Bettina Schaefli

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
105 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Bettina Schaefli is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bettina Schaefli has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Water Science and Technology, 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 52 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Bettina Schaefli's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (89 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (42 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (34 papers). Bettina Schaefli is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (89 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (42 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (34 papers). Bettina Schaefli collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Bettina Schaefli's co-authors include Hoshin V. Gupta, H. H. G. Savenije, Benoît Hingray, Ruud van der Ent, Susan Steele‐Dunne, A. Musy, Grégoire Mariethoz, Moctar Dembélé, André Musy and Pascal Horton and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Bettina Schaefli

97 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Origin and fate of atmospheric moisture over continents

2010 662 citations H. H. G. Savenije, Bettina Schaefli et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Do Nash values have value?

2007 505 citations Bettina Schaefli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bettina Schaefli Switzerland	32	2.9k	2.5k	1.7k	980	345	105	4.3k
Florence Habets France	36	2.8k 1.0×	3.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	967 1.0×	349 1.0×	88	4.5k
Daniel Viviroli Switzerland	28	2.7k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	594 0.6×	448 1.3×	57	4.6k
David E. Rupp United States	31	2.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	441 1.3×	90	4.3k
Göran Lindström Sweden	26	3.1k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	821 0.8×	404 1.2×	83	4.0k
Rory Nathan Australia	34	3.1k 1.1×	3.1k 1.2×	992 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	578 1.7×	185	4.7k
Guobin Fu Australia	38	3.2k 1.1×	3.9k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	545 1.6×	126	5.5k
Jaap Schellekens Netherlands	31	2.3k 0.8×	3.0k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	970 1.0×	611 1.8×	59	4.2k
Robert Leconte Canada	33	2.4k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	810 0.8×	290 0.8×	128	4.1k
Harald Kling Austria	15	4.2k 1.5×	3.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 2.0×	356 1.0×	23	5.8k
Lauren E. Hay United States	38	4.5k 1.5×	4.8k 1.9×	2.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	481 1.4×	108	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Bettina Schaefli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bettina Schaefli

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bettina Schaefli

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All Works

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Horton, Pascal, et al.. (2025). Scale dependency in modeling nivo-glacial hydrological systems: the case of the Arolla basin, Switzerland. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(6). 1725–1748.

Fischer, Mauro, et al.. (2025). Separating snow and ice melt using water stable isotopes and glacio-hydrological modelling: towards improving the application of isotope analyses in highly glacierized catchments. The cryosphere. 19(1). 423–458. 2 indexed citations

Horton, Pascal, et al.. (2025). Glacier-influenced hydrological regimes in the Afghanistan Hindu Kush Himalaya under current and future climate. Hydrology research. 56(2). 108–135.

Wechsler, Tobias, et al.. (2024). On the role of lake level management in modulating climate change impacts on perialpine lakes. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 55. 101914–101914. 4 indexed citations

Lane, Stuart N., et al.. (2024). Current and future roles of meltwater–groundwater dynamics in a proglacial Alpine outwash plain. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(4). 735–759. 4 indexed citations

Dembélé, Moctar, Mathieu Vrac, Natalie Ceperley, et al.. (2024). Future shifting of annual extreme flows under climate change in the Volta River basin. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 385. 121–127. 1 indexed citations

Otero, Noelia, Pascal Horton, Olivia Martius, et al.. (2023). Impacts of hot-dry conditions on hydropower production in Switzerland. Environmental Research Letters. 18(6). 64038–64038. 12 indexed citations

Canone, Davide, et al.. (2023). Towards a conceptualization of the hydrological processes behind changes of young water fraction with elevation: a focus on mountainous alpine catchments. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(12). 2301–2323. 15 indexed citations

Schaefli, Bettina, et al.. (2023). NH-SWE: Northern Hemisphere Snow Water Equivalent dataset based on in situ snow depth time series. Earth system science data. 15(6). 2577–2599. 22 indexed citations

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Lane, Stuart N., et al.. (2022). Towards a hydrogeomorphological understanding of proglacial catchments: an assessment of groundwater storage and release in an Alpine catchment. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(23). 6029–6054. 16 indexed citations

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Antoniazza, Gilles, et al.. (2022). Hydrological Drivers of Bedload Transport in an Alpine Watershed. Water Resources Research. 58(3). 18 indexed citations

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Otero, Noelia, et al.. (2022). Characterizing renewable energy compound events across Europe using a logistic regression‐based approach. Meteorological Applications. 29(5). 22 indexed citations

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Michel, Adrien, et al.. (2019). Stream temperature evolution in Switzerland over the last 50 years. 6 indexed citations

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Beria, Harsh, Joshua Larsen, Natalie Ceperley, et al.. (2018). Understanding snow hydrological processes through the lens of stable water isotopes. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 5(6). 104 indexed citations

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Michelon, Anthony, Natalie Ceperley, Harsh Beria, Joshua Larsen, & Bettina Schaefli. (2018). Quantification of snowmelt processes in a high Alpine catchment from hydrographs, satellite images and stable water isotopes. EGUGA. 13901. 2 indexed citations

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Schaefli, Bettina, Pedro Manso, Mauro Fischer, & Matthias Huss. (2016). The role of glaciers for Swiss hydropower production. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Hingray, Benoît, et al.. (2010). Signature-based model calibration for hydrological prediction in mesoscale Alpine catchments. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 55(6). 1002–1016. 59 indexed citations

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Schaefli, Bettina, C. J. Harman, Murugesu Sivapalan, & Stanislaus J. Schymanski. (2010). Hydrologic predictions in a changing environment: behavioral modeling. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 11 indexed citations

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Winsemius, Hessel, Alberto Montanari, Bettina Schaefli, & H. H. G. Savenije. (2009). A calibration framework for data scarce basins: sequential use of information from conventional and remote sensing data. EGUGA. 2009. 6933. 1 indexed citations

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Schaefli, Bettina, Benoît Hingray, & A. Musy. (2004). Use of the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm for the quantification of the hydrological modelling uncertainty in climate change impact studies. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1 indexed citations

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