Georg Veh

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 845 citations indexed

About

Georg Veh is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Georg Veh has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 845 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Atmospheric Science, 14 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 5 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Georg Veh's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (20 papers), Landslides and related hazards (14 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (10 papers). Georg Veh is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (20 papers), Landslides and related hazards (14 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (10 papers). Georg Veh collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and China. Georg Veh's co-authors include Oliver Korup, Ariane Walz, Sigrid Roessner, Sebastian von Specht, Natalie Lützow, Guoqing Zhang, Simon Allen, Romain Hugonnet, Wenfeng Chen and Tobias Bolch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Georg Veh

20 papers receiving 825 citations

Hit Papers

Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers i... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 2024 25 50 75
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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.

  1. Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya
    2023 96 citations Guoqing Zhang, Tobias Bolch et al. Nature Geoscience profile →
  2. Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods
    2024 52 citations Guoqing Zhang, Jonathan L. Carrivick et al. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Georg Veh Germany 12 717 318 207 136 80 25 845
Sarah Shannon United Kingdom 11 794 1.1× 182 0.6× 202 1.0× 196 1.4× 51 0.6× 15 869
Douglas Brinkerhoff United States 14 781 1.1× 192 0.6× 160 0.8× 210 1.5× 74 0.9× 31 941
Bhanu Pratap India 15 839 1.2× 204 0.6× 100 0.5× 161 1.2× 78 1.0× 23 898
Yvonne Schaub Switzerland 9 754 1.1× 426 1.3× 162 0.8× 143 1.1× 53 0.7× 11 864
Ankur Pandit India 10 668 0.9× 177 0.6× 99 0.5× 121 0.9× 46 0.6× 31 760
A. B. Surazakov United States 12 771 1.1× 169 0.5× 123 0.6× 103 0.8× 107 1.3× 16 852
Andreas Linsbauer Switzerland 17 1.3k 1.8× 397 1.2× 136 0.7× 228 1.7× 141 1.8× 31 1.3k
Thorsten Seehaus Germany 17 859 1.2× 206 0.6× 97 0.5× 294 2.2× 52 0.7× 43 987
Mohd Farooq Azam India 17 1.5k 2.1× 219 0.7× 211 1.0× 266 2.0× 169 2.1× 42 1.6k
Ruzica Dadić New Zealand 14 680 0.9× 129 0.4× 180 0.9× 94 0.7× 119 1.5× 35 758

Countries citing papers authored by Georg Veh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Georg Veh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Georg Veh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Georg Veh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Georg Veh 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 Georg Veh. Georg Veh 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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Veh, Georg, et al.. (2026). Evolving resource potential of glacial lakes with ongoing deglaciation. Nature Water. 4(3). 381–395.
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Veh, Georg, Bing Wang, Christoph Schmidt, et al.. (2025). Progressively smaller glacier lake outburst floods despite worldwide growth in lake area. Nature Water. 3(3). 271–283. 11 indexed citations
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Wang, Xue, Wenfeng Chen, Guoqing Zhang, et al.. (2025). Mitigating future glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya. Science Bulletin. 71(1). 159–171.
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Qi, Miaomiao, Shiyin Liu, Zhifang Zhao, et al.. (2025). A mathematical model to improve water storage of glacial lake prediction towards addressing glacial lake outburst floods. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(4). 969–982.
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Lützow, Natalie, Bretwood Higman, Martin Truffer, et al.. (2025). Larger lake outbursts despite glacier thinning at ice-dammed Desolation Lake, Alaska. ˜The œcryosphere. 19(3). 1085–1102.
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Wang, Xue, Guoqing Zhang, Georg Veh, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing glacial lake outburst floods in the Poiqu River basin, central Himalaya. Geomorphology. 449. 109063–109063. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guoqing, Jonathan L. Carrivick, Adam Emmer, et al.. (2024). Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(6). 447–462. 52 indexed citations breakdown →
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Veh, Georg, et al.. (2023). Cast shadows reveal changes in glacier surface elevation. ˜The œcryosphere. 17(8). 3535–3551. 2 indexed citations
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Lützow, Natalie, et al.. (2023). Himalayan hazard cascades – modern and medieval outburst floods in Pokhara, Nepal. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 48(6). 1135–1151. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xue, Guoqing Zhang, Georg Veh, et al.. (2023). Cascading hazards from two recent glacial lake outburst floods in the Nyainqêntanglha range, Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology. 626. 130155–130155. 17 indexed citations
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Veh, Georg, Natalie Lützow, Lisa Luna, et al.. (2023). Less extreme and earlier outbursts of ice-dammed lakes since 1900. Nature. 614(7949). 701–707. 36 indexed citations
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Lützow, Natalie, Georg Veh, & Oliver Korup. (2023). A global database of historic glacier lake outburst floods. Earth system science data. 15(7). 2983–3000. 49 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guoqing, Tobias Bolch, Tandong Yao, et al.. (2023). Underestimated mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers in the greater Himalaya. Nature Geoscience. 16(4). 333–338. 96 indexed citations breakdown →
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Veh, Georg, et al.. (2022). Trends, Breaks, and Biases in the Frequency of Reported Glacier Lake Outburst Floods. Earth s Future. 10(3). 55 indexed citations
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Korup, Oliver, et al.. (2021). Controls of outbursts of moraine-dammed lakes in the greater Himalayan region. ˜The œcryosphere. 15(8). 4145–4163. 20 indexed citations
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Specht, Sebastian von, Uğur Öztürk, Georg Veh, Fabrice Cotton, & Oliver Korup. (2019). Effects of finite source rupture on landslide triggering: the 2016 M w  7.1 Kumamoto earthquake. Solid Earth. 10(2). 463–486. 22 indexed citations
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Veh, Georg, Oliver Korup, & Ariane Walz. (2019). Hazard from Himalayan glacier lake outburst floods. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(2). 907–912. 179 indexed citations
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Wille, Christian, et al.. (2018). Scaling and balancing methane fluxes in a heterogeneous tundra ecosystem of the Lena River Delta. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 266-267. 243–255. 9 indexed citations
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Veh, Georg. (2015). Tutorial (Beginner level): Orthophoto and DEM Generation with Agisoft PhotoScan Pro 1.1 (with Ground Control Points). Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 3 indexed citations

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