Murugesu Sivapalan

38.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
332 papers, 24.0k citations indexed

About

Murugesu Sivapalan is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Murugesu Sivapalan has authored 332 papers receiving a total of 24.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 263 papers in Water Science and Technology, 193 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 69 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Murugesu Sivapalan's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (250 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (108 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (75 papers). Murugesu Sivapalan is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (250 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (108 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (75 papers). Murugesu Sivapalan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Murugesu Sivapalan's co-authors include Günter Blöschl, Ross Woods, P. A. Troch, Eric F. Wood, Keith Beven, C. J. Harman, Thorsten Wagener, H. H. G. Savenije, Neil R. Viney and Chatchai Jothityangkoon and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Murugesu Sivapalan

325 papers receiving 22.8k citations

Hit Papers

Scale issues in hydrologi... 1988 2026 2000 2013 1995 2003 2011 2007 2007 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Scale issues in hydrological modelling: A review
    1995 1.3k citations Günter Blöschl, Murugesu Sivapalan profile →
  2. IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB), 2003–2012: Shaping an exciting future for the hydrological sciences
    2003 976 citations Murugesu Sivapalan, Stewart W. Franks et al. profile →
  3. Socio‐hydrology: A new science of people and water
    2011 839 citations Murugesu Sivapalan, Günter Blöschl et al. profile →
  4. Catchment Classification and Hydrologic Similarity
    2007 607 citations Thorsten Wagener, Murugesu Sivapalan et al. profile →
  5. Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology
    2007 587 citations Murugesu Sivapalan et al. Water Resources Research profile →
  6. The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world
    2010 579 citations Thorsten Wagener, Murugesu Sivapalan et al. Water Resources Research profile →
  7. Effects of spatial variability and scale with implications to hydrologic modeling
    1988 514 citations Eric F. Wood, Murugesu Sivapalan et al. profile →
  8. Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity
    2010 464 citations Mary Yaeger, Murugesu Sivapalan et al. profile →
  9. Sociohydrology: Scientific Challenges in Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals
    2019 305 citations Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Murugesu Sivapalan et al. Water Resources Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Murugesu Sivapalan United States 81 18.2k 14.2k 6.0k 3.4k 3.1k 332 24.0k
J. G. Arnold United States 31 16.9k 0.9× 10.0k 0.7× 6.3k 1.0× 2.3k 0.7× 5.0k 1.6× 56 20.8k
J. V. Sutcliffe United Kingdom 20 13.9k 0.8× 10.6k 0.7× 6.1k 1.0× 3.5k 1.0× 3.5k 1.1× 42 20.0k
Günter Blöschl Austria 88 17.5k 1.0× 16.4k 1.2× 7.5k 1.3× 7.5k 2.2× 2.7k 0.9× 374 27.8k
Lu Zhang China 77 13.5k 0.7× 14.4k 1.0× 3.8k 0.6× 3.5k 1.0× 5.1k 1.6× 525 23.5k
Karim C. Abbaspour Switzerland 57 13.1k 0.7× 8.5k 0.6× 5.3k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 2.9k 0.9× 178 17.4k
Thorsten Wagener United Kingdom 75 13.6k 0.8× 11.2k 0.8× 6.9k 1.1× 2.8k 0.8× 1.0k 0.3× 264 20.1k
Jeffrey G. Arnold United States 65 15.2k 0.8× 8.3k 0.6× 5.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 4.5k 1.5× 228 18.2k
Raghavan Srinivasan United States 74 27.9k 1.5× 17.6k 1.2× 10.0k 1.7× 3.7k 1.1× 7.7k 2.5× 470 34.4k
Jim Freer United Kingdom 66 11.2k 0.6× 8.6k 0.6× 4.8k 0.8× 2.8k 0.8× 1.7k 0.6× 187 16.0k
H. H. G. Savenije Netherlands 79 10.2k 0.6× 9.2k 0.7× 4.5k 0.8× 3.6k 1.1× 1.5k 0.5× 344 18.2k

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All Works

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Elshorbagy, Amin, et al.. (2023). Cooperation in a transboundary river basin: a large-scale socio-hydrological model of the Eastern Nile. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(5). 1201–1219. 6 indexed citations
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Kalantari, Zahra, et al.. (2020). Socio-hydrological Issues Preventing Restoration of the Urmia Lake in Iran. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Dengfeng, et al.. (2019). Temporal and Spatial Signatures of Sediment Transport at the Watershed Scale: An Approach to Understand the Behavior of the Watershed. Tecnología y Ciencias del Agua. 10(4). 18–45. 3 indexed citations
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Sivapalan, Murugesu. (2018). From engineering hydrology to Earth system science: milestones in the transformation of hydrologic science. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(3). 1665–1693. 83 indexed citations
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Emmerik, Tim van, et al.. (2017). Alternative socio-centric approach for model validation - a way forward for socio-hydrology. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5237. 2 indexed citations
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Wada, Yoshihide, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Ad de Roo, et al.. (2017). Human–water interface in hydrological modelling: current status and future directions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(8). 4169–4193. 191 indexed citations
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Sivapalan, Murugesu, Alberto Viglione, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, & Saket Pande. (2016). The current state of Socio-hydrology. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations
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Pande, Saket, Maurits Ertsen, & Murugesu Sivapalan. (2014). Endogenous technological and population change under increasing water scarcity. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(8). 3239–3258. 24 indexed citations
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Sawicz, K. A., Christa Kelleher, Thorsten Wagener, et al.. (2014). Characterizing hydrologic change through catchment classification. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(1). 273–285. 83 indexed citations
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Elshafei, Y., Murugesu Sivapalan, Matthew Tonts, & Matthew R. Hipsey. (2014). A prototype framework for models of socio-hydrology: identification of key feedback loops with application to two Australian case-studies. 7 indexed citations
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Yaeger, Mary, Murugesu Sivapalan, Gregory F. McIsaac, & Ximing Cai. (2013). Comparative analysis of hydrologic signatures in two agricultural watersheds in east-central Illinois: legacies of the past to inform the future. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(11). 4607–4623. 17 indexed citations
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Sivapalan, Murugesu. (2011). Prediction under Change (PUC): Water, Earth and Biota in the Anthropocene. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations
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Schaefli, Bettina, C. J. Harman, Murugesu Sivapalan, & Stanislaus J. Schymanski. (2010). Hydrologic predictions in a changing environment: behavioral modeling. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 11 indexed citations
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Ocampo-López, Carlos, Carolyn Oldham, & Murugesu Sivapalan. (2006). Nitrate attenuation in agricultural catchments: Shifting balances between transport and reaction. Water Resources Research. 42(1). 131 indexed citations
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Zehe, Erwin, et al.. (2006). Dynamical process upscaling for deriving catchment scale state variables and constitutive relations for meso-scale process models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 10(6). 981–996. 53 indexed citations
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Zehe, Erwin, Haksu Lee, & Murugesu Sivapalan. (2005). Derivation of closure relations and commensurate state variables for meso-scale models using the REW approach. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 134–158. 1 indexed citations
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Franks, Stewart W., Johan Kuylenstierna, & Murugesu Sivapalan. (2005). PUB : Assessing the need for the integration of hydrological techniques. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 323–340.
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Sivapalan, Murugesu. (1993). Linking hydrologic parameterizations across a range of scales: hillslope to catchment to region. 54(48). 115–123. 6 indexed citations
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Wood, Eric F., Murugesu Sivapalan, & K. Beven. (1986). Scale effects in infiltration and runoff production. IAHS-AISH publication. 375–387. 17 indexed citations

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