Ercan Kahya

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Ercan Kahya is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ercan Kahya has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 35 papers in Water Science and Technology and 30 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ercan Kahya's work include Climate variability and models (49 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (44 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (34 papers). Ercan Kahya is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (49 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (44 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (34 papers). Ercan Kahya collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, Iran and India. Ercan Kahya's co-authors include Turgay Partal, Serdar Kalaycı, John A. Dracup, Ali Danandeh Mehr, Deepak Jhajharia, Yagob Dinpashoh, Mehmet Cüneyd Demirel, Vijay P. Singh, Ahmad Fakheri Fard and Farshad Fathian and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Ercan Kahya

85 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Trend analysis in Turkish precipitation data 2004 2026 2011 2018 2005 2004 250 500 750
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. Trend analysis in Turkish precipitation data
    2005 843 citations Turgay Partal, Ercan Kahya profile →
  2. Trend analysis of streamflow in Turkey
    2004 508 citations Ercan Kahya, Serdar Kalaycı Journal of Hydrology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ercan Kahya Türkiye 34 4.0k 2.3k 1.7k 1.0k 407 88 5.3k
Sharad K. Jain India 39 3.1k 0.8× 2.9k 1.3× 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.0× 263 0.6× 155 5.7k
Slaviša Trajković Serbia 28 3.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 668 0.7× 255 0.6× 71 4.1k
Alex J. Cannon Canada 42 5.0k 1.3× 2.4k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 3.2k 3.2× 556 1.4× 152 7.5k
Juan B. Valdés United States 36 3.1k 0.8× 2.6k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 240 0.6× 121 4.6k
Shengzhi Huang China 33 2.7k 0.7× 2.0k 0.9× 788 0.5× 477 0.5× 309 0.8× 88 3.9k
Hossein Tabari Belgium 51 6.7k 1.7× 2.9k 1.2× 2.0k 1.2× 2.0k 2.0× 873 2.1× 117 8.6k
Carlo De Michele Italy 41 4.6k 1.2× 2.3k 1.0× 790 0.5× 1.9k 1.9× 435 1.1× 185 6.8k
Quanxi Shao Australia 50 4.5k 1.1× 4.0k 1.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.6× 354 0.9× 179 6.9k
Deepak Khare India 35 2.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 760 0.7× 237 0.6× 118 3.9k
Harald Kunstmann Germany 49 4.8k 1.2× 2.4k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 3.5k 3.4× 674 1.7× 296 7.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kahya, Ercan, et al.. (2025). Integrating Spatio-Probabilistic mapping and remote sensing for comprehensive drought risk assessment. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. 12(1).
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Yaseen‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬, Zaher Mundher, et al.. (2025). Streamflow Intervals Prediction Using Coupled Autoregressive Conditionally Heteroscedastic With Bootstrap Model. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 18(1).
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Ghorbani, Mohammad Ali, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear and periodic dynamics of chaotic hydro-thermal process of Skokomish river. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 37(7). 2739–2756. 4 indexed citations
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Kahya, Ercan, et al.. (2023). Beyond the ordinary metrics on the evaluation of historical Euro-CORDEX simulations over Türkiye: the mutual information approach. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 153(1-2). 829–851. 1 indexed citations
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Kahya, Ercan, et al.. (2022). Performance of gridded precipitation products in the Black Sea region for hydrological studies. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 149(1-2). 465–485. 5 indexed citations
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Mehr, Ali Danandeh, et al.. (2020). Risk Assessment of Fuel Supply Pipelines: Kalecik Power Plant Case Study. Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice. 11(4). 1 indexed citations
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Ghorbani, Mohammad Ali, Rahman Khatibi, Vijay P. Singh, et al.. (2020). Continuous monitoring of suspended sediment concentrations using image analytics and deriving inherent correlations by machine learning. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 8589–8589. 21 indexed citations
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Mehr, Ali Danandeh, A. Ünal Şorman, Ercan Kahya, & Mehdi H. Afshar. (2019). Climate change impacts on meteorological drought using SPI and SPEI: case study of Ankara, Turkey. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 65(2). 254–268. 149 indexed citations
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Mehr, Ali Danandeh & Ercan Kahya. (2016). Grid-based performance evaluation of GCM-RCM combinations for rainfall reproduction. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 129(1-2). 47–57. 19 indexed citations
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Mehr, Ali Danandeh & Ercan Kahya. (2016). Climate Change Impacts on Catchment-Scale Extreme Rainfall Variability: Case Study of Rize Province, Turkey. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 22(3). 37 indexed citations
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Mehr, Ali Danandeh, Ercan Kahya, & Mehmet Özger. (2014). A gene–wavelet model for long lead time drought forecasting. Journal of Hydrology. 517. 691–699. 82 indexed citations
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Kahya, Ercan, et al.. (2010). FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF MEAN MONTHLY STREAMFLOW IN ÇORUH BASIN, TURKEY. Fresenius environmental bulletin. 19(7). 1300–1311. 11 indexed citations
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Kahya, Ercan, Mehmet Cüneyd Demirel, & O. Anwar Bég. (2008). Hydrologic homogeneous regions using monthly streamflow in turkey. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 34 indexed citations
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Partal, Turgay, et al.. (2008). Yağış Verilerinin Yapay Sinir Ağları ve Dalgacık Dönüşümü Yöntemleri ile Tahmini. 7(3). 73–85. 8 indexed citations
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Demirel, Mehmet Cüneyd, Ercan Kahya, & Diego Rivera. (2008). DISCUSSION OF CLUSTERING ON DISSIMILARITY REPRESENTATIONS FOR DETECTING MISLABELLED SEISMIC SIGNALS AT NEVADO DEL RUIZ VOLCANO BY MAURICIO OROZCO-ALZATE, AND CÉSAR GERMÁN CASTELLANOS-DOMÍNGUEZ. Earth Sciences Research Journal. 12(2). 265–268. 1 indexed citations
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Kahya, Ercan, et al.. (2006). Türkiye Göl Su Seviyelerinin Eğilim ve Harmonik Analizi. 5(3). 215–224. 1 indexed citations
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Kahya, Ercan, et al.. (2004). ANALYSIS OF EL NINO SIGNALS ON TURKISH STREAMFLOW AND PRECIPITATION PATTERNS USING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS. Fresenius environmental bulletin. 13(8). 719–725. 16 indexed citations
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Kahya, Ercan, et al.. (1999). Multivariate Stochastic Modeling of Monthly Streamflow of Rivers in the Sakarya Basin. DergiPark (Istanbul University). 4 indexed citations
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Kalaycı, Serdar & Ercan Kahya. (1998). Detection of Water Quality Trends in The Rivers of the Susurluk Basin. DergiPark (Istanbul University). 23 indexed citations

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