Christoph Hinz

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Christoph Hinz is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Hinz has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 31 papers in Environmental Engineering and 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Christoph Hinz's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (34 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (21 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (20 papers). Christoph Hinz is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (34 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (21 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (20 papers). Christoph Hinz collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Germany and United States. Christoph Hinz's co-authors include Murugesu Sivapalan, Gavan McGrath, H. M. Selim, B. Buchter, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Daniel V. Murphy, Peter Lehmann, Daniel Caviedes‐Voullième, Kellie B. Vaché and James W. Kirchner and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Hinz

79 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology

2007 587 citations Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Murugesu Sivapalan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christoph Hinz Australia	29	1.2k	992	816	809	797	82	3.5k
Mark E. Grismer United States	28	938 0.8×	816 0.8×	987 1.2×	559 0.7×	961 1.2×	136	3.3k
J.M. Verstraten Netherlands	37	736 0.6×	887 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	504 0.6×	1.4k 1.7×	97	4.5k
John L. Nieber United States	35	1.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	1.4k 1.7×	699 0.9×	145	3.9k
Gerrit H. de Rooij Netherlands	23	609 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	444 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	68	3.3k
David J. Chittleborough Australia	36	669 0.6×	1.5k 1.5×	302 0.4×	692 0.9×	1.5k 1.9×	109	4.8k
Philip M. Jardine United States	49	889 0.7×	1.9k 1.9×	714 0.9×	826 1.0×	724 0.9×	112	6.2k
G.W. Gee United States	33	788 0.7×	2.2k 2.3×	727 0.9×	2.2k 2.7×	1.2k 1.5×	119	5.2k
Christine Stumpp Austria	29	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	696 0.9×	526 0.7×	216 0.3×	146	3.3k
Michael Herbst Germany	35	955 0.8×	2.4k 2.5×	1.3k 1.5×	1.7k 2.1×	1.2k 1.5×	122	4.7k
Menggui Jin China	33	842 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	287 0.4×	449 0.6×	475 0.6×	123	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Christoph Hinz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Hinz

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kästner, Karl, Daniel Caviedes‐Voullième, & Christoph Hinz. (2025). Formation of spatial vegetation patterns in heterogeneous environments. PLoS ONE. 20(5). e0324181–e0324181.

Kästner, Karl, et al.. (2024). Unravelling the spatial structure of regular dryland vegetation patterns. CATENA. 247. 108442–108442. 3 indexed citations

Kästner, Karl, et al.. (2024). A scale-invariant method for quantifying the regularity of environmental spatial patterns. Ecological Complexity. 60. 101104–101104. 2 indexed citations

Gerwin, Werner, Thomas Raab, Klaus Birkhofer, et al.. (2023). Perspectives of lignite post-mining landscapes under changing environmental conditions: what can we learn from a comparison between the Rhenish and Lusatian region in Germany?. Environmental Sciences Europe. 35(1). 19 indexed citations

Bachmann, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Effects of Within-Storm Variability on Allochthonous Flash Flooding: A Synthetic Study. Water. 15(4). 645–645. 2 indexed citations

Caviedes‐Voullième, Daniel, J. Fernández-Pato, & Christoph Hinz. (2020). Performance assessment of 2D Zero-Inertia and Shallow Water models for simulating rainfall-runoff processes. Journal of Hydrology. 584. 124663–124663. 41 indexed citations

Pohle, Ina, et al.. (2017). NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) signatures of transient ecohydrological systems: The case of post-mining landscapes. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5353. 2 indexed citations

Maurer, Thomas, et al.. (2014). Measurement of rainfall distribution on a small catchment for the evaluation of canopy interception effects. EGUGA. 12176. 1 indexed citations

Gwenzi, Willis, Christoph Hinz, Timothy M. Bleby, & Erik J. Veneklaas. (2013). Transpiration and water relations of evergreen shrub species on an artificial landform for mine waste storage versus an adjacent natural site in semi‐arid Western Australia. Ecohydrology. 7(3). 965–981. 20 indexed citations

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Hinz, Christoph, et al.. (2011). A minimalistic model for carbon cycling in wetlands. Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation..

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McGrath, Gavan, et al.. (2011). Complex landscapes from simple ecohydrological feedbacks. Chan, F., Marinova, D. and Anderssen, R.S. (eds) MODSIM2011, 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.. 4 indexed citations

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McGrath, Gavan & Christoph Hinz. (2009). Modeling the impact of spatial and temporal variation of a semi-arid climate upon timing and potential of N2O gas emissions from soil for risk assessment. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8975. 1 indexed citations

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Dikinya, Oagile, et al.. (2008). Decrease in hydraulic conductivity and particle release associated with self-filtration in saturated soil columns. Geoderma. 146(1-2). 192–200. 64 indexed citations

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Lehmann, Peter, Christoph Hinz, Gavan McGrath, Ilja van Meerveld, & Jeffrey J. McDonnell. (2007). Rainfall threshold for hillslope outflow: an emergent property of flow pathway connectivity. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 11(2). 1047–1063. 141 indexed citations

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McGrath, Gavan, Christoph Hinz, & Murugesu Sivapalan. (2007). Temporal dynamics of hydrological threshold events. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 11(2). 923–938. 44 indexed citations

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Hinz, Christoph, et al.. (2007). Sensitivity of point scale surface runoff predictions to rainfall resolution. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 11(2). 965–982. 24 indexed citations

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Hinz, Christoph, et al.. (2006). Rainfall threshold for hillslope outflow: an emergent property of flow pathway connectivity. 8 indexed citations

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Hinz, Christoph, et al.. (2006). Towards a Climate Based Risk Assessment of Land Rehabilitation. Mine closure. 407–415. 5 indexed citations

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Quaghebeur, Mieke, Andrew W. Rate, Zdenko Rengel, & Christoph Hinz. (2005). Desorption Kinetics of Arsenate from Kaolinite as Influenced by pH. Journal of Environmental Quality. 34(2). 479–486. 28 indexed citations

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Hinz, Christoph, et al.. (1993). TRANSPORT OF 2,4-D IN SOIL AS AFFECTED BY AGGREGATION AND ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 65–70. 1 indexed citations

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