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Wolfgang Kinzelbach

Wolfgang Kinzelbach

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
12374
World Ranking
2373
National Ranking
66

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
66
Citations
12837
World Ranking
1464
National Ranking
26

Wolfgang Kinzelbach publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Kinzelbach sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 294 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Wolfgang Kinzelbach D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wolfgang Kinzelbach sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Wolfgang Kinzelbach is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their work is primarily situated within the fields of Environmental Science, Engineering, and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Water Science and Technology as a subfield.

Their research topics broadly cover Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Resources Management and Optimization, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, the Water-Energy-Food Nexus, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, as well as Geophysics and Geoelectrical Methods.

Notable recent publications include the following:

  • Resolving Conflicts between Irrigation Agriculture and Ecohydrology Using Many-Objective Robust Decision Making, 2020, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • How to Meter Agricultural Pumping at Numerous Small-Scale Wells?-An Indirect Monitoring Method Using Electric Energy as Proxy, 2020, Water
  • Improving parameter and state estimation of a hydrological model with the ensemble square root filter, 2020, Advances in Water Resources
  • Closure to "Resolving Conflicts between Irrigation Agriculture and Ecohydrology Using Many-Objective Robust Decision Making" by Yu Li and Wolfgang Kinzelbach, 2021, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • Observation-constrained long-term simulations of water dynamics and groundwater recharge under intensive agriculture in the North China Plain, 2025, Groundwater for Sustainable Development

Frequent coauthors working alongside Wolfgang Kinzelbach include L. Wang, Ning Li, Yu Li, and Haijing Wang.

The researcher has published multiple papers in these venues:

  • Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • Water
  • Advances in Water Resources
  • Groundwater for Sustainable Development

Among book contributions, there is a publication with Springer Nature titled Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability, released in 2021.

Wolfgang Kinzelbach was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • 3D-Groundwater Modeling with PMWIN: A Simulation System for Modeling Groundwater Flow and Transport Processes

    Wen-Hsing Chiang;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Lagrangian measurement of vorticity dynamics in turbulent flow

    Beat Lüthi;Arkady Tsinober;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Real-time groundwater flow modeling with the Ensemble Kalman Filter: Joint estimation of states and parameters and the filter inbreeding problem

    H. J. Hendricks Franssen;W. Kinzelbach

  • The Random Walk Method in Pollutant Transport Simulation

    Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Numerical Modeling of Natural and Enhanced Denitrification Processes in Aquifers

    Wolfgang Kinzelbach;Wolfgang Schäfer;Jörg Herzer

  • Continuous Groundwater Velocity Fields and Path Lines in Linear, Bilinear, and Trilinear Finite Elements

    Christian Cordes;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Influence of Microbial Growth on Hydraulic Properties of Pore Networks

    Martin Thullner;Josef Zeyer;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Simulation of reactive processes related to biodegradation in aquifers: 1. Structure of the three-dimensional reactive transport model

    Dirk Schäfer;Wolfgang Schäfer;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Groundwater Modelling: An Introduction With Sample Programs in Basic

    Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Temporal behavior of a solute cloud in a heterogeneous porous medium: 1. Point‐like injection

    M. Dentz;H. Kinzelbach;S. Attinger;W. Kinzelbach

  • 3D-Groundwater Modeling with PMWIN

    Wen-Hsing Chiang;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Thermal Use of Shallow Groundwater

    Fritz Stauffer;Peter Bayer;Philipp Blum;Nelson Molina Giraldo

  • How can remote sensing contribute in groundwater modeling

    P. Brunner;H.-J.Hendricks Franssen;L. Kgotlhang;Peter Bauer-Gottwein

  • Kinetic Model of Gas Bubble Dissolution in Groundwater and Its Implications for the Dissolved Gas Composition

    Johannes Holocher;Frank Peeters;Werner Aeschbach-Hertig;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Food security and sustainable resource management

    Dennis McLaughlin;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Modeling of a microbial growth experiment with bioclogging in a two-dimensional saturated porous media flow field.

    Martin Thullner;Martin H. Schroth;Josef Zeyer;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Interaction between water flow and spatial distribution of microbial growth in a two-dimensional flow field in saturated porous media

    Martin Thullner;Laurie Mauclaire;Martin H Schroth;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • 3D-Groundwater Modeling with PMWIN: A Simulation System for Modeling Groundwater Flow and Pollution

    Wen-Hsing H. Chiang;W. Kinzelbach

  • 3D scanning particle tracking velocimetry

    Klaus Hoyer;Markus Holzner;Beat Lüthi;Michele Guala

  • Geoelectrical imaging of groundwater salinization in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

    Peter Bauer;Robert Supper;Stephanie Zimmermann;Wolfgang Kinzelbach

  • Applied groundwater modeling — Simulation of flow and advective transport

    Wolfgang Kinzelbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Arkady Tsinober
Arkady Tsinober Tel Aviv University
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen Forschungszentrum Jülich
Michele Guala
Michele Guala University of Minnesota
Philip Brunner
Philip Brunner University of Neuchâtel
Sabine Attinger
Sabine Attinger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Alan G. Green
Alan G. Green ETH Zurich
Esben Auken
Esben Auken Aarhus University
Peter Bauer-Gottwein
Peter Bauer-Gottwein Technical University of Denmark
Marco Dentz
Marco Dentz Spanish National Research Council
Rolf Kipfer
Rolf Kipfer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

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