Peter Burek

8.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
79 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Peter Burek is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Burek has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Water Science and Technology, 28 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 25 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peter Burek's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (43 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (27 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (25 papers). Peter Burek is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (43 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (27 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (25 papers). Peter Burek collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Netherlands and United States. Peter Burek's co-authors include Yoshihide Wada, Lorenzo Alfieri, Yusuke Satoh, Luc Feyen, Giovanni Forzieri, Sylvia Tramberend, Peter Salamon, Peter Greve, Taher Kahil and G. Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Research.

In The Last Decade

Peter Burek

74 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Modeling global water use for the 21st century: the Water... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2016 2013 2018 2015 2020 100 200 300 400
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. Modeling global water use for the 21st century: the Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative and its approaches
    2016 420 citations Yoshihide Wada, Martina Flörke et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  2. GloFAS – global ensemble streamflow forecasting and flood early warning
    2013 413 citations Lorenzo Alfieri, Peter Burek et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  3. Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections
    2018 408 citations Peter Greve, Taher Kahil et al. profile →
  4. Global warming increases the frequency of river floods in Europe
    2015 403 citations Lorenzo Alfieri, Peter Burek et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  5. South-to-North Water Diversion stabilizing Beijing’s groundwater levels
    2020 400 citations Bridget R. Scanlon, Peter Burek et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change
    2022 181 citations Yusuke Satoh, Kei Yoshimura et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Burek Austria 28 2.4k 1.8k 745 663 635 79 3.9k
Yusuke Satoh Japan 28 2.4k 1.0× 2.1k 1.2× 769 1.0× 531 0.8× 506 0.8× 68 4.0k
Yoshimitsu Masaki Japan 18 2.5k 1.0× 2.2k 1.2× 904 1.2× 430 0.6× 475 0.7× 42 3.9k
Tobias Stacke Germany 20 1.9k 0.8× 2.1k 1.1× 516 0.7× 999 1.5× 787 1.2× 51 3.7k
Stephanie Eisner Germany 31 3.5k 1.5× 2.3k 1.3× 1.4k 1.9× 560 0.8× 1.1k 1.7× 63 5.6k
Ingjerd Haddeland Norway 20 2.9k 1.2× 2.2k 1.2× 876 1.2× 617 0.9× 660 1.0× 36 4.3k
Ted Veldkamp Netherlands 28 1.8k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 824 1.1× 679 1.0× 407 0.6× 52 3.9k
Edwin H. Sutanudjaja Netherlands 27 1.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 440 0.6× 430 0.6× 954 1.5× 78 3.2k
Yadu Pokhrel United States 39 3.1k 1.3× 3.2k 1.8× 830 1.1× 800 1.2× 817 1.3× 115 5.5k
Peter Greve Austria 25 1.5k 0.6× 2.1k 1.1× 387 0.5× 735 1.1× 438 0.7× 45 3.4k
Siao Sun China 29 1.3k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 588 0.8× 433 0.7× 1.0k 1.6× 85 4.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Burek

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhao, Fang, Ning Nie, Yang Liu, et al.. (2025). Benefits of Calibrating a Global Hydrological Model for Regional Analyses of Flood and Drought Projections: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Basin. Water Resources Research. 61(3). 3 indexed citations
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Tiwari, Amar Deep, Yadu Pokhrel, Julien Boulangé, et al.. (2025). Similarities and divergent patterns in hydrologic fluxes and storages simulated by global water models. Nature Water. 3(5). 550–560. 2 indexed citations
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Jones, Edward R., Rens van Beek, Peter Burek, et al.. (2025). A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 1(2). 25002–25002.
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Li, Jincheng, Yanxin Sun, Ting Tang, et al.. (2024). Uncovering the spatial characteristics of global net anthropogenic nitrogen input at high resolution and across 1.42 million lake basins. The Science of The Total Environment. 953. 176143–176143. 3 indexed citations
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Burek, Peter, et al.. (2024). Sensitivity of montane grassland water fluxes to warming and elevated CO2 from local to catchment scale: A case study from the Austrian Alps. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 56. 101970–101970. 1 indexed citations
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Gnann, Sebastian, Robert Reinecke, Lina Stein, et al.. (2023). Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models. Nature Water. 1(12). 1079–1090. 29 indexed citations
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Smilovic, Mikhail, Peter Burek, Luca Guillaumot, et al.. (2023). Water circles—a tool to assess and communicate the water cycle. Environmental Research Letters. 19(2). 21003–21003.
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Satoh, Yusuke, Kei Yoshimura, Yadu Pokhrel, et al.. (2022). The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3287–3287. 181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reinecke, Robert, Hannes Müller Schmied, Tim Trautmann, et al.. (2021). Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(2). 787–810. 87 indexed citations
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Satoh, Yusuke, Hideo Shiogama, Naota Hanasaki, et al.. (2021). Decomposing the uncertainties in global drought projection.
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Kroeze, Carolien, Gertjan Medema, Peter Burek, et al.. (2021). Modelling rotavirus concentrations in rivers: Assessing Uganda's present and future microbial water quality. Water Research. 204. 117615–117615. 7 indexed citations
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Satoh, Yusuke, Hideo Shiogama, Naota Hanasaki, et al.. (2021). A quantitative evaluation of the issue of drought definition: a source of disagreement in future drought assessments. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104001–104001. 27 indexed citations
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Boulangé, Julien, Naota Hanasaki, Yusuke Satoh, et al.. (2021). Validity of estimating flood and drought characteristics under equilibrium climates from transient simulations. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104028–104028. 4 indexed citations
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Vinca, Adriano, Simon Parkinson, Edward Byers, et al.. (2020). The NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1.0: an open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy–water–land system transformations. Geoscientific model development. 13(3). 1095–1121. 45 indexed citations
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Kahil, Taher, Peter Burek, Ting Tang, et al.. (2019). An integrated modeling framework for assessing water-energy-land nexus solutions: Application to the Zambezi transboundary river basin. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9113. 1 indexed citations
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Burek, Peter, Yusuke Satoh, Peter Greve, Taher Kahil, & Yoshihide Wada. (2017). The CommunityWater Model (CWATM) / Development of a communitydriven global water model. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 9769. 2 indexed citations
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Alfieri, Lorenzo, Luc Feyen, Peter Salamon, et al.. (2016). Modelling the socio-economic impact of river floods in Europe. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 16(6). 1401–1411. 69 indexed citations
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Alfieri, Lorenzo, Peter Burek, Emanuel Dutra, et al.. (2013). GloFAS – global ensemble streamflow forecasting and flood early warning. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(3). 1161–1175. 413 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pappenberger, Florian, et al.. (2010). The state of the art of flood forecasting - Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Systems. 2 indexed citations

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