John E. Costa

8.1k citations
60 papers · 4.7k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 32

John E. Costa

59 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

The formation and failure of natural dams8781988202620002013250500750

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John E. Costa
Comparison fields: 5 of 89
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2.0k
  • Earth-Surface Processes 693
  • Atmospheric Science 1.6k
  • Soil Science 831
  • Global and Planetary Change 1.6k
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside John E. Costa, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20232
2 200820
3 20051
4 200445
5 200415
6 200466
7 200331
8 200265
9 2001100
10 2000154
11 200019
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A physically-based method for predicting peak discharge of floods caused by failure of natural and constructed earthen dams
19974
13 199739
14 1996180
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1988878
16 198740
17 19879
18 198787
19 198614
20 197816

About John E. Costa

John E. Costa is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Water Science and Technology and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 60 papers that have together received 4.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (25 papers), Landslides and related hazards (21 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (20 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (17 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (5 papers), Geophysical Methods and Applications (5 papers) and Geological formations and processes (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (2.0k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (693 citations) and Atmospheric Science (1.6k citations). John E. Costa has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Cameroon. Frequent co-authors include Robert L. Schuster, Jim E. O’Connor, P. Jay Fleisher, Gerald F. Wieczorek, Joseph S. Walder, Kurt R. Spicer, N.B. Melcher, F.P. Haeni, Robert D. Jarrett and William J. Plant. Their work appears in journals such as Geology, Water Resources Research, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms and Eos.

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