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Kenneth Hewitt 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 Kenneth Hewitt sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 113 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Kenneth Hewitt 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 Kenneth Hewitt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kenneth Hewitt is affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with additional work in Environmental Science. The main subfields of study covered include Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's research themes concentrate on cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, landslides and related hazards, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and dam engineering and safety.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kenneth Hewitt include:

  • Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram (2021), Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The formation and impact of landslide dams - State of the art (2020), Earth-Science Reviews
  • The hazardous 2017-2019 surge and river damming by Shispare Glacier, Karakoram (2020), Scientific Reports
  • Characteristics of surge-type tributary glaciers, Karakoram (2022), Geomorphology
  • Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, 2017-1217 edited by PierreBélanger, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2018, 800 pp., paperback, $52.00 (ISBN 978-0262533829) (2020), Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

Kenneth Hewitt has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Rakesh Bhambri
  • Umesh K. Haritashya
  • Pritam Chand
  • Amit Kumar
  • Akshaya Verma

Publication venues where Kenneth Hewitt's work has appeared encompass:

  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Scientific Reports
  • Geomorphology
  • Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

Best Publications

  • Regions of Risk: A Geographical Introduction to Disasters

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • The Karakoram Anomaly? Glacier Expansion and the `Elevation Effect,' Karakoram Himalaya

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • Interpretations of Calamity : From the Viewpoint of Human Ecology

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • Reframing disaster policy: the global evolution of vulnerable communities

    L. Comfort;B. Wisner;S. Cutter;R. Pulwarty

  • Glacial change and hydrological implications in the Himalaya and Karakoram

    Yong Nie;Hamish D. Pritchard;Qiao Liu;Thomas Hennig

  • Giant landslides, topography, and erosion

    Oliver Korup;John J. Clague;Reginald L. Hermanns;Kenneth Hewitt

  • Catastrophic landslides and their effects on the Upper Indus streams, Karakoram Himalaya, northern Pakistan

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • Glacier Change, Concentration, and Elevation Effects in the Karakoram Himalaya, Upper Indus Basin

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • Tributary glacier surges: an exceptional concentration at Panmah Glacier, Karakoram Himalaya

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • Quaternary Moraines vs Catastrophic Rock Avalanches in the Karakoram Himalaya, Northern Pakistan

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • Legacies of catastrophic rock slope failures in mountain landscapes

    Kenneth Hewitt;John J. Clague;John F. Orwin

  • The hazardousness of a place: A regional ecology of damaging events

    Thomas F. Saarinen;Kenneth Hewitt;Ian Burton

  • The formation and impact of landslide dams – State of the art

    Xuanmei Fan;Anja Dufresne;Srikrishnan Siva Subramanian;Alexander Strom

  • Glacier and landslide feedbacks to topographic relief in the Himalayan syntaxes

    Oliver Korup;David R. Montgomery;Kenneth Hewitt

  • Karakoram glacier surge dynamics

    D. J. Quincey;M. Braun;Neil F. Glasser;M. P. Bishop

  • Surge-type and surge-modified glaciers in the Karakoram.

    R. Bhambri;K. Hewitt;P. Kawishwar;B. Pratap

  • Catastrophic Landslide Deposits in the Karakoram Himalaya

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • Ice-Dammed Lakes and Outburst Floods, Karakoram Himalaya: Historical Perspectives on Emerging Threats

    Kenneth Hewitt;Jingshi Liu

  • Natural dams and outburst floods of the Karakoram Himalaya

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • Excluded perspectives in the social construction of disaster

    Kenneth Hewitt

  • The idea of calamity in a technocratic age

    Kenneth Hewitt

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Clague
John J. Clague Simon Fraser University
Reginald L. Hermanns
Reginald L. Hermanns Geological Survey of Norway
Oliver Korup
Oliver Korup University of Potsdam
Ilan Kelman
Ilan Kelman University College London
David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery University of Washington
Jeffrey S. Kargel
Jeffrey S. Kargel Planetary Science Institute
John D. Jansen
John D. Jansen Czech Academy of Sciences
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Andreas Kääb
Andreas Kääb University of Oslo

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