Ross Woods

18.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
148 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Ross Woods is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ross Woods has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Water Science and Technology, 91 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 41 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ross Woods's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (114 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (64 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (36 papers). Ross Woods is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (114 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (64 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (36 papers). Ross Woods collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and United States. Ross Woods's co-authors include Murugesu Sivapalan, Jim Freer, Wouter R. Berghuijs, Wouter Knoben, Martyn Clark, Thorsten Wagener, Markus Hrachowitz, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, David E. Rupp and P. A. Troch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ross Woods

144 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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2019 864 citations Wouter Knoben, Jim Freer et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
A precipitation shift from snow towards rain leads to a decrease in streamflow

2014 644 citations Wouter R. Berghuijs, Ross Woods et al. profile →
Catchment Classification and Hydrologic Similarity

2007 607 citations Thorsten Wagener, Ross Woods et al. profile →
Climate change and mountain water resources: overview and recommendations for research, management and policy

2011 512 citations Hayley J. Fowler, Ross Woods et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ross Woods	8.3k	6.6k	3.1k	3.1k	1.2k	148	10.9k
Gregory J. McCabe	5.4k 0.7×	7.4k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	4.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	132	12.0k
Patrick Willems	5.9k 0.7×	8.6k 1.3×	3.1k 1.0×	3.6k 1.2×	862 0.7×	474	12.3k
P. A. Troch	6.0k 0.7×	5.6k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	175	9.7k
Vazken Andréassian	10.2k 1.2×	8.7k 1.3×	3.6k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	890 0.7×	157	12.0k
Francis H. S. Chiew	9.1k 1.1×	10.1k 1.5×	3.7k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	256	13.8k
Michael L. Roderick	5.7k 0.7×	12.3k 1.9×	1.8k 0.6×	3.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	124	15.6k
Bart Nijssen	6.1k 0.7×	6.7k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	4.0k 1.3×	643 0.5×	144	9.9k
Enrique R. Vivoni	3.9k 0.5×	5.4k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	2.1k 1.7×	217	9.1k
Axel Bronstert	4.2k 0.5×	3.5k 0.5×	1.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1000 0.8×	164	6.3k
Markus Weiler	6.7k 0.8×	4.9k 0.7×	3.7k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	232	11.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ross Woods

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ross Woods

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Berghuijs, Wouter R., et al.. (2025). Annual memory in the terrestrial water cycle. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(5). 1319–1333. 3 indexed citations

Rahman, Mostaquimur, Ross Woods, Francesca Pianosi, Thorsten Wagener, & Andreas Hartmann. (2025). Application of a parsimonious large-scale distributed groundwater flow model to quantify inter-catchment groundwater flow. Journal of Hydrology. 662. 133900–133900.

Coxon, Gemma, Ross Woods, Miguel A. Rico‐Ramirez, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of reanalysis soil moisture products using cosmic ray neutron sensor observations across the globe. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(9). 1999–2022. 15 indexed citations

Griffiths, James, Jing Yang, Ross Woods, et al.. (2023). Parameterization of a National Groundwater Model for New Zealand. Sustainability. 15(17). 13280–13280. 4 indexed citations

Coxon, Gemma, et al.. (2023). Controls on the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Rainfall‐Runoff Event Characteristics—A Large Sample of Catchments Across Great Britain. Water Resources Research. 59(6). 20 indexed citations

Ginting, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Portraying the Performance of Indonesian’s Massive Open Online Course Facilitators. SAGE Open. 12(3). 2 indexed citations

Wagener, Thorsten, Dragan Savić, David Butler, et al.. (2021). Hydroinformatics education – the Water Informatics in Science and Engineering (WISE) Centre for Doctoral Training. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(5). 2721–2738. 5 indexed citations

Wagener, Thorsten, Tom Gleeson, Gemma Coxon, et al.. (2021). On doing hydrology with dragons: Realizing the value of perceptual models and knowledge accumulation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 8(6). 38 indexed citations

Gnann, Sebastian, Gemma Coxon, Ross Woods, Nicholas Howden, & Hilary McMillan. (2021). TOSSH: A Toolbox for Streamflow Signatures in Hydrology. Environmental Modelling & Software. 138. 104983–104983. 46 indexed citations

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Stein, Lina, Martyn Clark, Wouter Knoben, Francesca Pianosi, & Ross Woods. (2020). Process oriented insights from interpretable machine learning - what influences flood generating processes?. 2 indexed citations

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Coxon, Gemma, Nans Addor, John P. Bloomfield, et al.. (2020). CAMELS-GB: hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain. Earth system science data. 12(4). 2459–2483. 146 indexed citations

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Coxon, Gemma, Jim Freer, Rosanna Lane, et al.. (2019). DECIPHeR v1: Dynamic fluxEs and ConnectIvity for Predictions of HydRology. Geoscientific model development. 12(6). 2285–2306. 62 indexed citations

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Fowler, Keirnan, Gemma Coxon, Jim Freer, et al.. (2018). Simulating Runoff Under Changing Climatic Conditions: A Framework for Model Improvement. Water Resources Research. 54(12). 9812–9832. 64 indexed citations

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Mizukami, Naoki, Martyn Clark, K. M. Sampson, et al.. (2016). mizuRoute version 1: a river network routing tool for a continental domain water resources applications. Geoscientific model development. 9(6). 2223–2238. 64 indexed citations

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Lewis, Elizabeth, Stephen Blenkinsop, Niall Quinn, et al.. (2016). A gridded hourly rainfall dataset for the UK applied to a national physically-based modelling system. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Coxon, Gemma, Jim Freer, Ida Westerberg, et al.. (2014). A generalised framework for large-scale evaluation of discharge uncertainties across England and Wales. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 10157. 1 indexed citations

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Ibbitt, Richard P., Ross Woods, & Martyn Clark. (2009). Assimilating Streamflow Data to Update Water Table Positions in Rainfall-to-runoff Models Based on TOPMODEL Concepts. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 48(1). 13–28. 1 indexed citations

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Ibbitt, Richard P., Martyn Clark, Ross Woods, et al.. (2007). Hydrological Data Assimilation with the Ensemble Kalman Filter: Use of Streamflow Observations to Update States in a Distributed Hydrological Model. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 2 indexed citations

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Woods, Ross, Jordy Hendrikx, Roddy Henderson, & Andrew Tait. (2006). Estimating mean flow of New Zealand rivers. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 45(2). 95–110. 45 indexed citations

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Grayson, Rodger B., Andrew W. Western, David Wilson, et al.. (1999). Measurement and Interpretation of Soil Moisture for Hydrological Applications. 5. 4 indexed citations

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