World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 55 2504 2278 51 50 149 24207

L.P.H. van Beek publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by L.P.H. van Beek between 1999 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. L.P.H. van Beek published across 27 years, from 1999 to 2025, averaging 8 papers a year. Output peaked at 25 publications in 2012. 25 of the 215 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 25. Peak 25 publications in 2012. 1999: 2 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 4 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 15 publications 2012: 25 publications 2013: 15 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 6 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 1 publication 2022: 17 publications 2023: 15 publications 2024: 19 publications 2025: 6 publications
1999 2025

215 publications in total across all disciplines

View publications per year as a table
L.P.H. van Beek: publications per year, 1999 to 2025
Year Publications
1999 2
2000 0
2001 3
2002 2
2003 2
2004 2
2005 4
2006 5
2007 6
2008 6
2009 8
2010 12
2011 15
2012 25
2013 15
2014 13
2015 4
2016 8
2017 4
2018 8
2019 6
2020 7
2021 1
2022 17
2023 15
2024 19
2025 6
Total 215
Download as CSV

L.P.H. van Beek 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 L.P.H. van Beek sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 148–157 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 149 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View publications distribution as a table
Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495 149
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
Download as CSV

L.P.H. van Beek 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 L.P.H. van Beek sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 55 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117 55
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
Download as CSV

Overview

L.P.H. van Beek is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Water Science and Technology, which accounts for the majority of their publications.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry

Van Beek's main topics of research can be grouped into several areas related to water systems and management:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Dam Engineering and Safety

The scientist's recent peer-reviewed publications highlight ongoing contributions to global environmental issues and water quality modeling. These publications include:

  • "Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways," 2021, published in Global Environmental Change
  • "Sub-Saharan Africa will increasingly become the dominant hotspot of surface water pollution," 2023, published in Nature Water
  • "Current wastewater treatment targets are insufficient to protect surface water quality," 2022, published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Hyper-resolution PCR-GLOBWB: opportunities and challenges from refining model spatial resolution to 1 km over the European continent," 2023, published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "DynQual v1.0: a high-resolution global surface water quality model," 2023, published in Geoscientific Model Development

Van Beek frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field, including:

  • Marc F. P. Bierkens
  • Niko Wanders
  • Edwin H. Sutanudjaja
  • Michelle T. H. van Vliet
  • Edward R. Jones

Their work has appeared repeatedly in well-regarded publication venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water

Best Publications

  • Climate change will affect the Asian water towers.

    Walter W. Immerzeel;Ludovicus P. H. van Beek;Marc F. P. Bierkens

  • Global depletion of groundwater resources

    Yoshihide Wada;Ludovicus P. H. van Beek;Cheryl M. van Kempen;Josef W. T. M. Reckman

  • Water balance of global aquifers revealed by groundwater footprint

    Tom Gleeson;Yoshihide Wada;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Ludovicus P. H. van Beek

  • Global drivers of future river flood risk

    Hessel C. Winsemius;Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts;Ludovicus P.H. van Beek;Marc F.P. Bierkens

  • Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

    Eric F. Wood;Joshua K. Roundy;Tara J. Troy;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Nonsustainable groundwater sustaining irrigation: A global assessment

    Yoshihide Wada;L. P. H. van Beek;Marc F. P. Bierkens

  • Environmental flow limits to global groundwater pumping

    Inge E. M. de Graaf;Inge E. M. de Graaf;Inge E. M. de Graaf;Tom Gleeson;L. P. H. (Rens) van Beek;Edwin H. Sutanudjaja

  • Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data

    Bridget R. Scanlon;Zizhan Zhang;Himanshu Save;Alexander Y. Sun

  • Global monthly water stress: 1. Water balance and water availability

    L. P. H. van Beek;Yoshihide Wada;Marc F. P. Bierkens

  • Global monthly water stress: 2. Water demand and severity of water stress

    Yoshihide Wada;L. P. H. van Beek;Daniel Viviroli;Daniel Viviroli;Hans H. Dürr

  • Hydrological response to climate change in a glacierized catchment in the Himalayas

    Walter W. Immerzeel;L. P. H. van Beek;M. Konz;A. B. Shrestha

  • A view on some hydrological triggering systems in landslides

    Th.W.J Van Asch;J Buma;L.P.H Van Beek

  • Global riverine N and P transport to ocean increased during the 20th century despite increased retention along the aquatic continuum

    Arthur Beusen;Arthur Beusen;Alexander Bouwman;Alexander Bouwman;L.P.H. van Beek;José Mogollon

  • A framework for global river flood risk assessments

    H. C. Winsemius;L. P. H. Van Beek;B. Jongman;P. J. Ward

  • Assessing flood risk at the global scale: model setup, results, and sensitivity

    Ph.J. Ward;B. Jongman;F.C. Sperna Weiland;A. Bouwman

  • Modelling global water stress of the recent past: on the relative importance of trends in water demand and climate variability

    Y. Wada;L. P. H. van Beek;M. F. P. Bierkens

  • Human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought worldwide

    Yoshihide Wada;Ludovicus P H van Beek;Niko Wanders;Marc F P Bierkens

  • Past and future contribution of global groundwater depletion to sea-level rise

    Yoshihide Wada;Ludovicus P. H. van Beek;Frederiek C. Sperna Weiland;Benjamin F. Chao

  • Mapping permeability over the surface of the Earth

    Tom Gleeson;Leslie Smith;Nils Moosdorf;Jens Hartmann

  • A glimpse beneath earth's surface: GLobal HYdrogeology MaPS (GLHYMPS) of permeability and porosity

    Tom Gleeson;Nils Moosdorf;Jens Hartmann;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought worldwide

    Y. Wada;L. P. Van Beek;N. Wanders;M. F. Bierkens

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc F. P. Bierkens
Marc F. P. Bierkens Utrecht University
Th.W.J. van Asch
Th.W.J. van Asch Utrecht University
Thom Bogaard
Thom Bogaard Delft University of Technology
Yoshihide Wada
Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Hessel Winsemius
Hessel Winsemius Delft University of Technology
C.J. van Westen
C.J. van Westen University of Twente
Jean-Philippe Malet
Jean-Philippe Malet University of Strasbourg
Niko Wanders
Niko Wanders Utrecht University
Walter W. Immerzeel
Walter W. Immerzeel Utrecht University
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

Exploring online degrees related to Earth Science opens diverse career pathways. Many students and professionals seek flexible, accessible education options tailored to their unique needs. For example, veterans can find specialized programs through resources like spanish degree online for veterans, which highlights how targeted online education can support career transitions.

Creative fields also intersect with Earth Science through environmental communication or scientific illustration, where an mfa online program might be an unexpected yet valuable option. This blend of art and science can enhance public engagement and awareness of environmental issues.

Leadership and management within environmental organizations are critical, making online masters programs in human resource management a strategic choice for professionals aiming to advance in this sector. Effective workforce management is essential for driving sustainability and innovation.

Importantly, education in Earth Science is accessible at all stages of life. Resources like degrees for older adults emphasize how age is no barrier to pursuing academic and career goals, allowing for lifelong learning and new opportunities in this dynamic field.

Best Scientists Citing L.P.H. van Beek

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles