Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Flood Risk Assessment and Management is a research topic within Global and Planetary Change. Science Explorer counts 52k research works in it since 1950. 24.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment, mapping, and management of global flood risk, incorporating aspects such as remote sensing, climate change impacts, surface water mapping, flood inundation modeling, urban flooding, risk perception, hydrological modeling, satellite imagery, and disaster management.
- Flood Risk
- Remote Sensing
- Climate Change
- Surface Water Mapping
- Flood Inundation Modeling
- Urban Flooding
- Risk Perception
- Hydrological Modeling
- Satellite Imagery
- Disaster Management
- Research works
- 52k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 13k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 24.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +80% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Flood Risk Assessment and Management research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.2k and 1.9k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 3.2k works
- 2 United States 1.9k works
- 3 India 1.9k works
- 4 Indonesia 521 works
- 5 United Kingdom 507 works
- 6 Italy 430 works
- 7 Japan 394 works
- 8 Australia 376 works
- 9 Germany 354 works
- 10 Iran 345 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Flood Risk Assessment and Management research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Flood Risk Assessment and Management research, followed by Hohai University and Wuhan University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 111 works
- 2 Hohai UniversityChina 106 works
- 3 Wuhan UniversityChina 91 works
- 4 China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower ResearchChina 69 works
- 5 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 69 works
- 6 Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 68 works
- 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 62 works
- 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 51 works
- 9 China University of GeosciencesChina 48 works
- 10 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States 47 works
Who are the leading researchers in Flood Risk Assessment and Management?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Flood Risk Assessment and Management include Johan Rockström, Gianpaolo Balsamo and Jozef Deckers.
- 1 Johan Rockström Germany 3.9k citations
- 2 Gianpaolo Balsamo United Kingdom 3.5k citations
- 3 Jozef Deckers Belgium 2.8k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Flood Risk Assessment and Management research done?
The largest centres of Flood Risk Assessment and Management research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Wuhan (China) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Arba Minch.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- Arba MinchET · 31.2 works30×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Flood Risk Assessment and Management than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Flood Risk Assessment and Management?
Among universities, judged by research, China University of Geosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia and University of Potsdam score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China University of GeosciencesChina | 66.2 | 46.5% | 6.8× | 48 | +100.1% |
| 2 | Jamia Millia IslamiaIndia | 65.5 | 51.2% | 5.9× | 18 | +361.1% |
| 3 | University of PotsdamGermany | 65.4 | 44.6% | 6.5× | 21 | +267.3% |
| 4 | Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia | 62.0 | 28.7% | 9.7× | 68 | +52.2% |
| 5 | North Bengal UniversityIndia | 61.9 | 51.3% | 12.1× | 12 | — |
| 6 | Indian Institute of Technology GandhinagarIndia | 61.7 | 53.0% | 8.9× | 13 | — |
| 7 | Jagannath UniversityBangladesh | 61.7 | 47.8% | 18.0× | 10 | — |
| 8 | Hohai UniversityChina | 61.3 | 23.9% | 12.5× | 106 | +4.6% |
| 9 | Beijing Normal UniversityChina | 60.1 | 37.1% | 6.5× | 69 | +59.7% |
| 10 | Khulna University of Engineering and TechnologyBangladesh | 59.5 | 51.0% | 8.3× | 12 | — |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Flood Risk Assessment and Management research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 80% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Flood Risk Assessment and Management.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.