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Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 35 7751 7182 165 160 111 3786

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva between 2009 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva published across 17 years, from 2009 to 2025, averaging 10.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 29 publications in 2016. 24 of the 173 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2009 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 29. Peak 29 publications in 2016. 2009: 5 publications 2010: 1 publication 2011: 3 publications 2012: 2 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 29 publications 2017: 14 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 7 publications 2020: 11 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 19 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 14 publications
2009 2025

173 publications in total across all disciplines

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Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva: publications per year, 2009 to 2025
Year Publications
2009 5
2010 1
2011 3
2012 2
2013 5
2014 11
2015 9
2016 29
2017 14
2018 12
2019 7
2020 11
2021 10
2022 11
2023 19
2024 10
2025 14
Total 173
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Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva 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 Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 108–117 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 111 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484 111
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva 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 Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 35 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372 35
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and intersects with agricultural and biological sciences. The scientist has contributed extensively to various subfields including ecology, soil science, global and planetary change, water science and technology, and civil and structural engineering.

The main topics of their work include hydrology and sediment transport processes, soil erosion and sediment transport, flood risk assessment and management, hydrology and watershed management studies, hydraulic flow and structures, landslides and related hazards, and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva has published research in multiple frequent venues, indicating a broad impact across environmental and earth sciences. These venues include:

  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geomorphology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Resources Research

Their recent papers reflect a focus on river hydraulics, sediment dynamics, and environmental impacts. Notable works include:

  • Numerical Modeling of Instream Wood Transport, Deposition, and Accumulation in Braided Morphologies Under Unsteady Conditions: Sensitivity and High-Resolution Quantitative Model Validation, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • Reflections on the history of research on large wood in rivers, 2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Effects of sediment transport on flood hazards: Lessons learned and remaining challenges, 2023, Geomorphology
  • Changes in the hydrodynamics of a mountain river induced by dam reservoir backwater, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • River driftwood pretreated via hydrothermal carbonization as a sustainable source of hard carbon for Na-ion battery anodes, 2021, Journal of environmental chemical engineering

The scientist collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, which include:

  • Hervé Piégay
  • Janbert Aarnink
  • Hanna Hajdukiewicz
  • Ernest Bladé
  • Isabella Schalko

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva's work advances understanding of hydrological processes, sediment transport, and environmental impacts related to river systems and watershed management. Their interdisciplinary approach bridges environmental science with technological and engineering perspectives, focusing on ecological as well as physical processes in natural and managed landscapes.

Best Publications

  • Recent advances quantifying the large wood dynamics in river basins: New methods and remaining challenges

    Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Hervé Piégay;Angela M. Gurnell;Richard A. Marston

  • The Natural Wood Regime in Rivers

    Ellen Wohl;Natalie Kramer;Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Daniel N Scott

  • Remotely sensed rivers in the Anthropocene: state of the art and prospects

    Hervé Piégay;Fanny Arnaud;Barbara Belletti;Mélanie Bertrand

  • Two-dimensional numerical modeling of wood transport

    Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Ernest Bladé;Martí Sánchez-Juny;Belén Marti-Cardona

  • Dendrogeomorphic analysis of flash floods in a small ungauged mountain catchment (Central Spain)

    Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Andrés Díez-Herrero;Markus Stoffel;Markus Stoffel;Michelle Bollschweiler;Michelle Bollschweiler

  • Factors controlling large-wood transport in a mountain river

    Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Bartłomiej Wyżga;Joanna Zawiejska;Maciej Hajdukiewicz

  • Characterization of wood-laden flows in rivers

    Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Bruno Mazzorana;Ernest Bladé;Livia Bürkli

  • Reconstruction of a flash flood with large wood transport and its influence on hazard patterns in an ungauged mountain basin

    V. Ruiz-Villanueva;J. M. Bodoque;A. Díez-Herrero;M. A. Eguibar

  • Large wood transport as significant influence on flood risk in a mountain village

    Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;José María Bodoque;Andrés Díez-Herrero;Ernest Bladé

  • Recent catastrophic landslide lake outburst floods in the Himalayan mountain range

    Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Simon Allen;Manohar Arora;Narendra K Goel

  • POTENTIAL LARGE WOODY DEBRIS RECRUITMENT DUE TO LANDSLIDES, BANK EROSION AND FLOODS IN MOUNTAIN BASINS: A QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION APPROACH

    V. Ruiz-Villanueva;A. Díez-Herrero;J. A. Ballesteros;J. M. Bodoque

  • Challenges in paleoflood hydrology applied to risk analysis in mountainous watersheds - A review

    J. M. Bodoque;A. Díez-Herrero;M. A. Eguibar;Gerardo Benito

  • Extreme flood response to short-duration convective rainfall in South-West Germany

    V. Ruiz-Villanueva;M. Borga;D. Zoccatelli;L. Marchi

  • Glacial lake inventory and lake outburst potential in Uzbekistan.

    Maxim A. Petrov;Timur Y. Sabitov;Irina G. Tomashevskaya;Gleb E. Glazirin

  • Characterisation of flash floods in small ungauged mountain basins of Central Spain using an integrated approach

    V. Ruiz-Villanueva;A. Díez-Herrero;J.M. Bodoque;J.A. Ballesteros Cánovas

  • Reflections on the history of research on large wood in rivers

    Frederick J. Swanson;Stanley V. Gregory;Andres Iroumé;Virginia Ruiz‐Villanueva

  • Assessing and mitigating large wood‐related hazards in mountain streams: recent approaches

    B. Mazzorana;V. Ruiz-Villanueva;V. Ruiz-Villanueva;L. Marchi;M. Cavalli

  • Dendrogeomorphology in badlands: Methods, case studies and prospects

    J.A. Ballesteros-Cánovas;J.M. Bodoque;A. Lucía;J.F. Martín-Duque

  • In-channel wood-related hazards at bridges: A review

    Pina Nicoletta De Cicco;Enio Paris;Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Luca Solari

  • Floods at the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains — A Polish-Swiss research project

    Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Markus Stoffel;Ryszard J. Kaczka;Bartłomiej Wyżga;Bartłomiej Wyżga

  • Quantification of fluvial wood using UAVs and structure from motion

    Daniel Sanhueza;Lorenzo Picco;Lorenzo Picco;Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva;Andrés Iroumé

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Stoffel
Markus Stoffel University of Geneva
Bartłomiej Wyżga
Bartłomiej Wyżga Polish Academy of Sciences
Hervé Piégay
Hervé Piégay École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Dieter Rickenmann
Dieter Rickenmann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Andrés Iroumé
Andrés Iroumé Austral University of Chile
Luca Mao
Luca Mao University of Lincoln
Ellen Wohl
Ellen Wohl Colorado State University
Walter Bertoldi
Walter Bertoldi University of Trento
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich

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