Philip J. Ward

28.6k total citations · 10 hit papers
221 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Philip J. Ward is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Philip J. Ward has authored 221 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 83 papers in Atmospheric Science and 54 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Philip J. Ward's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (125 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (68 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (48 papers). Philip J. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (125 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (68 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (48 papers). Philip J. Ward collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Philip J. Ward's co-authors include Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Brenden Jongman, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, Matti Kummu, Sanne Muis, Olli Varis, Ted Veldkamp, Stefan Siebert and Miina Porkka 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

Philip J. Ward

216 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Future climate risk from compound events
    2018 1.5k citations Philip J. Ward, Thomas Wahl et al. profile →
  2. Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use
    2012 904 citations Hans de Moel, Philip J. Ward et al. profile →
  3. Global drivers of future river flood risk
    2015 793 citations Hessel Winsemius, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts et al. profile →
  4. Global exposure to river and coastal flooding: Long term trends and changes
    2012 665 citations Brenden Jongman, Philip J. Ward et al. profile →
  5. The world’s road to water scarcity: shortage and stress in the 20th century and pathways towards sustainability
    2016 656 citations Hans de Moel, Ted Veldkamp et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  6. A global reanalysis of storm surges and extreme sea levels
    2016 484 citations Sanne Muis, Martin Verlaan et al. profile →
  7. Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods
    2014 427 citations Brenden Jongman, Luc Feyen et al. profile →
  8. Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century
    2017 368 citations Ted Veldkamp, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts et al. profile →
  9. Why We Can No Longer Ignore Consecutive Disasters
    2020 208 citations Marleen de Ruiter, Anaïs Couasnon et al. Earth s Future profile →
  10. Review article: A comprehensive review of compound flooding literature with a focus on coastal and estuarine regions
    2025 16 citations Thomas Wahl, Dirk Eilander et al. Natural hazards and earth system sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Philip J. Ward 11.0k 5.3k 4.8k 2.3k 1.6k 221 16.7k
Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts 12.4k 1.1× 5.1k 1.0× 3.9k 0.8× 4.9k 2.1× 1.0k 0.6× 223 16.9k
Luc Feyen 8.1k 0.7× 3.7k 0.7× 3.9k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 1.0× 145 13.2k
Amir AghaKouchak 18.1k 1.6× 9.0k 1.7× 6.1k 1.3× 1.1k 0.5× 1.4k 0.9× 295 24.6k
Peijun Shi 10.2k 0.9× 4.3k 0.8× 2.2k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 3.4k 2.1× 455 16.9k
Stéphane Hallegatte 8.4k 0.8× 3.3k 0.6× 1.5k 0.3× 4.2k 1.8× 911 0.6× 231 18.2k
Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz 12.8k 1.2× 3.7k 0.7× 9.5k 2.0× 1.6k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 296 19.3k
Shinjiro Kanae 10.5k 1.0× 4.1k 0.8× 9.3k 1.9× 733 0.3× 1.8k 1.1× 230 17.2k
Hans de Moel 5.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.4× 2.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.7× 972 0.6× 138 9.0k
Paolo D’Odorico 8.9k 0.8× 2.9k 0.6× 4.5k 0.9× 718 0.3× 5.0k 3.1× 325 20.5k
Yaning Chen 11.3k 1.0× 6.9k 1.3× 6.9k 1.4× 700 0.3× 2.9k 1.8× 558 19.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ward, Philip J., et al.. (2024). A critical review of quantifying water-energy-food nexus interactions. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 211. 115280–115280. 6 indexed citations
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Koks, Elco, Mengqi Ye, Raghav Pant, et al.. (2024). Review article: Physical vulnerability database for critical infrastructure hazard risk assessments – a systematic review and data collection. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(12). 4341–4368. 6 indexed citations
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White, Christopher J., Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, Roxana Ciurean, et al.. (2024). Review article: Towards multi-hazard and multi-risk indicators – a review and recommendations for development and implementation . Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London). 2 indexed citations
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Ward, Philip J., et al.. (2023). A new method to compile global multi-hazard event sets. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 13808–13808. 25 indexed citations
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Dullaart, Job, Sanne Muis, Hans de Moel, et al.. (2023). Enabling dynamic modelling of coastal flooding by defining storm tide hydrographs. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(5). 1847–1862. 10 indexed citations
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Tiggeloven, Timothy, et al.. (2023). Potential for Various Riverine Flood DRR Measures at the Global Scale. VU Research Portal. 1. 1 indexed citations
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Ward, Philip J., et al.. (2023). Quantifying impact-relevant heatwave durations. Environmental Research Letters. 18(10). 104005–104005. 9 indexed citations
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Eilander, Dirk, Anaïs Couasnon, Frederiek Sperna Weiland, et al.. (2023). Modeling compound flood risk and risk reduction using a globally applicable framework: a pilot in the Sofala province of Mozambique. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(6). 2251–2272. 18 indexed citations
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Tiggeloven, Timothy, Hans de Moel, Bregje K. van Wesenbeeck, et al.. (2022). The benefits of coastal adaptation through conservation of foreshore vegetation. Journal of Flood Risk Management. 15(3). 21 indexed citations
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Eilander, Dirk, Willem van Verseveld, Dai Yamazaki, et al.. (2021). A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(9). 5287–5313. 38 indexed citations
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Hinkel, Jochen, Luc Feyen, Mark Hemer, et al.. (2021). Uncertainty and Bias in Global to Regional Scale Assessments of Current and Future Coastal Flood Risk. Earth s Future. 9(7). e2020EF001882–e2020EF001882. 61 indexed citations
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Scussolini, Paolo, Dirk Eilander, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, et al.. (2020). Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(18). 56 indexed citations
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Nobre, Gabriela Guimarães, et al.. (2020). What Will the Weather Do? Forecasting Flood Losses Based on Oscillation Indices. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 5 indexed citations
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Eilander, Dirk, Anaïs Couasnon, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, et al.. (2020). The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally. 5 indexed citations
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Tiggeloven, Timothy, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, et al.. (2020). Global-scale benefit–cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 20(4). 1025–1044. 123 indexed citations
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Scussolini, Paolo, Pepijn Bakker, Chuncheng Guo, et al.. (2019). Agreement between reconstructed and modeled boreal precipitation of the Last Interglacial. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax7047–eaax7047. 56 indexed citations
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Muis, Sanne, Ning Lin, Martin Verlaan, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme sea levels along the western North-Atlantic coasts. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3391–3391. 45 indexed citations
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Tiggeloven, Timothy, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, et al.. (2019). Global scale benefit-cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers. 6 indexed citations
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Nishio, Fumihiko, et al.. (2014). Simulation of River Discharges in Major Watersheds of Northwestern Java From 1901 To 2006. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6 indexed citations
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Winsemius, Hessel, Rens van Beek, Brenden Jongman, Philip J. Ward, & Lex Bouwman. (2013). A framework for global river flood risk assessments. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(5). 1871–1892. 341 indexed citations

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