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429

Nigel G. Wright publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nigel G. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 136 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Nigel G. Wright D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nigel G. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nigel G. Wright is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Sociology and Political Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research centers on topics such as Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Disaster Management and Resilience, Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis, and Climate Variability and Models.

Recent publications by Nigel G. Wright include the following papers:

  • Floods and the COVID-19 pandemic-A new double hazard problem (2021) published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Flash floods: why are more of them devastating the world's driest regions? (2023) published in Nature
  • Bottom-up multilevel flood hazard mapping by integrated inundation modelling in data scarce cities (2023) published in Journal of Hydrology
  • Comparison of sustainable flood risk management by four countries - the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and Japan - and the implications for Asian coastal megacities (2022) published in Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Strategic storm flood evacuation planning for large coastal cities enables more effective transfer of elderly populations (2024) published in Nature Water

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wright include Mingfu Guan, Qiuhong Tang, Dapeng Yu, Amrie Singh, and Robert L. Wilby.

Publication venues where Wright has frequently contributed are:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Natural Hazards
  • 28th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics 2022 Conference
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Best Publications

  • The food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food waste

    Effie Papargyropoulou;Rodrigo Lozano;Julia K. Steinberger;Nigel Wright

  • On the use of the k–ε model in commercial CFD software to model the neutral atmospheric boundary layer

    D.M. Hargreaves;N.G. Wright

  • Benchmarking 2D hydraulic models for urban flooding

    N.M. Hunter;P.D. Bates;S. Neelz;G. Pender

  • Flood vulnerability indices at varying spatial scales.

    S. F. Balica;N. Douben;N. G. Wright

  • Conceptual framework for the study of food waste generation and prevention in the hospitality sector.

    Effie Papargyropoulou;Nigel Wright;Rodrigo Lozano;Julia Steinberger

  • Parametric and physically based modelling techniques for flood risk and vulnerability assessment: A comparison

    S. F. Balica;I. Popescu;L. Beevers;N. G. Wright

  • An unstructured finite-volume algorithm for predicting flow in rivers and estuaries

    P.A Sleigh;P.H Gaskell;M Berzins;N.G Wright

  • How much physical complexity is needed to model flood inundation

    Jeffrey Neal;Ignacio Villanueva;Nigel Wright;Thomas Willis

  • Unstructured mesh generation and landcover-based resistance for hydrodynamic modeling of urban flooding

    Jochen E. Schubert;Brett F. Sanders;Martin J. Smith;Nigel G. Wright

  • The concept of roughness in fluvial hydraulics and its formulation in 1D, 2D and 3D numerical simulation models

    Hervé Morvan;Donald Knight;Nigel Wright;Xiaonan Tang

  • The slipstream and wake of a high-speed train:

    Christopher Baker;SJ Dalley;T Johnson;Andrew Quinn

  • A comparison of three parallelisation methods for 2D flood inundation models

    Jeffrey C. Neal;Timothy J. Fewtrell;Paul D. Bates;Nigel G. Wright

  • A coupled SPH-DEM model for fluid-structure interaction problems with free-surface flow and structural failure

    Ke Wu;Dongmin Yang;Nigel Wright

  • Unsteady 1D and 2D hydraulic models with ice dam break for Quaternary megaflood, Altai Mountains, southern Siberia

    Paul Carling;Ignacio Villanueva;Juergen Herget;Nigel Wright

  • VALIDATION OF THE VOLUME OF FLUID METHOD FOR FREE SURFACE CALCULATION: THE BROAD-CRESTED WEIR

    D. M. Hargreaves;H. P. Morvan;N. G. Wright

  • Non-linear k–ε turbulence model results for flow over a building at full-scale

    N.G. Wright;G.J. Easom

  • Priority water research questions as determined by UK practitioners and policy makers.

    L.E. Brown;G. Mitchell;J. Holden;A. Folkard

  • Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamics of Meandering Compound Channels

    H. Morvan;G. Pender;N. G. Wright;D. A. Ervine

  • Sediment balances in the Blue Nile River Basin

    Yasir S.A. Ali;Yasir S.A. Ali;Alessandra Crosato;Yasir A. Mohamed;Yasir A. Mohamed;Seifeldin H. Abdalla

  • Floods and the COVID-19 pandemic—A new double hazard problem

    Slobodan P. Simonovic;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nigel Wright

  • Linking Riemann and storage cell models for flood prediction

    I. Villanueva;N. G. Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Gareth Pender
Gareth Pender Heriot-Watt University
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
David J. Hargreaves
David J. Hargreaves AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
David C. Mason
David C. Mason University of Reading
Chris Kilsby
Chris Kilsby Newcastle University
Jeffrey C. Neal
Jeffrey C. Neal University of Bristol
Jonathan L. Carrivick
Jonathan L. Carrivick University of Leeds
Rodrigo Lozano
Rodrigo Lozano University of A Coruña
Zaini Ujang
Zaini Ujang Harvard Business School Alumni Club of Malaysia

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