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Researcher · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · United States

Murugesu Sivapalan

Murugesu Sivapalan publishes mostly in Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0003-3004-3530 OpenAlex
World rank
#44,287
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,030
of 1,627,098
Works
668
Citations
40k
Citations per work
59.5
h-index
97
i10-index 297Top 0.1% in Water Science and Technology
Murugesu Sivapalan

What does Murugesu Sivapalan research?

Murugesu Sivapalan's work is mostly in Environmental Science (63%), Engineering (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 477 works · 71.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 419 works · 62.7% of their workWater Science and Technology: 197 works · 29.5% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 162 works · 24.3% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 59 works · 8.9% of their workEngineering: 58 works · 8.7% of their workOcean Engineering: 35 works · 5.2% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 23 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 162 works · 24.2% of their workLife Sciences: 29 works · 4.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 29 works · 4.4% of their workSoil Science: 29 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMurugesuSivapalan668works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences71%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science41962.7%
    2. Engineering588.7%
  2. Everything else16224.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences294.4%
  1. 1Water Science and Technology30% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change24% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Soil Science4% of their works
  6. 6Civil and Structural Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Murugesu Sivapalan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Hydrological Modeling, Water Resources, Land Use Change, Global Hydrology, Model Evaluation, Remote Sensing and Drought.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change8345 topics
  2. Hydrological Modeling5692 topics
  3. Water Resources5603 topics
  4. Land Use Change4822 topics
  5. Global Hydrology4161 topic
  6. Model Evaluation4161 topic
  7. Remote Sensing2502 topics
  8. Drought1852 topics
  9. Evapotranspiration1852 topics
  10. Flood Risk1531 topic
  11. Surface Water Mapping1531 topic
  12. Global Warming971 topic
  13. Monitoring971 topic
  14. Ecosystem Resilience881 topic
  15. Tree Mortality881 topic
  16. Reservoir Operation801 topic
  17. Water Demand801 topic
  18. Agricultural Sustainability661 topic
  19. Soil Erosion661 topic
  20. Hydrology641 topic
  21. Machine Learning641 topic
  22. Soil Hydraulic Properties481 topic
  23. Unsaturated Soil Mechanics481 topic

Where does Murugesu Sivapalan work?

Murugesu Sivapalan's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States.

How many publications and citations does Murugesu Sivapalan have?

OpenAlex counts 668 works and 39,720 citations for Murugesu Sivapalan, an h-index of 97, ranking #44,287 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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