Elena Macdonald

847 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 493 citations indexed

About

Elena Macdonald is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena Macdonald has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 493 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Water Science and Technology, 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Elena Macdonald's work include Hydrology and Drought Analysis (6 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (5 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 papers). Elena Macdonald is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Drought Analysis (6 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (5 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 papers). Elena Macdonald collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Italy. Elena Macdonald's co-authors include Bruno Merz, Sergiy Vorogushyn, Günter Blöschl, Matthias Kemter, Upmanu Lall, Heidi Kreibich, Miriam Bertola, Francesco Dottori, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts and Paul Bates and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Atmospheric chemistry and physics and Hydrology and earth system sciences.

In The Last Decade

Elena Macdonald

7 papers receiving 483 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.

Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods

2021 401 citations Bruno Merz, Günter Blöschl et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elena Macdonald Germany	6	403	224	120	65	63	9	493
Matthias Kemter Germany	7	501 1.2×	261 1.2×	143 1.2×	71 1.1×	62 1.0×	7	598
Win Win Zin Myanmar	11	380 0.9×	191 0.9×	152 1.3×	61 0.9×	66 1.0×	27	536
Dennis Wagenaar Netherlands	11	471 1.2×	159 0.7×	206 1.7×	64 1.0×	72 1.1×	20	542
Fotios Maris Greece	9	508 1.3×	177 0.8×	105 0.9×	60 0.9×	96 1.5×	24	591
Maxime Souvignet Germany	9	303 0.8×	189 0.8×	169 1.4×	44 0.7×	43 0.7×	24	417
Veronika Röthlisberger Switzerland	10	395 1.0×	147 0.7×	161 1.3×	44 0.7×	101 1.6×	15	474
Stefan Lüdtke Germany	11	323 0.8×	193 0.9×	145 1.2×	65 1.0×	40 0.6×	24	428
Francesca Carisi Italy	9	390 1.0×	139 0.6×	199 1.7×	36 0.6×	45 0.7×	16	440
Bazel Al-Shaibah China	10	376 0.9×	129 0.6×	94 0.8×	125 1.9×	77 1.2×	12	456
Thomas Nester Austria	7	448 1.1×	361 1.6×	139 1.2×	60 0.9×	28 0.4×	10	534

Countries citing papers authored by Elena Macdonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by Elena Macdonald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elena Macdonald

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Macdonald, Elena, Bruno Merz, Nguyễn Viết Dũng, & Sergiy Vorogushyn. (2025). Heavy-tailed flood peak distributions: what is the effect of the spatial variability of rainfall and runoff generation?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(2). 447–463. 2 indexed citations

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Merz, Bruno, et al.. (2025). Farmers’ perceptions of hydroclimatic variability and climate change: survey-based insights in Northern Benin, West Africa. Frontiers in Water. 7.

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Macdonald, Elena, et al.. (2024). What controls the tail behaviour of flood series: rainfall or runoff generation?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(4). 833–850. 8 indexed citations

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Merz, Bruno, Stefano Basso, Svenja Fischer, et al.. (2022). Understanding Heavy Tails of Flood Peak Distributions. Water Resources Research. 58(6). 47 indexed citations

5.

Macdonald, Elena, Bruno Merz, Björn Guse, et al.. (2022). Event and Catchment Controls of Heavy Tail Behavior of Floods. Water Resources Research. 58(6). 13 indexed citations

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Macdonald, Elena, Noelia Otero, & Tim Butler. (2021). A comparison of long-term trends in observations and emission inventories of NO _x. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(5). 4007–4023. 5 indexed citations

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Merz, Bruno, Günter Blöschl, Sergiy Vorogushyn, et al.. (2021). Causes, impacts and patterns of disastrous river floods. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2(9). 592–609. 401 indexed citations breakdown →

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Macdonald, Elena, et al.. (2007). Exposing Canada's chemical valley : an investigation of cumulative air pollution emissions in the Sarnia, Ontario area. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 17 indexed citations

9.

Macdonald, Elena. (1991). Liquid Effluents: New Solutions to Old Problems. Water and Environment Journal. 5(1). 51–57.

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