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Researcher · Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research · Germany

Ralf Merz

Ralf Merz publishes mostly in Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-3698-2339 OpenAlex
World rank
#107,557
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#5,698
of 364,343
Works
235
Citations
14k
Citations per work
59.4
h-index
51
i10-index 101Top 2.9% in Global and Planetary Change
Ralf Merz

What does Ralf Merz research?

Ralf Merz's work is mostly in Environmental Science (75%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%).

Physical Sciences: 201 works · 85.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 176 works · 75.1% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 79 works · 33.8% of their workWater Science and Technology: 69 works · 29.2% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 15 works · 6.3% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 14 works · 5.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 25 works · 10.5% of their workAtmospheric Science: 16 works · 6.9% of their workGeochemistry and Petrology: 8 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 34 works · 14.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRalf Merz235works
Physical Sciences86%

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 Science17675.1%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2510.5%
  2. Everything else3414.4%
  1. 1Global and Planetary Change34% of their works
  2. 2Water Science and Technology29% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science7% of their works
  4. 4Environmental Engineering6% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Chemistry6% of their works
  6. 6Geochemistry and Petrology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ralf Merz's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Hydrological Modeling, Remote Sensing, Water Resources, Global Hydrology, Model Evaluation, Global Warming and Flood Risk.

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.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change4316 topics
  2. Hydrological Modeling2762 topics
  3. Remote Sensing2073 topics
  4. Water Resources1992 topics
  5. Global Hydrology1801 topic
  6. Model Evaluation1801 topic
  7. Global Warming1102 topics
  8. Flood Risk961 topic
  9. Surface Water Mapping961 topic
  10. Drought891 topic
  11. Monitoring891 topic
  12. Water Quality572 topics
  13. Hydrology412 topics
  14. Hyporheic Zone341 topic
  15. Nutrient Cycling341 topic
  16. Groundwater231 topic
  17. Isotopes231 topic
  18. Glacier221 topic
  19. Water Availability221 topic
  20. Climate Modeling211 topic
  21. Extreme Events211 topic
  22. Forecasting191 topic
  23. Machine Learning191 topic

Where does Ralf Merz work?

Ralf Merz's main affiliation in the publication record is Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Ralf Merz have?

OpenAlex counts 235 works and 13,953 citations for Ralf Merz, an h-index of 51, ranking #107,557 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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