Dirk Eilander

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Dirk Eilander is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Eilander has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Atmospheric Science and 15 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Dirk Eilander's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (43 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (28 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (15 papers). Dirk Eilander is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (43 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (28 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (15 papers). Dirk Eilander collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Dirk Eilander's co-authors include Philip J. Ward, Hessel Winsemius, Sanne Muis, Anaïs Couasnon, Ted Veldkamp, Ivan D. Haigh, Thomas Wahl, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Dai Yamazaki and Jurjen Wagemaker and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Eilander

55 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Impacts of metal mining on river systems: a global assessment

2023 112 citations Paolo Scussolini, Dirk Eilander et al. profile →
Review article: A comprehensive review of compound flooding literature with a focus on coastal and estuarine regions

2025 16 citations Ivan D. Haigh, Thomas Wahl et al. Natural hazards and earth system sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Eilander Netherlands	21	1.1k	721	351	351	229	57	1.7k
Silvia Torresan Italy	29	1.2k 1.1×	527 0.7×	342 1.0×	472 1.3×	342 1.5×	70	2.3k
Christophe Viavattene United Kingdom	18	938 0.9×	448 0.6×	294 0.8×	327 0.9×	152 0.7×	37	1.4k
G. S. Dwarakish India	20	1.1k 1.0×	415 0.6×	973 2.8×	277 0.8×	301 1.3×	67	2.2k
Z. D. Tessler United States	15	1.1k 1.0×	397 0.6×	1.1k 3.1×	349 1.0×	590 2.6×	18	2.6k
Francisco Olivera United States	24	1.3k 1.2×	582 0.8×	1.2k 3.5×	180 0.5×	335 1.5×	66	2.1k
Sergey Chalov Russia	24	317 0.3×	491 0.7×	567 1.6×	163 0.5×	870 3.8×	170	1.9k
Alessandra Bianchi Italy	16	2.1k 1.9×	816 1.1×	1.1k 3.0×	292 0.8×	259 1.1×	27	2.7k
Mohamed E. Hereher Egypt	25	682 0.6×	391 0.5×	102 0.3×	369 1.1×	351 1.5×	60	1.5k
Andrey G. Kostianoy Russia	27	667 0.6×	571 0.8×	199 0.6×	334 1.0×	361 1.6×	163	2.5k
Xiankun Yang China	22	795 0.7×	392 0.5×	663 1.9×	109 0.3×	456 2.0×	74	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Dirk Eilander

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Eilander

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Verseveld, Willem van, Albrecht Weerts, Joost Buitink, et al.. (2024). Wflow_sbm v0.7.3, a spatially distributed hydrological model: from global data to local applications. Geoscientific model development. 17(8). 3199–3234. 15 indexed citations

Scussolini, Paolo, Linh N. Luu, Sjoukje Philip, et al.. (2023). Challenges in the attribution of river flood events. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 15(3). 11 indexed citations

Dullaart, Job, Sanne Muis, Hans de Moel, et al.. (2023). Enabling dynamic modelling of coastal flooding by defining storm tide hydrographs. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(5). 1847–1862. 10 indexed citations

Eilander, Dirk, Anaïs Couasnon, Frederiek Sperna Weiland, et al.. (2023). Modeling compound flood risk and risk reduction using a globally applicable framework: a pilot in the Sofala province of Mozambique. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(6). 2251–2272. 18 indexed citations

Eilander, Dirk, Anaïs Couasnon, Tim Leijnse, et al.. (2023). A globally applicable framework for compound flood hazard modeling. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(2). 823–846. 44 indexed citations

Eilander, Dirk, et al.. (2023). HydroMT: Automated and reproducible model building andanalysis. The Journal of Open Source Software. 8(83). 4897–4897. 16 indexed citations

Couasnon, Anaïs, Paolo Scussolini, Thi Van Thu Tran, et al.. (2022). A Flood Risk Framework Capturing the Seasonality of and Dependence Between Rainfall and Sea Levels—An Application to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Water Resources Research. 58(2). 18 indexed citations

Tiggeloven, Timothy, Hans de Moel, Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck, et al.. (2022). The benefits of coastal adaptation through conservation of foreshore vegetation. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 15(3). 21 indexed citations

Eilander, Dirk, Willem van Verseveld, Dai Yamazaki, et al.. (2021). A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(9). 5287–5313. 38 indexed citations

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Roebroek, Caspar T. J., Shaun Harrigan, Tim van Emmerik, et al.. (2020). Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse?. Environmental Research Letters. 16(2). 25003–25003. 116 indexed citations

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Scussolini, Paolo, Dirk Eilander, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, et al.. (2020). Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(18). 56 indexed citations

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Tiggeloven, Timothy, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, et al.. (2020). Global-scale benefit–cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(4). 1025–1044. 123 indexed citations

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Eilander, Dirk, Anaïs Couasnon, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, et al.. (2020). The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally. 5 indexed citations

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Eilander, Dirk, Anaïs Couasnon, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, et al.. (2020). The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally. Environmental Research Letters. 15(10). 104007–104007. 118 indexed citations

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Couasnon, Anaïs, Dirk Eilander, Sanne Muis, et al.. (2020). Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(2). 489–504. 180 indexed citations

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Hoch, Jannis, Dirk Eilander, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Fedor Baart, & Hessel Winsemius. (2019). Integrating large-scale hydrology and hydrodynamics for nested floodhazard modelling from the mountains to the coast. 2 indexed citations

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Tiggeloven, Timothy, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, et al.. (2019). Global scale benefit-cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers. 6 indexed citations

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Couasnon, Anaïs, Dirk Eilander, Sanne Muis, et al.. (2019). Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale and its implications for flood hazard. 14 indexed citations

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Hoch, Jannis, Dirk Eilander, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Fedor Baart, & Hessel Winsemius. (2019). Evaluating the impact of model complexity on flood wave propagation and inundation extent with a hydrologic–hydrodynamic model coupling framework. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 19(8). 1723–1735. 35 indexed citations

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Ikeuchi, Hiroaki, Dirk Eilander, Jannis Hoch, et al.. (2018). Application of a nesting approach for improved flood inundation simulation for estuaries and deltas in the framework of global flood modelling. EGUGA. 12331. 1 indexed citations

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