Most cited papers in Flood Risk Assessment and Management
What are the most cited papers in Flood Risk Assessment and Management?
The most cited paper in Flood Risk Assessment and Management is "The use of the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) in the delineation of open water features" (Stuart K. McFeeters, 1996), with 7,778 citations. Next come "Decomposition of the mean squared error and NSE performance criteria: Implications for improving hydrological modelling" (7,007) and "A physically based, variable contributing area model of basin hydrology / Un modèle à base physique de zone d'appel variable de l'hydrologie du bassin versant" (6,834).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,046 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The use of the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) in the delineation of open water features Stuart K. McFeeters · International Journal of Remote Sensing | May 1996 | 7,778 |
| 2 | Decomposition of the mean squared error and NSE performance criteria: Implications for improving hydrological modelling Hoshin V. Gupta, Harald Kling, Koray K. Yılmaz et al. · Journal of Hydrology | 9 Aug 2009 | 7,007 |
| 3 | A physically based, variable contributing area model of basin hydrology / Un modèle à base physique de zone d'appel variable de l'hydrologie du bassin versant Keith John Beven, Mike J. Kirkby · Hydrological Sciences Bulletin | Mar 1979 | 6,834 |
| 4 | Convolutional LSTM Network: A Machine Learning Approach for Precipitation Nowcasting Xingjian Shi, Zhourong Chen, Hao Wang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) | 13 Jun 2015 | 6,650 |
| 5 | Modification of normalised difference water index (NDWI) to enhance open water features in remotely sensed imagery Hanqiu Xu · International Journal of Remote Sensing | 7 Jul 2006 | 6,019 |
| 6 | High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes Jean‐François Pekel, Andrew Cottam, Noel Gorelick et al. · Nature | 6 Dec 2016 | 5,407 |
| 7 | A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters Susan L. Cutter, Lindsey R. Barnes, Melissa M. Berry et al. · Global Environmental Change | Oct 2008 | 4,334 |
| 8 | Climate Change Will Affect the Asian Water Towers Walter Willem Immerzeel, Ludovicus P. H. van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens · Science | 10 Jun 2010 | 4,255 |
| 9 | Global flood risk under climate change Yukiko Hirabayashi, Mahendran Roobavannan, Sujan Koirala et al. · Nature Climate Change | 9 Jun 2013 | 3,120 |
| 10 | Comparison of different efficiency criteria for hydrological model assessment Peter Krause, D. P. Boyle, Frank Bäse · Advances in geosciences | 16 Dec 2005 | 2,877 |
| 11 | Landslide hazard evaluation: a review of current techniques and their application in a multi-scale study, Central Italy Fausto Guzzetti, Alberto Carrara, Mauro Cardinali et al. · Geomorphology | Dec 1999 | 2,669 |
| 12 | High‐resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river‐flow management Bernhard Lehner, Catherine Reidy Liermann, Carmen Revenga et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 31 May 2011 | 2,601 |
| 13 | Future flood losses in major coastal cities Stéphane Hallegatte, Colin Richard Green, Robert J. Nicholls et al. · Nature Climate Change | 16 Aug 2013 | 2,584 |
| 14 | Future climate risk from compound events Jakob Zscheischler, Seth Westra, Bart van den Hurk et al. · Nature Climate Change | 11 May 2018 | 2,532 |
| 15 | New Global Hydrography Derived From Spaceborne Elevation Data Bernhard Lehner, Kristine L. Verdin, Andy Jarvis · Eos | 4 Mar 2008 | 2,526 |
| 16 | Development and validation of a global database of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands Bernhard Lehner, Petra Döll · Journal of Hydrology | 6 Jul 2004 | 2,516 |
| 17 | Vulnerability to environmental hazards Susan L. Cutter · Progress in Human Geography | Dec 1996 | 2,279 |
| 18 | Equifinality, data assimilation, and uncertainty estimation in mechanistic modelling of complex environmental systems using the GLUE methodology Keith John Beven, Jim E. Freer · Journal of Hydrology | Aug 2001 | 2,272 |
| 19 | Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016 Melanie J. Froude, David N. Petley · Natural hazards and earth system sciences | 23 Aug 2018 | 2,220 |
| 20 | Global river hydrography and network routing: baseline data and new approaches to study the world's large river systems Bernhard Lehner, Günther Grill · Hydrological Processes | 13 Feb 2013 | 2,185 |
| 21 | Landslide inventory maps: New tools for an old problem Fausto Guzzetti, Alessandro Cesare Mondini, Mauro Cardinali et al. · Earth-Science Reviews | 23 Feb 2012 | 2,154 |
| 22 | Automated Water Extraction Index: A new technique for surface water mapping using Landsat imagery Gudina Legese Feyisa, Henrik Meilby, Rasmus Fensholt et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 17 Sep 2013 | 2,125 |
| 23 | The Risk Perception Paradox—Implications for Governance and Communication of Natural Hazards Gisela Wachinger, Ortwin Renn, Chloe Begg et al. · Risk Analysis | 24 Dec 2012 | 2,122 |
