Rafael Schmitt

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Rafael Schmitt is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael Schmitt has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Water Science and Technology, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Rafael Schmitt's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (14 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (12 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (10 papers). Rafael Schmitt is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (14 papers), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (12 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (10 papers). Rafael Schmitt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Switzerland. Rafael Schmitt's co-authors include Andrea Castelletti, Simone Bizzi, G. Mathias Kondolf, Valerio Barbarossa, Christiane Zarfl, Henry King, Aafke M. Schipper, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, G. M. Kondolf and Zan Rubin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Rafael Schmitt

43 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Impacts of current and future large dams on the geographic range connectivity of freshwater fish worldwide

2020 324 citations Valerio Barbarossa, Rafael Schmitt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael Schmitt United States	21	727	668	567	371	356	43	1.6k
Thanapon Piman Thailand	21	998 1.4×	429 0.6×	925 1.6×	250 0.7×	206 0.6×	33	1.7k
Desirèe Tullos United States	23	777 1.1×	679 1.0×	720 1.3×	318 0.9×	345 1.0×	62	1.8k
Timo A. Räsänen Finland	14	915 1.3×	382 0.6×	857 1.5×	214 0.6×	140 0.4×	28	1.6k
Jorma Koponen Finland	16	688 0.9×	475 0.7×	655 1.2×	165 0.4×	220 0.6×	39	1.4k
Sarah E. Null United States	23	1.0k 1.4×	553 0.8×	780 1.4×	562 1.5×	103 0.3×	74	2.0k
Juha Sarkkula Finland	17	497 0.7×	483 0.7×	511 0.9×	179 0.5×	200 0.6×	51	1.3k
Jeffrey J. Opperman United States	19	598 0.8×	651 1.0×	556 1.0×	495 1.3×	191 0.5×	27	1.4k
Nikolai Sindorf United States	4	1.0k 1.4×	543 0.8×	809 1.4×	449 1.2×	117 0.3×	6	1.8k
Karen Frenken Sweden	5	1.0k 1.4×	475 0.7×	792 1.4×	358 1.0×	125 0.4×	5	1.8k
Philippe Crouzet Denmark	6	1.1k 1.4×	558 0.8×	805 1.4×	438 1.2×	162 0.5×	9	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Rafael Schmitt

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael Schmitt

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

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Wabnitz, Colette C. C., et al.. (2025). Rethinking sand circularity through sufficiency. One Earth. 8(2). 101207–101207. 2 indexed citations

Schmitt, Rafael, et al.. (2024). Robust Hydropower Planning Balances Energy Generation, Carbon Emissions and Sediment Connectivity in the Mekong River Basin. Earth s Future. 12(8). 4 indexed citations

Almeida, Rafael M., et al.. (2024). Offsetting the greenhouse gas footprint of hydropower with floating solar photovoltaics. Nature Sustainability. 7(9). 1102–1106. 7 indexed citations

Li, Dongfeng, Ting Zhang, Desmond E. Walling, et al.. (2024). The competing controls of glaciers, precipitation, and vegetation on high-mountain fluvial sediment yields. Science Advances. 10(48). eads6196–eads6196. 14 indexed citations

Almeida, Rafael M., Qinru Shi, Yiwei Bai, et al.. (2024). Scaling Up Pareto Optimization for Tree Structures with Affine Transformations: Evaluating Hybrid Floating Solar-Hydropower Systems in the Amazon. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(20). 22067–22075. 2 indexed citations

Schmitt, Rafael, et al.. (2023). Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains. Environmental Research Letters. 18(11). 114024–114024. 3 indexed citations

Echeverri, Alejandra, Christopher B. Anderson, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, et al.. (2023). Centring justice in conceptualizing and improving access to urban nature. People and Nature. 5(3). 897–910. 20 indexed citations

Liu, Lingling, Jeffrey R. Smith, Amanda Armstrong, et al.. (2023). Influences of Satellite Sensor and Scale on Derivation of Ecosystem Functional Types and Diversity. Remote Sensing. 15(23). 5593–5593. 1 indexed citations

Bizzi, Simone, et al.. (2023). Balancing Sediment Connectivity and Energy Production via Optimized Reservoir Sediment Management Strategies. Water Resources Research. 59(6). 9 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Rafael, et al.. (2023). Strategic siting and design of dams minimizes impacts on seasonal floodplain inundation. Environmental Research Letters. 18(8). 84011–84011. 6 indexed citations

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Bizzi, Simone, et al.. (2021). Sediment transport at the network scale and its link to channel morphology in the braided Vjosa River system. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 46(14). 2946–2962. 15 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Rafael, Matteo Giuliani, Simone Bizzi, et al.. (2021). Strategic basin and delta planning increases the resilience of the Mekong Delta under future uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 24 indexed citations

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Chen, Nengcheng, et al.. (2021). Eco-environmental impacts of dams in the Yangtze River Basin, China. The Science of The Total Environment. 774. 145743–145743. 54 indexed citations

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Barbarossa, Valerio, Rafael Schmitt, Mark A. J. Huijbregts, et al.. (2020). Impacts of current and future large dams on the geographic range connectivity of freshwater fish worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(7). 3648–3655. 324 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hamel, Perrine, Rafael Schmitt, Manish Shrestha, et al.. (2020). Modeling seasonal water yield for landscape management: Applications in Peru and Myanmar. Journal of Environmental Management. 270. 110792–110792. 43 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Rafael, Simone Bizzi, Andrea Castelletti, Jeffrey J. Opperman, & G. M. Kondolf. (2019). Planning dam portfolios for low sediment trapping shows limits for sustainable hydropower in the Mekong. Science Advances. 5(10). eaaw2175–eaaw2175. 99 indexed citations

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Kondolf, G. M., et al.. (2019). The Invisibility of Sediment: a Socio-Geomorphic Perspective On a Great Challenge for Water and Catchment Management. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Rafael, Simone Bizzi, Andrea Castelletti, & G. Mathias Kondolf. (2018). Improved trade-offs of hydropower and sand connectivity by strategic dam planning in the Mekong. Nature Sustainability. 1(2). 96–104. 109 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Rafael, Simone Bizzi, Andrea Castelletti, & G. Mathias Kondolf. (2017). Stochastic Modeling of Sediment Connectivity for Reconstructing Sand Fluxes and Origins in the Unmonitored Se Kong, Se San, and Sre Pok Tributaries of the Mekong River. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 123(1). 2–25. 31 indexed citations

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Kondolf, G. Mathias, Rafael Schmitt, Paul A. Carling, et al.. (2017). Changing sediment budget of the Mekong: Cumulative threats and management strategies for a large river basin. The Science of The Total Environment. 625. 114–134. 215 indexed citations

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