OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is 42. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis as a potential reference dataset for hydrological modelling over North America	280
Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors	141
Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling	122
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade	108
Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management	106
Rainfall–runoff prediction at multiple timescales with a single Long Short-Term Memory network	103
Groundwater level forecasting with artificial neural networks: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and non-linear autoregressive networks with exoge	101
Urban surface water flood modelling – a comprehensive review of current models and future challenges	85
Revisiting the global hydrological cycle: is it intensifying?	82
Concentration–discharge relationships vary among hydrological events, reflecting differences in event characteristics	81
A standardized index for assessing sub-monthly compound dry and hot conditions with application in China	79
Can we trust remote sensing evapotranspiration products over Africa?	75
Progressive water deficits during multiyear droughts in basins with long hydrological memory in Chile	67
Benchmarking data-driven rainfall–runoff models in Great Britain: a comparison of long short-term memory (LSTM)-based models with four lumped conceptual models	66
The 2018 northern European hydrological drought and its drivers in a historical perspective	61
Deep learning methods for flood mapping: a review of existing applications and future research directions	59
Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study	57
Technical Note: Flow velocity and discharge measurement in rivers using terrestrial and unmanned-aerial-vehicle imagery	52
Hydrologically informed machine learning for rainfall–runoff modelling: towards distributed modelling	52
Machine-learning methods for stream water temperature prediction	52
Deep learning rainfall–runoff predictions of extreme events	52
Flood trends in Europe: are changes in small and big floods different?	52
Rapid reduction in ecosystem productivity caused by flash droughts based on decade-long FLUXNET observations	51
A history of TOPMODEL	50
Technical Note: Improved partial wavelet coherency for understanding scale-specific and localized bivariate relationships in geosciences	48

Suitability of 17 gridded rainfall and temperature datasets for large-scale hydrological modelling in West Africa	47
Comparative analysis of kernel-based versus ANN and deep learning methods in monthly reference evapotranspiration estimation	47
Flood forecasting with machine learning models in an operational framework	46
Comparing Palmer Drought Severity Index drought assessments using the traditional offline approach with direct climate model outputs	46
Future streamflow regime changes in the United States: assessment using functional classification	45
Lake thermal structure drives interannual variability in summer anoxia dynamics in a eutrophic lake over 37 years	45
Time-lapse cross-hole electrical resistivity tomography (CHERT) for monitoring seawater intrusion dynamics in a Mediterranean aquifer	45
Rainfall estimation from a German-wide commercial microwave link network: optimized processing and validation for 1 year of data	45
Quantifying the impacts of compound extremes on agriculture	45
Using hydrological and climatic catchment clusters to explore drivers of catchment behavior	45
A review of the complementary principle of evaporation: from the original linear relationship to generalized nonlinear functions	44
Flash drought onset over the contiguous United States: sensitivity of inventories and trends to quantitative definitions	43
In situ measurements of soil and plant water isotopes: a review of approaches, practical considerations and a vision for the future	43
Sentinel-3 radar altimetry for river monitoring – a catchment-scale evaluation of satellite water surface elevation from Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B	43
Two-stage variational mode decomposition and support vector regression for streamflow forecasting	42
A history of the concept of time of concentration	42
Global cotton production under climate change – Implications for yield and water consumption	42