characterizing Macropores in Soil by Computed Tomography

    G. S. Warner;J. L. Nieber;I. D. Moore;R. A. Geise

  • Compaction effect on the gas diffusion coefficient in soils

    Xu Xia Xu;John L Nieber;Satish C Gupta

  • How do disconnected macropores in sloping soils facilitate preferential flow

    John L. Nieber;Roy C. Sidle

  • Remediation to improve infiltration into compact soils

    Nicholas C. Olson;John S. Gulliver;John L. Nieber;Masoud Kayhanian

  • Modeling finger development and persistence in initially dry porous media

    John L. Nieber

  • Drains as a Boundary Condition in Finite Elements

    G. Fipps;R. W. Skaggs;John L Nieber

  • An analysis of the steady-state heat balance method for measuring sap flow in plants

    J.M. Baker;J.L. Nieber

  • It Is Not Easy Being Green: Recognizing Unintended Consequences of Green Stormwater Infrastructure

    Vinicius J. Taguchi;Peter T. Weiss;John S. Gulliver;Mira R. Klein

  • Dynamic Capillary Pressure Mechanism for Instability in Gravity-Driven Flows; Review and Extension to Very Dry Conditions

    John L. Nieber;Rafail Z. Dautov;Andrey G. Egorov;Aleksey Y. Sheshukov

  • Capillary retention of colloids in unsaturated porous media

    Bin Gao;Tammo S. Steenhuis;Yuniati Zevi;Veronica L. Morales

  • Stable or unstable wetting fronts in water repellent soils - effect of antecedent soil moisture content

    Coen J Ritsema;John L Nieber;Louis W Dekker;T.S Steenhuis

  • Preferential and Unstable Flow: From the Pore to the Catchment Scale

    Horst H. Gerke;Peter Germann;John Nieber

  • Effective Rainfall Estimation Methods

    Avinash S. Patwardhan;John L. Nieber;Eldon L. Johns

  • Two‐dimensional soil moisture flow in a sloping rectangular region: Experimental and numerical studies

    John L. Nieber;Michael F. Walter

  • Sediment detachment and transport processes associated with internal erosion of soil pipes

    Glenn V. Wilson;Robert Wells;Roger Kuhnle;Garey Fox

  • Two-dimensional steady unsaturated flow through embedded elliptical layers

    Mark Bakker;John L. Nieber

  • Dynamic capillary pressure mechanism for instability in gravity-driven flows; Review and extension to very dry conditions

    J Nieber;A Egorov;R Dautov;A Sheshukov

Frequent Co-Authors

John S. Gulliver
John S. Gulliver University of Minnesota
Tammo S. Steenhuis
Tammo S. Steenhuis Cornell University
Raymond M. Hozalski
Raymond M. Hozalski University of Minnesota
Glenn V. Wilson
Glenn V. Wilson Agricultural Research Service
Louis W. Dekker
Louis W. Dekker Wageningen University & Research
Garey A. Fox
Garey A. Fox North Carolina State University
John M. Baker
John M. Baker United States Department of Agriculture
Coen J. Ritsema
Coen J. Ritsema Wageningen University & Research
Xuhui Lee
Xuhui Lee Yale University
Lawrence A. Baker
Lawrence A. Baker University of Minnesota

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