Germano Ribeiro Neto

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 717 citations indexed

About

Germano Ribeiro Neto is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Germano Ribeiro Neto has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 717 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Water Science and Technology and 5 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Germano Ribeiro Neto's work include Hydrology and Drought Analysis (12 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (10 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (5 papers). Germano Ribeiro Neto is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Drought Analysis (12 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (10 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (5 papers). Germano Ribeiro Neto collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Germano Ribeiro Neto's co-authors include Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, Javier Tomasella, Karinne Reis Deusdará Leal, José A. Marengo, Luz Adriana Cuartas, Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá, Alexandre Augusto Barbosa, Pieter van Oel, Rita Márcia da Silva Pinto Vieira and Lidiane C. O. Costa and has published in prestigious journals such as Water Resources Research, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Journal of Hydrology.

In The Last Decade

Germano Ribeiro Neto

17 papers receiving 704 citations

Hit Papers

Extreme Drought Events over Brazil from 2011 to 2019 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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. Extreme Drought Events over Brazil from 2011 to 2019
    2019 271 citations Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, Marcelo Zeri et al. Atmosphere profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Germano Ribeiro Neto Brazil 10 485 238 164 83 81 19 717
Karinne Reis Deusdará Leal Brazil 8 442 0.9× 217 0.9× 171 1.0× 90 1.1× 78 1.0× 10 701
Elisângela Broedel Brazil 7 411 0.8× 191 0.8× 144 0.9× 81 1.0× 82 1.0× 12 641
Vincent Odongo Netherlands 13 353 0.7× 194 0.8× 110 0.7× 130 1.6× 65 0.8× 21 554
Adán Silva Brazil 5 439 0.9× 242 1.0× 82 0.5× 162 2.0× 56 0.7× 6 677
Wuxia Bi China 16 411 0.8× 211 0.9× 182 1.1× 97 1.2× 83 1.0× 51 796
Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré France 6 534 1.1× 320 1.3× 110 0.7× 157 1.9× 108 1.3× 10 722
Eduard Plà Spain 10 440 0.9× 190 0.8× 106 0.6× 102 1.2× 58 0.7× 18 600
Xiaobo Yun China 10 465 1.0× 312 1.3× 69 0.4× 94 1.1× 58 0.7× 14 645
Jawad Al‐Bakri Jordan 14 302 0.6× 142 0.6× 169 1.0× 95 1.1× 132 1.6× 48 688
M. A. de Carvalho Brazil 5 470 1.0× 208 0.9× 224 1.4× 95 1.1× 157 1.9× 6 805

Countries citing papers authored by Germano Ribeiro Neto

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Fields of papers citing papers by Germano Ribeiro Neto

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Germano Ribeiro Neto. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Germano Ribeiro Neto. The network helps show where Germano Ribeiro Neto may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Germano Ribeiro Neto

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Melsen, Lieke, et al.. (2025). Mind the gap: misalignment between drought monitoring and community realities. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(2). 893–912. 1 indexed citations
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Walker, David W., et al.. (2025). From insufficient rainfall to livelihoods: understanding the cascade of drought impacts and policy implications. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 25(6). 1993–2005.
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Walker, David W., Germano Ribeiro Neto, Lieke Melsen, et al.. (2024). It's not all about drought: What “drought impacts” monitoring can reveal. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 103. 104338–104338. 13 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, Lieke Melsen, Alexandre Cunha Costa, et al.. (2024). Clash of Drought Narratives: A Study on the Role of Small Reservoirs in the Emergence of Drought Impacts. Earth s Future. 12(7). 4 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, et al.. (2024). Modeling the influence of small reservoirs on hydrological drought propagation in space and time. Journal of Hydrology. 629. 130640–130640. 10 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, Lieke Melsen, David W. Walker, et al.. (2023). HESS Opinions: Drought impacts as failed prospects. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(22). 4217–4225. 6 indexed citations
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Oel, Pieter van, et al.. (2023). From creeping crisis to policy change: The adoption of drought preparedness policy in Brazil. Water Policy. 25(10). 949–965. 5 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, et al.. (2023). Drought-impacted communities in social-ecological systems: Exploration of different system states in Northeast Brazil. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 97. 104026–104026. 8 indexed citations
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Walker, David W., Germano Ribeiro Neto, Art Dewulf, et al.. (2022). Drought Diagnosis: What the Medical Sciences Can Teach Us. Earth s Future. 10(4). 16 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, Lieke Melsen, Eduardo Sávio Passos Rodrigues Martins, David W. Walker, & Pieter van Oel. (2022). Drought Cycle Analysis to Evaluate the Influence of a Dense Network of Small Reservoirs on Drought Evolution. Water Resources Research. 58(1). 25 indexed citations
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Neto, Germano Ribeiro, Liana O. Anderson, Lincoln Muniz Alves, et al.. (2021). Attributing the 2015/2016 Amazon basin drought to anthropogenic influence. Edinburgh Research Explorer. 1(1). 15 indexed citations
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Costa, Alexandre Cunha, et al.. (2021). Effect of a reservoir network on drought propagation in a semi-arid catchment in Brazil. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 66(10). 1567–1583. 27 indexed citations
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Marengo, José A., Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, Carlos A. Nobre, et al.. (2020). Assessing drought in the drylands of northeast Brazil under regional warming exceeding 4 °C. Natural Hazards. 103(2). 2589–2611. 109 indexed citations
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Cunha, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral, Marcelo Zeri, Karinne Reis Deusdará Leal, et al.. (2019). Extreme Drought Events over Brazil from 2011 to 2019. Atmosphere. 10(11). 642–642. 271 indexed citations breakdown →
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Anderson, Liana O., Germano Ribeiro Neto, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, et al.. (2018). Vulnerability of Amazonian forests to repeated droughts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1760). 20170411–20170411. 89 indexed citations
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Vieira, Rita Márcia da Silva Pinto, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral Cunha, Alexandre Augusto Barbosa, et al.. (2018). Análise das interações entre dados climáticos e o processo de desertificação no núcleo de desertificação de Cabrobó-PE, Brasil. Sustainability in Debate. 9(2). 72–87. 2 indexed citations
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Cunha, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral, Javier Tomasella, Germano Ribeiro Neto, et al.. (2018). Changes in the spatial–temporal patterns of droughts in the Brazilian Northeast. Atmospheric Science Letters. 19(10). 109 indexed citations
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Cunha, Ana Paula Martins do Amaral, et al.. (2018). Drought Between 1963 and 2017 in the Federal District, Brazil. Anuário do Instituto de Geociências. 41(2). 487–498. 7 indexed citations

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