2026 Oliver Korup: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	58	2153	1952	139	129	198	12273

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Earth Science

2153

1952

139

129

198

12273

Overview

Oliver Korup is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Ecology.

The core focus of their work revolves around topics such as landslides and related hazards, cryospheric studies and observations, flood risk assessment and management, fire effects on ecosystems, geology and paleoclimatology research, winter sports injuries and performance, and climate change and permafrost.

Korup has published extensively in multiple scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Natural hazards and earth system sciences
Earth s Future
Geophysical Research Letters
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Geomorphology

Among their recent papers are:

"Land use and land cover as a conditioning factor in landslide susceptibility: a literature review" (2023, Landslides)
"Trends, Breaks, and Biases in the Frequency of Reported Glacier Lake Outburst Floods" (2022, Earth s Future)
"How robust are landslide susceptibility estimates?" (2020, Landslides)
"Cascading Hazards in the Aftermath of Australia's 2019/2020 Black Summer Wildfires" (2021, Earth s Future)
"A global database of historic glacier lake outburst floods" (2023, Earth system science data)

Oliver Korup has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Georg Veh
Tomáš Pánek
Natalie Lützow
Elisabeth Schönfeldt
Melanie Fischer

Best Publications

Earthquake-Induced Chains of Geologic Hazards: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts

Xuanmei Fan;Gianvito Scaringi;Gianvito Scaringi;Oliver Korup;A. Joshua West

873
Citations
Landslide erosion controlled by hillslope material

Isaac J. Larsen;David R. Montgomery;Oliver Korup

681
Citations
Is climate change responsible for changing landslide activity in high mountains

Christian Huggel;John J. Clague;Oliver Korup

571
Citations
The role of landslides in mountain range evolution.

Oliver Korup;Alexander L. Densmore;Fritz Schlunegger

489
Citations
Giant landslides, topography, and erosion

Oliver Korup;John J. Clague;Reginald L. Hermanns;Kenneth Hewitt

429
Citations
Geomorphometric characteristics of New Zealand landslide dams

Oliver Korup

322
Citations
Hazard from Himalayan glacier lake outburst floods

Georg Veh;Oliver Korup;Ariane Walz

319
Citations
Recent research on landslide dams - a literature review with special attention to New Zealand:

Oliver Korup

304
Citations
Tibetan plateau river incision inhibited by glacial stabilization of the Tsangpo gorge

Oliver Korup;David R. Montgomery

302
Citations
Sediment generation and delivery from large historic landslides in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

Oliver Korup;Mauri J McSaveney;Timothy R.H Davies

261
Citations
Unchanged frequency of moraine-dammed glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya

Georg Veh;Oliver Korup;Sebastian von Specht;Sigrid Roessner

249
Citations
Ice, moraine, and landslide dams in mountainous terrain

Oliver Korup;Fiona Tweed

243
Citations
Glacier and landslide feedbacks to topographic relief in the Himalayan syntaxes

Oliver Korup;David R. Montgomery;Kenneth Hewitt

227
Citations
Fluvial response to large rock-slope failures: Examples from the Himalayas, the Tien Shan, and the Southern Alps in New Zealand

Oliver Korup;Alexander L. Strom;Johannes T. Weidinger

223
Citations
Rock-slope failure and the river long profile

Oliver Korup

217
Citations
Earth's portfolio of extreme sediment transport events

Oliver Korup

205
Citations
Geomorphic imprint of landslides on alpine river systems, southwest New Zealand

Oliver Korup

201
Citations
Natural hazards, extreme events, and mountain topography

Oliver Korup;John J. Clague

193
Citations
Distribution of landslides in southwest New Zealand

Oliver Korup

181
Citations
Landslide prediction from machine learning

Oliver Korup;Amelie Stolle

173
Citations
Geomorphic hazard assessment of landslide dams in South Westland, New Zealand: fundamental problems and approaches

Oliver Korup

161
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Schwanghart University of Potsdam

Christian Huggel University of Zurich

David R. Montgomery University of Washington

John J. Clague Simon Fraser University

Tomáš Pánek University of Ostrava

Michael Manga University of California, Berkeley

David Fink Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich

Fritz Schlunegger University of Bern

Annegret H. Thieken University of Potsdam

External Links

Personal website of Oliver Korup

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