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Murugesu Sivapalan 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 Murugesu Sivapalan sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Murugesu Sivapalan 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 Murugesu Sivapalan sits on this spectrum.

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The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Murugesu Sivapalan is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research centers primarily on environmental science, with a strong focus on hydrology and water resource management.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a broad and interdisciplinary approach to water-related studies. Selected recent papers include:

  • Illuminating water cycle modifications and Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene, 2020, published in Water Resources Research
  • The Water Planetary Boundary: Interrogation and Revision, 2020, published in One Earth
  • Socio-hydrologic modeling of the dynamics of cooperation in the transboundary Lancang-Mekong River, 2021, published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Critical drought intensity-duration-frequency curves based on total probability theorem-coupled frequency analysis, 2021, published in Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • From hard-path to soft-path solutions: slow-fast dynamics of human adaptation to droughts in a water scarce environment, 2020, published in Hydrological Sciences Journal

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Transboundary Water Resource Management
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure

Within environmental science, Sivapalan's research is situated mostly in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Ocean Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, and Political Science and International Relations.

The scientist frequently publishes in specific venues, indicating active contributions to the hydrology and water science communities. These venues include:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Frontiers in Water

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Sivapalan's work. Frequent co-authors include David J. Yu, Yongping Wei, Shuyue Wu, Jianshi Zhao, and Saket Pande, each having multiple joint publications with Sivapalan.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2003.

Best Publications

  • Scale issues in hydrological modelling: A review

    G. Blöschl;M. Sivapalan

  • IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB), 2003–2012: Shaping an exciting future for the hydrological sciences

    M. Sivapalan;K. Takeuchi;S. W. Franks;V. K. Gupta

  • A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review

    M. Hrachowitz;H. H. G. Savenije;G. Blöschl;J. J. Mcdonnell

  • Socio‐hydrology: A new science of people and water

    Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Hubert H. G. Savenije;Günter Blöschl

  • Effects of spatial variability and scale with implications to hydrologic modeling

    Eric F. Wood;M. Sivapalan;Keith Beven;Larry Band

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • 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

  • Catchment Classification and Hydrologic Similarity

    Thorsten Wagener;Murugesu Sivapalan;Peter A. Troch;Ross A Woods

  • Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

    J J McDonnell;J J McDonnell;M Sivapalan;K Vache;S Dunn

  • “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022

    A. Montanari;G. Young;H.H.G. Savenije;D.A. Hughes

  • Runoff prediction in ungauged basins: Synthesis across processes, places and scales

    Günter Blöschl;Murugesu Sivapalan;Thorsten Wagener;Alberto Viglione

  • The future of hydrology: an evolving science for a changing world.

    Thorsten Wagener;Murugesu Sivapalan;Murugesu Sivapalan;Peter A. Troch;Brian L. McGlynn

  • Prediction in ungauged basins: a grand challenge for theoretical hydrology

    Murugesu Sivapalan

  • On hydrologic similarity: 2. A scaled model of storm runoff production

    Murugesu Sivapalan;Keith Beven;Eric F. Wood

  • Catchment classification: Empirical analysis of hydrologic similarity based on catchment function in the eastern USA

    K. Sawicz;T. Wagener;M. Sivapalan;M. Sivapalan;P. A. Troch

  • Downward approach to hydrological prediction

    Murugesu Sivapalan;Günter Blöschl;Lu Zhang;Rob Vertessy

  • Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity

    Nandita B. Basu;Georgia Destouni;James W. Jawitz;Sally E. Thompson

  • Similarity and scale in catchment storm response

    Eric F. Wood;Murugesu Sivapalan;Keith Beven

  • Dominant flood generating mechanisms across the United States

    Wouter Berghuijs;Ross Woods;Christopher Hutton;Murugesu Sivapalan

  • Sociohydrology : Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

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

  • Pattern, Process and Function: Elements of a Unified Theory of Hydrology at the Catchment Scale

    Murugesu Sivapalan

  • Watershed groundwater balance estimation using streamflow recession analysis and baseflow separation

    H. Wittenberg;M. Sivapalan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ciaran J. Harman
Ciaran J. Harman Johns Hopkins University
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Neil R. Viney
Neil R. Viney Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Fuqiang Tian
Fuqiang Tian Tsinghua University
Peter Troch
Peter Troch University of Arizona
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Thorsten Wagener
Thorsten Wagener University of Potsdam
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol
Sally E. Thompson
Sally E. Thompson University of Western Australia

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