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44
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7434
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4174
National Ranking
706

Richard Ashley publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard Ashley sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 220 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Richard Ashley D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard Ashley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Richard Ashley is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on urban stormwater management and flood risk assessment.

The scientist's research spans various subfields of study including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Economics and Econometrics, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Their work integrates these disciplines to address complex environmental and infrastructural challenges.

Frequent publication venues for Richard Ashley include:

  • Infrastructures
  • Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Water Security

They have collaborated regularly with several researchers, notably:

  • Godecke-Tobias Blecken
  • Berry Gersonius
  • Maria Viklander
  • B. Horton
  • Paul Sayers

Key topics covered in the scientist's body of work include:

  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring

Examples of their recent publications are as follows:

  • "Valuing the Multiple Benefits of Blue-Green Infrastructure for a Swedish Case Study: Contrasting the Economic Assessment Tools B£ST and TEEB" (2020), published in Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment
  • "Managing flooding: from a problem to an opportunity" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Environmental impacts of stormwater bioretention systems with various design and construction components" (2022), published in Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Towards adaptive asset management in flood risk management: A policy framework" (2021), published in Water Security
  • "Sustainability performance of bioretention systems with various designs" (2023), published in Journal of Environmental Management

Best Publications

  • Advertising and Aggregate Consumption: An Analysis of Causality

    R. Ashley;C. W. J. Granger;R. Schmalensee

  • Fit-for-purpose governance: A framework to make adaptive governance operational

    Jeroen Rijke;Jeroen Rijke;Jeroen Rijke;Rebekah Ruth Brown;Chris Zevenbergen;Chris Zevenbergen;Richard M Ashley

  • Climate change uncertainty: building flexibility into water and flood risk infrastructure

    Berry Gersonius;Richard Ashley;Richard Ashley;Assela Pathirana;Chris Zevenbergen

  • Room for the River: delivering integrated river basin management in the Netherlands

    Jeroen Rijke;Sebastiaan van Herk;Chris Zevenbergen;Richard Ashley

  • Sustainability criteria for decision support in the UK water industry

    T. J. Foxon;G. McIlkenny;Daniel J. Gilmour;C. Oltean-Dumbrava

  • Advertising and aggregate consumption: an analysis of causality

    R. Ashley;C. W. J. Granger;R. Schmalensee

  • Toward the Sustainable Management of Urban Storm-Water:

    B. Chocat;R. Ashley;J. Marsalek;M.R. Matos

  • Political and Professional Agency Entrapment: An Agenda for Urban Water Research

    Rebekah Brown;Richard Ashley;Megan Farrelly

  • Urban Flood Management

    Chris Zevenbergen;Adrian Cashman;Niki Evelpidou;Erik Pasche

  • Learning and Action Alliances for the integration of flood risk management into urban planning: a new framework from empirical evidence from The Netherlands

    Sebastiaan van Herk;Chris Zevenbergen;Chris Zevenbergen;Richard Ashley;Jeroen Rijke;Jeroen Rijke

  • Sewer systems and performance indicators-into the 21st century

    Richard Ashley;Peter Hopkinson

  • Linear versus Nonlinear Macroeconomies: A Statistical Test

    Richard A Ashley;Douglas M Patterson

  • Testing the white dwarf mass-radius relationship with eclipsing binaries

    S. G. Parsons;B. T. Gänsicke;T. R. Marsh;R. P. Ashley

  • Advances in urban flood management

    Richard Ashley;Stephen Garvin;Erik Pasche;Andreas Vassilopoulos

  • The scatter of the M dwarf mass-radius relationship

    S. G. Parsons;B. T. Gänsicke;T. R. Marsh;R. P. Ashley

  • Motives for Giving: A Reanalysis of Two Classic Public Goods Experiments

    Richard Ashley;Sheryl Ball;Catherine Eckel

  • Adaptive programme management through a balanced performance/strategy oriented focus

    Jeroen Rijke;Jeroen Rijke;Sebastiaan van Herk;Sebastiaan van Herk;Chris Zevenbergen;Chris Zevenbergen;Richard Ashley

  • Sustainable decision making for the UK water industry

    Richard Ashley;David J. Blackwood;David Butler;John Davies

  • Statistically significant forecasting improvements: how much out-of-sample data is likely necessary? ☆

    Richard Ashley

  • Sustainable Water Services: a Procedural Guide

    R Ashley;D Blackwood;D Butler;Paul Jowitt

  • The management of sediment in combined sewers

    Richard M Ashley;Alasdair Fraser;Richard Burrows;John Blanksby

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Zevenbergen
Chris Zevenbergen IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Boris T. Gänsicke
Boris T. Gänsicke University of Warwick
Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen
Thorkild Hvitved-Jacobsen Aalborg University
David Butler
David Butler University of Exeter
Maria Viklander
Maria Viklander Luleå University of Technology
Tom Marsh
Tom Marsh University of Warwick
Jes Vollertsen
Jes Vollertsen Aalborg University
Ian Douglas
Ian Douglas University of Manchester
Timothy J. Foxon
Timothy J. Foxon University of Sussex
Rebekah Ruth Brown
Rebekah Ruth Brown Monash University

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