| 24 | Rainfall–runoff modelling using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks Frederik Kratzert, Daniel Klotz, Claire Brenner et al. · Hydrology and earth system sciences | 22 Nov 2018 | 1,996 |
| 25 | The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments John Downing, Yves T. Prairie, J. J. Cole et al. · Limnology and Oceanography | Sep 2006 | 1,975 |
| 26 | The Protective Action Decision Model: Theoretical Modifications and Additional Evidence Michael K. Lindell, Ronald W. Perry · Risk Analysis | 20 Jun 2011 | 1,856 |
| 27 | Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions Susan L. Cutter, Christopher G. Burton, Christopher T. Emrich · Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management | 4 Aug 2010 | 1,828 |
| 28 | A continental-scale hydrology and water quality model for Europe: Calibration and uncertainty of a high-resolution large-scale SWAT model Karim C. Abbaspour, Elham Rouholahnejad, Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi et al. · Journal of Hydrology | 26 Mar 2015 | 1,814 |
| 29 | Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate Paul C. D. Milly, Richard T. Wetherald, K. A. Dunne et al. · Nature | 2002 | 1,814 |
| 30 | Gully erosion and environmental change: importance and research needs Jean Poesen, Jeroen Nachtergaele, Gert Verstraeten et al. · CATENA | 2 Dec 2002 | 1,804 |
| 31 | Landslides in a changing climate Stefano Luigi Gariano, Fausto Guzzetti · Earth-Science Reviews | 23 Aug 2016 | 1,766 |
| 32 | An introduction to the European Hydrological System — Systeme Hydrologique Europeen, “SHE”, 1: History and philosophy of a physically-based, distributed modelling system M. B. Abbott, James C. Bathurst, Jean A. Cunge et al. · Journal of Hydrology | Oct 1986 | 1,702 |
| 33 | Global patterns of loss of life from landslides David N. Petley · Geology | 2 Aug 2012 | 1,700 |
| 34 | Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Shinjiro Kanae, Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne et al. · Hydrological Sciences Journal | 20 Dec 2013 | 1,695 |
| 35 | Quantitative analysis of land surface topography Lyle W. Zevenbergen, Colin Reginald Thorne · Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 1987 | 1,651 |
| 36 | A high‐accuracy map of global terrain elevations Dai Yamazaki, Daiki Ikeshima, Ryunosuke Tawatari et al. · Geophysical Research Letters | 31 May 2017 | 1,636 |
| 37 | Urban Hazard Mitigation: Creating Resilient Cities David R. Godschalk · Natural Hazards Review | 22 Jul 2003 | 1,634 |
| 38 | Optimal use of the SCE-UA global optimization method for calibrating watershed models Qingyun Duan, Soroosh Sorooshian, Vijai Kumar Gupta · Journal of Hydrology | Jun 1994 | 1,565 |
| 39 | Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise Jochen Hinkel, Daniël Lincke, Athanasios Thomas Vafeidis et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 3 Feb 2014 | 1,526 |
| 40 | A simple raster-based model for flood inundation simulation Paul Bates, Ad P. J. de Roo · Journal of Hydrology | Sep 2000 | 1,514 |
| 41 | Guidelines for landslide susceptibility, hazard and risk zoning for land use planning Robin Fell, Jordi Corominas, C. Bonnard et al. · Engineering Geology | Aug 2008 | 1,510 |
| 42 | Flood inundation modelling: A review of methods, recent advances and uncertainty analysis Jin Teng, Anthony J. Jakeman, Jai Vaze et al. · Environmental Modelling & Software | 28 Feb 2017 | 1,503 |
| 43 | Revealing the Vulnerability of People and Places: A Case Study of Georgetown County, South Carolina Susan L. Cutter, Jerry T. Mitchell, Michael S. Scott · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Dec 2000 | 1,480 |
| 44 | Satellite imaging reveals increased proportion of population exposed to floods Beth Tellman, Jonathan A. Sullivan, C Kuhn et al. · Nature | 4 Aug 2021 | 1,465 |
| 45 | Anthropogenic contribution to global occurrence of heavy-precipitation and high-temperature extremes Erich Markus Fischer, Reto Knutti · Nature Climate Change | 24 Apr 2015 | 1,449 |
| 46 | Operational testing of hydrological simulation models Vit Klemeš · Hydrological Sciences Journal | Mar 1986 | 1,423 |
| 47 | Toward a complete Himalayan hydrological budget: Spatiotemporal distribution of snowmelt and rainfall and their impact on river discharge Bodo Bookhagen, Douglas W. Burbank · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 9 Aug 2010 | 1,422 |
| 48 | Mountains of the world, water towers for humanity: Typology, mapping, and global significance Daniel Viviroli, Hans H. Dürr, Bruno Messerli et al. · Water Resources Research | Jul 2007 | 1,422 |
| 49 | Getting the right answers for the right reasons: Linking measurements, analyses, and models to advance the science of hydrology James W. Kirchner · Water Resources Research | Mar 2006 | 1,411 |
| 50 | A decade of Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)—a review Markus Hrachowitz et al. · Hydrological Sciences Journal | 16 May 2013 | 1,383 |
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