Eric Deal

551 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 305 citations indexed

About

Eric Deal is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Deal has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 305 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Soil Science and 5 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Eric Deal's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (10 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (7 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (4 papers). Eric Deal is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (10 papers), Soil erosion and sediment transport (7 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (4 papers). Eric Deal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Eric Deal's co-authors include Jean Braun, Jeremy G. Venditti, Gianluca Botter, J. Taylor Perron, Ken Kamrin, Santiago Benavides, Günther Prasicek, R. W. Bradley, Caitlin H. Frame and Frédéric Herman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Eric Deal

15 papers receiving 298 citations

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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.

Grain shape effects in bed load sediment transport

2023 70 citations Eric Deal, Jeremy G. Venditti et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Deal United States	9	143	96	78	73	62	16	305
Rachel Glade United States	11	127 0.9×	121 1.3×	130 1.7×	82 1.1×	74 1.2×	22	285
Brian Fuller United States	10	317 2.2×	89 0.9×	191 2.4×	175 2.4×	137 2.2×	12	462
Alexander R. Beer Germany	10	230 1.6×	83 0.9×	209 2.7×	129 1.8×	125 2.0×	20	424
Alessandro Frascati Italy	10	274 1.9×	109 1.1×	30 0.4×	152 2.1×	252 4.1×	16	424
D. Paphitis United Kingdom	9	313 2.2×	67 0.7×	30 0.4×	106 1.5×	291 4.7×	11	447
Gilles Antoniazza Switzerland	10	157 1.1×	69 0.7×	63 0.8×	108 1.5×	32 0.5×	14	301
D. M. Hicks	6	198 1.4×	80 0.8×	56 0.7×	116 1.6×	82 1.3×	11	332
Bruno Fritschi Switzerland	12	473 3.3×	61 0.6×	247 3.2×	214 2.9×	64 1.0×	15	589
Brendan Yuill United States	8	202 1.4×	92 1.0×	22 0.3×	69 0.9×	165 2.7×	16	315
Yoshinori Kodama Japan	8	209 1.5×	100 1.0×	41 0.5×	163 2.2×	185 3.0×	16	342

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Deal

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Deal, Eric, et al.. (2025). Discrete Simulations of Fluid‐Driven Transport of Naturally Shaped Sediment Particles. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 130(5).

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Benavides, Santiago, Eric Deal, Jeremy G. Venditti, et al.. (2023). How Fast or How Many? Sources of Intermittent Sediment Transport. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(9). 4 indexed citations

3.

Braun, Jean & Eric Deal. (2023). Implicit Algorithm for Threshold Stream Power Incision Model. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 128(10). 2 indexed citations

4.

Deal, Eric, Jeremy G. Venditti, Santiago Benavides, et al.. (2023). Grain shape effects in bed load sediment transport. Nature. 613(7943). 298–302. 70 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benavides, Santiago, et al.. (2022). The Impact of Intermittency on Bed Load Sediment Transport. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(5). 14 indexed citations

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Deal, Eric, et al.. (2022). Fluid‐Driven Transport of Round Sediment Particles: From Discrete Simulations to Continuum Modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 127(7). 13 indexed citations

7.

Deal, Eric. (2022). Flow Resistance in Very Rough Channels. Water Resources Research. 58(10). 6 indexed citations

8.

Prasicek, Günther, Stefan Hergarten, Eric Deal, Frédéric Herman, & Jörg Robl. (2020). A glacial buzzsaw effect generated by efficient erosion of temperate glaciers in a steady state model. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 543. 116350–116350. 16 indexed citations

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Deal, Eric & Günther Prasicek. (2020). The Sliding Ice Incision Model: A New Approach to Understanding Glacial Landscape Evolution. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(1). 8 indexed citations

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Benavides, Santiago, Eric Deal, J. Taylor Perron, et al.. (2019). Multiplicative noise and intermittency in bedload sediment transport. 2 indexed citations

11.

Venditti, Jeremy G., Tingan Li, Eric Deal, Elizabeth Dingle, & Mike J. Church. (2019). Struggles with stream power: Connecting theory across scales. Geomorphology. 366. 106817–106817. 25 indexed citations

12.

Deal, Eric, et al.. (2018). Direct comparison of bedload transport in flume experiments and numerical simulations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11567. 1 indexed citations

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Herman, Frédéric, Jean Braun, Eric Deal, & Günther Prasicek. (2018). The Response Time of Glacial Erosion. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(4). 801–817. 27 indexed citations

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Deal, Eric, Jean Braun, & Gianluca Botter. (2018). Understanding the Role of Rainfall and Hydrology in Determining Fluvial Erosion Efficiency. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(4). 744–778. 57 indexed citations

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Deal, Eric, Anne‐Catherine Favre, & Jean Braun. (2017). Rainfall variability in the Himalayan orogen and its relevance to erosion processes. Water Resources Research. 53(5). 4004–4021. 19 indexed citations

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Frame, Caitlin H., Eric Deal, C. D. Nevison, & Karen L. Casciotti. (2014). N₂O production in the eastern South Atlantic: Analysis of N₂O stable isotopic and concentration data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 28(11). 1262–1278. 41 indexed citations

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