Rohini Kumar

13.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
194 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Rohini Kumar is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rohini Kumar has authored 194 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Water Science and Technology, 107 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 40 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rohini Kumar's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (116 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (58 papers) and Climate variability and models (52 papers). Rohini Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (116 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (58 papers) and Climate variability and models (52 papers). Rohini Kumar collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Czechia. Rohini Kumar's co-authors include Luis Samaniego, Sabine Attinger, Oldřich Rakovec, Stephan Thober, Matthias Zink, Vimal Mishra, Yannis Markonis, Martin Hanel, Justin Sheffield and Niko Wanders and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rohini Kumar

185 papers receiving 8.2k 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.

Multiscale parameter regionalization of a grid‐based hydrologic model at the mesoscale

2010 534 citations Luis Samaniego, Rohini Kumar et al. Water Resources Research profile →
Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts

2018 526 citations Luis Samaniego, Stephan Thober et al. profile →
Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018–2019 Central European drought under global warming

2020 289 citations Oldřich Rakovec, Rohini Kumar et al. profile →
Global river water quality under climate change and hydroclimatic extremes

2023 194 citations Rohini Kumar et al. profile →
The 2018–2020 Multi‐Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe

2022 167 citations Oldřich Rakovec, Luis Samaniego et al. Earth s Future profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rohini Kumar Germany	51	5.3k	4.6k	2.0k	1.6k	767	194	8.4k
Luis Samaniego Germany	48	4.5k 0.9×	4.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	407 0.5×	133	6.9k
Xi Chen China	50	4.4k 0.8×	4.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	2.6k 1.6×	505 0.7×	374	9.2k
Zongxue Xu China	45	4.5k 0.8×	4.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	460 0.6×	243	7.2k
Zhongbo Yu China	57	5.3k 1.0×	4.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.2×	2.7k 1.7×	788 1.0×	406	10.8k
Ann van Griensven Belgium	43	4.7k 0.9×	7.2k 1.6×	2.7k 1.3×	889 0.6×	1.5k 2.0×	204	9.5k
Assefa M. Melesse United States	60	5.7k 1.1×	6.2k 1.3×	3.6k 1.8×	1.1k 0.7×	686 0.9×	255	11.3k
Maoyi Huang United States	45	4.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	223 0.3×	140	6.3k
Patrick Willems Belgium	57	8.6k 1.6×	5.9k 1.3×	3.1k 1.5×	3.6k 2.3×	420 0.5×	474	12.3k
Qi Feng China	51	4.2k 0.8×	2.9k 0.6×	2.5k 1.2×	2.4k 1.5×	358 0.5×	406	9.7k
Dominik Wisser United States	27	3.5k 0.7×	4.0k 0.9×	974 0.5×	815 0.5×	393 0.5×	44	7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rohini Kumar

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Mishra, Vimal, Qinqin Kong, Colin Raymond, et al.. (2025). Migrant Laborers in India Face Increased Heat Stress Driven by Climate Warming and ENSO Variability. Earth s Future. 13(11). 1 indexed citations

Batool, Masooma, Fanny Sarrazin, & Rohini Kumar. (2025). Century-long reconstruction of gridded phosphorus surplus across Europe (1850–2019). Earth system science data. 17(3). 881–916. 1 indexed citations

Ravindran, Niranjay & Rohini Kumar. (2024). SECOA: Serial Exponential Coati Optimization Algorithm for MANET routing with link lifetime prediction. Engineering Science and Technology an International Journal. 59. 101869–101869. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Rohini, et al.. (2024). Indian interstate trade exacerbates nutrient pollution in food production hubs. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 7 indexed citations

Obringer, Renee, et al.. (2023). Contemporary climate analogs project strong regional differences in the future water and electricity demand across US cities. One Earth. 6(11). 1542–1553. 3 indexed citations

Kumar, Rohini, et al.. (2022). The Goldilocks Zone in Cooling Demand: What Can We Do Better?. Earth s Future. 10(1). 2 indexed citations

Tarasova, Larisa, et al.. (2022). Explaining the Variability in High‐Frequency Nitrate Export Patterns Using Long‐Term Hydrological Event Classification. Water Resources Research. 58(1). 29 indexed citations

Nguyen, Van Tam, Rohini Kumar, Andréas Musolff, et al.. (2022). Disparate Seasonal Nitrate Export From Nested Heterogeneous Subcatchments Revealed With StorAge Selection Functions. Water Resources Research. 58(3). 13 indexed citations

Sarrazin, Fanny, Rohini Kumar, Nandita B. Basu, et al.. (2022). Characterizing Catchment‐Scale Nitrogen Legacies and Constraining Their Uncertainties. Water Resources Research. 58(4). 16 indexed citations

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Gosling, Simon N., Matthew F. Johnson, Matthew D. Jones, et al.. (2022). Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments. Advances in Water Resources. 165. 104212–104212. 16 indexed citations

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Ebeling, Pia, Rohini Kumar, Stefanie Lutz, et al.. (2022). QUADICA: water QUAlity, DIscharge and Catchment Attributes for large-sample studies in Germany. Earth system science data. 14(8). 3715–3741. 16 indexed citations

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Ebeling, Pia, Rohini Kumar, Michael Weber, et al.. (2021). Archetypes and Controls of Riverine Nutrient Export Across German Catchments. Water Resources Research. 57(4). 62 indexed citations

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Tarasova, Larisa, Stefano Basso, Dadiyorto Wendi, et al.. (2020). A Process‐Based Framework to Characterize and Classify Runoff Events: The Event Typology of Germany. Water Resources Research. 56(5). 48 indexed citations

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Lutz, Stefanie, et al.. (2020). Disentangling the Impact of Catchment Heterogeneity on Nitrate Export Dynamics From Event to Long‐Term Time Scales. Water Resources Research. 57(1). 43 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Van Tam, Rohini Kumar, Stefanie Lutz, et al.. (2020). Modeling Nitrate Export From a Mesoscale Catchment Using StorAge Selection Functions. Water Resources Research. 57(2). 29 indexed citations

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Rakovec, Oldřich, et al.. (2019). Seamless reconstruction of global scale hydrologic simulations: challenges and opportunities. EGUGA. 13125. 2 indexed citations

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Samaniego, Luis, Stephan Thober, Rohini Kumar, et al.. (2017). Drought and heatwaves in Europe: historical reconstruction and future projections. EGUGA. 5659. 3 indexed citations

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Samaniego, Luis, Rohini Kumar, Stephan Thober, et al.. (2017). Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across scales. Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt). 6 indexed citations

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Thober, Stephan, Andrew W. Wood, Luis Samaniego, et al.. (2014). The elasticity of hydrological forecast skill with respect to initial conditions and meteorological forcing for two major flood events in Germany. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 16. 3089. 1 indexed citations

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Samaniego, Luis, et al.. (2010). Evaluation of reanalysis climate simulations for the prediction of extreme runoff characteristics. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11198. 4 indexed citations

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