2026 Niko Wanders: 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	53	4190	4011	108	103	207	12487

Overview

Niko Wanders is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and focuses on Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on global water systems and climate impacts. Their research spans multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The most frequently addressed topics in Wanders's work include:

Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Hydrology and Drought Analysis
Water resources management and optimization
Climate variability and models
Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
Hydrological Forecasting Using AI

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, notably:

Marc F. P. Bierkens (28 coauthored works)
Edwin H. Sutanudjaja (20 coauthored works)
Rens van Beek (16 coauthored works)
Michelle T. H. van Vliet (15 coauthored works)
Edward R. Jones (13 coauthored works)

Wanders's recent publications include:

"Threats of global warming to the world's freshwater fishes" (2021) published in Nature Communications
"Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities" (2021) published in Reviews of Geophysics
"The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies" (2020) published in Water Security
"Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021" (2023) published in Climatic Change
"Understanding each other's models: an introduction and a standard representation of 16 global water models to support intercomparison, improvement, and communication" (2021) published in Geoscientific Model Development

The venues where Wanders has frequently published include a broad range of journals and repositories:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Environmental Research Letters
Nature Water
Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

Drought in the Anthropocene

Anne F. Van Loon;Tom Gleeson;Julian Clark;Albert I J M Van Dijk

805
Citations
Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts

L. Samaniego;S. Thober;R. Kumar;N. Wanders

731
Citations
PCR-GLOBWB 2: a 5 arcmin global hydrological and water resources model

Edwin H. Sutanudjaja;Rens van Beek;Niko Wanders;Yoshihide Wada;Yoshihide Wada

593
Citations
Drought in a human-modified world : reframing drought definitions, understanding, and analysis approaches

Anne F. Van Loon;Kerstin Stahl;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Julian Clark

482
Citations
Water shortages worsened by reservoir effects

Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Niko Wanders;Amir AghaKouchak;Linda Kuil

468
Citations
Human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought worldwide

Yoshihide Wada;Ludovicus P H van Beek;Niko Wanders;Marc F P Bierkens

408
Citations
Reconciling high-altitude precipitation in the upper Indus basin with glacier mass balances and runoff

W. W. Immerzeel;W. W. Immerzeel;N. Wanders;N. Wanders;Arthur Lutz;J. M. Shea

389
Citations
Threats of global warming to the world's freshwater fishes.

Valerio Barbarossa;Valerio Barbarossa;Valerio Barbarossa;Joyce Bosmans;Niko Wanders;Henry King

383
Citations
Human and climate impacts on the 21st century hydrological drought

N. Wanders;Y. Wada

367
Citations
Hydrological drought across the world: impact of climate and physical catchment structure

H. A. J. Van Lanen;N. Wanders;N. Wanders;L. M. Tallaksen;A. F. Van Loon

343
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
Anthropogenic Drought: Definition, Challenges, and Opportunities

Amir AghaKouchak;Ali Mirchi;Kaveh Madani;Kaveh Madani;Giuliano Di Baldassarre

326
Citations
The suitability of remotely sensed soil moisture for improving operational flood forecasting

N. Wanders;D. Karssenberg;A. de Roo;S. M. de Jong

319
Citations
The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies

Philip J. Ward;Marleen C. de Ruiter;Johanna Mård;Kai Schröter

284
Citations
The benefits of using remotely sensed soil moisture in parameter identification of large‐scale hydrological models

N. Wanders;M. P F Bierkens;S. M. de Jong;A. de Roo

242
Citations
How climate seasonality modifies drought duration and deficit

A. F. Van Loon;E. Tijdeman;N. Wanders;H. A. J. Van Lanen

241
Citations
Climate change alters low flows in Europe under global warming of 1.5, 2, and 3 °C

Andreas Marx;Rohini Kumar;Stephan Thober;Oldrich Rakovec;Oldrich Rakovec

223
Citations
Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021

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219
Citations
Four decades of microwave satellite soil moisture observations: Part 1. A review of retrieval algorithms

L. Karthikeyan;L. Karthikeyan;Ming Pan;Niko Wanders;Niko Wanders;D. Nagesh Kumar

190
Citations
A Preliminary Study toward Consistent Soil Moisture from AMSR2

Robert M. Parinussa;Thomas R. H. Holmes;Niko Wanders;Wouter A. Dorigo

189
Citations
The benefits of using remotely sensed soil moisture in parameter identification of large-scale hydrological models

Niko Wanders;Marc F. P. Bierkens;Steven M. de Jong;Ad de Roo

2
Citations
Human water consumption intensifies hydrological drought worldwide

Y. Wada;L. P. Van Beek;N. Wanders;M. F. Bierkens

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc F. P. Bierkens Utrecht University

Eric F. Wood Princeton University

Justin Sheffield University of Southampton

Yoshihide Wada King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Luis Samaniego Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Ming Pan Princeton University

Rohini Kumar Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Anne F. Van Loon Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Walter W. Immerzeel Utrecht University

Christel Prudhomme European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

External Links

Personal website of Niko Wanders

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