Mélanie Kappes

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Mélanie Kappes is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mélanie Kappes has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Mélanie Kappes's work include Landslides and related hazards (7 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (3 papers). Mélanie Kappes is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (7 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (6 papers) and Disaster Management and Resilience (3 papers). Mélanie Kappes collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Netherlands and Switzerland. Mélanie Kappes's co-authors include Margreth Keiler, Thomas Glade, Kirsten von Elverfeldt, Maria Papathoma-Köhle, Rainer Bell, Pascal Horton, Alexandre Remaître, Michel Jaboyedoff, Jean‐Philippe Malet and Roberto Rudari and has published in prestigious journals such as Geomorphology, Environmental Research Letters and Natural Hazards.

In The Last Decade

Mélanie Kappes

12 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Challenges of analyzing multi-hazard risk: a review

2012 536 citations Mélanie Kappes, Margreth Keiler et al. Natural Hazards profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mélanie Kappes Austria	7	892	442	356	282	224	13	1.3k
A. Lerner‐Lam United States	25	876 1.0×	675 1.5×	344 1.0×	462 1.6×	213 1.0×	50	2.8k
Joel C. Gill United Kingdom	13	561 0.6×	257 0.6×	409 1.1×	192 0.7×	220 1.0×	30	1.3k
Maria Papathoma-Köhle Austria	25	1.4k 1.6×	775 1.8×	533 1.5×	577 2.0×	397 1.8×	40	2.1k
Iuliana Armaș Romania	20	643 0.7×	262 0.6×	766 2.2×	207 0.7×	175 0.8×	62	1.4k
Paul Sayers United Kingdom	20	1.5k 1.7×	129 0.3×	349 1.0×	443 1.6×	288 1.3×	79	1.9k
Michael Bründl Switzerland	15	486 0.5×	379 0.9×	183 0.5×	305 1.1×	94 0.4×	33	857
Konstantinos Chousianitis Greece	17	738 0.8×	711 1.6×	108 0.3×	181 0.6×	278 1.2×	35	1.8k
Andreas Paul Zischg Switzerland	25	1.2k 1.3×	439 1.0×	228 0.6×	615 2.2×	137 0.6×	65	1.6k
Chinh Luu Vietnam	17	1.1k 1.2×	436 1.0×	122 0.3×	285 1.0×	116 0.5×	42	1.5k
Ian Meadowcroft United Kingdom	12	574 0.6×	113 0.3×	144 0.4×	157 0.6×	80 0.4×	18	887

Countries citing papers authored by Mélanie Kappes

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mélanie Kappes

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All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

1.

Rozenberg, Julie, et al.. (2021). 360° Resilience. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 2 indexed citations

2.

Kappes, Mélanie, et al.. (2017). Prioritizing climate resilient transport investments in a data-scarce environment : a practicioners' guide. 1–62.

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Luna, B. Quan, Jan Blahút, Theo van Asch, C.J. van Westen, & Mélanie Kappes. (2016). ASCHFLOW - A dynamic landslide run-out model for medium scale hazard analysis. Geoenvironmental Disasters. 3(1). 15 indexed citations

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Trigg, Mark A., Cathryn E. Birch, Jeffrey Neal, et al.. (2016). The credibility challenge for global fluvial flood risk analysis. Environmental Research Letters. 11(9). 94014–94014. 149 indexed citations

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Luna, B. Quan, Jan Blahút, Theo van Asch, C.J. van Westen, & Mélanie Kappes. (2015). AschFlow - A dynamic landslide run-out model for medium scale hazard analysis.. EGUGA. 13656. 1 indexed citations

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Bloch, Robin, et al.. (2014). Lessons from urban risk assessments in Latin American and Caribbean cities. Development in Practice. 24(4). 502–513. 2 indexed citations

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Frigerio, Simone, Mélanie Kappes, Thomas Glade, & Jean‐Philippe Malet. (2012). MultiRISK: a platform for Multi-Hazard Risk Modelling and Visualisation. Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana. 2 indexed citations

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Kappes, Mélanie, Margreth Keiler, Kirsten von Elverfeldt, & Thomas Glade. (2012). Challenges of analyzing multi-hazard risk: a review. Natural Hazards. 64(2). 1925–1958. 536 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kappes, Mélanie, Katharina Gruber, Simone Frigerio, et al.. (2012). The MultiRISK platform: The technical concept and application of a regional-scale multihazard exposure analysis tool. Geomorphology. 151-152. 139–155. 43 indexed citations

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Kappes, Mélanie, Jean‐Philippe Malet, Alexandre Remaître, et al.. (2011). Assessment of debris-flow susceptibility at medium-scale in the Barcelonnette Basin, France. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 11(2). 627–641. 82 indexed citations

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Kappes, Mélanie, Maria Papathoma-Köhle, & Margreth Keiler. (2011). Assessing physical vulnerability for multi-hazards using an indicator-based methodology. Applied Geography. 32(2). 577–590. 233 indexed citations

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Kappes, Mélanie, Margreth Keiler, & Thomas Glade. (2010). Consideration of Hazard Interactions in Medium-Scale Multi-Hazard Risk Analyses. Phaidra (Universität Wien). 12. 3331. 1 indexed citations

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Papathoma-Köhle, Maria, Mélanie Kappes, Margreth Keiler, & Thomas Glade. (2010). Physical vulnerability assessment for alpine hazards: state of the art and future needs. Natural Hazards. 58(2). 645–680. 196 indexed citations

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