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

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Future climate risk from compound events

2018 1.5k citations Philip J. Ward et al. profile →
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 →
Global drivers of future river flood risk

2015 793 citations Hessel Winsemius, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts et al. profile →
Global exposure to river and coastal flooding: Long term trends and changes

2012 665 citations Brenden Jongman, Philip J. Ward et al. profile →
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 →
A global reanalysis of storm surges and extreme sea levels

2016 484 citations Sanne Muis, Hessel Winsemius et al. Nature Communications profile →
Increasing stress on disaster-risk finance due to large floods

2014 427 citations Brenden Jongman, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts et al. profile →
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 →
Why We Can No Longer Ignore Consecutive Disasters

2020 208 citations Marleen de Ruiter, Anaïs Couasnon et al. profile →
Review article: A comprehensive review of compound flooding literature with a focus on coastal and estuarine regions

2025 16 citations Dirk Eilander, Marleen de Ruiter et al. Natural hazards and earth system sciences profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A critical review of quantifying water-energy-food nexus interactions 2024 ·Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ·(unknown), Philip J. Ward, C.F.A. van Wesenbeeck	6
2	Review article: Physical vulnerability database for critical infrastructure hazard risk assessments – a systematic review and data collection 2024 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·(unknown), Elco Koks, Mengqi Ye, Raghav Pant, Kees van Ginkel, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Philip J. Ward	6
3	Review article: Towards multi-hazard and multi-risk indicators – a review and recommendations for development and implementation 2024 ·Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) ·Christopher J. White, Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Roxana Ciurean, (unknown), Melanie Duncan, Joel C. Gill, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Philip J. Ward	2
4	Potential for Various Riverine Flood DRR Measures at the Global Scale 2023 ·VU Research Portal ·(unknown), Timothy Tiggeloven, Toon Haer, (unknown), Arno Bouwman, Willem Ligtvoet, Philip J. Ward	1
5	A new method to compile global multi-hazard event sets 2023 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Philip J. Ward, James Daniell, Elco Koks, Timothy Tiggeloven, Marleen de Ruiter	25
6	Enabling dynamic modelling of coastal flooding by defining storm tide hydrographs 2023 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Job Dullaart, Sanne Muis, Hans de Moel, Philip J. Ward, Dirk Eilander, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts	10
7	Modeling compound flood risk and risk reduction using a globally applicable framework: a pilot in the Sofala province of Mozambique 2023 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Dirk Eilander, Anaïs Couasnon, Frederiek Sperna Weiland, Willem Ligtvoet, Arno Bouwman, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward	18
8	Quantifying impact-relevant heatwave durations 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Philip J. Ward, Marleen de Ruiter, (unknown), Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, René Orth	9
9	A hydrography upscaling method for scale-invariant parametrization of distributed hydrological models 2021 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Dirk Eilander, Willem van Verseveld, Dai Yamazaki, Albrecht Weerts, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward	38
10	Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial 2020 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Paolo Scussolini, Dirk Eilander, Edwin H. Sutanudjaja, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Jannis Hoch, Philip J. Ward, Pepijn Bakker, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Chuncheng Guo, Christian Stepanek, Qiong Zhang, Pascale Braconnot, Maria Vittoria Guarino, Sanne Muis, Dai Yamazaki, Ted Veldkamp, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts	56
11	What Will the Weather Do? Forecasting Flood Losses Based on Oscillation Indices 2020 ·Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) ·Gabriela Guimarães Nobre, Hans de Moel, Matteo Giuliani, (unknown), Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Philip J. Ward	5
12	Global-scale benefit–cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers using structural measures 2020 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Timothy Tiggeloven, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, Dirk Eilander, Gilles Erkens, (unknown), Andrés Díaz Loaiza, Samantha Kuzma, Tianyi Luo, Charles Iceland, Arno Bouwman, (unknown), Willem Ligtvoet, Philip J. Ward	123
13	The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally 2020 ·Dirk Eilander, Anaïs Couasnon, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Sanne Muis, Dai Yamazaki, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward	5
14	The effect of surge on riverine flood hazard and impact in deltas globally 2020 ·Environmental Research Letters ·Dirk Eilander, Anaïs Couasnon, Hiroaki Ikeuchi, Sanne Muis, Dai Yamazaki, Hessel Winsemius, Philip J. Ward	118
15	Agreement between reconstructed and modeled boreal precipitation of the Last Interglacial 2019 ·Science Advances ·Paolo Scussolini, Pepijn Bakker, Chuncheng Guo, Christian Stepanek, Qiong Zhang, Pascale Braconnot, Jian Cao, Maria Vittoria Guarino, Dim Coumou, Matthias Prange, Philip J. Ward, H. Renssen, Masa Kageyama, Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts	56
16	Global scale benefit-cost analysis of coastal flood adaptation to different flood risk drivers 2019 ·Timothy Tiggeloven, Hans de Moel, Hessel Winsemius, Dirk Eilander, Gilles Erkens, (unknown), Andrés Díaz Loaiza, Samantha Kuzma, Tianyi Luo, Charles Iceland, Arno Bouwman, (unknown), Willem Ligtvoet, Philip J. Ward	6
17	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
18	FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards 2016 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Paolo Scussolini, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, Brenden Jongman, Laurens M. Bouwer, Hessel Winsemius, Hans de Moel, Philip J. Ward	213
19	FLOPROS: an evolving global database of flood protection standards 2015 ·VU Research Portal ·Paolo Scussolini, J.C.J.H. Aerts, Brenden Jongman, Laurens M. Bouwer, Hessel Winsemius, Hans de Moel, Philip J. Ward	14
20	Simulation of River Discharges in Major Watersheds of Northwestern Java From 1901 To 2006 2014 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Fumihiko Nishio, (unknown), Philip J. Ward	6

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