Ralf Loritz

716 total citations
32 papers, 342 citations indexed

About

Ralf Loritz is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Loritz has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 342 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Water Science and Technology, 19 papers in Environmental Engineering and 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ralf Loritz's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (24 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (13 papers) and Hydrological Forecasting Using AI (11 papers). Ralf Loritz is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (24 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (13 papers) and Hydrological Forecasting Using AI (11 papers). Ralf Loritz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Ralf Loritz's co-authors include Erwin Zehe, Conrad Jackisch, Uwe Ehret, Hoshin V. Gupta, Axel Kleidon, Martijn Westhoff, Sibylle K. Haßler, Niklas Allroggen, Brian Berkowitz and Loes van Schaik and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Loritz

30 papers receiving 340 citations

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralf Loritz Germany 11 225 173 164 54 54 32 342
Chaoyang Du China 10 191 0.8× 132 0.8× 191 1.2× 86 1.6× 59 1.1× 21 360
Thomas Graeff Germany 8 217 1.0× 147 0.8× 132 0.8× 74 1.4× 86 1.6× 9 339
Minjiao LU Japan 10 182 0.8× 124 0.7× 172 1.0× 59 1.1× 108 2.0× 73 358
Fadji Zaouna Maina United States 12 177 0.8× 110 0.6× 209 1.3× 41 0.8× 131 2.4× 36 391
Olivia Hitt United Kingdom 6 171 0.8× 133 0.8× 178 1.1× 41 0.8× 116 2.1× 6 360
Emin C. Dogrul United States 11 231 1.0× 114 0.7× 116 0.7× 41 0.8× 43 0.8× 19 347
Jiaqiu Dong China 8 186 0.8× 284 1.6× 138 0.8× 42 0.8× 52 1.0× 14 454
Nirjhar Shah United States 5 247 1.1× 199 1.2× 184 1.1× 121 2.2× 36 0.7× 10 374
Chunling Tang United States 11 194 0.9× 126 0.7× 189 1.2× 31 0.6× 117 2.2× 22 408
Fang Yu China 10 108 0.5× 83 0.5× 115 0.7× 60 1.1× 58 1.1× 17 270

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Loritz

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2025). Can discharge be used to inversely correct precipitation?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(21). 6115–6135.
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Kratzert, Frederik, et al.. (2025). Technical note: An approach for handling multiple temporal frequencies with different input dimensions using a single LSTM cell. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(6). 1749–1758. 3 indexed citations
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Wagner, Paul D., Doris Duethmann, Jens Kiesel, et al.. (2025). The Unexploited Treasures of Hydrological Observations Beyond Streamflow for Catchment Modeling. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 12(2). 2 indexed citations
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Staudinger, Maria, Ralf Loritz, Tobias Houska, et al.. (2025). How well do process-based and data-driven hydrological models learn from limited discharge data?. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(19). 5005–5029.
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Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2025). Analyzing the generalization capabilities of a hybrid hydrological model for extrapolation to extreme events. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(5). 1277–1294. 3 indexed citations
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Heudorfer, Benedikt, Hoshin V. Gupta, & Ralf Loritz. (2025). Are Deep Learning Models in Hydrology Entity Aware?. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(6). 7 indexed citations
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Klotz, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the limits of deep learning models in hydrological extrapolation tasks. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(21). 5871–5891. 1 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, Pia Ebeling, Björn Guse, et al.. (2024). CAMELS-DE: hydro-meteorological time series and attributes for 1582 catchments in Germany. Earth system science data. 16(12). 5625–5642. 20 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2024). To bucket or not to bucket? Analyzing the performance and interpretability of hybrid hydrological models with dynamic parameterization. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(12). 2705–2719. 15 indexed citations
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Özgen‐Xian, Ilhan, Sergi Molins, Rachel M. Johnson, et al.. (2023). Understanding the hydrological response of a headwater-dominated catchment by analysis of distributed surface–subsurface interactions. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 4669–4669. 3 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2022). Stepping beyond perfectly mixed conditions in soil hydrological modelling using a Lagrangian approach. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(6). 1615–1629. 2 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2020). Histogram via entropy reduction (HER): an information-theoretic alternative for geostatistics. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(9). 4523–4540. 8 indexed citations
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Ehret, Uwe, et al.. (2020). Adaptive clustering: reducing the computational costs of distributed (hydrological) modelling by exploiting time-variable similarity among model elements. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(9). 4389–4411. 12 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2019). Simulating preferential soil water flow and tracer transport using the Lagrangian Soil Water and Solute Transport Model. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(10). 4249–4267. 15 indexed citations
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Zehe, Erwin, Ralf Loritz, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2019). Energy states of soil water – a thermodynamic perspective on soil water dynamics and storage-controlled streamflow generation in different landscapes. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(2). 971–987. 12 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, Hoshin V. Gupta, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2018). On the dynamic nature of hydrological similarity. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(7). 3663–3684. 49 indexed citations
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Zehe, Erwin, Ralf Loritz, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2018). Energy states of soil water – a thermodynamic perspective on storage dynamics and the underlying controls. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, Sibylle K. Haßler, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2017). Picturing and modeling catchments by representative hillslopes. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(2). 1225–1249. 48 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, Sibylle K. Haßler, Conrad Jackisch, et al.. (2016). Picturing and modelling catchments by representative hillslopes. 2 indexed citations
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Loritz, Ralf, et al.. (2015). Data mining methods for predicting event runoff coefficients in ungauged basins using static and dynamic catchment characteristics. EGUGA. 11072. 1 indexed citations

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