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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
9909
World Ranking
2086
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in India Leader Award

Overview

Rajiv Sinha is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in India. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with over 100 publications in Environmental Science and close to 40 in Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work focuses on several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, Water Science and Technology, and Atmospheric Science. Core research topics addressed include hydrology and sediment transport processes, flood risk assessment and management, geological formations and processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, hydrology and watershed management studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, and landslides and related hazards.

Rajiv Sinha has authored numerous recent papers, some of which are:

  • Strongly heterogeneous patterns of groundwater depletion in Northwestern India, 2021, Journal of Hydrology
  • Nutrient and microbial water quality of the upper Ganga River, India: identification of pollution sources, 2020, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • Modelling water levels of northwestern India in response to improved irrigation use efficiency, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Geomorphic connectivity and its application for understanding landscape complexities: a focus on the hydro-geomorphic systems of India, 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Modified hydrologic regime of upper Ganga basin induced by natural and anthropogenic stressors, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rajiv Sinha include:

  • S. K. Tandon
  • Manudeo Singh
  • Suneel Kumar Joshi
  • Somil Swarnkar
  • Kanchan Mishra

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent publication sources being:

  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Current Science
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • River systems and their sediment flux, Indo‐Gangetic plains, Northern Bihar, India

    Rajiv Sinha;Peter F. Friend

  • Predominant floodplain over mountain weathering of Himalayan sediments (Ganga basin)

    Maarten Lupker;Christian France-Lanord;Valier Galy;Jérôme Lavé

  • Braiding and meandering parameters

    P. F. Friend;R. Sinha

  • Flood risk analysis in the Kosi river basin, north Bihar using multi-parametric approach of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

    R. Sinha;G. V. Bapalu;L. K. Singh;B. Rath

  • Discontinuity-Bounded Alluvial Sequences of the Southern Gangetic Plains, India: Aggradation and Degradation in Response to Monsoonal Strength

    Martin Gibling;S. K. Tandon;R. Sinha;M. Jain

  • Improved provenance tracing of Asian dust sources using rare earth elements and selected trace elements for palaeomonsoon studies on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Marion Ferrat;Dominik J. Weiss;Dominik J. Weiss;Stanislav Strekopytov;Shuofei Dong

  • The use of semi-structured interviews for the characterisation of farmer irrigation practices

    Jimmy O'Keeffe;Wouter Buytaert;Ana Mijic;Nicholas Brozović

  • Flood risk assessment in the Kosi megafan using multi-criteria decision analysis: A hydro-geomorphic approach

    Kanchan Mishra;Rajiv Sinha

  • Geomorphic characterization and diversity of the fluvial systems of the Gangetic Plains

    R. Sinha;Vikrant Jain;G. Prasad Babu;S. Ghosh

  • Abrupt weakening of the Indian summer monsoon at 8.2 kyr B.P.

    Yama Dixit;David A. Hodell;Rajiv Sinha;Cameron A. Petrie

  • Tracing groundwater recharge sources in the northwestern Indian alluvial aquifer using water isotopes (δ18O, δ2H and 3H)

    Suneel Kumar Joshi;Shive Prakash Rai;Rajiv Sinha;Sanjeev Gupta

  • Impacts of climate change and socio-economic scenarios on flow and water quality of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna (GBM) river systems: low flow and flood statistics

    P. G. Whitehead;E. Barbour;M. N. Futter;S. Sarkar

  • Response of active tectonics on the alluvial Baghmati River, Himalayan foreland basin, eastern India

    Vikrant Jain;R. Sinha

  • The Indus flood of 2010 in Pakistan: a perspective analysis using remote sensing data

    Kumar Gaurav;R. Sinha;P. K. Panda

  • The Great avulsion of Kosi on 18 August 2008

    Rajiv Sinha

  • Late Quaternary geology and alluvial stratigraphy of the Ganga Basin

    Rajiv Sinha;Sampat Tandon;Martin Gibling;Parthasarathi Bhattacharjee

  • Counter-intuitive influence of Himalayan river morphodynamics on Indus Civilisation urban settlements

    Ajit Singh;Kristina Jørkov Thomsen;Rajiv Sinha;Jan-Pieter Buylaert;Jan-Pieter Buylaert

  • Fluvial sequences as evidence for landscape and climatic evolution in the Late Cenozoic: a synthesis of data from IGCP 518

    Rob Westaway;Rob Westaway;David R. Bridgland;Rajiv Sinha;Tuncer Demir

  • Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic reconstruction from the lacustrine sediments of the Sambhar playa core, Thar Desert margin, India

    R. Sinha;W. Smykatz-Kloss;D. Stüben;S.P. Harrison

  • Fluvial dynamics of an anabranching river system in Himalayan foreland basin, Baghmati river, north Bihar plains, India

    Vikrant Jain;R. Sinha

  • Evaporite mineralogy and geochemical evolution of the Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, India

    R. Sinha;B.C. Raymahashay

Frequent Co-Authors

Sampat K. Tandon
Sampat K. Tandon Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Alexander L. Densmore
Alexander L. Densmore Durham University
Sanjeev Gupta
Sanjeev Gupta Imperial College London
Mayank Jain
Mayank Jain Technical University of Denmark
Martin R. Gibling
Martin R. Gibling Dalhousie University
Jan-Pieter Buylaert
Jan-Pieter Buylaert Technical University of Denmark
Paul Whitehead
Paul Whitehead University of Oxford
Andrew S. Murray
Andrew S. Murray Technical University of Denmark
Andrew Carter
Andrew Carter Birkbeck, University of London
Sunil K. Singh
Sunil K. Singh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

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