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Michael Rode 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 Michael Rode sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 218 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Michael Rode 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 Michael Rode sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 36 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Michael Rode is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change. Substantial work also extends into Ecology and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics of Michael Rode's research include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, as well as Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Michael Rode has published extensively, with recent notable papers covering various aspects of hydrology and environmental science:

  • Reservoir water quality deterioration due to deforestation emphasizes the indirect effects of global change, 2022, Water Research
  • Spatial and Temporal Variability in Concentration-Discharge Relationships at the Event Scale, 2021, Water Resources Research
  • High irradiation and low discharge promote the dominant role of phytoplankton in riverine nutrient dynamics, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Advancing river monitoring using image-based techniques: challenges and opportunities, 2024, Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Droughts can reduce the nitrogen retention capacity of catchments, 2023, Hydrology and earth system sciences

Frequent co-authors working with Michael Rode include:

  • Seifeddine Jomaa (24 joint publications)
  • Xiaoqiang Yang (9 joint publications)
  • Dietrich Borchardt (8 joint publications)
  • Karsten Rinke (7 joint publications)
  • Salman Ghaffar (6 joint publications)

The scientist's research outputs have been published repeatedly in several academic venues known for their focus on hydrology and environmental topics, including:

  • Water Resources Research (5 publications)
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences (5 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (5 publications)
  • Water Research (3 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Sensors in the Stream: The High-Frequency Wave of the Present

    Michael Rode;Andrew J. Wade;Matthew J. Cohen;Robert T. Hensley

  • From Desirable Ornamental Plant to Pest to Accepted Addition to the Flora? – the Perception of an Alien Tree Species Through the Centuries

    Uwe Starfinger;Ingo Kowarik;Michael Rode;Hartwig Schepker

  • New challenges in integrated water quality modelling

    Michael Rode;George Arhonditsis;Daniela Balin;Tesfaye Kebede

  • Challenges of Reducing Phosphorus Based Water Eutrophication in the Agricultural Landscapes of Northwest Europe

    Roland Bol;Gerard Gruau;Per-Erik Mellander;Remi Dupas

  • Uncertainties in selected river water quality data

    M. Rode;U. Suhr

  • Disentangling the influence of hydroclimatic patterns and agricultural management on river nitrate dynamics from sub-hourly to decadal time scales

    Rémi Dupas;Seifeddine Jomaa;Andreas Musolff;Dietrich Borchardt

  • The Bode hydrological observatory: a platform for integrated, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research within the TERENO Harz/Central German Lowland Observatory

    Ute Wollschläger;Sabine Attinger;Dietrich Borchardt;Mario Brauns

  • Modelling nitrate transport and turnover in a lowland catchment system

    Gunter Wriedt;Michael Rode

  • Long-term behaviour and cross-correlation water quality analysis of the River Elbe, Germany.

    Axel Lehmann;Michael Rode

  • Multi-objective calibration of a river water quality model—Information content of calibration data

    Michael Rode;Ursula Suhr;Gunter Wriedt

  • Continuous In-Stream Assimilatory Nitrate Uptake from High-Frequency Sensor Measurements

    Michael Rode;Susanne Halbedel née Angelstein;Muhammad Rehan Anis;Dietrich Borchardt

  • Modelling the impact of river morphology on nitrogen retention—A case study of the Weisse Elster River (Germany)

    Dierk Wagenschein;Michael Rode

  • Multi-Site Validation of the SWAT Model on the Bani Catchment: Model Performance and Predictive Uncertainty

    Jamilatou Chaibou Begou;Seifeddine Jomaa;Sihem Benabdallah;Pibgnina Bazie

  • Modeling the effect of land use and climate change on water resources and soil erosion in a tropical West African catch-ment (Dano, Burkina Faso) using SHETRAN

    Felix Op de Hipt;Bernd Diekkrüger;Gero Steup;Yacouba Yira

  • Reservoir water quality deterioration due to deforestation emphasizes the indirect effects of global change

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  • Impact of selected agricultural management options on the reduction of nitrogen loads in three representative meso scale catchments in Central Germany

    Michael Rode;Enrico Thiel;Uwe Franko;Gerald Wenk

  • The role of plant resources in forest succession: changes in radiation, water and nutrient fluxes, and plant productivity over a 300-yr-long chronosequence in NW-Germany

    Christoph Leuschner;Michael W. Rode

  • A New Fully Distributed Model of Nitrate Transport and Removal at Catchment Scale

    Xiaoqiang Yang;Seifeddine Jomaa;Matthias Zink;Jan H. Fleckenstein

  • Carbon and nutrient export regimes from headwater catchments to downstream reaches

    Rémi Dupas;Rémi Dupas;Andreas Musolff;James W. Jawitz;P. Suresh C. Rao

  • Identification of fluvial sediment sources in the Kharaa River catchment, Northern Mongolia

    Philipp Theuring;Michael Rode;Stefan Behrens;Gerald Kirchner

  • Modification of AGNPS for Agricultural Land and Climate Conditions in Central Germany

    M. Rode;H.-G. Frede

  • Groundwater dynamics and channel activity as major controls of in-stream nitrate concentrations in a lowland catchment system?

    Gunter Wriedt;Joris Spindler;Tina Neef;Ralph Meißner

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan H. Fleckenstein
Jan H. Fleckenstein University of Bayreuth
Bernd Diekkrüger
Bernd Diekkrüger University of Bonn
Markus Weitere
Markus Weitere Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Michael D. Annable
Michael D. Annable University of Florida
Luis Samaniego
Luis Samaniego Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Adrian L. Collins
Adrian L. Collins Rothamsted Research
Valentina Krysanova
Valentina Krysanova Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Rohini Kumar
Rohini Kumar Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Olaf Kolditz
Olaf Kolditz TU Dresden
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

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