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Vladimir U. Smakhtin

Vladimir U. Smakhtin

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
46
Citations
13116
World Ranking
5951
National Ranking
105

Vladimir U. Smakhtin 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 Vladimir U. Smakhtin sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 198 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Vladimir U. Smakhtin 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 Vladimir U. Smakhtin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Vladimir U. Smakhtin is affiliated with the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka. Their research spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science, Engineering, and Social Sciences, with a focus on areas such as Water Science and Technology, Ocean Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Political Science and International Relations.

The scientist's work concentrates on several key topics including Water Resources Management and Optimization, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, Hydraulic Flow and Structures, Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration, Transboundary Water Resource Management, and Water Governance and Infrastructure.

Smakhtin has contributed to a number of recent publications, including:

  • Freshwater availability status across countries for human and ecosystem needs (2021) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Present and Future Losses of Storage in Large Reservoirs Due to Sedimentation: A Country-Wise Global Assessment (2022) published in Sustainability
  • How much artificial surface storage is acceptable in a river basin and where should it be located: A review (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Position Paper on Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus and Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) (2020) published by the Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
  • Water and Migration: A Global Overview (2020) published in UNU Collections (United Nations University)

The most frequent coauthors working with Smakhtin include Nishadi Eriyagama, Lakshika Udamulla, Guilherme Baggio, Manzoor Qadir, and Duminda Perera. Collaboration with these researchers appears significant across multiple publications.

Regarding publication venues, the scientist has contributed to journals and platforms such as Water, The Science of The Total Environment, Sustainability, Earth-Science Reviews, and UNU Collections (United Nations University). The journal Water features as a frequent publication venue with multiple works.

Best Publications

  • Low flow hydrology: a review

    Vladimir Smakhtin

  • The state of desalination and brine production: A global outlook.

    Edward Jones;Edward Jones;Manzoor Qadir;Michelle T.H. van Vliet;Vladimir Smakhtin

  • Comparison of seven meteorological indices for drought monitoring in Iran

    Saeid Morid;Vladimir Smakhtin;Mahnosh Moghaddasi

  • A Pilot Global Assessment of Environmental Water Requirements and Scarcity

    Vladimir Smakhtin;Carmen Revenga;Petra Doll

  • Drought forecasting using artificial neural networks and time series of drought indices

    Saeid Morid;Vladimir Smakhtin;K. Bagherzadeh

  • Taking into account environmental water requirements in global-scale water resources assessments

    Vladimir U. Smakhtin;C. Revenga;P. Doll

  • Global hydrological models: a review

    Aditya Sood;Vladimir U. Smakhtin

  • Daily flow time series patching or extension: a spatial interpolation approach based on flow duration curves

    D. A. Hughes;V. Smakhtin

  • The use of remote sensing data for drought assessment and monitoring in southwest Asia

    Prasad Srinivas Thenkabail;M. S. D. Nilantha Gamage;Vladimir U. Smakhtin

  • Freshwater availability status across countries for human and ecosystem needs.

    Guilherme Baggio;Manzoor Qadir;Vladimir Smakhtin

  • An assessment of environmental flow requirements of Indian river basins

    Vladimir Smakhtin;Markandu Anputhas

  • Automated estimation and analyses of meteorological drought characteristics from monthly rainfall data

    V. U. Smakhtin;D. A. Hughes

  • Spatial variation in water supply and demand across river basins of India

    Upali A. Amarasinghe;Bharat R. Sharma;Noel Aloysius;Christopher Scott

  • Review, automated estimation and analyses of drought indices in South Asia

    Vladimir U. Smakhtin;D.A. Hughes

  • Assessing the Impact of Areal Precipitation Input on Streamflow Simulations Using the SWAT Model1

    Ilyas Masih;Shreedhar Maskey;Stefan Uhlenbrook;Vladimir Smakhtin

  • The use of remote sensing data for drought assessment and monitoring in Southwest Asia.

    P. S. Thenkabail;M. S. D. N. Gamage;V. U. Smakhtin

  • Hydrology-based assessment of environmental flows: an example from Nepal

    V. U. Smakhtin;R. L. Shilpakar;D. A. Hughes

  • Assessment of areal interpolation methods for spatial analysis of SPI and EDI drought indices

    Rouhangiz Akhtari;Saeed Morid;Mohammad Hossain Mahdian;Vladimir Smakhtin

  • Droughts : The impact of semantics and perceptions

    Vladimir U. Smakhtin;E. Lisa F. Schipper

  • Streamflow trends and climate linkages in the Zagros Mountains, Iran

    I. Masih;I. Masih;S. Uhlenbrook;S. Uhlenbrook;S. Maskey;V. Smakhtin

  • Spatial variation in water supply and demand across river basins of India

    Upali A. Amarasinghe;Bharat R. Sharma;Noel Aloysius;Christopher A. Scott

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Pavelic
Paul Pavelic International Water Management Institute
Denis A. Hughes
Denis A. Hughes Rhodes University
Karen G. Villholth
Karen G. Villholth International Water Management Institute
David Molden
David Molden World Bank
Tushaar Shah
Tushaar Shah International Water Management Institute
Stefan Uhlenbrook
Stefan Uhlenbrook International Water Management Institute
Manzoor Qadir
Manzoor Qadir McMaster University
Pramod K. Aggarwal
Pramod K. Aggarwal Borlaug Institute for South Asia
Petra Döll
Petra Döll Goethe University Frankfurt
Shreedhar Maskey
Shreedhar Maskey IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

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