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Engineering and Technology
Austria
2026

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
55
Citations
11172
World Ranking
2996
National Ranking
10

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
56
Citations
11223
World Ranking
3648
National Ranking
32

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Wolfgang Rauch is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science, Medicine, and Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields including Infectious Diseases, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Building and Construction.

Their work covers several key research topics, notably:

  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies

Wolfgang Rauch's recent publications include:

  • "Viral variant-resolved wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at national scale" (2022) published in Nature Biotechnology
  • "Towards a smart water city: A comprehensive review of applications, data requirements, and communication technologies for integrated management" (2021) published in Sustainable Cities and Society
  • "Integrated urban water management with micro storages developed as an IoT-based solution - The smart rain barrel" (2021) published in Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Stationary vs non-stationary modelling of flood frequency distribution across northwest England" (2021) published in Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • "Prediction of hospitalisations based on wastewater-based SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology" (2023) published in The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors of Wolfgang Rauch include Hannes Schenk, Rudolf Markt, Heribert Insam, Prashant Kumar, and Herbert Oberacher.

Wolfgang Rauch has contributed to leading publication venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water
  • Water Science & Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Bioresource Technology

In addition to journal articles, Rauch has authored a book titled "Celebrating passion for Water, Science and Technology," published by UWA Publishing in 2022.

Best Publications

  • And deplete us not into temptation: Automatic attitudes, dietary restraint, and self-regulatory resources as determinants of eating behavior

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Wolfgang Rauch;Bertram Gawronski

  • Review: A critical review of integrated urban water modelling - Urban drainage and beyond

    Peter M. Bach;Wolfgang Rauch;Peter S. Mikkelsen;David T. Mccarthy

  • River Water Quality Model no. 1 (RWQM1): II. Biochemical process equations

    P. Reichert;D. Borchardt;Mogens Henze;W. Rauch

  • Deterministic modelling of integrated urban drainage systems.

    W Rauch;Jl Bertrand-Krajewski;P Krebs;O Mark

  • The role of inorganic carbon limitation in biological nitrogen removal of extremely ammonia concentrated wastewater.

    Bernhard Wett;Wolfgang Rauch

  • The Indus basin in the framework of current and future water resources management

    A. N. Laghari;D. Vanham;W. Rauch

  • Comparison of different uncertainty techniques in urban stormwater quantity and quality modelling

    Cintia Brum Siqueira Dotto;Giorgio Mannina;Manfred Kleidorfer;Luca Vezzaro

  • River water quality modelling: I. state of the art

    Wolfgang Rauch;Mogens Henze;L. Koncsos;P. Reichert

  • Automated Creation of District Metered Area Boundaries in Water Distribution Systems

    Kegong Diao;Yuwen Zhou;Wolfgang Rauch

  • Toward the Sustainable Management of Urban Storm-Water:

    B. Chocat;R. Ashley;J. Marsalek;M.R. Matos

  • Urban drainage redefined: from stormwater removal to integrated management.

    B Chocat;P Krebs;J Marsalek;W Rauch

  • Genetic algorithms in real time control applied to minimize transient pollution from urban wastewater systems

    Wolfgang Rauch;Poul Harremoës

  • Comparison of Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods for Integrated Rehabilitation Prioritization

    Franz Tscheikner-Gratl;Patrick Egger;Wolfgang Rauch;Manfred Kleidorfer

  • Assessing uncertainties in urban drainage models

    Ana Deletic;Cintia Brum Siqueira Dotto;David Thomas McCarthy;Manfred Kleidorfer

  • Integrated approaches in urban storm drainage: Where do we stand?

    Wolfgang Rauch;Katja Seggelke;Rebekah Ruth Brown;Peter Krebs

  • River Water Quality Modelling: II. Problems of the Art

    P. Shanahan;Mogens Henze;L. Koncsos;Wolfgang Rauch

  • CITY DRAIN © - An open source approach for simulation of integrated urban drainage systems

    Stefan Achleitner;Michael Möderl;Wolfgang Rauch

  • Pipe failure modelling for water distribution networks using boosted decision trees

    Daniel Winkler;Markus Haltmeier;Manfred Kleidorfer;Wolfgang Rauch

  • Towards a smart water city: A comprehensive review of applications, data requirements, and communication technologies for integrated management

    Martin Oberascher;Wolfgang Rauch;Robert Sitzenfrei

  • Sweating the assets – The role of instrumentation, control and automation in urban water systems

    Zhiguo Yuan;Gustaf Olsson;Rachel Cardell-Oliver;Kim van Schagen

  • Performance and sensitivity analysis of stormwater models using a Bayesian approach and long-term high resolution data

    C. B. S. Dotto;M. Kleidorfer;A. Deletic;W. Rauch

  • A simplified mixed-culture biofilm model

    Wolfgang Rauch;Henk Vanhooren;Peter A. Vanrolleghem

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Vanrolleghem
Peter A. Vanrolleghem Université Laval
Ana Deletic
Ana Deletic Queensland University of Technology
David Thomas McCarthy
David Thomas McCarthy Monash University
Mogens Henze
Mogens Henze Technical University of Denmark
Peter Steen Mikkelsen
Peter Steen Mikkelsen Technical University of Denmark
Giorgio Mannina
Giorgio Mannina University of Palermo
Willi Gujer
Willi Gujer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Tim D. Fletcher
Tim D. Fletcher University of Melbourne
Jiri Marsalek
Jiri Marsalek Luleå University of Technology
Zhiguo Yuan
Zhiguo Yuan City University of Hong Kong

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