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Roger Alexander Falconer

Roger Alexander Falconer

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
60
Citations
10499
World Ranking
2253
National Ranking
149

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
10594
World Ranking
2988
National Ranking
236

Roger Alexander Falconer publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 377 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Roger Alexander Falconer D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roger Alexander Falconer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Roger Alexander Falconer is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on flood risk assessment and management as a central topic.

The scientist's body of work covers a range of interconnected research areas, including:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Water
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Engineering
  • The Science of The Total Environment

They have coauthored multiple publications with several researchers, notably:

  • Reza Ahmadian
  • Junqiang Xia
  • Fang Yenn Teo
  • Boliang Dong
  • Meirong Zhou

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Integrated modeling of 2D urban surface and 1D sewer hydrodynamic processes and flood risk assessment of people and vehicles," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Experimental and numerical model studies on flash flood inundation processes over a typical urban street," 2020, Advances in Water Resources
  • "Mapping the danger to life in flash flood events adopting a mechanics based methodology and planning evacuation routes," 2020, Journal of Flood Risk Management
  • "A unified formula for discharge capacity of street inlets for urban flood management," 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • "Combined statistical and hydrodynamic modelling of compound flooding in coastal areas - Methodology and application," 2023, Journal of Hydrology

Their work contributes to global and planetary change studies, water science and technology, atmospheric science, ecology, and earth-surface processes. These subfields underpin much of their published research.

Roger Alexander Falconer has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 1997 and becoming a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Benchmarking 2D hydraulic models for urban flooding

    N.M. Hunter;P.D. Bates;S. Neelz;G. Pender

  • Longitudinal dispersion coefficients in natural channels

    S. M. Kashefipour;Roger Alexander Falconer

  • Modelling dam-break flows over mobile beds using a 2D coupled approach

    Junqiang Xia;Junqiang Xia;Binliang Lin;Roger A. Falconer;Guangqian Wang

  • Comparison between TVD-MacCormack and ADI-type solvers of the shallow water equations

    Dongfang Liang;Roger Alexander Falconer;BinLiang Lin

  • Tidal range energy resource and optimization – Past perspectives and future challenges

    Simon P. Neill;Athanasios Angeloudis;Peter E. Robins;Ian Walkington

  • A review of the potential water quality impacts of tidal renewable energy systems

    Margaret Osikhofe Kadiri;Reza Ahmadian;Bettina Nicole Bockelmann-Evans;William Bonino Rauen

  • Far-field modelling of the hydro-environmental impact of tidal stream turbines

    Reza Ahmadian;Roger Alexander Falconer;Bettina Nicole Bockelmann-Evans

  • Development of an ecohydraulics model for stream and river restoration

    B.N. Bockelmann;E.K. Fenrich;B. Lin;R.A. Falconer

  • New criterion for the stability of a human body in floodwaters

    Junqiang Xia;Roger A. Falconer;Yejiang Wang;Xuanwei Xiao

  • Simulation of rapidly varying flow using an efficient TVD–MacCormack scheme

    D. Liang;BinLiang Lin;Roger Alexander Falconer

  • Numerical assessment of flood hazard risk to people and vehicles in flash floods

    Junqiang Xia;Roger A. Falconer;Binliang Lin;Guangming Tan

  • Flood hazard assessment for extreme flood events

    Davor Kvocka;Roger Alexander Falconer;Michaela Bray

  • Hydro-environmental modelling for bathing water compliance of an estuarine basin

    S. M. Kashefipour;BinLiang Lin;E. L. Harris;Roger Alexander Falconer

  • Tidal Flow and Transport Modeling Using ULTIMATE QUICKEST Scheme

    Binliang Lin;Roger A. Falconer

  • Numerical modelling of three-dimensional suspended sediment for estuarine and coastal waters

    Binliang Lin;Roger A. Falconer

  • Coupling surface and subsurface flows in a depth averaged flood wave model

    Dongfang Liang;Roger Alexander Falconer;BinLiang Lin

  • Integrating 1D and 2D hydrodynamic models for flood simulation

    BinLiang Lin;Jon M. Wicks;Roger Alexander Falconer;Konrad Adams

  • Decay of intestinal enterococci concentrations in high-energy estuarine and coastal waters: towards real-time T90 values for modelling faecal indicators in recreational waters.

    D. Kay;C. M. Stapleton;M. Wyer;A. T. McDonald

  • Impact of different tidal renewable energy projects on the hydrodynamic processes in the Severn Estuary, UK

    Junqiang Xia;Junqiang Xia;Roger Alexander Falconer;BinLiang Lin

  • Formula of incipient velocity for flooded vehicles

    Junqiang Xia;Junqiang Xia;F. Y. Teo;BinLiang Lin;Roger Alexander Falconer

  • Three-dimensional Layer-integrated Modelling of Estuarine Flows with Flooding and Drying

    B. Lin;R.A. Falconer

Frequent Co-Authors

BinLiang Lin
BinLiang Lin Tsinghua University
Junqiang Xia
Junqiang Xia Wuhan University
David Kay
David Kay Aberystwyth University
Thorsten Stoesser
Thorsten Stoesser University College London
Nigel D. Paul
Nigel D. Paul Lancaster University
Mark D. Wyer
Mark D. Wyer Aberystwyth University
Adrian McDonald
Adrian McDonald University of Leeds
G.E. Millward
G.E. Millward Plymouth University
Guangqian Wang
Guangqian Wang Tsinghua University
Paul D Bates
Paul D Bates University of Bristol

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