Athanasios T. Vafeidis

13.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
112 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

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Athanasios T. Vafeidis is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Athanasios T. Vafeidis has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 59 papers in Atmospheric Science and 57 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Athanasios T. Vafeidis's work include Coastal and Marine Dynamics (57 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (52 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (44 papers). Athanasios T. Vafeidis is often cited by papers focused on Coastal and Marine Dynamics (57 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (52 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (44 papers). Athanasios T. Vafeidis collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Athanasios T. Vafeidis's co-authors include Robert J. Nicholls, Jochen Hinkel, Barbara Neumann, Juliane Zimmermann, Daniël Lincke, Richard S.J. Tol, Sally Brown, Lena Reimann, Mark Schuerch and Claudia Wolff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Athanasios T. Vafeidis

108 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Future Coastal Population Growth and Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Flooding - A Global Assessment

2015 1.8k citations Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Robert J. Nicholls et al. profile →
Coastal flood damage and adaptation costs under 21st century sea-level rise

2014 933 citations Jochen Hinkel, Daniël Lincke et al. profile →
Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise

2018 706 citations Mark Schuerch, Claudia Wolff et al. profile →
A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure

2021 321 citations Robert J. Nicholls, Daniël Lincke et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Global coastal wetland change under sea-level rise and related stresses: The DIVA Wetland Change Model

2016 269 citations Tom Spencer, Mark Schuerch et al. profile →
A multi-criteria approach for assessing urban flood resilience in Tehran, Iran

2019 257 citations Mahsa Moghadas, Asad Asadzadeh et al. profile →
Mediterranean UNESCO World Heritage at risk from coastal flooding and erosion due to sea-level rise

2018 231 citations Lena Reimann, Athanasios T. Vafeidis et al. Nature Communications profile →
Population development as a driver of coastal risk: Current trends and future pathways

2023 120 citations Lena Reimann, Athanasios T. Vafeidis et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Athanasios T. Vafeidis	3.6k	3.4k	3.1k	2.7k	1.4k	112	8.4k
Jochen Hinkel	5.2k 1.4×	3.4k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.8×	138	11.4k
Michalis Vousdoukas	2.7k 0.7×	3.5k 1.0×	3.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	566 0.4×	105	7.0k
David S.G. Thomas	2.7k 0.7×	4.6k 1.3×	5.4k 1.7×	1.7k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	247	13.0k
Tom Spencer	1.8k 0.5×	3.7k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	4.3k 1.6×	394 0.3×	263	9.1k
John A. Dearing	2.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	4.1k 1.3×	2.4k 0.9×	615 0.4×	183	10.1k
Lorenzo Mentaschi	2.9k 0.8×	2.3k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	330 0.2×	82	6.5k
Andrew Cooper	1.1k 0.3×	5.6k 1.6×	2.8k 0.9×	3.3k 1.3×	615 0.4×	330	8.6k
Daniël Lincke	1.8k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	601 0.4×	46	4.1k
Denise J. Reed	2.7k 0.7×	3.9k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	7.0k 2.6×	264 0.2×	89	9.2k
John W. Day	3.4k 0.9×	5.4k 1.6×	2.8k 0.9×	9.8k 3.7×	434 0.3×	261	14.9k

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MacPherson, Leigh R., et al.. (2024). A Comprehensive Probabilistic Flood Assessment Accounting for Hydrograph Variability of ESL Events. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(1). 4 indexed citations

Lorenz, Marvin, et al.. (2023). Regional assessment of extreme sea levels and associated coastal flooding along the German Baltic Sea coast. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(9). 2961–2985. 16 indexed citations

Reimann, Lena, et al.. (2023). Exploring spatial feedbacks between adaptation policies and internal migration patterns due to sea-level rise. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2630–2630. 14 indexed citations

Fang, Jiayi, Robert J. Nicholls, Sally Brown, et al.. (2022). Benefits of subsidence control for coastal flooding in China. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6946–6946. 44 indexed citations

Bertram, Christine, Martin F. Quaas, Thorsten B. H. Reusch, et al.. (2021). The blue carbon wealth of nations. Nature Climate Change. 11(8). 704–709. 128 indexed citations

Bertram, Christine, Martin F. Quaas, Thorsten B. H. Reusch, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: The blue carbon wealth of nations. Nature Climate Change. 11(10). 886–886. 3 indexed citations

Hinkel, Jochen, Luc Feyen, Mark Hemer, et al.. (2021). Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk. Earth s Future. 9(7). e2020EF001882–e2020EF001882. 61 indexed citations

Rohmer, Jérémy, Daniël Lincke, Jochen Hinkel, et al.. (2021). Unravelling the Importance of Uncertainties in Global-Scale Coastal Flood Risk Assessments under Sea Level Rise. Water. 13(6). 774–774. 15 indexed citations

Nicholls, Robert J., Daniël Lincke, Jochen Hinkel, et al.. (2021). Author Correction: A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure. Nature Climate Change. 11(7). 634–634. 11 indexed citations

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Nicholls, Robert J., Daniël Lincke, Jochen Hinkel, et al.. (2021). A global analysis of subsidence, relative sea-level change and coastal flood exposure. Nature Climate Change. 11(4). 338–342. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reimann, Lena, et al.. (2021). Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) to support local adaptation planning—A climate service for Flensburg, Germany. Futures. 127. 102691–102691. 31 indexed citations

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Arns, Arne, Thomas Wahl, Claudia Wolff, et al.. (2020). Non-linear interaction modulates global extreme sea levels, coastal flood exposure, and impacts. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1918–1918. 101 indexed citations

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Wolff, Claudia, et al.. (2020). What plausible urban coastal futures may look like? Spatially explicit urbanization projections for 10 Mediterranean countries.. 1 indexed citations

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Vafeidis, Athanasios T., Mark Schuerch, Claudia Wolff, et al.. (2019). Water-level attenuation in global-scale assessments of exposure to coastal flooding: a sensitivity analysis. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 19(5). 973–984. 57 indexed citations

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Gain, Animesh K., et al.. (2019). Exploring human-nature interaction on the coastal floodplain in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta through the lens of Ostrom’s social-ecological systems framework. Environmental Research Communications. 1(5). 51003–51003. 26 indexed citations

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Brown, Sally, Robert J. Nicholls, Philip Goodwin, et al.. (2018). Quantifying Land and People Exposed to Sea‐Level Rise with No Mitigation and 1.5°C and 2.0°C Rise in Global Temperatures to Year 2300. Earth s Future. 6(3). 583–600. 76 indexed citations

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Wolff, Claudia, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Sanne Muis, et al.. (2018). A Mediterranean coastal database for assessing the impacts of sea-level rise and associated hazards. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180044–180044. 46 indexed citations

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Hinkel, Jochen, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Sally Brown, et al.. (2018). The ability of societies to adapt to twenty-first-century sea-level rise. Nature Climate Change. 8(7). 570–578. 186 indexed citations

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Moghadas, Mahsa, et al.. (2018). Measuring Urban Disaster Resilience: The Context of Flood Hazard in City of Tehran. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 148. 1 indexed citations

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Anthoff, David, Robert J. Nicholls, Richard S.J. Tol, & Athanasios T. Vafeidis. (2006). Global and regional exposure to large rises in sea-level: a sensitivity analysis. Heliyon. 10(96). e24732–e24732. 68 indexed citations

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