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Robert J. Wasson 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 Robert J. Wasson sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 137 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Robert J. Wasson 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 Robert J. Wasson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 27th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Overview

Robert J. Wasson is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change and atmospheric science. The scientist's work also covers soil science, earth-surface processes, and ecology.

The main topics of Robert J. Wasson's research include flood risk assessment and management, geology and paleoclimatology research, landslides and related hazards, geological formations and processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, as well as hydrology and watershed management studies and sediment transport processes.

Recent publications by Robert J. Wasson include these papers:

  • High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • A call for reducing tourism risk to environmental hazards in the Himalaya, 2021, Environmental Hazards
  • Late Pleistocene-Holocene flood history, flood-sediment provenance and human imprints from the upper Indus River catchment, Ladakh Himalaya, 2021, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • High-intensity monsoon rainfall variability and its attributes: a case study for Upper Ganges Catchment in the Indian Himalaya during 1901-2013, 2021, Natural Hazards
  • Disaster Risk Reduction, modern science and local knowledge: Perspectives from Timor-Leste, 2020, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated with Robert J. Wasson include Alan D. Ziegler, Yaspal Sundriyal, Pradeep Srivastava, Heather A. Drummond, and Emily Hildebrandt.

Publications by Robert J. Wasson are often found in the following venues:

  • Natural Hazards
  • International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Geomorphology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Physiology

Best Publications

  • Factors determining desert dune type

    R. J. Wasson;R. J. Wasson;R. Hyde

  • Estimating wind transport of sand on vegetated surfaces

    R. J. Wasson;P. M. Nanninga

  • High Mountain Asia hydropower systems threatened by climate-driven landscape instability

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  • Vegetational and seasonal climatic changes since the last full glacial in the Thar Desert, northwestern India

    G. Singh;R.J. Wasson;D.P. Agrawal

  • The recent history of erosion and sedimentation on the Southern Tablelands of southeastern Australia: sediment flux dominated by channel incision

    R.J Wasson;R.K Mazari;B Starr;G Clifton

  • Late quaternary sediments, minerals, and inferred geochemical history of Didwana Lake, Thar Desert, India

    R.J. Wasson;G.I. Smith;D.P. Agrawal

  • A sediment budget for the Ganga-Brahmaputra catchment

    Robert J Wasson

  • Annual and decadal variation of sediment yield in Australia, and some global comparisons

    R. J. Wasson

  • Changes in the flux of sediment in the Upper Murrumbidgee catchment, Southeastern Australia, since European settlement

    Jon M. Olley;Jon M. Olley;Robert J. Wasson

  • Sourcing Sediment Using Multiple Tracers in the Catchment of Lake Argyle, Northwestern Australia

    R. J. Wasson;Gary Caitcheon;Andrew S. Murray;Malcolm McCULLOCH

  • Agriculture, water, and ecosystems: avoiding the costs of going too far

    M. Falkenmark;Max Finlayson;L. J. Gordon;E. M. Bennett

  • Large‐scale patterns of dune type, spacing and orientation in the Australian continental dunefield

    R. J. Wasson;K. Fitchett;B. Mackey;R. Hyde

  • Luminescence chronology of river adjustment and incision of Quaternary sediments in the alluvial plain of the Sabarmati River, north Gujarat, India

    Pradeep Srivastava;Navin Juyal;Ashok K Singhvi;Ashok K Singhvi;Robert J Wasson

  • A 1000-year history of large floods in the Upper Ganga catchment, central Himalaya, India

    R.J. Wasson;Y.P. Sundriyal;Shipra Chaudhary;Manoj K. Jaiswal

  • Dune Sediment Types, Sand Colour, Sediment Provenance and Hydrology in the Strzelecki-Simpson Dunefield, Australia

    R.J. Wasson

  • Geomorphology and Quaternary History of the Australian Continental Dunefields

    R. J. Wasson

  • Thermoluminescence and radiocarbon dating of Australian desert dunes

    G. J. Gardner;A. J. Mortlock;D. M. Price;M. L. Readhead

  • The mountain-lowland debate: Deforestation and sediment transport in the upper Ganga catchment

    R.J. Wasson;N. Juyal;M. Jaiswal;Malcolm Mcculloch

  • Pilgrims, progress, and the political economy of disaster preparedness - the example of the 2013 Uttarakhand flood and Kedarnath disaster

    Alan D. Ziegler;Robert J. Wasson;Alok Bhardwaj;Y. P. Sundriyal

  • Last‐glacial alluvial fan sedimentation in the Lower Derwent Valley, Tasmania

    R. J. Wasson

  • Potential wind erosion in Australia: A continental perspective

    J. D. Kalma;J. G. Speight;R. J. Wasson

  • Rates of erosion and sediment transport in Australia

    R. J. Wasson;C. J. Rosewell

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan D. Ziegler
Alan D. Ziegler National University of Singapore
Pradeep Srivastava
Pradeep Srivastava Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Navin Juyal
Navin Juyal Physical Research Laboratory
Ashok K. Singhvi
Ashok K. Singhvi Physical Research Laboratory
Daniel M. Alongi
Daniel M. Alongi Australian Institute of Marine Science
L.K. Fifield
L.K. Fifield Australian National University
Jon Olley
Jon Olley Griffith University
Ralf Buckley
Ralf Buckley Griffith University
Daniel A. Friess
Daniel A. Friess Tulane University
Line Gordon
Line Gordon Stockholm Resilience Centre

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