Benjamin B. Mirus

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Benjamin B. Mirus is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Civil and Structural Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin B. Mirus has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 27 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Benjamin B. Mirus's work include Landslides and related hazards (44 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (25 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (18 papers). Benjamin B. Mirus is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (44 papers), Soil and Unsaturated Flow (25 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (18 papers). Benjamin B. Mirus collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Benjamin B. Mirus's co-authors include Brian A. Ebel, Keith Loague, Rex L. Baum, Joel B. Smith, Matthew A. Thomas, Brian D. Collins, Jonathan W. Godt, Christopher S. Heppner, Joel E. VanderKwaak and John R. Nimmo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin B. Mirus

65 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin B. Mirus United States	28	1.0k	942	906	619	614	66	2.2k
Brian A. Ebel United States	35	1.2k 1.2×	2.0k 2.1×	1.3k 1.5×	510 0.8×	669 1.1×	83	3.2k
Matjaž Mikoš Slovenia	29	820 0.8×	902 1.0×	630 0.7×	285 0.5×	297 0.5×	153	2.1k
Xinjun Tu China	20	987 0.9×	875 0.9×	403 0.4×	530 0.9×	153 0.2×	60	2.0k
Takahisa Mizuyama Japan	31	1.1k 1.1×	805 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	960 1.6×	603 1.0×	157	3.0k
Giacomo Bertoldi Italy	23	400 0.4×	605 0.6×	721 0.8×	294 0.5×	607 1.0×	63	1.8k
Zohre Sadat Pourtaghi Iran	7	1.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	461 0.5×	132 0.2×	740 1.2×	7	2.0k
Pantaleone De Vita Italy	26	932 0.9×	434 0.5×	258 0.3×	475 0.8×	402 0.7×	79	1.7k
Francesco Fiorillo Italy	24	608 0.6×	475 0.5×	449 0.5×	273 0.4×	542 0.9×	71	1.8k
Elisa Arnone Italy	20	487 0.5×	680 0.7×	320 0.4×	207 0.3×	218 0.4×	39	1.2k
Raymond Torres United States	18	459 0.4×	364 0.4×	751 0.8×	457 0.7×	421 0.7×	45	1.9k

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Mirus, Benjamin B., Thom Bogaard, Roberto Greco, & Manfred Stähli. (2025). Invited perspectives: Integrating hydrologic information into the next generation of landslide early warning systems. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(1). 169–182. 5 indexed citations

Mirus, Benjamin B., et al.. (2025). Overcoming the data limitations in landslide susceptibility modeling. Science Advances. 11(8). eadt1541–eadt1541. 6 indexed citations

Hirschberg, Jacob, Brian W. McArdell, Benjamin B. Mirus, et al.. (2024). Debris‐flow entrainment modelling under climate change: Considering antecedent moisture conditions along the flow path. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49(10). 2950–2964. 2 indexed citations

Mirus, Benjamin B., et al.. (2024). Constraining Mean Landslide Occurrence Rates for Non‐Temporal Landslide Inventories Using High‐Resolution Elevation Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 129(8). 3 indexed citations

Leshchinsky, Ben, et al.. (2024). RegionGrow3D: A Deterministic Analysis for Characterizing Discrete Three‐Dimensional Landslide Source Areas on a Regional Scale. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 129(9). 2 indexed citations

Mirus, Benjamin B., Matthew M. Crawford, Dani Or, et al.. (2023). Mapping Landslide Susceptibility Over Large Regions With Limited Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 128(5). 26 indexed citations

Patton, Annette I., et al.. (2023). Landslide initiation thresholds in data-sparse regions: application to landslide early warning criteria in Sitka, Alaska, USA. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(10). 3261–3284. 8 indexed citations

Godt, Jonathan W., et al.. (2022). National strategy for landslide loss reduction. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 8 indexed citations

Nagendra, S., Daniel Kifer, Benjamin B. Mirus, et al.. (2022). Constructing a Large-Scale Landslide Database Across Heterogeneous Environments Using Task-Specific Model Updates. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 15. 4349–4370. 15 indexed citations

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Lehmann, Peter, Ben Leshchinsky, Surya Gupta, et al.. (2021). Clays Are Not Created Equal: How Clay Mineral Type Affects Soil Parameterization. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(20). 36 indexed citations

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Leonarduzzi, Elena, R. M. Maxwell, Benjamin B. Mirus, & Péter Molnár. (2021). Numerical Analysis of the Effect of Subgrid Variability in a Physically Based Hydrological Model on Runoff, Soil Moisture, and Slope Stability. Water Resources Research. 57(4). 13 indexed citations

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Mirus, Benjamin B., Eric S. Jones, Rex L. Baum, et al.. (2020). Landslides across the USA: occurrence, susceptibility, and data limitations. Landslides. 17(10). 2271–2285. 91 indexed citations

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Thomas, Matthew A., et al.. (2020). Hillslopes in Humid-tropical Climates Aren’t Always Wet: Implications for Hydrologic Response and Landslide Initiation in Puerto Rico. 1 indexed citations

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Hsu, Leslie, Caitlin M. Andrews, John B. Bradford, et al.. (2020). Community for data integration 2018 funded project report. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World.

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Fusco, Francesco, Pantaleone De Vita, Benjamin B. Mirus, et al.. (2019). Physically Based Estimation of Rainfall Thresholds Triggering Shallow Landslides in Volcanic Slopes of Southern Italy. Water. 11(9). 1915–1915. 40 indexed citations

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Thomas, Matthew A., Brian D. Collins, & Benjamin B. Mirus. (2019). Assessing the Feasibility of Satellite‐Based Thresholds for Hydrologically Driven Landsliding. Water Resources Research. 55(11). 9006–9023. 55 indexed citations

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Mirus, Benjamin B., et al.. (2018). Integrating real-time subsurface hydrologic monitoring with empirical rainfall thresholds to improve landslide early warning. Landslides. 15(10). 1909–1919. 101 indexed citations

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Smith, Joel B., et al.. (2017). Results of hydrologic monitoring on landslide-prone coastal bluffs near Mukilteo, Washington. Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World. 9 indexed citations

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Mirus, Benjamin B., Brian A. Ebel, C Mohr, & Nicolas Zégre. (2017). Disturbance Hydrology: Preparing for an Increasingly Disturbed Future. Water Resources Research. 53(12). 10007–10016. 37 indexed citations

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Mirus, Benjamin B., K. S. Perkins, & John R. Nimmo. (2011). Assessing controls on perched saturated zones beneath the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center, Idaho. Scientific investigations report. 7 indexed citations

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