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Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
98
Citations
45591
World Ranking
410
National Ranking
10

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 364 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain and specializes in environmental science with a focus on climate variability, hydrology, and drought analysis. Their research portfolio includes 247 publications in the broad field of Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's body of work covers several main topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Vicente-Serrano has published frequently in journals such as the International Journal of Climatology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Atmospheric Research, and Communications Earth & Environment. The highest number of their papers appear in the International Journal of Climatology, with 14 publications recorded.

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • "Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Global drought trends and future projections," 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Long-term variability and trends in meteorological droughts in Western Europe (1851-2018)," 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • "A pan-African high-resolution drought index dataset," 2020, Earth system science data
  • "Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability," 2020, Journal of Ecology

The scientist collaborates extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Fernando Domínguez-Castro
  • Ahmed El Kenawy
  • Iván Noguera
  • Dhais Peña-Angulo
  • Santiago Beguerı́a

Best Publications

  • A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Santiago Beguería;Juan I. López-Moreno

  • Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring

    Santiago Beguería;Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano;Fergus Reig;Borja Latorre

  • Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Célia Gouveia;Célia Gouveia;Jesús Julio Camarero;Santiago Beguería

  • Mediterranean water resources in a global change scenario

    José M. García-Ruiz;J. Ignacio López-Moreno;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Teodoro Lasanta–Martínez

  • Performance of Drought Indices for Ecological, Agricultural, and Hydrological Applications

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Santiago Beguería;Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz;Jesús Julio Camarero

  • Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe

    Sergio M Vicente-Serrano;Juan-I Lopez-Moreno;Santiago Beguería;Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz

  • A New Global 0.5° Gridded Dataset (1901–2006) of a Multiscalar Drought Index: Comparison with Current Drought Index Datasets Based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index

    S. M. Vicente-Serrano;S. Beguería;J. I. López-Moreno;M. Angulo

  • A review of environmental droughts: Increased risk under global warming?

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Steven M. Quiring;Marina Peña-Gallardo;Shanshui Yuan

  • Differences in Spatial Patterns of Drought on Different Time Scales: An Analysis of the Iberian Peninsula

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Accurate Computation of a Streamflow Drought Index

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Juan I. López-Moreno;Santiago Beguería;Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz

  • To die or not to die: early warnings of tree dieback in response to a severe drought

    J. Julio Camarero;J. Julio Camarero;Antonio Gazol;Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda;Jonàs Oliva

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

    Yves Tramblay;Aristeidis Koutroulis;Luis Samaniego;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Comparative analysis of interpolation methods in the middle Ebro Valley (Spain): application to annual precipitation and temperature

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;M. Angel Saz-Sánchez;José M. Cuadrat

  • The impact of droughts and water management on various hydrological systems in the headwaters of the Tagus River (central Spain)

    J. Lorenzo-Lacruz;S.M. Vicente-Serrano;J.I. López-Moreno;S. Beguería

  • Hydrological response to different time scales of climatological drought: an evaluation of the Standardized Precipitation Index in a mountainous Mediterranean basin

    S. M. Vicente-Serrano;S. M. Vicente-Serrano;J. I. López-Moreno

  • Mountain Mediterranean landscape evolution caused by the abandonment of traditional primary activities: a study of the Spanish Central Pyrenees

    Teodoro Lasanta-Martínez;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;José Ma Cuadrat-Prats

  • A Multiscalar Global Drought Dataset: The SPEIbase: A New Gridded Product for the Analysis of Drought Variability and Impacts

    Santiago Beguería;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Marta Angulo-Martínez

  • Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

    Antonio Gazol;Jesus Julio Camarero;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero;Raúl Sánchez-Salguero

  • Contribution of precipitation and reference evapotranspiration to drought indices under different climates

    Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano;Gerard Van der Schrier;Santiago Beguería;Cesar Azorin-Molina

  • Impacts of droughts on the growth resilience of Northern Hemisphere forests

    A. Gazol;J. J. Camarero;W. R. L. Anderegg;W. R. L. Anderegg;S. M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) on combined temperature and precipitation winter modes in the Mediterranean mountains: Observed relationships and projections for the 21st century

    J.I. López-Moreno;S.M. Vicente-Serrano;E. Morán-Tejeda;J. Lorenzo-Lacruz

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan I. López-Moreno
Juan I. López-Moreno Spanish National Research Council
Ahmed El Kenawy
Ahmed El Kenawy Mansoura University
Santiago Beguería
Santiago Beguería Spanish National Research Council
Cesar Azorin-Molina
Cesar Azorin-Molina Spanish National Research Council
Enrique Morán-Tejeda
Enrique Morán-Tejeda University of the Balearic Islands
J. Julio Camarero
J. Julio Camarero Spanish National Research Council
Raquel Nieto
Raquel Nieto Universidade de Vigo
Luis Gimeno
Luis Gimeno Universidade de Vigo
Jesús Revuelto
Jesús Revuelto Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo
Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo University of Extremadura

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