Petra Döll

40.9k total citations · 17 hit papers
141 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

Petra Döll is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Petra Döll has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Water Science and Technology, 62 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 31 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Petra Döll's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (74 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (31 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (28 papers). Petra Döll is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (74 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (31 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (28 papers). Petra Döll collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Japan. Petra Döll's co-authors include Bernhard Lehner, Stefan Siebert, F. T. Portmann, Frank Kaspar, Hannes Müller Schmied, K. Fiedler, Carmen Revenga, Thomas Henrichs, Joseph Alcamo and Annette Eicker and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Petra Döll

138 papers receiving 19.5k citations

Hit Papers

Development and validation of a global database of lakes,... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2004 2011 2010 2010 2002 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Development and validation of a global database of lakes, reservoirs and wetlands
    2004 1.7k citations Petra Döll et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →
  2. High‐resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river‐flow management
    2011 1.7k citations Carmen Revenga, Petra Döll et al. profile →
  3. Groundwater use for irrigation – a global inventory
    2010 1.4k citations Stefan Siebert, Petra Döll et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  4. MIRCA2000—Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000: A new high‐resolution data set for agricultural and hydrological modeling
    2010 1.1k citations F. T. Portmann, Stefan Siebert et al. profile →
  5. A global hydrological model for deriving water availability indicators: model tuning and validation
    2002 853 citations Petra Döll et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →
  6. The implications of projected climate change for freshwater resources and their management
    2008 651 citations Petra Döll, Taikan Oki et al. profile →
  7. Estimating the Impact of Global Change on Flood and Drought Risks in Europe: A Continental, Integrated Analysis
    2006 642 citations Petra Döll et al. profile →
  8. Development and testing of the WaterGAP 2 global model of water use and availability
    2003 640 citations Petra Döll, Stefan Siebert et al. profile →
  9. Quantifying blue and green virtual water contents in global crop production as well as potential production losses without irrigation
    2009 606 citations Stefan Siebert, Petra Döll Journal of Hydrology profile →
  10. Global modeling of irrigation water requirements
    2002 601 citations Petra Döll, Stefan Siebert profile →
  11. Global‐scale assessment of groundwater depletion and related groundwater abstractions: Combining hydrological modeling with information from well observations and GRACE satellites
    2014 556 citations Petra Döll, Hannes Müller Schmied et al. profile →
  12. Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations
    2011 522 citations Petra Döll, F. T. Portmann et al. profile →
  13. Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data
    2018 486 citations Bridget R. Scanlon, Himanshu Save et al. profile →
  14. Vulnerability to the impact of climate change on renewable groundwater resources: a global-scale assessment
    2009 386 citations Petra Döll Environmental Research Letters profile →
  15. Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century
    2017 368 citations Ted Veldkamp, Yoshihide Wada et al. Nature Communications profile →
  16. A global data set of the extent of irrigated land from 1900 to 2005
    2015 357 citations Stefan Siebert, Petra Döll et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
  17. The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation
    2021 282 citations Hannes Müller Schmied, Denise Cáceres et al. Geoscientific model development profile →

