Oliver Korup

11.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
134 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Oliver Korup is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Korup has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 91 papers in Atmospheric Science and 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Oliver Korup's work include Landslides and related hazards (97 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (56 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (52 papers). Oliver Korup is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (97 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (56 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (52 papers). Oliver Korup collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Oliver Korup's co-authors include David R. Montgomery, John J. Clague, Fritz Schlunegger, Isaac J. Larsen, Georg Veh, Christian Huggel, Johannes T. Weidinger, Alexander Strom, Ariane Walz and Alexander L. Densmore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Korup

125 papers receiving 7.7k 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 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.

Earthquake‐Induced Chains of Geologic Hazards: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts

2019 659 citations Xuanmei Fan, Gianvito Scaringi et al. Reviews of Geophysics profile →
Landslide erosion controlled by hillslope material

2010 483 citations Isaac J. Larsen, Oliver Korup et al. profile →
Land use and land cover as a conditioning factor in landslide susceptibility: a literature review

2023 102 citations Oliver Korup et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver Korup Germany	50	5.6k	4.2k	2.0k	1.6k	1.1k	134	7.9k
C. P. Stark United States	34	4.4k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	69	7.0k
Joshua J. Roering United States	45	3.7k 0.7×	3.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	814 0.8×	130	6.7k
John J. Clague Canada	61	5.0k 0.9×	9.0k 2.1×	2.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	2.3k 2.1×	351	13.6k
Michel Jaboyedoff Switzerland	48	5.9k 1.1×	2.3k 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	724 0.7×	278	8.7k
David N. Petley United Kingdom	34	5.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	654 0.4×	772 0.7×	84	6.6k
David R. Montgomery United States	52	4.4k 0.8×	4.5k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	2.8k 1.8×	1.8k 1.7×	124	11.5k
Alexander L. Densmore United Kingdom	45	2.9k 0.5×	2.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	2.4k 2.3×	133	6.7k
Stephen G. Evans Canada	40	5.6k 1.0×	3.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	899 0.6×	733 0.7×	118	7.1k
Jean‐Philippe Malet France	50	5.6k 1.0×	2.1k 0.5×	2.3k 1.2×	738 0.5×	997 0.9×	180	7.5k
Niels Hovius Germany	61	5.8k 1.0×	5.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	3.4k 2.2×	2.9k 2.8×	167	12.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Korup

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Korup

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Korup

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

All Works

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Frieler, Katja, et al.. (2025). Socioeconomic predictors of vulnerability to flood-induced displacement. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8296–8296.

Bronstert, Axel, et al.. (2025). Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Daily Sediment Transport in an Alpine River. Water Resources Research. 61(8).

Veh, Georg, Bing Wang, Christoph Schmidt, et al.. (2025). Progressively smaller glacier lake outburst floods despite worldwide growth in lake area. Nature Water. 3(3). 271–283. 11 indexed citations

Korup, Oliver, et al.. (2024). Inferring sediment-discharge event types in an Alpine catchment from sub-daily time series. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(20). 4771–4796. 3 indexed citations

Mohor, Guilherme Samprogna, Olivier Dewitte, Tomáš Pánek, et al.. (2024). Human Settlement Pressure Drives Slow‐Moving Landslide Exposure. Earth s Future. 12(9). 8 indexed citations

Patton, Annette I., et al.. (2023). Landslide initiation thresholds in data-sparse regions: application to landslide early warning criteria in Sitka, Alaska, USA. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(10). 3261–3284. 8 indexed citations

Lützow, Natalie, et al.. (2023). Himalayan hazard cascades – modern and medieval outburst floods in Pokhara, Nepal. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 48(6). 1135–1151. 2 indexed citations

Veh, Georg, et al.. (2022). Trends, Breaks, and Biases in the Frequency of Reported Glacier Lake Outburst Floods. Earth s Future. 10(3). 55 indexed citations

Mohr, C, et al.. (2021). Predicting Patagonian Landslides: Roles of Forest Cover and Wind Speed. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(23). 15 indexed citations

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Mohr, C, et al.. (2021). Trees Talk Tremor—Wood Anatomy and Content Reveal Contrasting Tree‐Growth Responses to Earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 126(10). 6 indexed citations

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Fan, Xuanmei, Gianvito Scaringi, Oliver Korup, et al.. (2019). Earthquake‐Induced Chains of Geologic Hazards: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts. Reviews of Geophysics. 57(2). 421–503. 659 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huggel, Christian, Imtiaz Rangwala, Nadine Salzmann, et al.. (2015). The High-Mountain Cryosphere. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 35 indexed citations

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Andermann, Christoff, et al.. (2015). Monsoonal hillslope processes determine grain size‐specific suspended sediment fluxes in a trans‐Himalayan river. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(7). 2302–2308. 32 indexed citations

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Görüm, Tolga, Oliver Korup, C.J. van Westen, et al.. (2014). Why so few? Landslides triggered by the 2002 Denali earthquake, Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews. 95. 80–94. 100 indexed citations

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Schwanghart, Wolfgang, et al.. (2014). Reassessing Catastrophic Infill of the Pokhara Valley, Nepal Himalaya. EGUGA. 15787. 1 indexed citations

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Korup, Oliver, et al.. (2014). The LAHARZ model for inundation by mass movement flows: Need for re-calibration?. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4552. 1 indexed citations

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Andermann, Christoff, et al.. (2013). Towards a complete contemporary sediment budget of a major Himalayan river: Kali Gandaki, Nepal. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2 indexed citations

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Huggel, Christian, John J. Clague, & Oliver Korup. (2011). Is climate change responsible for changing landslide activity in high mountains?. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 37(1). 77–91. 323 indexed citations

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Korup, Oliver & D. R. Montgomery. (2007). Do Glacier Dams Retard River Incision Into Southeast Tibet. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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Korup, Oliver. (2004). Geomorphic implications of fault zone weakening: Slope instability along the Alpine Fault, South Westland to Fiordland. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 47(2). 257–267. 63 indexed citations

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