C. J. Vörösmarty

16.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
86 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

C. J. Vörösmarty is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, C. J. Vörösmarty has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Water Science and Technology, 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 25 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in C. J. Vörösmarty's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (31 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (27 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (25 papers). C. J. Vörösmarty is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (31 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (27 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (25 papers). C. J. Vörösmarty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. C. J. Vörösmarty's co-authors include Pamela Green, Stuart E. Bunn, David Dudgeon, Peter B. McIntyre, Caroline A Sullivan, Alexander Prusevich, Stanley Glidden, Catherine Reidy Liermann, Mark O. Gessner and Peter M. Davies and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

C. J. Vörösmarty

85 papers receiving 11.3k 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.

Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

2010 5.3k citations C. J. Vörösmarty, Pamela Green et al. profile →
Potential Net Primary Productivity in South America: Application of a Global Model

1991 694 citations C. J. Vörösmarty et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. J. Vörösmarty United States	40	5.2k	4.1k	3.2k	2.2k	1.8k	86	11.8k
B M Fekete United States	44	5.6k 1.1×	5.5k 1.3×	3.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	75	12.3k
Carmen Revenga United States	25	3.3k 0.6×	3.4k 0.8×	3.9k 1.2×	3.1k 1.4×	1.5k 0.8×	39	9.4k
David M. Hannah United Kingdom	63	7.5k 1.4×	5.0k 1.2×	5.4k 1.7×	4.1k 1.9×	608 0.3×	320	14.8k
Pamela Green United States	22	7.1k 1.4×	4.8k 1.2×	5.8k 1.8×	2.7k 1.3×	2.6k 1.5×	35	19.2k
Fulco Ludwig Netherlands	53	4.6k 0.9×	4.5k 1.1×	1.6k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	182	10.5k
Matti Kummu Finland	74	6.5k 1.3×	5.2k 1.3×	3.5k 1.1×	793 0.4×	2.5k 1.4×	212	15.4k
P. Kabat Netherlands	55	4.0k 0.8×	6.7k 1.6×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	163	12.3k
Caroline A Sullivan Australia	26	4.5k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	5.9k 1.8×	5.4k 2.4×	2.0k 1.1×	73	14.2k
Junguo Liu China	68	7.2k 1.4×	6.1k 1.5×	3.1k 1.0×	767 0.3×	3.0k 1.7×	308	17.4k
Catherine Reidy Liermann United States	5	3.6k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	2.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	7	7.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. J. Vörösmarty

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Green, Pamela, C. J. Vörösmarty, Dinah A. Koehler, et al.. (2024). Mapping a sustainable water future: Private sector opportunities for global water security and resilience. Global Environmental Change. 88. 102906–102906. 2 indexed citations

Vörösmarty, C. J., B M Fekete, F. Corsi, et al.. (2023). Simulating basin-scale linkages of the food-energy-water nexus with reduced complexity modeling. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Jiaqi, Mengye Chen, Shang Gao, et al.. (2023). Examining impacts of policy, technology, and climate extremes on thermoelectric power production and river thermal pollution in the Midwest and Northeast of the United States. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 3 indexed citations

Miara, Ariel, Stuart Cohen, Jordan Macknick, et al.. (2019). Climate-Water Adaptation for Future US Electricity Infrastructure. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(23). 14029–14040. 30 indexed citations

Miara, Ariel, C. J. Vörösmarty, Jordan Macknick, et al.. (2018). Thermal pollution impacts on rivers and power supply in the Mississippi River watershed. Environmental Research Letters. 13(3). 34033–34033. 47 indexed citations

Zalewski, Maciej, G. Bidoglio, Wolfgang J. Junk, et al.. (2018). Low cost, nature-based solutions for managing aquatic resources: integrating the principles of Ecohydrology and the Circular Economy. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology. 18(4). 309–310. 8 indexed citations

Bhaduri, Anik, János J. Bogárdi, Afreen Siddiqi, et al.. (2016). Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 4. 190 indexed citations

Hale, Rebecca L., Nancy B. Grimm, C. J. Vörösmarty, & B M Fekete. (2015). Nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes from watersheds of the northeast U.S. from 1930 to 2000: Role of anthropogenic nutrient inputs, infrastructure, and runoff. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 29(3). 341–356. 45 indexed citations

Hale, Rebecca L., Nancy B. Grimm, & C. J. Vörösmarty. (2014). Spatial-Temporal Heterogeneity in Regional Watershed Phosphorus Cycles Driven by Changes in Human Activity over the Past Century. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Vörösmarty, C. J., et al.. (2014). Rivers in the Anthropocene: Mapping Human Water Security. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Miara, Ariel & C. J. Vörösmarty. (2013). A dynamic model to assess tradeoffs in power production and riverine ecosystem protection. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 15(6). 1113–1113. 35 indexed citations

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Wisser, Dominik, B M Fekete, C. J. Vörösmarty, & Andreas Schumann. (2010). Reconstructing 20th century global hydrography: a contribution to the Global Terrestrial Network- Hydrology (GTN-H). Hydrology and earth system sciences. 14(1). 1–24. 294 indexed citations

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Fekete, B M, W. M. Wollheim, Dominik Wisser, & C. J. Vörösmarty. (2009). Next generation framework for aquatic modeling of the Earth System. 2 indexed citations

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Vörösmarty, C. J., et al.. (2008). Semantic Web Infrastructure Supporting NextFrAMES Modeling Platform. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Boyer, Elizabeth W., Robert W. Howarth, James N. Galloway, et al.. (2006). Riverine nitrogen export from the continents to the coasts. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 20(1). 232 indexed citations

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Oczkowski, Autumn, B. A. Pellerin, Christopher W Hunt, et al.. (2006). The Role of Snowmelt and Spring Rainfall in Inorganic Nutrient Fluxes from a Large Temperate Watershed, the Androscoggin River Basin (Maine and New Hampshire). Biogeochemistry. 80(3). 191–203. 12 indexed citations

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Vörösmarty, C. J., et al.. (2004). NSF-ARCSS Freshwater Initiative (FWI): Synthesis as Coordination of Thought to Discover Emergent System Properties. AGUFM. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Vörösmarty, C. J., David M. Bjerklie, Stephen Dingman, et al.. (2003). River discharge strategies from space. EAEJA. 11300. 1 indexed citations

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Alsdorf, D. E., Dennis P. Lettenmaier, & C. J. Vörösmarty. (2003). The need for global, satellite‐based observations of terrestrial surface waters. Eos. 84(29). 269–276. 90 indexed citations

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Federer, C. A., C. J. Vörösmarty, & B M Fekete. (1996). Intercomparison of Methods for Calculating Potential Evaporation in Regional and Global Water Balance Models. Water Resources Research. 32(7). 2315–2321. 215 indexed citations

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