Peers

Petra Döll
Comparison fields: 5 of 164
  • Water Science and Technology 10.5k
  • Global and Planetary Change 8.6k
  • Ocean Engineering 4.1k
  • Environmental Engineering 3.8k
  • Oceanography 3.6k
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Yoshihide Wada Austria
Rens van Beek Netherlands
Marc F. P. Bierkens Netherlands
H. H. G. Savenije Netherlands
Bridget R. Scanlon United States
Shinjiro Kanae Japan
Charles J Vörösmarty United States
Jun Xia China
J. S. Famiglietti United States
Bernhard Lehner Canada
Yoshihide Wada Austria View profile →
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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The benefits and trade-offs of multi-variable calibration of the WaterGAP global hydrological model (WGHM) in the Ganges and Brahmaputra basins
2025 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·(unknown), Petra Döll, Seyed‐Mohammad Hosseini‐Moghari, Fabrice Papa, Andreas Güntner
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Estimation of the prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams in anthropogenically altered river basins by random Forest modeling: A case study for the Yellow River basin
2025 ·Journal of Hydrology ·(unknown), (unknown), Xiaoli Yang, Liliang Ren, (unknown), Petra Döll
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Single-step discovery of high-affinity RNA ligands by UltraSelex
2025 ·Nature Chemical Biology ·(unknown), Yuan Jiang, David Kuster, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jing‐ye Zhang, Petra Döll, Wenjun Lin, (unknown), Hui Wang, Zhipeng Tang, David Ibberson, Klemens Wild, Irmgard Sinning, Anthony A. Hyman, Andres Jäschke
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How to assess conditions for the acceptance of climate change adaptation measures by applying implementation probability Bayesian Networks in participatory processes
2024 ·Environmental Modelling & Software ·(unknown), (unknown), Birgit Blättel‐Mink, Petra Döll
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Software sustainability of global impact models
2024 ·Geoscientific model development ·(unknown), Petra Döll, Daniel S. Katz, Robert Reinecke
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Leveraging multi-variable observations to reduce and quantify the output uncertainty of a global hydrological model: evaluation of three ensemble-based approaches for the Mississippi River basin
2024 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Petra Döll, (unknown), Kerstin Schulze, Helena Gerdener, (unknown), Somayeh Shadkam, (unknown), Seyed‐Mohammad Hosseini‐Moghari, Hannes Müller Schmied, Andreas Güntner, Jürgen Kusche
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Making waves: Pulling the plug—Climate change effects will turn gaining into losing streams with detrimental effects on groundwater quality
2022 ·Water Research ·(unknown), Hans Jürgen Hahn, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Petra Döll, Markus Noack, Klaus Schwenk, (unknown), Markus Weiler, Clemens Karwautz, Christian Griebler
25
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The global water resources and use model WaterGAP v2.2d: model description and evaluation breakdown →
2021 ·Geoscientific model development ·Hannes Müller Schmied, Denise Cáceres, Stephanie Eisner, Martina Flörke, Claudia Herbert, Christoph Niemann, Thedini Asali Peiris, Eklavyya Popat, F. T. Portmann, Robert Reinecke, Maike Schumacher, Somayeh Shadkam, Camelia-Eliza Telteu, Tim Trautmann, Petra Döll
282
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Soil moisture and streamflow deficit anomaly index: an approach to quantify drought hazards by combining deficit and anomaly
2021 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Eklavyya Popat, Petra Döll
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Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study
2021 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Robert Reinecke, Hannes Müller Schmied, Tim Trautmann, Lauren Seaby Andersen, Peter Burek, Martina Flörke, Simon N. Gosling, Manolis Grillakis, Naota Hanasaki, Aristeidis Koutroulis, Yadu Pokhrel, Wim Thiery, Yoshihide Wada, Yusuke Satoh, Petra Döll
87
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Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems
2020 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Isabel Meza, Stefan Siebert, Petra Döll, Jürgen Kusche, Claudia Herbert, Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei, Hamideh Nouri, Helena Gerdener, Eklavyya Popat, (unknown), Gustavo Naumann, J. Vogt, Yvonne Walz, Zita Sebesvári, Michael Hagenlocher
190
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Assessing global water mass transfers from continents to oceans over the period 1948–2016
2020 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Denise Cáceres, Ben Marzeion, Jan‐Hendrik Malles, Benjamin D. Gutknecht, Hannes Müller Schmied, Petra Döll
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The global freshwater availability and water use model WaterGAP 2.2d
2020 ·Hannes Müller Schmied, Denise Cáceres, Stephanie Eisner, Martina Flörke, Christoph Niemann, Thedini Asali Peiris, Eklavyya Popat, F. T. Portmann, Robert Reinecke, Maike Schumacher, Somayeh Shadkam, (unknown), Tim Trautmann, Petra Döll
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Tracking Seasonal Fluctuations in Land Water Storage Using Global Models and GRACE Satellites
2019 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Bridget R. Scanlon, (unknown), Ashraf Rateb, Alexander Y. Sun, D. N. Wiese, Himanshu Save, H. K. Beaudoing, Min‐Hui Lo, (unknown), Petra Döll, Rens van Beek, Sean Swenson, David M. Lawrence, (unknown), R. C. Reedy
103
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Risks for the global freshwater system at 1.5 °C and 2 °C global warming
2018 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Petra Döll, Tim Trautmann, Dieter Gerten, Hannes Müller Schmied, Sebastian Ostberg, (unknown), Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner
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Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century breakdown →
2017 ·Nature Communications ·Ted Veldkamp, Yoshihide Wada, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Petra Döll, Simon N. Gosling, Junguo Liu, Yoshimitsu Masaki, Taikan Oki, Sebastian Ostberg, Yadu Pokhrel, Yusuke Satoh, Hyungjun Kim, Philip J. Ward
368
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GRACE data assimilation into WGHM: Validation of updated water states and fluxes in the Mississippi Basin
2015 ·EGUGA ·Maike Schumacher, Hannes Müller Schmied, Jürgen Kusche, Petra Döll, Matthew Rodell, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk
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Responding to Desertification at the National Scale Detection, Explanation,and Responses
2014 ·Kenyatta University Institutional Repository (Kenyatta University) ·Joy Apiyo Obando, Simon Batterbury, Roy H. Behnke, Petra Döll, (unknown), Patrice Harou, (unknown), Suzanne W. Nicholson, J. B. Thornes
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A Pilot Global Assessment of Environmental Water Requirements and Scarcity
2005 ·Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology ·Vladimir Smakhtin, Carmen Revenga, Petra Döll
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Taking into account environmental water requirements in global-scale water resources assessments
2004 ·CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) ·Vladimir Smakhtin, Carmen Revenga, Petra Döll
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