Conrad Zorn

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 726 citations indexed

About

Conrad Zorn is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Conrad Zorn has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 726 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 9 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Conrad Zorn's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (17 papers), Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (12 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (9 papers). Conrad Zorn is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (17 papers), Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (12 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (9 papers). Conrad Zorn collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and China. Conrad Zorn's co-authors include Elco Koks, Asaad Y. Shamseldin, Jim W. Hall, Michalis Vousdoukas, Julie Rozenberg, Stéphane Hallegatte, Stuart Fraser, Mersedeh Tariverdi, Christopher Arderne and Claire Nicolas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Conrad Zorn

32 papers receiving 682 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.

A global multi-hazard risk analysis of road and railway infrastructure assets

2019 348 citations Elco Koks, Julie Rozenberg et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Conrad Zorn New Zealand	10	278	260	151	105	84	35	726
Meimei Wu China	11	297 1.1×	124 0.5×	81 0.5×	79 0.8×	104 1.2×	24	513
Baoyin Liu China	17	322 1.2×	74 0.3×	139 0.9×	105 1.0×	73 0.9×	58	797
Zongkun Li China	19	352 1.3×	426 1.6×	66 0.4×	50 0.5×	121 1.4×	63	847
Wei Ge China	18	442 1.6×	435 1.7×	91 0.6×	60 0.6×	148 1.8×	43	850
Graeme Riddell Netherlands	6	372 1.3×	88 0.3×	140 0.9×	76 0.7×	133 1.6×	9	707
David Lallemant Singapore	15	231 0.8×	565 2.2×	227 1.5×	115 1.1×	38 0.5×	51	954
Carol J. Friedland United States	16	319 1.1×	158 0.6×	149 1.0×	245 2.3×	24 0.3×	72	675
Guillermo Franco United States	14	405 1.5×	302 1.2×	298 2.0×	203 1.9×	62 0.7×	31	1.0k
Abdullahi M. Salman United States	20	194 0.7×	758 2.9×	106 0.7×	142 1.4×	57 0.7×	39	1.2k
Maria Pregnolato United Kingdom	14	667 2.4×	515 2.0×	220 1.5×	197 1.9×	143 1.7×	58	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Conrad Zorn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Conrad Zorn

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Conrad Zorn. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Conrad Zorn 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 Conrad Zorn. Conrad Zorn is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zorn, Conrad, et al.. (2025). Prediction of road blockages caused by rainfall‐induced landslides. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 68(5). 983–999. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Peifang, Wenjun Wu, Conrad Zorn, et al.. (2024). A dynamic modeling approach to quantify pollution contributions from priority management areas within watersheds at fine temporal resolution. Journal of Environmental Management. 371. 123061–123061.

Wang, Peifang, Hongxing He, Conrad Zorn, et al.. (2024). Livestock–cropland re-coupling and intensive farming: strategies for enhancing greenhouse gas mitigation and eco-efficiency in wheat–maize production in North China Plain. Environmental Research Letters. 20(1). 14032–14032. 2 indexed citations

Paulik, Ryan, Conrad Zorn, & Liam Wotherspoon. (2024). Residential building and sub-building level flood damage analysis using simple and complex models. Natural Hazards. 120(14). 13493–13512.

Paulik, Ryan, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of residential building damage for the July 2021 flood in Westport, New Zealand. Geoscience Letters. 11(1). 6 indexed citations

Paulik, Ryan, et al.. (2023). Model parameter influence on probabilistic flood risk analysis. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 100. 104215–104215. 3 indexed citations

Wu, Jiarui, Xiao Huang, Nan Xu, et al.. (2023). Combining Satellite Imagery and a Deep Learning Algorithm to Retrieve the Water Levels of Small Reservoirs. Remote Sensing. 15(24). 5740–5740. 6 indexed citations

Paulik, Ryan, et al.. (2023). Assessing Indirect Impacts of Extreme Sea Level Flooding on Critical Infrastructure. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11(7). 1420–1420. 8 indexed citations

Peer, Rebecca, et al.. (2023). Understanding cascading risks through real-world interdependent urban infrastructure. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 241. 109653–109653. 31 indexed citations

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Paulik, Ryan, et al.. (2023). Modelling national residential building exposure to flooding hazards. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 94. 103826–103826. 5 indexed citations

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Paulik, Ryan, Conrad Zorn, & Liam Wotherspoon. (2023). Evaluating the spatial application of multivariable flood damage models. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 16(4). 4 indexed citations

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Zorn, Conrad, et al.. (2021). Infrastructure Failure Propagations and Recovery Strategies from an Alpine Fault Earthquake Scenario: Establishing Feedback Loops Between Integrated Modelling and Participatory Processes for Disaster Impact Reduction. University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury). 5 indexed citations

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Majid, Aman Shah Abdul, et al.. (2020). An Analysis of Electricity Consumption Patterns in the Water and Wastewater Sectors in South East England, UK. Water. 12(1). 225–225. 16 indexed citations

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Arderne, Christopher, Conrad Zorn, Claire Nicolas, & Elco Koks. (2020). Predictive mapping of the global power system using open data. Scientific Data. 7(1). 19–19. 91 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jie, Shaoqiang Ni, Wenjun Wu, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the effectiveness of the pollutant discharge permit program in China: A case study of the Nenjiang River Basin. Journal of Environmental Management. 251. 109501–109501. 18 indexed citations

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Ni, Shaoqiang, Xiao Huang, Conrad Zorn, et al.. (2019). Coupled modelling and sampling approaches to assess the impacts of human water management on land-sea carbon transfer. The Science of The Total Environment. 701. 134735–134735. 4 indexed citations

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Koks, Elco, Julie Rozenberg, Conrad Zorn, et al.. (2019). A global multi-hazard risk analysis of road and railway infrastructure assets. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2677–2677. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zorn, Conrad & Asaad Y. Shamseldin. (2015). Quantifying Directional Dependencies from Infrastructure Restoration Data. Earthquake Spectra. 32(3). 1363–1381. 13 indexed citations

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Zorn, Conrad & Asaad Y. Shamseldin. (2015). Post-disaster infrastructure restoration: A comparison of events for future planning. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 13. 158–166. 48 indexed citations

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Zorn, Conrad & Asaad Y. Shamseldin. (2015). Peak flood estimation using gene expression programming. Journal of Hydrology. 531. 1122–1128. 28 indexed citations

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