Inge de Graaf

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Inge de Graaf is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Inge de Graaf has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Water Science and Technology, 15 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Inge de Graaf's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (18 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (13 papers) and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (9 papers). Inge de Graaf is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (18 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (13 papers) and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry (9 papers). Inge de Graaf collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United States. Inge de Graaf's co-authors include Rens van Beek, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Tom Gleeson, Yoshihide Wada, Oliver Schmitz, Kerstin Stahl, Markus Weiler, Nils Moosdorf and Kor de Jong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Inge de Graaf

28 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Environmental flow limits to global groundwater pumping

2019 473 citations Inge de Graaf, Tom Gleeson et al. profile →
PCR-GLOBWB 2: a 5 arcmin global hydrological and water resources model

2018 384 citations Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Rens van Beek et al. Geoscientific model development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Inge de Graaf Netherlands	13	1.2k	756	566	429	328	31	1.9k
Sylvain Massuel France	22	769 0.7×	635 0.8×	537 0.9×	243 0.6×	337 1.0×	52	1.5k
Hoori Ajami United States	22	966 0.8×	686 0.9×	569 1.0×	336 0.8×	102 0.3×	66	1.5k
J. Hoogeveen Italy	8	818 0.7×	473 0.6×	525 0.9×	351 0.8×	466 1.4×	12	1.7k
Brian Smerdon Canada	23	939 0.8×	521 0.7×	731 1.3×	531 1.2×	109 0.3×	61	1.8k
Pekka M. Rossi Finland	23	779 0.7×	435 0.6×	596 1.1×	507 1.2×	103 0.3×	69	1.8k
Kevin M. Befus United States	19	626 0.5×	377 0.5×	775 1.4×	891 2.1×	226 0.7×	55	2.0k
H. K. Beaudoing United States	14	853 0.7×	975 1.3×	434 0.8×	200 0.5×	210 0.6×	26	2.3k
Slavek Vasak Netherlands	3	705 0.6×	405 0.5×	571 1.0×	463 1.1×	355 1.1×	5	1.5k
Alon Rimmer Israel	25	667 0.6×	545 0.7×	467 0.8×	218 0.5×	138 0.4×	58	1.7k
Boud Verbeiren Belgium	16	904 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	655 1.2×	131 0.3×	201 0.6×	48	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Inge de Graaf

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Inge de Graaf

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All Works

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Karandish, Fatemeh, et al.. (2025). Global groundwater sustainability: A critical review of strategies and future pathways. Journal of Hydrology. 657. 133060–133060. 4 indexed citations

Huang, Hao, Junguo Liu, Luca Guillaumot, et al.. (2025). Contrasting impacts of irrigation and deforestation on Lancang-Mekong River Basin hydrology. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Li, Wenhong, Yu Zhang, Inge de Graaf, et al.. (2025). Temperature and Water Levels Collectively Regulate Methane Emissions From Subtropical Freshwater Wetlands. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(3).

Sutanto, Samuel Jonson, et al.. (2024). Hydrological drought forecasts using precipitation data depend on catchment properties and human activities. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 10 indexed citations

Graaf, Inge de, et al.. (2024). Global analysis of groundwater pumping from increased river capture. Environmental Research Letters. 19(4). 44064–44064. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Wen, et al.. (2024). Contrasting effects of increasing irrigation efficiency on hydrological drought based on hydrological scenario simulations. Journal of Hydrology. 645. 132261–132261. 2 indexed citations

Mohan, Chinchu, et al.. (2024). Comparing Global Violations of Environmentally Critical Groundwater Discharge Thresholds. Water Resources Research. 60(12).

Reinecke, Robert, Sebastian Gnann, Lina Stein, et al.. (2024). Uncertainty in model estimates of global groundwater depth. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11). 114066–114066. 13 indexed citations

Mohan, Chinchu, et al.. (2023). Quantifying Groundwater's Contribution to Regional Environmental‐Flows in Diverse Hydrologic Landscapes. Water Resources Research. 59(6). 11 indexed citations

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Ronda, R.J., Maryna Strokal, Carolien Kroeze, et al.. (2023). Setting goals for agricultural nitrogen emission reduction to ensure safe air and groundwater quality: A case study of Quzhou, the North China Plain. Journal of Environmental Management. 351. 119737–119737. 4 indexed citations

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Graaf, Inge de & Kerstin Stahl. (2022). A model comparison assessing the importance of lateral groundwater flows at the global scale. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44020–44020. 20 indexed citations

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Graaf, Inge de, et al.. (2020). Large‐Scale Assessment of Delayed Groundwater Responses to Drought. Water Resources Research. 56(2). 105 indexed citations

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Graaf, Inge de, Laura E. Condon, & R. M. Maxwell. (2020). Hyper‐Resolution Continental‐Scale 3‐D Aquifer Parameterization for Groundwater Modeling. Water Resources Research. 56(5). 21 indexed citations

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Sutanudjaja, Edwin H., Rens van Beek, Niko Wanders, et al.. (2018). PCR-GLOBWB 2: a 5 arcmin global hydrological and water resources model. Geoscientific model development. 11(6). 2429–2453. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Graaf, Inge de, Rens van Beek, Tom Gleeson, et al.. (2017). A global-scale two-layer transient groundwater model: Development and application to groundwater depletion. Advances in Water Resources. 102. 53–67. 170 indexed citations

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Graaf, Inge de, Rens van Beek, T. P. Gleeson, et al.. (2017). How Sustainable is Groundwater Abstraction? A Global Assessment.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations

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Graaf, Inge de, Rens van Beek, Tom Gleeson, et al.. (2016). A global-scale two-layer transient groundwater model: development and application to groundwater depletion. 5 indexed citations

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Graaf, Inge de, et al.. (2016). Limits to global groundwater consumption. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Graaf, Inge de, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Rens van Beek, & Marc F. P. Bierkens. (2015). A high-resolution global-scale groundwater model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 19(2). 823–837. 169 indexed citations

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Bierkens, Marc F. P., et al.. (2014). Global Depletion of Groundwater Resources: Past and Future Analyses. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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