Dirk Eilander

3.1k citations

57 papers · 1.7k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 21

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 2%
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Climate variability and models
Earth-Surface Processes top 2%
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 44
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management 43
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis 8
- Climate variability and models 4
Earth-Surface Processes 14
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics 13

Co-authors: Philip J. Ward (30 shared papers)Hessel Winsemius (22 shared papers)Sanne Muis (14 shared papers)Anaïs Couasnon (11 shared papers)Ted Veldkamp (4 shared papers)Thomas Wahl (6 shared papers)Ivan D. Haigh (6 shared papers)Hiroaki Ikeuchi (8 shared papers)
Journals: Natural hazards and earth system sciences (12 papers)Environmental Research Letters (3 papers)Water Resources Research (3 papers)Remote Sensing (2 papers)Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences (1 paper)
Partner nations: Netherlands United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Dirk Eilander

55 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Review article: A comprehensive review of compound flooding literature with a focus on coastal and estuarine regions 2025 · 16 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Natural hazards and earth system sciences
2023 Science

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1	Dependence between high sea-level and high river discharge increases flood hazard in global deltas and estuaries Environmental Research Letters ·Philip J. Ward, Anaïs Couasnon, Dirk Eilander, Ivan D. Haigh, Alistair Hendry, Sanne Muis, Ted Veldkamp, Hessel Winsemius, Thomas Wahl	2018	202
2	Measuring compound flood potential from river discharge and storm surge extremes at the global scale Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Anaïs Couasnon, Dirk Eilander, Sanne Muis, Ted Veldkamp, Ivan D. Haigh, Thomas Wahl, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward	2020	180
3	Global-scale benefit–cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Timothy Tiggeloven, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, Dirk Eilander, Gilles Erkens, Eskedar Gebremedhin, Andrés Díaz Loaiza, Samantha Kuzma, Tianyi Luo, Charles Iceland, Arno Bouwman, Jolien van Huijstee, Willem Ligtvoet, Philip J. Ward	2020	123
4	The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally Environmental Research Letters ·Dirk Eilander, Anaïs Couasnon, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Sanne Muis, Dai Yamazaki, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward	2020	118
5	Plastic in global rivers: are floods making it worse? Environmental Research Letters ·Caspar T. J. Roebroek, Shaun Harrigan, Tim van Emmerik, Calum Baugh, Dirk Eilander, Christel Prudhomme, Florian Pappenberger	2020	116
6	Impacts of metal mining on river systems: a global assessment Science ·Mark G. Macklin, Chris Thomas, Amogh Mudbhatkal, Paul Brewer, Karen A. Hudson‐Edwards, John Lewin, Paolo Scussolini, Dirk Eilander, Alex M. Lechner, John R. Owen, Graham Bird, Deanna Kemp, K. R. Mangalaa Hit paper breakdown →	2023	112
7	Cutting the costs of coastal protection by integrating vegetation in flood defences Nature Communications ·Vincent T. M. van Zelst, Jasper Dijkstra, Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck, Dirk Eilander, Edward P. Morris, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward, Mindert de Vries	2021	99
8	Harvesting Social Media for Generation of Near Real-time Flood Maps Procedia Engineering ·Dirk Eilander, Patricia Trambauer, Jurjen Wagemaker, Arnejan van Loenen	2016	79
9	Probabilistic flood extent estimates from social media flood observations Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Tom Brouwer, Dirk Eilander, Arnejan van Loenen, Martijn J. Booij, Kathelijne Mariken Wijnberg, Jan Verkade, Jurjen Wagemaker	2017	58
10	Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial Geophysical Research Letters ·Paolo Scussolini, Dirk Eilander, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Jannis Hoch, Philip J. Ward, Pepijn Bakker, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Chuncheng Guo, Christian Stepanek, Qiong Zhang, Pascale Braconnot, Maria Vittoria Guarino, Sanne Muis, Dai Yamazaki, Ted Veldkamp, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts	2020	56
11	Long-term sea-level rise necessitates a commitment to adaptation: A first order assessment Climate Risk Management ·Marjolijn Haasnoot, Gundula Winter, Sally Brown, Richard Dawson, Philip J. Ward, Dirk Eilander	2021	46
12	A globally applicable framework for compound flood hazard modeling Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Dirk Eilander, Anaïs Couasnon, Tim Leijnse, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Dai Yamazaki, Sanne Muis, Job Dullaart, Arjen Haag, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward	2023	44
13	Predicting the ungauged basin: model validation and realism assessment Frontiers in Earth Science ·Tim van Emmerik, Gert Mulder, Dirk Eilander, Marijn Piet, H. H. G. Savenije	2015	39
14	A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Dirk Eilander, Willem van Verseveld, Dai Yamazaki, Albrecht Weerts, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward	2021	38
15	Remotely Sensed Monitoring of Small Reservoir Dynamics: A Bayesian Approach Remote Sensing ·Dirk Eilander, Frank Annor, Lorenzo Iannini, Nick van de Giesen	2014	37
16	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 ·Jannis Hoch, Dirk Eilander, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Fedor Baart, Hessel Winsemius	2019	35
17	Improving the classification of flood tweets with contextual hydrological information in a multimodal neural network Computers & Geosciences ·Jens de Bruijn, Hans de Moel, Albrecht Weerts, Marleen de Ruiter, Erkan Başar, Dirk Eilander, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts	2020	32
18	Comparison of estimates of global flood models for flood hazard and exposed gross domestic product: a China case study Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Jerom Aerts, Steffi Uhlemann‐Elmer, Dirk Eilander, Philip J. Ward	2020	29
19	Coastal and river flood risk analyses for guiding economically optimal flood adaptation policies: a country-scale study for Mexico Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences ·Toon Haer, W. J. Wouter Botzen, Vincent van Roomen, Harry Connor, Jorge Zavala‐Hidalgo, Dirk Eilander, Philip J. Ward	2018	29
20	DeltaDTM: A global coastal digital terrain model Scientific Data ·Maarten Pronk, A. Hooijer, Dirk Eilander, Arjen Haag, Tjalling de Jong, Michalis Vousdoukas, Ronald Vernimmen, Hugo Ledoux, M.A. Eleveld	2024	27

About Dirk Eilander

Dirk Eilander is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering, having authored 57 papers that have together received 1.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (43 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (28 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (15 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (13 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (8 papers), Climate variability and models (4 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (3 papers) and Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (1.1k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (351 citations), Atmospheric Science (721 citations), Water Science and Technology (351 citations) and Pollution (161 citations). Dirk Eilander has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Philip J. Ward, Hessel Winsemius, Sanne Muis, Anaïs Couasnon, Ted Veldkamp, Thomas Wahl, Ivan D. Haigh, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Dai Yamazaki and Jurjen Wagemaker. Their work appears in journals such as Natural hazards and earth system sciences, Environmental Research Letters, Water Resources Research, Remote Sensing and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.

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