2026 Karim C. Abbaspour: 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	66	2034	1941	58	55	196	24730

Overview

Karim C. Abbaspour is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research mainly focuses on Environmental Science, with a specific emphasis on areas such as Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Soil Science.

The scientist's primary fields of study include:

Water Science and Technology
Global and Planetary Change
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Chemistry
Soil Science

They have contributed extensively to research topics related to:

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Soil erosion and sediment transport
Groundwater flow and contamination studies
Water resources management and optimization

Among their recent papers are:

"An interactive graphical interface tool for parameter calibration, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, and visualization for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool," 2022, Environmental Modelling & Software
"Assessment of changes in water conservation capacity under land degradation neutrality effects in a typical watershed of Yellow River Basin, China," 2023, Ecological Indicators
"Changes in water conservation and possible causes in the Yellow River Basin of China during the recent four decades," 2024, Journal of Hydrology
"The fallacy in the use of the "best-fit" solution in hydrologic modeling," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
"Spatiotemporal Modelling of Water Balance Components in Response to Climate and Landuse Changes in a Heterogeneous Mountainous Catchment," 2021, Water Resources Management

These publications have appeared in multiple journals, with frequent appearances in:

Journal of Hydrology
Ecological Indicators
The Science of The Total Environment
SSRN Electronic Journal
Environmental Modelling & Software

Collaboration plays a notable role in their research output. The most frequent co-authors include:

Lingfeng Zhou
Yaobin Meng
Hong Yang
Depeng Zuo
Zongxue Xu

Best Publications

SWAT: Model Use, Calibration, and Validation

J. G. Arnold;Daniel N. Moriasi;P. W. Gassman;K. C. Abbaspour

3653
Citations
Modelling hydrology and water quality in the pre-alpine/alpine Thur watershed using SWAT

Karim C. Abbaspour;Jing Yang;Ivan Maximov;Rosi Siber

2508
Citations
A continental-scale hydrology and water quality model for Europe: Calibration and uncertainty of a high-resolution large-scale SWAT model

K.C. Abbaspour;E. Rouholahnejad;S. Vaghefi;R. Srinivasan

1854
Citations
Estimating Uncertain Flow and Transport Parameters Using a Sequential Uncertainty Fitting Procedure

K. C. Abbaspour;C. A. Johnson;M. Th. van Genuchten

1028
Citations
Comparing uncertainty analysis techniques for a SWAT application to the Chaohe Basin in China

Jing Yang;Peter Reichert;K.C. Abbaspour;Jun Xia

1025
Citations
Assessing the impact of climate change on water resources in Iran

Karim C. Abbaspour;Monireh Faramarzi;Samaneh Seyed Ghasemi;Hong Yang

729
Citations
Statistical modeling of global geogenic fluoride contamination in groundwaters.

Manouchehr Amini;Kim Mueller;Karim C. Abbaspour;Thomas Rosenberg

564
Citations
Estimation of freshwater availability in the West African sub-continent using the SWAT hydrologic model

Jürgen Schuol;Karim C. Abbaspour;Raghavan Srinivasan;Hong Yang

526
Citations
Modeling blue and green water availability in Africa

Jiirgen Schuol;Jiirgen Schuol;Karim C. Abbaspour;Hong Yang;Raghavan Srinivasan

494
Citations
Statistical Modeling of Global Geogenic Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater

Manouchehr Amini;Karim C. Abbaspour;Michael Berg;Lenny Winkel

480
Citations
Modelling blue and green water resources availability in Iran

Monireh Faramarzi;Karim C. Abbaspour;Rainer Schulin;Hong Yang

448
Citations
A Guideline for Successful Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis for Soil and Water Assessment: A Review of Papers from the 2016 International SWAT Conference

Karim C. Abbaspour;Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi;Raghvan Srinivasan

443
Citations
Application of a SWAT model for estimating runoff and sediment in two mountainous basins in central Iran

Rokhsare Rostamian;Aazam Jaleh;Majid Afyuni;Seyed Farhad Mousavi

366
Citations
Virtual water trade: an assessment of water use efficiency in the international food trade

H. Yang;L. Wang;K. C. Abbaspour;A. J. B. Zehnder

341
Citations
A Water Resources Threshold and Its Implications for Food Security

Hong Yang;Peter Reichert;Karim C. Abbaspour;Alexander J. B. Zehnder

333
Citations
Estimating unsaturated soil hydraulic parameters using ant colony optimization

K.C. Abbaspour;R. Schulin;M.Th. van Genuchten

313
Citations
Modeling impacts of climate change on freshwater availability in Africa

Monireh Faramarzi;Karim C. Abbaspour;Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi;Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi;Mohammad Reza Farzaneh

306
Citations
The future of extreme climate in Iran.

Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi;Malihe Keykhai;Farshid Jahanbakhshi;Farshid Jahanbakhshi;Jaleh Sheikholeslami

305
Citations
Hydrological modelling of the Chaohe Basin in China: Statistical model formulation and Bayesian inference

Jing Yang;Peter Reichert;Karim C. Abbaspour;Hong Yang

292
Citations
A sequential uncertainty domain inverse procedure for estimating subsurface flow and transport parameters

K. C. Abbaspour;M. T. van Genuchten;R. Schulin;E. Schläppi

283
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hong Yang Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Anthony Lehmann University of Geneva

Raghavan Srinivasan Texas A&M University

Rainer Schulin ETH Zurich

Bernhard Wehrli ETH Zurich

Christian Folberth International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Zongxue Xu Beijing Normal University

Alexander J. B. Zehnder Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Jinxi Song Northwest University

Junguo Liu North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power

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