Michael Bliss Singer

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Michael Bliss Singer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Bliss Singer has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Ecology and 33 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Michael Bliss Singer's work include Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (33 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (32 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (25 papers). Michael Bliss Singer is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (33 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (32 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (25 papers). Michael Bliss Singer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Michael Bliss Singer's co-authors include Katerina Michaelides, Thomas Dunne, Louise Slater, John C. Stella, Dar A. Roberts, James W. Kirchner, L. Allan James, Patrick Donovan, Joel D. Blum and R. E. Aalto and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Bliss Singer

84 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Warming accelerates global drought severity 2025 2026 2025 10 20 30 40
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. Warming accelerates global drought severity
    2025 41 citations Solomon H. Gebrechorkos, Justin Sheffield et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Bliss Singer United States 28 1.1k 922 724 551 435 86 2.2k
Guofeng Zhu China 26 988 0.9× 339 0.4× 506 0.7× 310 0.6× 600 1.4× 96 2.1k
Alexandru Dumitrescu Romania 25 1.3k 1.2× 398 0.4× 519 0.7× 476 0.9× 723 1.7× 102 2.6k
L. Allan James United States 27 602 0.6× 1.3k 1.4× 643 0.9× 1.1k 2.0× 457 1.1× 65 2.5k
Sylvain Ouillon France 34 697 0.7× 1.4k 1.5× 625 0.9× 399 0.7× 284 0.7× 102 2.9k
Xinping Wang China 33 1.6k 1.5× 768 0.8× 444 0.6× 683 1.2× 608 1.4× 87 3.3k
Félix Francés Spain 29 1.5k 1.4× 532 0.6× 1.4k 2.0× 453 0.8× 445 1.0× 86 2.4k
Brent T. Aulenbach United States 23 484 0.5× 568 0.6× 1.7k 2.4× 420 0.8× 288 0.7× 47 3.0k
Xiaobin Cai China 20 998 0.9× 673 0.7× 872 1.2× 217 0.4× 253 0.6× 56 2.0k
David Doxaran France 35 1.1k 1.1× 935 1.0× 1.1k 1.5× 125 0.2× 522 1.2× 84 3.9k
Jiahu Jiang China 23 1.3k 1.2× 877 1.0× 1.3k 1.8× 214 0.4× 403 0.9× 93 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Bliss Singer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Bliss Singer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Michael Bliss Singer. 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 Michael Bliss Singer. The network helps show where Michael Bliss Singer may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Bliss Singer

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gebrechorkos, Solomon H., Justin Sheffield, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, et al.. (2025). Warming accelerates global drought severity. Nature. 642(8068). 628–635. 41 indexed citations breakdown →
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Piégay, Hervé, et al.. (2024). Drivers of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Riparian Forest NDVI Along a Hydroclimatic Gradient. Ecohydrology. 18(2). 2 indexed citations
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Coxon, Gemma, Francesca Pianosi, Rosanna Lane, et al.. (2024). Developing water supply reservoir operating rules for large-scale hydrological modelling. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(17). 4203–4218. 2 indexed citations
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Gebrechorkos, Solomon H., Jian Peng, Ellen Dyer, et al.. (2023). Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–2022. Earth system science data. 15(12). 5449–5466. 45 indexed citations
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Koppa, Akash, Jessica Keune, David MacLeod, et al.. (2023). A Lagrangian Analysis of the Sources of Rainfall Over the Horn of Africa Drylands. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(12). 4 indexed citations
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Singer, Michael Bliss, et al.. (2023). Modeling seasonal vegetation phenology from hydroclimatic drivers for contrasting plant functional groups within drylands of the Southwestern USA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 25001–25001. 12 indexed citations
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Singer, Michael Bliss, Katerina Michaelides, Rafael Rosolem, et al.. (2023). Assessing the sensitivity of modelled water partitioning to global precipitation datasets in a data‐scarce dryland region. Hydrological Processes. 37(12). 4 indexed citations
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Asfaw, Dagmawi, Michael Bliss Singer, Rafael Rosolem, et al.. (2023). stoPET v1.0: a stochastic potential evapotranspiration generator for simulation of climate change impacts. Geoscientific model development. 16(2). 557–571. 4 indexed citations
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MacLeod, David, Katerina Michaelides, Dagmawi Asfaw, et al.. (2023). Translating seasonal climate forecasts into water balance forecasts for decision making. PLOS Climate. 2(3). e0000138–e0000138. 5 indexed citations
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Coxon, Gemma, et al.. (2023). National‐Scale Detection of Reservoir Impacts Through Hydrological Signatures. Water Resources Research. 59(5). 20 indexed citations
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Rohde, Melissa M., John C. Stella, Dar A. Roberts, & Michael Bliss Singer. (2021). Groundwater dependence of riparian woodlands and the disrupting effect of anthropogenically altered streamflow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(25). 46 indexed citations
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Michaelides, Katerina, et al.. (2021). Climatic expression of rainfall on soil moisture dynamics in drylands. 8 indexed citations
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Singer, Michael Bliss, et al.. (2021). Drought onset and propagation into soil moisture and grassland vegetation responses during the 2012–2019 major drought in Southern California. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(6). 3713–3729. 44 indexed citations
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Singer, Michael Bliss, et al.. (2021). DRYP 1.0: a parsimonious hydrological model of DRYland Partitioning of the water balance. Geoscientific model development. 14(11). 6893–6917. 22 indexed citations
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Mayes, Marc, K. K. Caylor, Michael Bliss Singer, et al.. (2020). Climate sensitivity of water use by riparian woodlands at landscape scales. Hydrological Processes. 34(25). 4884–4903. 25 indexed citations
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Singer, Michael Bliss, et al.. (2016). A subsurface hydrology model that traces oxygen isotopes. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Slater, Louise, Michael Bliss Singer, & James W. Kirchner. (2015). Hydrologic versus geomorphic drivers of trends in flood hazard. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(2). 370–376. 149 indexed citations
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Dunne, Thomas, José Antonio Constantine, & Michael Bliss Singer. (2010). The role of sediment transport and sediment supply in the evolution of river channel and floodplain complexity. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 23 indexed citations
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Tena, Álvaro, Michael Bliss Singer, & Ramón J. Batalla. (2010). Sediment routing modelling: The use of FLUVIAL-12 to evaluate and re-design flushing flows in the lower Ebro.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11767. 1 indexed citations

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