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2025

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Computer Science

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67
Citations
16443
World Ranking
2210
National Ranking
82

Business and Management

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64
Citations
15156
World Ranking
427
National Ranking
21

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2019 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development and application of conflict resolution techniques from a systems engineering perspective.
  • 1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 1996 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the development of systems design engineering as an educational discipline.
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Keith W. Hipel is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, including sociology and political science, management science and operations research, global and planetary change, management, monitoring, policy and law, and health, toxicology and mutagenesis.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Towards complexity of agricultural sustainability assessment: Main issues and concerns (2020), Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
  • Climate change-accelerated ocean biodiversity loss & associated planetary health impacts (2022), The Journal of Climate Change and Health
  • Health impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers (2021), One Health
  • Climate change-triggered land degradation and planetary health: A review (2021), Land Degradation and Development
  • Exploring factors influencing the application accuracy of the theory of planned behavior in explaining recycling behavior (2021), Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Frequent co-authors in Hipel's body of work include:

  • Enrique Herrera-Viedma (53 collaborations)
  • Róbert Kozma (41 collaborations)
  • Karen Panetta (41 collaborations)
  • Giancarlo Fortino (41 collaborations)
  • Tadahiko Murata (41 collaborations)

Academic contributions have been published prominently in journals such as:

  • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems (26 publications)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (14 publications)
  • The Journal of Climate Change and Health (3 publications)
  • One Health (2 publications)
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2 publications)

Research topics on which Hipel has contributed include:

  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
  • Multi-Criteria Decision Making
  • Mining and Resource Management

Among the awards and honors received by Hipel are:

  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council (2019)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2018)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2016) for development and application of conflict resolution techniques from a systems engineering perspective
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1998), Academy of Science
  • IEEE Fellow (1996) for contributions to the development of systems design engineering as an educational discipline
  • Member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

  • Time series modelling of water resources and environmental systems

    Keith W. Hipel;T. I. McLeod

  • Preservation of the rescaled adjusted range: 1. A reassessment of the Hurst Phenomenon

    Angus Ian McLeod;Keith William Hipel

  • The graph model for conflicts

    D M Kilgour;K W Hipel;L Fang

  • Solving Complex Conflicts

    Niall M. Fraser;Keith W. Hipel

  • Advances in Box-Jenkins modeling: 1. Model construction

    Keith William Hipel;Angus Ian McLeod;William C. Lennox

  • A decision support system for interactive decision making-Part I: model formulation

    Liping Fang;K.W. Hipel;D.M. Kilgour;Xiaoyong Peng

  • Basin-wide cooperative water resources allocation

    Lizhong Wang;Liping Fang;Keith W. Hipel

  • A case-based distance model for multiple criteria ABC analysis

    Ye Chen;Kevin W. Li;D. Marc Kilgour;Keith W. Hipel

  • A decision support system for interactive decision making - Part II: analysis and output interpretation

    Liping Fang;K.W. Hipel;D.M. Kilgour;Xiaoyong Peng

  • Preference uncertainty in the graph model for conflict resolution

    K.W. Li;K.W. Hipel;D.M. Kilgour;Liping Fang

  • Forecasting China's electricity consumption using a new grey prediction model

    Song Ding;Song Ding;Keith W. Hipel;Yao-guo Dang

  • The decision support system GMCR in environment conflict management

    Keith W. Hipel;D. Marc Kilgour;D. Marc Kilgour;Liping Fang;Liping Fang;Xiaoyong Peng

  • The Graph Model for Conflict Resolution: Past, Present, and Future

    D. Marc Kilgour;Keith W. Hipel

  • Exploring social dimensions of municipal solid waste management around the globe: A systematic literature review

    Jing Ma;Keith W. Hipel

  • Water Resources Allocation: A Cooperative Game Theoretic Approach

    L. Z. Wang;L. Fang;K. W. Hipel

  • Non-Cooperative Stability Definitions for Strategic Analysis of Generic Water Resources Conflicts

    Kaveh Madani;Keith W. Hipel

  • Coalition analysis in group decision support

    D. Marc Kilgour;Keith W. Hipel;Liping Fang;Xiaoyong (John) Peng

  • Fuzzy Preferences in the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution

    M. A. Bashar;D. M. Kilgour;K. W. Hipel

  • Supplier selection process in an integrated construction materials management model

    Mahdi Safa;Arash Shahi;Carl T. Haas;Keith W. Hipel

  • An analysis of influencing factors on municipal solid waste source-separated collection behavior in Guilin, China by Using the Theory of Planned Behavior

    Jing Ma;Keith W. Hipel;Keith W. Hipel;Mark L. Hanson;Xiang Cai

  • Forecasting monthly riverflow time series

    Donald J. Noakes;A.Ian McLeod;Keith W. Hipel

  • Grey Systems: Theory and Applications

    Keith William Hipel

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Marc Kilgour
D. Marc Kilgour Wilfrid Laurier University
A. Ian McLeod
A. Ian McLeod University of Western Ontario
Tarek Hegazy
Tarek Hegazy University of Waterloo
Edward A. McBean
Edward A. McBean University of Guelph
Carl T. Haas
Carl T. Haas University of Waterloo
Kaveh Madani
Kaveh Madani Yale University
Mo Jamshidi
Mo Jamshidi The University of Texas at San Antonio
Karim C. Abbaspour
Karim C. Abbaspour Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Fakhri Karray
Fakhri Karray Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

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