2026 Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	81	903	858	56	55	355	49999

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
2010 - Polish Academy of Science

Overview

Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz is affiliated with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. Their research primarily falls within Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Atmospheric Science. Their work also touches on subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis as well as Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to hydrology and climate, including Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Climate variability and models, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change and Health Impacts, and Integrated Water Resources Management.

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include Tong Jiang, Buda Su, Demetris Koutsoyiannis, Jinlong Huang, and Iwona Pińskwar.

The researcher has published papers in various venues, notably:

Water
Sci
Earth's Future
The Science of The Total Environment
Climatic Change

Significant recent papers include:

"Choice of potential evapotranspiration formulas influences drought assessment: A case study in China" (2020) published in Atmospheric Research
"Floods and the COVID-19 pandemic-A new double hazard problem" (2021) published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
"Climate variability and floods in China - A review" (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
"Each 0.5°C of Warming Increases Annual Flood Losses in China by More than US$60 Billion" (2020) published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"COP 28: Challenge of coping with climate crisis" (2024) published in The Innovation

In addition to journal articles, their book publication includes:

Wpływ zmian klimatu na środowisko leśne / Impacts of climate change on forest environment (2023), published by Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science

The researcher has received recognition with membership in the Academia Europaea since 2017 and affiliation with the Polish Academy of Science since 2010.

Best Publications

Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management?

P. C. D. Milly;Julio Betancourt;Malin Falkenmark;Robert M. Hirsch

5454
Citations
Climate Change 2007 Synthesis report

Lenny Bernstein;Peter Bosch;Osvaldo Canziani;Zhenlin Chen

5331
Citations
Climate change and water.

Bryson Bates;Zbigniew Kundzewicz;Shaohong Wu

5189
Citations
Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: A contribution of Working Groups I, II, and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

RT Watson;DL Albritton;T Barker;IA Baskmakov

3360
Citations
Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

3266
Citations
Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives

Zbigniew W Kundzewicz;Shinjiro Kanae;Sonia I Seneviratne;John W Handmer

1627
Citations
Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report

R. T. Watson;D. L. Albritton;T. Barker;I. A. Bashmakov

1423
Citations
Freshwater resources and their management

Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Luis José Mata;Nigel Arnell;Kathleen Miller

1345
Citations
The implications of projected climate change for freshwater resources and their management

Z.W. Kundzewicz;L.J. Mata;Nigel William Arnell;P. Doll

1040
Citations
Climate change and water: technical paper of the intergovernmental panel on climate change

B. C Bates;Z. W Kundzewicz;S Wu;N Arnell

900
Citations
Change detection in hydrological records—a review of the methodology / Revue méthodologique de la détection de changements dans les chroniques hydrologiques

Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Alice J. Robson

815
Citations
Understanding Flood Regime Changes in Europe: A state of the art assessment

J Hall;B Arheimer;M Borga;R Brazdil;R Brazdil

657
Citations
Drought losses in China might double between the 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming.

Buda Su;Jinlong Huang;Thomas Fischer;Yanjun Wang

476
Citations
Change detection in hydrological records— a review of the methodology

Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Alice J. Robson

440
Citations
Uncertainty in climate change impacts on water resources

Z.W. Kundzewicz;Z.W. Kundzewicz;V. Krysanova;R.E. Benestad;Ø. Hov

388
Citations
Will groundwater ease freshwater stress under climate change

Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Petra Döll

378
Citations
Changes in impacts of climate extremes: Human systems and ecosystems

John Handmer;Yasushi Honda;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Nigel Arnell

362
Citations
Historical hydrology for studying flood risk in Europe

Rudolf Brázdil;Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz;Gerardo Benito

343
Citations
On Critiques of “Stationarity is Dead: Whither Water Management?”

Paul C.D. Milly;Julio L. Betancourt;Malin Falkenmark;Robert M. Hirsch

296
Citations
Adaptation to flood risk: Results of international paired flood event studies

Heidi Kreibich;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Sergiy Vorogushyn;Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts

284
Citations
Climate Change 2007 : Synthesis Report : An Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

L. Bernstein;P. Bosch;O. Canziani;Z. Chen

273
Citations
A contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change

J. Sathaye;S. Schneider;T. Stocker;B. Robinson

9
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Stoffel University of Geneva

Buda Su Chinese Academy of Sciences

Valentina Krysanova Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Bartłomiej Wyżga Polish Academy of Sciences

Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens

Virginia Ruiz-Villanueva University of Lausanne

Fred Hattermann Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Reinhard Mechler International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Tong Jiang Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Nigel W. Arnell University of Reading

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