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Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
35
Citations
3786
World Ranking
7751
National Ranking
165

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.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 111 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

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.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

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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