Rodolfo Nóbrega

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 772 citations indexed

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Rodolfo Nóbrega is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rodolfo Nóbrega has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 772 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Water Science and Technology, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 10 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Rodolfo Nóbrega's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (13 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (10 papers). Rodolfo Nóbrega is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (13 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (10 papers). Rodolfo Nóbrega collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United Kingdom and Germany. Rodolfo Nóbrega's co-authors include Alphonce C. Guzha, Sheila Okoth, Suzanne Jacobs, Mariana C. Rufino, Gerhard Gerold, Ricardo Santos Silva Amorim, Eduardo Guimarães Couto, M. S. B. de Moura, Anne Verhoef and Fernanda Valente and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Rodolfo Nóbrega

27 papers receiving 758 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 land use and land cover change on surface runoff, discharge and low flows: Evidence from East Africa

2017 376 citations Alphonce C. Guzha, Rodolfo Nóbrega et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rodolfo Nóbrega Brazil	12	469	411	206	185	167	29	772
Huan Ma China	11	464 1.0×	386 0.9×	219 1.1×	189 1.0×	130 0.8×	18	753
Carlos G. Ochoa United States	18	360 0.8×	280 0.7×	232 1.1×	121 0.7×	157 0.9×	55	776
Michael A. Nullet United States	15	525 1.1×	356 0.9×	232 1.1×	259 1.4×	127 0.8×	20	885
Shengyan Ding China	16	320 0.7×	245 0.6×	283 1.4×	208 1.1×	81 0.5×	76	752
Dennis W. Hallema United States	15	547 1.2×	324 0.8×	191 0.9×	173 0.9×	105 0.6×	27	812
Xuguang Tang China	18	788 1.7×	298 0.7×	397 1.9×	159 0.9×	166 1.0×	24	1.1k
Monica Petri Netherlands	3	319 0.7×	215 0.5×	143 0.7×	171 0.9×	175 1.0×	4	794
L.A. Bruijnzeel Netherlands	6	413 0.9×	357 0.9×	182 0.9×	242 1.3×	70 0.4×	15	725
Zhao Jun China	12	448 1.0×	203 0.5×	230 1.1×	97 0.5×	136 0.8×	40	813
Mansoor Leh United States	11	465 1.0×	227 0.6×	185 0.9×	214 1.2×	120 0.7×	20	773

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Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2025). Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant‐Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios. Global Change Biology. 31(10). e70543–e70543. 1 indexed citations

Cunha, John, et al.. (2024). Enhancing global rainfall interception loss estimation through vegetation structure modeling. Journal of Hydrology. 631. 130672–130672. 7 indexed citations

Prentice, I. Colin, et al.. (2024). Simple process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.2.0): robust calculations of water and energy fluxes. Geoscientific model development. 17(10). 4229–4309. 2 indexed citations

Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2024). How does the storage volume of semi-arid reservoirs change water quality and modulate the diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates?. The Science of The Total Environment. 958. 177881–177881. 3 indexed citations

Neto, Alfredo Ribeiro, et al.. (2024). Efficiency of global precipitation datasets in tropical and subtropical catchments revealed by large sampling hydrological modelling. Journal of Hydrology. 633. 131016–131016. 6 indexed citations

Cunha, John, Fernanda Valente, Rodolfo Nóbrega, et al.. (2023). STEEP: A remotely-sensed energy balance model for evapotranspiration estimation in seasonally dry tropical forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 333. 109408–109408. 6 indexed citations

Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2022). IMPACTO DAS MUDANÇAS CLIMÁTICAS EM CISTERNAS RURAIS DO NORDESTE BRASILEIRO. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 5–15.

Verhoef, Anne, M. S. B. de Moura, & Rodolfo Nóbrega. (2020). The effect of cloud cover on the radiation-, energy- and carbon balance of a seasonally dry tropical forest in Brazil (Caatinga). 1 indexed citations

Silva, Bernardo Barbosa da, et al.. (2020). The use of remote sensing for reliable estimation of net radiation and its components: a case study for contrasting land covers in an agricultural hotspot of the Brazilian semiarid region. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 291. 108052–108052. 34 indexed citations

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Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2019). Realistic and simplified models of plant and leaf area indices for a seasonally dry tropical forest. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 85. 101992–101992. 24 indexed citations

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Amorim, Ricardo Santos Silva, et al.. (2018). RAINFALL SEASONALITY AND EROSIVITY FOR TWO AGRO-INDUSTRIAL REGIONS IN BRAZIL. Scientia Agraria. 19(2). 44–44. 1 indexed citations

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Nóbrega, Rodolfo, Alphonce C. Guzha, Ricardo Santos Silva Amorim, et al.. (2018). Impacts of land-use and land-cover change on stream hydrochemistry in the Cerrado and Amazon biomes. The Science of The Total Environment. 635. 259–274. 39 indexed citations

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Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2018). A multi-approach and multi-scale study on water quantity and quality changes in the Tapajós River basin, Amazon. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 377. 3–7. 11 indexed citations

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Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2017). Effects of conversion of native cerrado vegetation to pasture on soil hydro-physical properties, evapotranspiration and streamflow on the Amazonian agricultural frontier. PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0179414–e0179414. 60 indexed citations

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Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2016). Modelling hydrological impacts of agricultural expansion in two macro-catchments in Southern Amazonia, Brazil. Regional Environmental Change. 18(1). 91–103. 38 indexed citations

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Guzha, Alphonce C., et al.. (2014). Characterizing rainfall-runoff signatures from micro-catchments with contrasting land cover characteristics in southern Amazonia. Hydrological Processes. 29(4). 508–521. 21 indexed citations

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Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2013). Understanding the relationship between rainfall and river discharge: trends in an Amazonian watershed. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Nóbrega, Rodolfo, et al.. (2012). Aspectos Político-Institucionais do Aproveitamento de Água de Chuva em Áreas Rurais do Semiárido Brasileiro. Revista Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos. 17(4). 109–124. 3 indexed citations

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Montenegro, Suzana Maria Gico Lima, et al.. (2011). Avaliação da Qualidade da Água e da Eficácia de Barreiras Sanitárias em Sistemas para Aproveitamento de Águas de Chuva. Revista Brasileira de Recursos Hídricos. 16(3). 81–93. 13 indexed citations

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Galvão, Carlos de Oliveira, et al.. (2009). An e-Science platform for collaborative generation of knowledge and technology in hydrology, hydrogeology and water resources.. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 500–504. 1 indexed citations

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