Bryan A. Tolson

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Bryan A. Tolson is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bryan A. Tolson has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Water Science and Technology, 44 papers in Environmental Engineering and 33 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bryan A. Tolson's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (60 papers), Water resources management and optimization (28 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (25 papers). Bryan A. Tolson is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (60 papers), Water resources management and optimization (28 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (25 papers). Bryan A. Tolson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Bryan A. Tolson's co-authors include Christine A. Shoemaker, Saman Razavi, Donald H. Burn, Holger R. Maier, Masoud Asadzadeh, Juliane Mai, Mahyar Shafii, Barbara J. Lence, L. Shawn Matott and James R. Craig and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Remote Sensing of Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Bryan A. Tolson

90 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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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.

Review of surrogate modeling in water resources

2012 682 citations Bryan A. Tolson et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Dynamically dimensioned search algorithm for computationally efficient watershed model calibration

2007 646 citations Bryan A. Tolson, Christine A. Shoemaker Water Resources Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bryan A. Tolson Canada	29	2.2k	1.5k	1.5k	950	801	94	4.0k
Saman Razavi Canada	35	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	753 0.8×	537 0.7×	99	4.2k
John Doherty Australia	33	1.7k 0.7×	2.5k 1.7×	746 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	485 0.6×	115	4.4k
E. Todini Italy	36	3.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	3.0k 2.0×	695 0.7×	1.6k 1.9×	128	5.4k
Marco Franchini Italy	38	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	2.0k 2.5×	142	4.2k
Feifei Zheng China	33	759 0.3×	733 0.5×	817 0.6×	755 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	142	3.3k
George Kuczera Australia	44	5.0k 2.2×	2.6k 1.7×	4.8k 3.2×	1.2k 1.3×	843 1.1×	195	7.5k
D. Nagesh Kumar India	44	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	2.6k 1.7×	1.8k 1.9×	1.0k 1.3×	164	6.1k
Donald H. Burn Canada	50	5.6k 2.5×	2.2k 1.5×	6.6k 4.5×	1.1k 1.1×	486 0.6×	162	9.5k
Shaojun Li China	46	805 0.4×	759 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	2.3k 2.9×	182	7.3k
Wei Gong China	38	996 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	2.4k 1.6×	272 0.3×	268 0.3×	106	4.4k

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Gaborit, Étienne, Juliane Mai, Hongren Shen, et al.. (2025). Hydrologic outputs generated over the Great Lakes with a calibrated version of the GEM-Hydro model. Scientific Data. 12(1). 127–127. 1 indexed citations

Craig, James R., et al.. (2024). A multi-model evaluation of probabilistic streamflow predictions via residual error modelling. Journal of Hydrology. 635. 131152–131152. 4 indexed citations

Mai, Juliane, et al.. (2024). Advancement of a Blended Hydrologic Model for Robust Model Performance. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 29(5). 1 indexed citations

Tolson, Bryan A., et al.. (2024). Enhancing long short-term memory (LSTM)-based streamflow prediction with a spatially distributed approach. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(9). 2107–2122. 13 indexed citations

Craig, James R., et al.. (2024). A Streamlined Model-Based Strategy for Screening Wildfire Impact Scenarios Related to Peak Flood Flows: Hazard Prevention in Data-Limited Regions. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 30(1). 1 indexed citations

Stadnyk, Tricia, Alain Pietroniro, Juliane Mai, et al.. (2023). Learning from hydrological models’ challenges: A case study from the Nelson basin model intercomparison project. Journal of Hydrology. 623. 129820–129820. 11 indexed citations

Gauch, Martin, Frederik Kratzert, Oren Gilon, et al.. (2023). In Defense of Metrics: Metrics Sufficiently Encode Typical Human Preferences Regarding Hydrological Model Performance. Water Resources Research. 59(6). e2022WR033918–e2022WR033918. 14 indexed citations

Mai, Juliane, Hongren Shen, Bryan A. Tolson, et al.. (2022). The Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 4: the Great Lakes (GRIP-GL). Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(13). 3537–3572. 64 indexed citations

Han, Ming, Juliane Mai, Bryan A. Tolson, et al.. (2020). Subwatershed-based lake and river routing products for hydrologic and land surface models applied over Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 45(3). 237–251. 9 indexed citations

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Wood, Andrew W., Naoki Mizukami, Martyn Clark, et al.. (2020). A new SUMMA and MizuRoute hydrologic modeling resource for US water applications. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2020. 1 indexed citations

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Mai, Juliane, et al.. (2020). Automatic Model Structure Identification for Conceptual Hydrologic Models. Water Resources Research. 56(9). 32 indexed citations

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Mai, Juliane, Kurt C. Kornelsen, Bryan A. Tolson, et al.. (2019). The Canadian Surface Prediction Archive (CaSPAr): A Platform to Enhance Environmental Modeling in Canada and Globally. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(3). E341–E356. 28 indexed citations

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Tolson, Bryan A., et al.. (2019). Comparing single and multi-objective hydrologic model calibration considering reservoir inflow and streamflow observations. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. 44(4). 319–336. 10 indexed citations

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Craig, James R., et al.. (2016). Evaluating prospective hydrological model improvements with consideration of data and model uncertainty. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Tolson, Bryan A., L. Shawn Matott, Masoud Asadzadeh, et al.. (2015). Parallel and Preemptable Dynamically Dimensioned Search Algorithms for Single and Multi-objective Optimization in Water Resources. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015.

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Haghnegahdar, Amin, et al.. (2015). Assessing the performance of a semi‐distributed hydrological model under various watershed discretization schemes. Hydrological Processes. 29(18). 4018–4031. 36 indexed citations

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Tolson, Bryan A., Ayman E. Khedr, & Masoud Asadzadeh. (2012). The battle of the water networks (BWN-II): Padds based solution approach. 291. 8 indexed citations

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Thomson, Neil R., et al.. (2008). The Dipole Flow and Reactive Tracer Test for Aquifer Parameter Estimation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Tolson, Bryan A. & Christine A. Shoemaker. (2006). The Dynamically Dimensioned Search (DDS) Algorithm as a Robust Optimization Tool in Hydrologic Modeling. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2006.

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Maier, Holger R., Barbara J. Lence, & Bryan A. Tolson. (2002). The Role of Reliability, Vulnerability and Resilience in the Management of Water Quality Systems. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 504. 2 indexed citations

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