OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 41. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of multi-criteria decision analysis in a transdisciplinary process: co-developing a flood forecasting system in western Africa	184
Agricultural intensification vs. climate change: what drives long-term changes in sediment load?	174
Technical note: Analyzing river network dynamics and the active length–discharge relationship using water presence sensors	155
Evaluating the impact of post-processing medium-range ensemble streamflow forecasts from the European Flood Awareness System	145
The influence of vegetation water dynamics on the ASCAT backscatter–incidence angle relationship in the Amazon	144
Integrating process-related information into an artificial neural network for root-zone soil moisture prediction	125
Multi-scale temporal analysis of evaporation on a saline lake in the Atacama Desert	111
Revisiting parameter sensitivities in the variable infiltration capacity model across a hydroclimatic gradient	108
Projecting end-of-century climate extremes and their impacts on the hydrology of a representative California watershed	105
Drastic decline of flood pulse in the Cambodian floodplains (Mekong River and Tonle Sap system)	83
Hydrology without dimensions	80
Trends and variability in snowmelt in China under climate change	79
A hydrologist's guide to open science	76
Compound flood impact forecasting: integrating fluvial and flash flood impact assessments into a unified system	73
Drivers of drought-induced shifts in the water balance through a Budyko approach	71
Extrapolating continuous vegetation water content to understand sub-daily backscatter variations	69
The limits to large-scale supply augmentation: exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways	69
Rainfall–runoff relationships at event scale in western Mediterranean ephemeral streams	68
Impact of correcting sub-daily climate model biases for hydrological studies	67
Towards hybrid modeling of the global hydrological cycle	64
Theoretical and empirical evidence against the Budyko catchment trajectory conjecture	62
A scaling procedure for straightforward computation of sorptivity	61
A combined use of in situ and satellite-derived observations to characterize surface hydrology and its variability in the Congo River basin	61
Technical note: Introduction of a superconducting gravimeter as novel hydrological sensor for the Alpine research catchment Zugspitze	60
Recent decrease in summer precipitation over the Iberian Peninsula closely links to reduction in local moisture recycling	60

A national-scale hybrid model for enhanced streamflow estimation – consolidating a physically based hydrological model with long short-term memory (LSTM) networks	59
High-resolution operational soil moisture monitoring for forests in central Germany	58
HESS Opinions: Drought impacts as failed prospects	58
Risks of seasonal extreme rainfall events in Bangladesh under 1.5 and 2.0 °C warmer worlds – how anthropogenic aerosols change the story	54
A robust upwind mixed hybrid finite element method for transport in variably saturated porous media	53
Ensemble streamflow prediction considering the influence of reservoirs in Narmada River Basin, India	51
Flood patterns in a catchment with mixed bedrock geology and a hilly landscape: identification of flashy runoff contributions during storm events	51
Producing reliable hydrologic scenarios from raw climate model outputs without resorting to meteorological observations	50
Effect of tides on river water behavior over the eastern shelf seas of China	48
Enhancing the usability of weather radar data for the statistical analysis of extreme precipitation events	46
Probabilistic subseasonal precipitation forecasts using preceding atmospheric intraseasonal signals in a Bayesian perspective	45
Key ingredients in regional climate modelling for improving the representation of typhoon tracks and intensities	44
Combined impacts of climate change and human activities on blue and green water resources in a high-intensity development watershed	43
Observation-driven model for calculating water-harvesting potential from advective fog in (semi-)arid coastal regions	43
Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps	41
Modeling water balance components of conifer species using the Noah-MP model in an eastern Mediterranean ecosystem	41