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Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes is a research topic within Ecology. Science Explorer counts 37k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the ecological dynamics and human impacts on riverine landscapes, focusing on topics such as river restoration, riparian vegetation, fluvial processes, sediment transport, channel morphology, hydrological impacts, vegetation dynamics, geomorphological effects, and floodplain connectivity.

  • River Restoration
  • Riparian Vegetation
  • Fluvial Processes
  • Sediment Transport
  • Channel Morphology
  • Hydrological Impacts
  • Vegetation Dynamics
  • Geomorphological Effects
  • Floodplain Connectivity
  • Human Influence
Research works
37k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Which countries lead Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.6k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 United States 1.1k works
  3. 3 India 582 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 242 works
  5. 5 Iran 241 works
  6. 6 Italy 237 works
  7. 7 France 227 works
  8. 8 Canada 217 works
  9. 9 Germany 176 works
  10. 10 Japan 173 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.

China: 33.6%United States: 22.8%India: 12.1%United Kingdom: 5.0%6 others listed: 26.5%34%largest
China1,613 · 33.6%United States1,098 · 22.8%India582 · 12.1%United Kingdom242 · 5.0%6 others listed1,271 · 26.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes research, followed by Hohai University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 147 works
  2. 2 Hohai UniversityChina 90 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 81 works
  4. 4 Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of ChinaChina 80 works
  5. 5 United States Geological SurveyUnited States 75 works
  6. 6 Sichuan UniversityChina 68 works
  7. 7 Wuhan UniversityChina 55 works
  8. 8 China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower ResearchChina 39 works
  9. 9 Tsinghua UniversityChina 36 works
  10. 10 Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeIndia 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes include Jun Wang, Xiaogang Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  5. 5 Peter B. Reich United States 189k citations
  6. 6 Jacob Cohen Israel 170k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes?

The most cited paper in Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes is "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, 1979), with 6,834 citations. Next come "The Natural Flow Regime" (6,478) and "Quantitative analysis of watershed geomorphology" (6,044).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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 Open access Mar 1979 6,834
2 The Natural Flow Regime N. LeRoy Poff, J. David Allan, Mark B. Bain et al. · BioScience Dec 1997 6,478
3 Quantitative analysis of watershed geomorphology Arthur N. Strahler · Transactions American Geophysical Union Dec 1957 6,044
4 GRADISTAT: a grain size distribution and statistics package for the analysis of unconsolidated sediments Simon J. Blott, Kenneth Pye · Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Open access 28 Sep 2001 4,427
5 Landscapes and Riverscapes: The Influence of Land Use on Stream Ecosystems J. David Allan · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics Review 2 Nov 2004 3,653
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Where is Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes research done?

The largest centres of Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Wuhan (China) and Chengdu (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yangling, Reston and Chengdu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 384 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 153 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 126 works
  4. 4 ChengduChina 91 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 77 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 66 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 63 works
  8. 8 ZhengzhouChina 61 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 61 works
  10. 10 RestonUnited States 53 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YanglingCN · 23.9 works81×
  2. RestonUS · 53.5 works35×
  3. Chengdu28.2 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes?

Among universities, judged by research, Hohai University, Beijing Normal University and Northwest A&F University 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.

0%20%40%mean 21.93%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Beijing Normal Unive…Northwest A&F Univer…University of PaduaHohai University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hohai UniversityChina 69.615.4%26.1×90 +24.6%
2Beijing Normal UniversityChina 64.732.1%5.3×24 -30.2%
3Northwest A&F UniversityChina 62.922.2%10.2×23 +3.3%
4University of PaduaItaly 60.817.1%5.8×27 +4.0%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 59.911.8%5.1×68 +47.7%
6University of Northern British ColumbiaCanada 58.728.3%44.8×10 +58.8%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 58.620.3%3.0×29 +2.9%
8Xi'an University of TechnologyChina 58.315.8%15.2×29 +41.2%
9Ocean University of ChinaChina 58.223.4%5.4×16 +90.6%
10Tongji UniversityChina 56.232.9%1.6×14 +1.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, country by country

Is Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

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.

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