Ruzbeh Akbar

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ruzbeh Akbar is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruzbeh Akbar has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Environmental Engineering, 35 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ruzbeh Akbar's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (45 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (29 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers). Ruzbeh Akbar is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (45 papers), Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (29 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (8 papers). Ruzbeh Akbar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Ruzbeh Akbar's co-authors include Dara Entekhabi, Kaighin A. McColl, Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Alexandra G. Konings, Hamed Alemohammad, Simon Yueh, Guido D. Salvucci, Andrew F. Feldman, Erfan Haghighi and Mahta Moghaddam and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Remote Sensing of Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Ruzbeh Akbar

51 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

The global distribution and dynamics of surface soil moisture

2017 396 citations Kaighin A. McColl, Hamed Alemohammad et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruzbeh Akbar United States	18	1.0k	796	468	240	227	53	1.4k
Christoph Paulik Austria	9	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	333 0.7×	357 1.5×	257 1.1×	22	1.7k
Hyunglok Kim United States	17	766 0.7×	728 0.9×	354 0.8×	173 0.7×	204 0.9×	48	1.1k
Angelika Xaver Austria	8	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	277 0.6×	419 1.7×	217 1.0×	13	1.5k
Stefan Hasenauer Austria	8	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	304 0.6×	253 1.1×	371 1.6×	14	1.6k
Simone Bircher France	17	1.0k 1.0×	798 1.0×	201 0.4×	236 1.0×	190 0.8×	22	1.1k
S. Hasenauer Austria	11	1.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	247 0.5×	362 1.5×	362 1.6×	19	1.7k
Delphine Leroux France	18	2.0k 1.9×	1.7k 2.1×	378 0.8×	354 1.5×	354 1.6×	28	2.2k
Mariëtte Vreugdenhil Austria	21	1.2k 1.2×	923 1.2×	452 1.0×	217 0.9×	245 1.1×	58	1.7k
Zoltan Bartalis Austria	10	1.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.6×	249 0.5×	258 1.1×	362 1.6×	24	1.6k
Thierry Pellarin France	20	1.9k 1.9×	1.9k 2.3×	599 1.3×	337 1.4×	441 1.9×	43	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruzbeh Akbar

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Rodríguez, Ernesto, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Characteristics of Ocean Surface Winds at High Resolution With Doppler Scatterometry. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(23). 1 indexed citations

Torres, Héctor, Ernesto Rodríguez, Patrice Klein, et al.. (2024). Airborne observations of fast-evolving ocean submesoscale turbulence. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 3 indexed citations

Feldman, Andrew F., Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Jianzhi Dong, et al.. (2023). Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Can Capture Dynamics Relevant to Plant Water Uptake. Water Resources Research. 59(2). 52 indexed citations

Dong, Jianzhi, Ruzbeh Akbar, Daniel J. Short Gianotti, et al.. (2022). Can Surface Soil Moisture Information Identify Evapotranspiration Regime Transitions?. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(7). e2021GL097697–e2021GL097697. 46 indexed citations

Campbell, James D., Ruzbeh Akbar, Alexandra Bringer, et al.. (2022). Intercomparison of Electromagnetic Scattering Models for Delay-Doppler Maps Along a CYGNSS Land Track With Topography. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–13. 17 indexed citations

Kumar, Sujay V., Louis Nguyen, Thad Chee, et al.. (2022). Demonstrating a New Flood Observing Strategy on the NOS Testbed. IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 5309–5312. 5 indexed citations

Campbell, James D., Ruzbeh Akbar, Alexandra Bringer, et al.. (2021). Intercomparison of Models for CYGNSS Delay-Doppler Maps at a Validation Site in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 2001–2004. 4 indexed citations

Gianotti, Daniel J. Short, Ruzbeh Akbar, Andrew F. Feldman, Guido D. Salvucci, & Dara Entekhabi. (2020). Terrestrial Evaporation and Moisture Drainage in a Warmer Climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(5). 16 indexed citations

Kurum, Mehmet, Seung-Bum Kim, Ruzbeh Akbar, & Michael H. Cosh. (2020). Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals Under Forest Canopy for $L$-Band SAR Observations Across a Wide Range of Incidence Angles by Inverting a Physical Scattering Model. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 14. 1741–1753. 12 indexed citations

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Baur, Martin, Thomas Jagdhuber, Andrew F. Feldman, Ruzbeh Akbar, & Dara Entekhabi. (2019). Estimation of relative canopy absorption and scattering at L-, C- and X-bands. Remote Sensing of Environment. 233. 111384–111384. 35 indexed citations

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Feldman, Andrew F., Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Alexandra G. Konings, et al.. (2018). Moisture pulse-reserve in the soil-plant continuum observed across biomes. Nature Plants. 4(12). 1026–1033. 96 indexed citations

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Akbar, Ruzbeh, Daniel J. Short Gianotti, Kaighin A. McColl, et al.. (2018). Hydrological Storage Length Scales Represented by Remote Sensing Estimates of Soil Moisture and Precipitation. Water Resources Research. 54(3). 1476–1492. 58 indexed citations

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Jagdhuber, Thomas, Alexandra G. Konings, Kaighin A. McColl, et al.. (2018). Physics-Based Modeling of Active and Passive Microwave Covariations Over Vegetated Surfaces. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(2). 788–802. 17 indexed citations

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McColl, Kaighin A., Wei Wang, Bin Peng, et al.. (2017). Global characterization of surface soil moisture drydowns. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(8). 3682–3690. 110 indexed citations

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Akbar, Ruzbeh, Michael H. Cosh, Peggy O’Neill, Dara Entekhabi, & Mahta Moghaddam. (2017). Combined Radar–Radiometer Surface Soil Moisture and Roughness Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 55(7). 4098–4110. 8 indexed citations

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Piles, María, Dara Entekhabi, Alexandra G. Konings, et al.. (2016). Monitoring the Phenology of Global Agroecosystems Using SMAP Multi-temporal Vegetation Optical Depth Retrievals. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Hao, Bin Peng, Dara Entekhabi, et al.. (2016). Global soil moisture dry-down analysis based on SMAP retrievals. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Jagdhuber, Thomas, Narendra N. Das, Dara Entekhabi, et al.. (2016). A data-driven and physics-based single-pass retrieval of active-passive microwave covariation and vegetation parameters for the SMAP mission. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2016. 3 indexed citations

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Bongiovanni, Tara, Pang‐Wei Liu, Karthik Nagarajan, et al.. (2015). Field Observations during the Eleventh Microwave Water and Energy Balance Experiment (MicroWEX-11): from April 25, 2012, through December 6, 2012. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2015(6). 96–96. 8 indexed citations

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Akbar, Ruzbeh & Mahta Moghaddam. (2015). A Combined Active–Passive Soil Moisture Estimation Algorithm With Adaptive Regularization in Support of SMAP. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 53(6). 3312–3324. 33 indexed citations

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