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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
72
Citations
16842
World Ranking
1513
National Ranking
640

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
65
Citations
15483
World Ranking
1535
National Ranking
503

Marcelo H. Garcia 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 Marcelo H. Garcia sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 448 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Marcelo H. Garcia 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 Marcelo H. Garcia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marcelo H. Garcia is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Civil and Structural Engineering, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, notably Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydraulic Flow and Structures, Geological Formations and Processes, and Urban Stormwater Management Solutions.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Gary Parker, Dimitrios K. Fytanidis, Davide Motta, Zhi Li, and Andrés F. Rojas-Aguirre, demonstrating recurring collaboration with several researchers in related fields.

Marcelo H. Garcia has contributed articles to several notable publication venues, with multiple works appearing in the Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Water Resources Research, and the Journal of Hydraulic Research. Additional publications have appeared in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and the Journal of Hydrology.

Representative papers by Marcelo H. Garcia include:

  • Local Scour and Sediment Deposition at Bridge Piers during Floods, 2020, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • Assessing the system performance of an evolving and integrated urban drainage system to control combined sewer overflows using a multiple-layer based coupled modeling approach, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • Reducing the Flood Risk of Art Cities: The Case of Florence, 2020, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
  • Hydrogeomorphology of Asymmetric Meandering Channels: Experiments and Field Evidence, 2023, Water Resources Research
  • Hydraulic resistance in mixed bedrock-alluvial meandering channels, 2020, Journal of Hydraulic Research

Best Publications

  • Sedimentation engineering : processes, measurements, modeling, and practice

    Marcelo H García

  • Entrainment of Bed Sediment into Suspension

    Marcelo Garcia;Gary Parker

  • Experiments on turbidity currents over an erodible bed

    G. Parker;M. Garcia;Y. Fukushima;W. Yu

  • Mean Flow and Turbulence Structure of Open-Channel Flow through Non-Emergent Vegetation

    Fabián López;Fabián López;Marcelo H. García;Marcelo H. García

  • Experiments on particle—turbulence interactions in the near–wall region of an open channel flow: implications for sediment transport

    Y. Niño;Marcelo Horacio Garcia

  • A Herschel–Bulkley model for mud flow down a slope

    Xin Huang;Marcelo H. García

  • Sediment Transport and Morphodynamics

    Marcelo H. García

  • Experiments on the entrainment of sediment into suspension by a dense bottom current

    Marcelo Horacio Garcia;Gary Parker

  • open-channel flow through simulated vegetation: Suspended sediment transport modeling

    Fabián López;Marcelo Horacio Garcia

  • Hydraulic Jumps in Sediment‐Driven Bottom Currents

    Marcelo Horacio Garcia

  • Depositional Turbidity Currents Laden with Poorly Sorted Sediment

    Marcelo Horacio Garcia

  • On the front velocity of gravity currents

    Mariano I. Cantero;J. R. Lee;S. Balachandar;S. Balachandar;Marcelo H. Garcia

  • Turbulence Measurements with Acoustic Doppler Velocimeters

    Carlos M. García;Carlos M. García;Mariano I. Cantero;Mariano I. Cantero;Yarko Niño;Yarko Niño;Marcelo Horacio Garcia;Marcelo Horacio Garcia

  • Three-Dimensional Numerical Model with Free Water Surface and Mesh Deformation for Local Sediment Scour

    Xiaofeng Liu;Marcelo Horacio Garcia

  • Gravel saltation: 1. Experiments

    Yarko Niño;Marcelo Horacio Garcia;Luis Ayala

  • Threshold for particle entrainment into suspension

    Yarko NiÑo;Fabian Lopez;Marcelo Garcia

  • Experiments on Hydraulic Jumps in Turbidity Currents Near a Canyon-Fan Transition

    Marcelo Garcia;Gary Parker

  • Gravel Saltation: 2. Modeling

    Yarko Niño;Marcelo García

  • Experiments on Saltation of Sand in Water

    Yarko Niño;Marcelo García

  • A simplified 2D model for meander migration with physically-based bank evolution

    Davide Motta;Jorge D. Abad;Eddy J. Langendoen;Marcelo H. Garcia

  • Experiments on Wedge-Shaped Deep Sea Sedimentary Deposits in Minibasins and/or on Channel Levees Emplaced by Turbidity Currents. Part II. Morphodynamic Evolution of the Wedge and of the Associated Bedforms

    Benoit Spinewine;Octavio E. Sequeiros;Marcelo H. Garcia;Rick T. Beaubouef

  • Flow Structure at Different Stages in a Meander-Bend with Bendway Weirs

    Jorge D. Abad;Bruce L. Rhoads;İnci Güneralp;Marcelo H. García

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Parker
Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce L. Rhoads
Bruce L. Rhoads University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Leonard Best
James Leonard Best University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eddy J. Langendoen
Eddy J. Langendoen Agricultural Research Service
S. Balachandar
S. Balachandar University of Florida
Mohamed Salah Ghidaoui
Mohamed Salah Ghidaoui Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Gérard Hérail
Gérard Hérail Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Reynaldo Charrier
Reynaldo Charrier University of Chile
Paul Fischer
Paul Fischer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vladimir Nikora
Vladimir Nikora University of Aberdeen

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