2026 Rudy Slingerland: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	48	3773	3457	1489	1321	129	9521

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Earth Science

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129

9521

Overview

Rudy Slingerland is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental and earth sciences, particularly focusing on hydrology, sediment transport, geological formations, and flood risk management. Their work integrates scientific computing and data management, with extensions into decision sciences and distributed computing systems.

The scientist's recent publication record includes the paper titled "Rivers in reverse: Upstream-migrating dechannelization and flooding cause avulsions on fluvial fans", published in 2021 in the journal Geology. This paper discusses processes related to fluvial dynamics and flooding phenomena and has been cited 19 times.

Frequent co-authors of Rudy Slingerland include:

Douglas A. Edmonds
Harrison K. Martin
Jeffery M. Valenza
Riley T. Henson
Gary S. Weissmann

The main publication venue for their work is:

Geology

Their primary fields of study encompass:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Decision Sciences

Within these fields, their research delves into subfields such as:

Ecology
Earth-Surface Processes
Global and Planetary Change
Information Systems and Management
Computer Networks and Communications

Key topics covered by their research include:

Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
Geological formations and processes
Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Best Publications

Drainage basin responses to climate change

Gregory E. Tucker;Rudy Slingerland

765
Citations
RIVER AVULSIONS AND THEIR DEPOSITS

Rudy Slingerland;Norman D. Smith

764
Citations
Erosional dynamics, flexural isostasy, and long-lived escarpments: A numerical modeling study

Gregory E. Tucker;Rudy L. Slingerland

563
Citations
Mechanics of river mouth bar formation: Implications for the morphodynamics of delta distributary networks

D. A. Edmonds;R. L. Slingerland

396
Citations
Significant effect of sediment cohesion on delta morphology

Douglas A. Edmonds;Rudy L. Slingerland

341
Citations
Climate-driven bedrock incision in an active mountain belt.

Karen Hartshorn;Niels Hovius;W. Brian Dade;Rudy L. Slingerland

330
Citations
Uplift, shortening,and steady state topography in active mountain belts

Sean D. Willett;Rudy Slingerland;Niels Hovius

325
Citations
Predicting sediment flux from fold and thrust belts

Gregory E. Tucker;Rudy Slingerland

299
Citations
Mathematical Modeling of Graded River Profiles

R. Scott Snow;Rudy L. Slingerland

296
Citations
Necessary conditions for a meandering-river avulsion

Rudy Slingerland;Norman D. Smith

292
Citations
Quaternary uplift astride the aseismic Cocos Ridge, Pacific coast, Costa Rica

Thomas W. Gardner;David Verdonck;Nicholas M. Pinter;Rudy Slingerland

233
Citations
Estuarine circulation in the Turonian Western Interior seaway of North America

Rudy Slingerland;Lee R. Kump;Michael A. Arthur;Peter J. Fawcett;Peter J. Fawcett

218
Citations
Dynamics of river mouth deposits

Sergio Fagherazzi;Douglas A. Edmonds;William Nardin;William Nardin;Nicoletta Leonardi

187
Citations
Numerical Paleoceanographic study of the Early Jurassic Transcontinental Laurasian Seaway

Christian J. Bjerrum;Finn Surlyk;John H. Callomon;Rudy L. Slingerland

181
Citations
Routing of Heterogeneous Sediments over Movable Bed: Model Development

Andre van Niekerk;Koen R. Vogel;Rudy L. Slingerland;John S. Bridge

166
Citations
The Effects of Entrainment on the Hydraulic Equivalence Relationships of Light and Heavy Minerals in Sands

Rudy L. Slingerland

166
Citations
Numerical simulations of tidal and wind-driven circulation in the Cretaceous Interior Seaway of North America

Marc C. Ericksen;Rudy Slingerland

165
Citations
Stability of delta distributary networks and their bifurcations

D. A. Edmonds;R. L. Slingerland

164
Citations
Occurrence and Formation of Water-Laid Placers

Rudy Slingerland;Norman D. Smith

164
Citations
Erosion Rates for Taiwan Mountain Basins: New Determinations from Suspended Sediment Records and a Stochastic Model of Their Temporal Variation

Christopher W. Fuller;Sean D. Willett;Niels Hovius;Rudy Slingerland

148
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee R. Kump Pennsylvania State University

Douglas A. Edmonds Indiana University

Norman D. Smith University of Nebraska–Lincoln

James Leonard Best University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Daniel R. Parsons University of Hull

Kevin P. Furlong Pennsylvania State University

Michael A. Arthur Pennsylvania State University

Christopher J. Duffy Pennsylvania State University

Gregory E. Tucker University of Colorado Boulder

Neal W. Driscoll University of California, San Diego

External Links

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