2026 Megan Konar: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	39	8321	7987	2971	2759	100	6548

Overview

Megan Konar is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable focus on water-related systems and sustainability.

Their main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their key subfields of study are:

Water Science and Technology
Environmental Engineering
Ocean Engineering
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Soil Science

Konar's research covers several main topics, including:

Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Water resources management and optimization
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Climate change impacts on agriculture
Agricultural risk and resilience
Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
Water Resources and Sustainability

Recent published papers by Konar include:

Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Grain export restrictions during COVID-19 risk food insecurity in many low- and middle-income countries, 2021, Nature Food
Multisector Dynamics: Advancing the Science of Complex Adaptive Human-Earth Systems, 2022, Earth s Future
Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

They have frequently collaborated with a group of coauthors including:

Deniz Berfin Karakoc
Siao Sun
P. J. Ruess
Qiuhong Tang
Chuanglin Fang

Konar's work is commonly published in the following venues:

Environmental Research Letters
Water Resources Research
Nature Food
Earth s Future
Journal of Hydrology

Best Publications

Evolution of the global virtual water trade network

Carole Dalin;Megan Konar;Naota Hanasaki;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

657
Citations
Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

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472
Citations
Sociohydrology : Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Murugesu Sivapalan;Maria Rusca;Christophe Cudennec

440
Citations
Socio‐hydrology: Use‐inspired water sustainability science for the Anthropocene

M. Sivapalan;M. Konar;V. Srinivasan;A. Chhatre

398
Citations
Human–water interface in hydrological modelling : current status and future directions

Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Ad de Roo;Paul A. Dirmeyer

342
Citations
Water for food: The global virtual water trade network

M. Konar;C. Dalin;S. Suweis;S. Suweis;N. Hanasaki

321
Citations
Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: Patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts

Paolo D'Odorico;Joel A. Carr;Carole Dalin;Jampel Dell'Angelo;Jampel Dell'Angelo

209
Citations
A Dynamic Framework for Water Security

Veena Srinivasan;Megan Konar;Murugesu Sivapalan

194
Citations
Virtual groundwater transfers from overexploited aquifers in the United States

Landon Marston;Megan Konar;Ximing Cai;Tara J. Troy

170
Citations
Prediction in a socio-hydrological world

Veena Srinivasan;M. Sanderson;M. Garcia;M. Konar

151
Citations
Virtual water trade flows and savings under climate change

M. Konar;M. Konar;Z. Hussein;N. Hanasaki;Denise L. Mauzerall

148
Citations
Water Footprint of Cities: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research

Willa Paterson;Richard Rushforth;Benjamin L. Ruddell;Megan Konar

136
Citations
Virtual Water Scarcity Risk to the Global Trade System

Shen Qu;Sai Liang;Megan Konar;Zeqi Zhu

135
Citations
High-Resolution Water Footprints of Production of the United States

Landon Marston;Yufei Ao;Megan Konar;Mesfin M. Mekonnen

128
Citations
Temporal dynamics of blue and green virtual water trade networks

Megan Konar;C. Dalin;N. Hanasaki;A. Rinaldo;A. Rinaldo

123
Citations
Structure and controls of the global virtual water trade network

Samir Suweis;Samir Suweis;Megan Konar;Carol Dalin;Naota Hanasaki

116
Citations
Moving sociohydrology forward: a synthesis across studies

T. J. Troy;M. Konar;V. Srinivasan;S. Thompson

112
Citations
Integrated approaches to understanding and reducing drought impact on food security across scales

Xiaogang He;Xiaogang He;Lyndon Estes;Megan Konar;Di Tian

111
Citations
Agricultural virtual water flows within the United States

Qian Dang;Xiaowen Lin;Megan Konar

105
Citations
Drought impacts to water footprints and virtual water transfers of the Central Valley of California

Landon Marston;Megan Konar

100
Citations
Direct and indirect urban water footprints of the United States

Christopher M. Chini;Megan Konar;Ashlynn S. Stillwell

81
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University

Naota Hanasaki National Institute for Environmental Studies

Murugesu Sivapalan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Justin Sheffield University of Southampton

Don Fullerton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tom Evans University of Arizona

Arjen Ysbert Hoekstra University of Twente

Kathy Baylis University of California, Santa Barbara

Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara

External Links

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