Bram Droppers

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 367 citations indexed

About

Bram Droppers is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Bram Droppers has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 367 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Water Science and Technology, 4 papers in Oceanography and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Bram Droppers's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (5 papers) and Climate variability and models (3 papers). Bram Droppers is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (5 papers) and Climate variability and models (3 papers). Bram Droppers collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Bram Droppers's co-authors include Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Alexander Popp, Maryna Strokal, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Mengru Wang, Masooma Batool, Mirjam P. Bak, Felicitas Beier, Fulco Ludwig and Annette B.G. Janssen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Water Research and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Bram Droppers

11 papers receiving 359 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.

A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution

2024 233 citations Mengru Wang, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bram Droppers Netherlands	6	189	71	68	49	49	13	367
Jinyong Zhao China	13	203 1.1×	98 1.4×	35 0.5×	98 2.0×	47 1.0×	38	465
Dengming Yan China	8	116 0.6×	105 1.5×	80 1.2×	17 0.3×	16 0.3×	20	326
Zhimin Zhang China	8	131 0.7×	34 0.5×	32 0.5×	9 0.2×	26 0.5×	20	286
Lian Liu China	12	71 0.4×	60 0.8×	22 0.3×	12 0.2×	23 0.5×	46	384
Guoqin Wang China	10	125 0.7×	121 1.7×	55 0.8×	13 0.3×	13 0.3×	17	455
Siyang Sun China	8	142 0.8×	102 1.4×	18 0.3×	14 0.3×	22 0.4×	15	421
Yan Xiao China	13	144 0.8×	41 0.6×	85 1.3×	28 0.6×	199 4.1×	29	530
Bingfen Cheng China	11	97 0.5×	72 1.0×	64 0.9×	8 0.2×	59 1.2×	15	477
Xiaofeng Zhang China	12	345 1.8×	93 1.3×	21 0.3×	12 0.2×	60 1.2×	41	546

Countries citing papers authored by Bram Droppers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bram Droppers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bram Droppers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bram Droppers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bram Droppers based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bram Droppers. Bram Droppers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Jaarsveld, Barry van, Niko Wanders, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, et al.. (2025). A first attempt to model global hydrology at hyper-resolution. Earth System Dynamics. 16(1). 29–54. 1 indexed citations

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Droppers, Bram, Marc F. P. Bierkens, & Niko Wanders. (2025). A Multi‐Resolution Deep‐Learning Surrogate Framework for Global Hydrological Models. Water Resources Research. 61(4). 1 indexed citations

3.

Droppers, Bram, Oldřich Rakovec, Ruben Imhoff, et al.. (2024). Multi-model hydrological reference dataset over continental Europe and an African basin. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1009–1009. 1 indexed citations

4.

Wang, Mengru, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Felicitas Beier, et al.. (2024). A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution. Nature Communications. 15(1). 880–880. 233 indexed citations breakdown →

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Droppers, Bram, et al.. (2022). Limits to management adaptation for the Indus’ irrigated agriculture. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 321. 108971–108971. 8 indexed citations

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Droppers, Bram, et al.. (2021). Worldwide water constraints on attainable irrigated production for major crops.

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Janssen, Annette B.G., Bram Droppers, Xiangzhen Kong, et al.. (2021). Characterizing 19 thousand Chinese lakes, ponds and reservoirs by morphometric, climate and sediment characteristics. Water Research. 202. 117427–117427. 31 indexed citations

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Droppers, Bram, Iwan Supit, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, & Fulco Ludwig. (2021). Worldwide water constraints on attainable irrigated production for major crops. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 55016–55016. 18 indexed citations

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Vanderkelen, Inne, Nicole Van Lipzig, David M. Lawrence, et al.. (2020). Global heat uptake by inland waters. 4 indexed citations

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Droppers, Bram, Wietse Franssen, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Bart Nijssen, & Fulco Ludwig. (2020). Simulating human impacts on global water resources using VIC-5. Geoscientific model development. 13(10). 5029–5052. 31 indexed citations

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Vanderkelen, Inne, Nicole Van Lipzig, David M. Lawrence, et al.. (2020). Global Heat Uptake by Inland Waters. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(12). 38 indexed citations

12.

Droppers, Bram, Wietse Franssen, Michelle T. H. van Vliet, Bart Nijssen, & Fulco Ludwig. (2020). BramDr/VIC: VIC-WUR version 2.1.0. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

13.

Vliet, Michelle T. H. van, Wietse Franssen, Erick C. Jones, et al.. (2018). Water quality-driven water scarcity for energy and food production under climate variability and change. AGUFM. 2018.

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