David W. Walker

1.2k total citations
30 papers, 704 citations indexed

About

David W. Walker is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David W. Walker has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 704 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Water Science and Technology and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in David W. Walker's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (14 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (10 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers). David W. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (14 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (10 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (9 papers). David W. Walker collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Ethiopia. David W. Walker's co-authors include John Gowing, Geoff Parkin, Magdalena Śmigaj, Masakazu Tani, Alemseged Tamiru Haile, Pieter van Oel, Lieke Melsen, Nathan Forsythe, Anne F. Van Loon and Zelalem Alamrew Anteneh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

David W. Walker

29 papers receiving 683 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David W. Walker Netherlands 14 303 263 215 130 87 30 704
John Gowing United Kingdom 17 184 0.6× 251 1.0× 184 0.9× 102 0.8× 33 0.4× 41 812
Carlos G. Ochoa United States 18 360 1.2× 280 1.1× 157 0.7× 59 0.5× 11 0.1× 55 776
Alexander G. Fernald United States 18 360 1.2× 515 2.0× 235 1.1× 95 0.7× 12 0.1× 84 1.0k
Jawad Al‐Bakri Jordan 14 302 1.0× 142 0.5× 174 0.8× 19 0.1× 20 0.2× 48 688
Erin Haacker United States 14 173 0.6× 308 1.2× 146 0.7× 82 0.6× 7 0.1× 21 697
Noora Veijalainen Finland 18 347 1.1× 390 1.5× 72 0.3× 36 0.3× 17 0.2× 37 828
Nathan Forsythe United Kingdom 15 452 1.5× 338 1.3× 84 0.4× 36 0.3× 31 0.4× 29 865
G. Muthusankar India 15 217 0.7× 140 0.5× 128 0.6× 122 0.9× 25 0.3× 37 643
Danielle Grogan United States 14 275 0.9× 281 1.1× 96 0.4× 38 0.3× 10 0.1× 38 794

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Fields of papers citing papers by David W. Walker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David W. Walker

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Melsen, Lieke, et al.. (2025). Mind the gap: misalignment between drought monitoring and community realities. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(2). 893–912. 1 indexed citations
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Walker, David W., et al.. (2025). From insufficient rainfall to livelihoods: understanding the cascade of drought impacts and policy implications. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(6). 1993–2005.
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Walker, David W., Germano Ribeiro Neto, Lieke Melsen, et al.. (2024). It's not all about drought: What “drought impacts” monitoring can reveal. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 103. 104338–104338. 13 indexed citations
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Vos, Jeroen, Maria Rusca, Gert Jan Veldwisch, et al.. (2024). Making a case for power-sensitive water modelling: a literature review. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(17). 4157–4186. 4 indexed citations
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Walker, David W., et al.. (2024). Value of quality controlled citizen science data for rainfall-runoff characterization in a rapidly urbanizing catchment. Journal of Hydrology. 629. 130639–130639. 7 indexed citations
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Vos, Jeroen, Maria Rusca, Gert Jan Veldwisch, et al.. (2023). Making a case for power-sensitive water modelling: a literature review. edoc Publication server (Humboldt University of Berlin). 2 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, Lieke Melsen, David W. Walker, et al.. (2023). HESS Opinions: Drought impacts as failed prospects. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(22). 4217–4225. 6 indexed citations
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Costa, Alexandre Cunha, et al.. (2023). Assessment of aquifer recharge and groundwater availability in a semiarid region of Brazil in the context of an interbasin water transfer scheme. Hydrogeology Journal. 31(3). 751–769. 5 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, et al.. (2023). Drought-impacted communities in social-ecological systems: Exploration of different system states in Northeast Brazil. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 97. 104026–104026. 8 indexed citations
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Walker, David W., Germano Ribeiro Neto, Art Dewulf, et al.. (2022). Drought Diagnosis: What the Medical Sciences Can Teach Us. Earth s Future. 10(4). 16 indexed citations
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Melsen, Lieke, et al.. (2022). A geography of drought indices: mismatch between indicators of drought and its impacts on water and food securities. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(2). 323–344. 53 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, Lieke Melsen, Eduardo Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins, David W. Walker, & Pieter van Oel. (2022). Drought Cycle Analysis to Evaluate the Influence of a Dense Network of Small Reservoirs on Drought Evolution. Water Resources Research. 58(1). 25 indexed citations
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Haile, Alemseged Tamiru, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of factors affecting the quality of citizen science rainfall data in Akaki catchment, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Journal of Hydrology. 612. 128284–128284. 9 indexed citations
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Walker, David W., Magdalena Śmigaj, & Masakazu Tani. (2020). The benefits and negative impacts of citizen science applications to water as experienced by participants and communities. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 8(1). 112 indexed citations
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Haile, Alemseged Tamiru, et al.. (2020). Multi-method groundwater recharge estimation at Eshito micro-watershed, Rift Valley Basin in Ethiopia. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 65(9). 1596–1605. 25 indexed citations
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Anteneh, Zelalem Alamrew, et al.. (2020). Hydrochemical data on groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation use around Dangila town, Northwest Ethiopia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 31. 105877–105877. 6 indexed citations
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Walker, David W., Geoff Parkin, John Gowing, & Alemseged Tamiru Haile. (2019). Development of a Hydrogeological Conceptual Model for Shallow Aquifers in the Data Scarce Upper Blue Nile Basin. Hydrology. 6(2). 43–43. 27 indexed citations
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Gowing, John, et al.. (2016). Shallow groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa: neglected opportunity for sustainable intensification of small-scale agriculture?. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 13 indexed citations
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Walker, David W., Nathan Forsythe, Geoff Parkin, & John Gowing. (2016). Filling the observational void: Scientific value and quantitative validation of hydrometeorological data from a community-based monitoring programme. Journal of Hydrology. 538. 713–725. 86 indexed citations

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