Elco Koks

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Elco Koks is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Civil and Structural Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Elco Koks has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 33 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Elco Koks's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (45 papers), Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (33 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (20 papers). Elco Koks is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (45 papers), Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis (33 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (20 papers). Elco Koks collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Italy. Elco Koks's co-authors include Jim W. Hall, Trond Husby, Jasper Verschuur, Brenden Jongman, W. J. Wouter Botzen, Mark Thissen, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Conrad Zorn, Philip J. Ward and Hans de Moel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Elco Koks

78 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Combining hazard, exposure and social vulnerability to pr... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2019 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Combining hazard, exposure and social vulnerability to provide lessons for flood risk management
    2014 479 citations Elco Koks, Brenden Jongman et al. profile →
  2. A global multi-hazard risk analysis of road and railway infrastructure assets
    2019 348 citations Elco Koks, Julie Rozenberg et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Elco Koks Netherlands 28 1.6k 785 766 617 419 81 3.2k
Stefan Hochrainer‐Stigler Austria 31 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 420 0.5× 373 0.6× 139 0.3× 145 3.5k
Miguel Esteban Japan 38 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.5× 813 1.1× 1.2k 2.0× 287 0.7× 201 4.8k
Jaroslav Myšiak Italy 26 1.5k 0.9× 678 0.9× 247 0.3× 358 0.6× 267 0.6× 110 2.5k
Julie Rozenberg United States 25 1.0k 0.6× 951 1.2× 415 0.5× 202 0.3× 348 0.8× 59 3.7k
Reimund Schwarze Germany 20 1.8k 1.1× 660 0.8× 225 0.3× 588 1.0× 201 0.5× 74 2.5k
Jan Corfee-Morlot France 18 2.2k 1.3× 866 1.1× 181 0.2× 1.1k 1.7× 478 1.1× 41 3.9k
Reinhard Mechler Austria 39 3.3k 2.0× 1.8k 2.3× 469 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 452 1.1× 157 5.5k
Alexander Fekete Germany 25 1.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.7× 524 0.7× 280 0.5× 121 0.3× 83 2.4k
J.K. Vrijling Netherlands 23 1.3k 0.8× 338 0.4× 594 0.8× 418 0.7× 435 1.0× 110 2.6k
Pascal Peduzzi Switzerland 27 2.9k 1.8× 986 1.3× 289 0.4× 1.5k 2.4× 474 1.1× 62 5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Elco Koks

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Fields of papers citing papers by Elco Koks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elco Koks

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Maanen, Nicole van, et al.. (2025). Brief communication: Bridging the data gap – a call to enhance the representation of global coastal flood protection. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(6). 2075–2080. 1 indexed citations
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Wiel, Karin van der, et al.. (2024). Compound flood impacts from Hurricane Sandy on New York City in climate-driven storylines. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(1). 29–45. 13 indexed citations
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Verschuur, Jasper, Edoardo Borgomeo, Edward J. Oughton, et al.. (2024). Quantifying climate risks to infrastructure systems: A comparative review of developments across infrastructure sectors. PLOS Climate. 3(4). e0000331–e0000331. 7 indexed citations
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Koks, Elco, Mengqi Ye, Raghav Pant, et al.. (2024). Review article: Physical vulnerability database for critical infrastructure hazard risk assessments – a systematic review and data collection. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(12). 4341–4368. 6 indexed citations
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Brito, Mariana Madruga de, Alexander Fekete, Michael Hagenlocher, et al.. (2024). Uncovering the Dynamics of Multi‐Sector Impacts of Hydrological Extremes: A Methods Overview. Earth s Future. 12(1). 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Kai, et al.. (2024). Exposure of Global Rail and Road Infrastructures in Future Record‐Breaking Climate Extremes. Earth s Future. 12(1). 7 indexed citations
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Bresch, David N., et al.. (2024). Infrastructure failure cascades quintuple risk of storm and flood-induced service disruptions across the globe. One Earth. 7(4). 714–729. 6 indexed citations
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Ward, Philip J., et al.. (2023). A new method to compile global multi-hazard event sets. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 13808–13808. 25 indexed citations
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Koks, Elco, Julie Rozenberg, Mersedeh Tariverdi, et al.. (2023). A global assessment of national road network vulnerability. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 25008–25008. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Ming, et al.. (2023). Global transportation infrastructure exposure to the change of precipitation in a warmer world. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2541–2541. 28 indexed citations
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Kropf, Chahan M., et al.. (2023). OpenStreetMap for multi-faceted climate risk assessments. Environmental Research Communications. 6(1). 15005–15005. 3 indexed citations
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Verschuur, Jasper, Elco Koks, & Jim W. Hall. (2023). Systemic risks from climate-related disruptions at ports. Nature Climate Change. 13(8). 804–806. 19 indexed citations
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Koks, Elco, Kees van Ginkel, Margreet van Marle, & Anne Lemnitzer. (2022). Brief communication: Critical infrastructure impacts of the 2021 mid-July western European flood event. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(12). 3831–3838. 79 indexed citations
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Koks, Elco, et al.. (2022). A spatially-explicit harmonized global dataset of critical infrastructure. Scientific Data. 9(1). 150–150. 38 indexed citations
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Ginkel, Kees van, Francesco Dottori, Lorenzo Alfieri, Luc Feyen, & Elco Koks. (2021). Flood risk assessment of the European road network. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 21(3). 1011–1027. 44 indexed citations
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Mandel, Antoine, Timothy Tiggeloven, Daniël Lincke, et al.. (2021). Risks on global financial stability induced by climate change: the case of flood risks. Climatic Change. 166(1-2). 43 indexed citations
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Ginkel, Kees van, Francesco Dottori, Lorenzo Alfieri, Luc Feyen, & Elco Koks. (2020). Direct flood risk assessment of the European road network: an object-based approach. 2 indexed citations
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Koks, Elco, Mark Thissen, Lorenzo Alfieri, et al.. (2019). The macroeconomic impacts of future river flooding in Europe. Environmental Research Letters. 14(8). 84042–84042. 44 indexed citations
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Rozenberg, Julie, et al.. (2019). Assessing Rural Accessibility and Rural Roads Investment Needs Using Open Source Data. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank). 2 indexed citations

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