OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Hydrology is 73. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Publisher’s note	258
What is the current state and potential for hydrologic models to simulate vegetation dynamically?	226
Evaluating and modeling rill detachment and resistance in different rates and particle sizes of biochar application on the Loess Plateau of China	214
Simulating vertical soil nitrate migration induced by freeze–thaw cycles	205
Flood control in transboundary river basins through joint operation of key riparian reservoirs	190
Editorial Board	171
DFEAT: A multifaceted yearly Drought FEature Assessment Tool from daily soil water content	152
An integrated approach to obtain high-precision regional root water uptake maps	139
A method for modeling the lateral distributions of depth-averaged velocities behind an emergent vegetation patch	135
Automated calibration of Noah-MP land surface model for improved irrigation representation in the North China Plain	133
The impact of complex terrain on urban flood resilience under extreme rainfall events	125
A novel rapid flood mapping model based on social media and GF-3 satellite imagery	125
Exploring the influence of training sampling strategies on time-series deep learning model in hydrology	124
Forecasting regional water demand using multi-fidelity data and harris hawks optimization of generalized regression neural network models – A case study of Heilongjiang Province, China	123
Contrasting effects of increasing irrigation efficiency on hydrological drought based on hydrological scenario simulations	120
Stable isotope composition of surface waters across the Pamir, Central Asia: Implications of precipitation seasonality	116
Merging Landsat and airborne LiDAR observations for continuous monitoring of floodplain water extent, depth and volume	115
Modeling the effects of vegetation dynamics on the hydrological performance of a bioretention system	114
A model for predicting permeability evolution of organic-contaminated clays capturing corrosion effect	113
Seawater intrusion in river delta systems. Inter-annual dynamics and drivers of salinity variations in the southern Mekong Delta, Vietnam	111
Integrating Landsat and MODIS data to assess long-term inundation patterns and vegetation response in wetland ecosystems	111
Dissolved inorganic carbon export from rivers of Great Britain: Spatial distribution and potential catchment-scale controls	109
Pay-for-practice or Pay-for-performance? A coupled agent-based evaluation tool for assessing sediment management incentive policies	108
A physically-informed long short-term memory-based tool for predicting extensive droughts in the distant future	104
Source identification of groundwater phosphorus under different geological settings in the central Yangtze River basin	103

A low-cost model for slug tests in a confined aquifer with skin-zone effect	101
A framework for identifying propagation from meteorological to ecological drought events	99
High-dimensional inverse modeling of hydraulic tomography by physics informed neural network (HT-PINN)	99
Evaluation of cloud seeding on the securement of additional water resources in the Boryeong Dam Basin, Korea	98
Ecohydrological implications of the variability of soil hydrophysical properties between two Sphagnum moss microforms and the impact of different sample heights	98
A novel Bayesian maximum entropy-based approach for optimal design of water quality monitoring networks in rivers	97
Machine learning unravels controls on river water temperature regime dynamics	97
Integrating hydraulic profiling tool pressure logs and hydraulic tomography for improved high-resolution characterization of subsurface heterogeneity	96
Enrichment mechanisms of lithium for the geothermal springs in the southern Tibet, China	95
Evaluating the effects of water exchange between surface rivers and karst aquifers on surface flood simulations at different watershed scales	95
Heavy metals in the water-level-fluctuation zone soil of the three Gorges Reservoir, China: Remobilization and catchment-wide transportation	93
Prediction of flood risk levels of urban flooded points though using machine learning with unbalanced data	92
Uncertainties in discharge predictions based on microwave link rainfall estimates in a small urban catchment	92
Assessing bed shear stress effects on flow resistance of vegetated channel beds through Leaf Area Index (	92
Permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau is degrading: Historical and projected trends	91
A new approach of coupled long-range forecasts for streamflow and groundwater level	91
Future hydrological drought changes over the upper Yellow River basin: The role of climate change, land cover change and reservoir operation	91
Application of weather post-processing methods for operational ensemble hydrological forecasting on multiple catchments in Canada	90
Verifying model performance using validation of Pareto solutions	89
Developing a cost-effective emulator for groundwater flow modeling using deep neural operators	89
Multiscale gravity measurements to characterize 2020 flood events and their spatio-temporal evolution in Yangtze river of China	87
An integrated study of the spatiotemporal character, pollution assessment, and migration mechanism of heavy metals in the groundwater of a subtropical mangrove wetland	87
Improved non-stationary SPEI and its application in drought monitoring in China	86
Assessing the potential of temperature/vegetation index space to infer soil moisture over Ganga Basin	86
Assimilation of surface reflectance in snow simulations: Impact on bulk snow variables	86
Improved soil moisture estimation and detection of irrigation signal by incorporating SMAP soil moisture into the Indian Land Data Assimilation System (ILDAS)	85
Real-time integrated water availability – Salt intrusion modelling and management during droughts	81
Predicting multiphase flow behavior of methane in shallow unconfined aquifers using conditional deep convolutional generative adversarial network	81
Contribution of summer net precipitation to winter river discharge in permafrost zone of the Lena River basin	80
Local scour around bridge abutments: Assessment of accuracy and conservatism	79
Differences in watershed evaporation indicated by hydrogen and oxygen single and dual isotopes: Evidence from controlled simulation tests under different land uses	78
Near-infrared surveillance video-based rain gauge	78
Divergent nonlinear trends of global drought and its multivariate characteristics	77
Inter-comparison and integration of different soil moisture downscaling methods over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	77
Predicting the interrill erosion rate on hillslopes incorporating soil aggregate stability on the Loess Plateau of China	77
Daily suspended sediment concentration forecast in the upper reach of Yellow River using a comprehensive integrated deep learning model	77
Characterizing soil water content variability across spatial scales from optimized high-resolution distributed temperature sensing technique	77
The importance of incorporating rain intensity profiles in rainfall simulation studies of infiltration, runoff production, soil erosion, and related landsurface processes	76
Improved identification and monitoring of meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological droughts using the modified nonstationary drought indices in the Yellow River Basin of China	75
Untangling the effects of climate change and land use/cover change on spatiotemporal variation of evapotranspiration over China	75
Hydro-climatological drivers of the unprecedented flooding in August 2022 along the Tarim River, China	75
The intercomparison of six 0.1°×0.1° spatial resolution evapotranspiration products across mainland China	75
Evaluation of spatial downscaling for satellite retrieval of evapotranspiration from the nonparametric approach in an arid area	75
Scenario analysis of local storylines to represent uncertainty in complex human-water systems	74
Controls on the stable isotope composition of daily precipitation in Sydney Australia: 9 years of daily data, including Radon-222	74
Fuzzy composite risk assessment of water-energy-food-carbon nexus in the dispark pumped irrigation system	74
New framework for nonpoint source pollution management based on downscaling priority management areas	74
Environmental changes promoted vegetation growth and reduced water yield over the temperate semi-arid grassland of China during 1901–2016	74
Subtropical mangroves poleward shift to the Yangtze Estuary under different carbon emission scenarios	73
Rare bacterial taxa drive the ecosystem multifunctionality in lake water-level-fluctuating zone during seasonal water level fluctuations	73

Assessing the long-term hydrologic responses of river catchments in Taiwan using a multiple-component hydrograph approach	73
Miscellaneous methods for determination of unfrozen water content in frozen soils	73