L.W. Vail

51 total papers · 1.8k total citations
18 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

L.W. Vail is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, L.W. Vail has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Water Science and Technology, 7 papers in Environmental Engineering and 6 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in L.W. Vail's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (6 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (3 papers). L.W. Vail is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (6 papers) and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (3 papers). L.W. Vail collaborates with scholars based in United States and Russia. L.W. Vail's co-authors include Mark S. Wigmosta, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Daniel Epstein, Raghavan Srinivasan, David Wang, Norman J. Rosenberg, Jeffrey G. Arnold, L. Ruby Leung, S. J. Ghan and L. E. Eary and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Water Resources Research and Climatic Change.

In The Last Decade

L.W. Vail

16 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A distributed hydrology‐vegetation model for complex terrain

1994 1.1k citations Mark S. Wigmosta, L.W. Vail et al. Water Resources Research profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
L.W. Vail	988	792	461	278	185	18	1.3k
David Dralle	681 0.7×	724 0.9×	324 0.7×	312 1.1×	221 1.2×	47	1.3k
Charles W. Downer	1.1k 1.1×	826 1.0×	309 0.7×	601 2.2×	123 0.7×	32	1.4k
L. Franchistéguy	745 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	618 1.3×	394 1.4×	211 1.1×	19	1.8k
Xi Chen	601 0.6×	538 0.7×	323 0.7×	328 1.2×	147 0.8×	42	1.3k
Wossenu Abtew	617 0.6×	908 1.1×	255 0.6×	260 0.9×	222 1.2×	40	1.4k
F. I. Morton	827 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	335 0.7×	218 0.8×	85 0.5×	31	1.3k
Mike Bonell	954 1.0×	842 1.1×	307 0.7×	293 1.1×	268 1.4×	38	1.5k
Ray K. Linsley	797 0.8×	645 0.8×	175 0.4×	342 1.2×	218 1.2×	31	1.3k
Tom Hatton	544 0.6×	890 1.1×	296 0.6×	291 1.0×	268 1.4×	35	1.4k
David I. Stannard	479 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	367 0.8×	328 1.2×	190 1.0×	31	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by L.W. Vail

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Fields of papers citing papers by L.W. Vail

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of L.W. Vail

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

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