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Ralf Merz 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 Ralf Merz sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 133 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Ralf Merz 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 Ralf Merz sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ralf Merz is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany and specializes in environmental science with a particular focus on hydrology and watershed management. Their research contributions span multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, water science and technology, environmental chemistry, environmental engineering, and geochemistry and petrology.

Their scholarly output centers mainly on topics related to hydrology and watershed management studies, hydrology and drought analysis, flood risk assessment and management, soil and water nutrient dynamics, climate variability and models, hydrological forecasting using artificial intelligence, and groundwater and isotope geochemistry.

Merz's recent publications include:

  • Understanding Heavy Tails of Flood Peak Distributions (2022), Water Resources Research
  • A Process-Based Framework to Characterize and Classify Runoff Events: The Event Typology of Germany (2020), Water Resources Research
  • Shifts in flood generation processes exacerbate regional flood anomalies in Europe (2023), Communications Earth & Environment
  • Transformation of Generation Processes From Small Runoff Events to Large Floods (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Emergence of heavy tails in streamflow distributions: the role of spatial rainfall variability (2022), Advances in Water Resources

Their work has been frequently published in these venues:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Merz has collaborated extensively with a range of co-authors, including:

  • Stefano Basso
  • Larisa Tarasova
  • Arianna Miniussi
  • Rohini Kumar
  • Rike Becker

Best Publications

  • Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

    Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Alberto Viglione;Alberto Viglione;Rui A P Perdigão

  • Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

    Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Juraj Parajka;Rui A. P. Perdigão

  • Regionalisation of catchment model parameters

    Ralf Merz;Günter Blöschl

  • Understanding Flood Regime Changes in Europe: A state of the art assessment

    J Hall;B Arheimer;M Borga;R Brazdil;R Brazdil

  • A process typology of regional floods

    R. Merz;G. Blöschl

  • A comparison of regionalisation methods for catchment model parameters

    J. Parajka;J. Parajka;R. Merz;G. Blöschl

  • Time stability of catchment model parameters: Implications for climate impact analyses

    Ralf Merz;Juraj Parajka;Günter Blöschl

  • Floods and climate: emerging perspectives for flood risk assessment and management

    B. Merz;J. Aerts;K. Arnbjerg-Nielsen;M. Baldi

  • A regional analysis of event runoff coefficients with respect to climate and catchment characteristics in Austria

    Ralf Merz;Günter Blöschl

  • Spatio-temporal variability of event runoff coefficients

    R. Merz;G. Blöschl;J. Parajka

  • Flood frequency hydrology: 1. Temporal, spatial, and causal expansion of information

    Ralf Merz;Günter Blöschl

  • Flood frequency regionalisation—spatial proximity vs. catchment attributes

    R. Merz;G. Blöschl

  • Linking flood frequency to long‐term water balance: Incorporating effects of seasonality

    M. Sivapalan;M. Sivapalan;G. Blöschl;R. Merz;D. Gutknecht

  • Top-kriging - geostatistics on stream networks

    J. O. Skøien;R. Merz;G. Blöschl

  • Uncertainty and multiple objective calibration in regional water balance modelling: case study in 320 Austrian catchments

    J. Parajka;R. Merz;G. Blöschl

  • Flood timescales: Understanding the interplay of climate and catchment processes through comparative hydrology

    Ladislav Gaál;Ján Szolgay;Silvia Kohnová;Juraj Parajka

  • Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity. The GLOBAQUA project

    Alícia Navarro-Ortega;Vicenç Acuña;Alberto Bellin;Peter Burek

  • Seasonal characteristics of flood regimes across the Alpine-Carpathian range.

    J. Parajka;S. Kohnova;G. Balint;M. Barbuc

  • Controls on event runoff coefficients in the eastern Italian Alps.

    Daniele Norbiato;Marco Borga;Ralf Merz;Günther Blöschl

  • Flood frequency hydrology: 3. A Bayesian analysis

    Alberto Viglione;Ralf Merz;José Luis Salinas;Günter Blöschl

  • Causative classification of river flood events

    Larisa Tarasova;Ralf Merz;Andrea Kiss;Stefano Basso

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Bruno Merz
Bruno Merz University of Potsdam
Stephan Schulz
Stephan Schulz University of Duisburg-Essen
Attilio Castellarin
Attilio Castellarin University of Bologna
Stephan M. Weise
Stephan M. Weise Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Marco Borga
Marco Borga University of Padua
Neil McIntyre
Neil McIntyre University of Queensland
Alberto Montanari
Alberto Montanari University of Bologna

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