2026 Marwan A. Hassan: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	51	3230	2953	151	133	240	9324

Overview

Marwan A. Hassan is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Their work spans multiple subfields including:

Ecology
Soil Science
Water Science and Technology
Civil and Structural Engineering
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

The main topics covered in their research involve:

Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
Soil erosion and sediment transport
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Hydraulic flow and structures
Landslides and related hazards
Geological formations and processes
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Marwan A. Hassan include:

Experimental Insights Into the Threshold of Motion in Alluvial Channels: Sediment Supply and Streambed State (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
Rough Correlations: Meta-Analysis of Roughness Measures in Gravel Bed Rivers (2020), published in Water Resources Research
Convolutional neural networks for image-based sediment detection applied to a large terrestrial and airborne dataset (2022), published in Earth Surface Dynamics
Intraseasonal-to-Interannual Analysis of Discharge and Suspended Sediment Concentration Time-Series of the Upper Changjiang (Yangtze River) (2021), published in Water Resources Research
Quantifying sediment connectivity: Moving toward a holistic assessment through a mixed methods approach (2021), published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, their most common co-authors are:

Xudong Fu
Matteo Saletti
Conor McDowell
Xingyu Chen
Chenge An

Marwan A. Hassan has a significant number of publications appearing in a range of journals and venues. The most frequent venues for their work include:

Water Resources Research
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Geomorphology
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Sinai Journal of Applied Sciences/Sinai Journal of Applied Sciences

Best Publications

Stabilizing self-organized structures in gravel-bed stream channels: Field and experimental observations

Michael Church;Marwan A. Hassan;John F. Wolcott

481
Citations
Geomorphology of steepland headwaters: the transition from hillslopes to channels

Lee Benda;Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church;Christine L. May

326
Citations
Landslide inventory in a rugged forested watershed: a comparison between air-photo and field survey data

Francesco Brardinoni;Olav Slaymaker;Marwan A Hassan

302
Citations
Sediment transport and channel morphology of small, forested streams.

Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church;Thomas E. Lisle;Francesco Brardinoni

239
Citations
Experiments on the effect of hydrograph characteristics on vertical grain sorting in gravel bed rivers

Marwan A. Hassan;Roey Egozi;Gary Parker

229
Citations
Distance of movement of coarse particles in gravel bed streams

Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church;Asher P. Schick

227
Citations
Size and Distance of Travel of Unconstrained Clasts on a Streambed

Michael Church;Marwan A. Hassan

223
Citations
Experiments on surface structure and partial sediment transport on a gravel bed

Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church

223
Citations
Suspended Sediment Dynamics in Small Forest Streams of the Pacific Northwest

Takashi Gomi;R. Dan Moore;Marwan A. Hassan

197
Citations
Virtual rate and mean distance of travel of individual clasts in gravel-bed channels

Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church;Philip J. Ashworth

191
Citations
The influence of microform bed roughness elements on flow and sediment transport in gravel bed rivers

Marwan A. Hassan;Ian Reid

185
Citations
Mobility of bed material in Harris Creek

Michael Church;Marwan A. Hassan

177
Citations
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF WOOD IN HEADWATER STREAMS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Marwan A. Hassan;Dan L. Hogan;Stephen A. Bird;Christine L. May

174
Citations
Step‐pool stability: Testing the jammed state hypothesis

André Zimmermann;Michael Church;Marwan A. Hassan

167
Citations
Glacial erosion, evolution of river long profiles, and the organization of process domains in mountain drainage basins of coastal British Columbia

Francesco Brardinoni;Marwan A. Hassan

161
Citations
Scour, fill, and burial depth of coarse material in gravel bed streams

Marwan A. Hassan

160
Citations
Frequency and Magnitude of Bedload Transport in a Mountain River

Dorothea Gintz;Marwan A. Hassan;Karl-Heinz Schmidt

159
Citations
Salmon-driven bed load transport and bed morphology in mountain streams

Marwan A. Hassan;Allen S. Gottesfeld;David R. Montgomery;Jon F. Tunnicliffe

145
Citations
Vertical mixing of coarse particles in gravel bed rivers: A kinematic model

Marwan A. Hassan;Michael Church

138
Citations
Fluvial clastic sediment yield in Canada: scaled analysis

Michael Church;Darren Ham;Marwan Hassan;Olav Slaymaker

132
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Church University of British Columbia

Gary Parker University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Olav Slaymaker University of British Columbia

Simon D. Donner University of British Columbia

Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Aaron I. Packman Northwestern University

Paolo Burlando ETH Zurich

Zhaoyin Wang Tsinghua University

Sally E. Thompson University of Western Australia

Jeremy G. Venditti Simon Fraser University

External Links

Personal website of Marwan A. Hassan

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