Simon N. Gosling

18.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
87 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Simon N. Gosling is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon N. Gosling has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 47 papers in Water Science and Technology and 19 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Simon N. Gosling's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (44 papers), Climate variability and models (30 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (28 papers). Simon N. Gosling is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (44 papers), Climate variability and models (30 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (28 papers). Simon N. Gosling collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Simon N. Gosling's co-authors include Nigel W. Arnell, Yoshihide Wada, Glenn R. McGregor, Jason Lowe, Yusuke Satoh, Junguo Liu, Naota Hanasaki, Yoshimitsu Masaki, Taikan Oki and Yadu Pokhrel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simon N. Gosling

82 papers receiving 7.9k 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.

The impacts of climate change on river flood risk at the global scale

2014 806 citations Simon N. Gosling et al. Climatic Change profile →
Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future

2017 752 citations Junguo Liu, Hong Yang et al. profile →
A global assessment of the impact of climate change on water scarcity

2013 601 citations Simon N. Gosling et al. Climatic Change profile →
Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment

2013 596 citations Dieter Gerten, Simon N. Gosling et al. profile →
Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century

2017 368 citations Ted Veldkamp, Yoshihide Wada et al. Nature Communications profile →
Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

2021 348 citations Lukas Gudmundsson, Julien Boulangé et al. Science profile →
The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change

2022 181 citations Yusuke Satoh, Kei Yoshimura et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Simon N. Gosling

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Heejun Chang United States

Christel Prudhomme United Kingdom

Qiuhong Tang China

Mojtaba Sadegh United States

Joseph Alcamo Germany

Tong Jiang China

Katherine Calvin United States

Page Kyle United States

Buda Su China

Georgia Destouni Sweden

Heejun Chang United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon N. Gosling

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

All Works

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Zhao, Fang, Ning Nie, Yang Liu, et al.. (2025). Benefits of Calibrating a Global Hydrological Model for Regional Analyses of Flood and Drought Projections: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Basin. Water Resources Research. 61(3). 3 indexed citations

Tiwari, Amar Deep, Yadu Pokhrel, Julien Boulangé, et al.. (2025). Similarities and divergent patterns in hydrologic fluxes and storages simulated by global water models. Nature Water. 3(5). 550–560. 2 indexed citations

Tiwari, Amar Deep, Yadu Pokhrel, Farshid Felfelani, et al.. (2025). Underestimation of Historical Terrestrial Water Storage Droughts in Global Water Models. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(19).

Jones, Edward R., Rens van Beek, Peter Burek, et al.. (2025). A multi-model assessment of global freshwater temperature and thermoelectric power supply under climate change. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 1(2). 25002–25002.

Liu, Junguo, Delong Li, He Chen, et al.. (2024). Timing the first emergence and disappearance of global water scarcity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7129–7129. 45 indexed citations

Boyd, Doreen S., Bethany Jackson, Jessica L. Decker Sparks, et al.. (2024). The future of decent work: Forecasting heat stress and the intersection of sustainable development challenges in India's brick kilns. Sustainable Development. 33(2). 3099–3117. 1 indexed citations

Gnann, Sebastian, Robert Reinecke, Lina Stein, et al.. (2023). Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models. Nature Water. 1(12). 1079–1090. 29 indexed citations

Satoh, Yusuke, Kei Yoshimura, Yadu Pokhrel, et al.. (2022). The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3287–3287. 181 indexed citations breakdown →

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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Reinecke, Robert, Hannes Müller Schmied, Tim Trautmann, et al.. (2021). Uncertainty of simulated groundwater recharge at different global warming levels: a global-scale multi-model ensemble study. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(2). 787–810. 87 indexed citations

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Satoh, Yusuke, Hideo Shiogama, Naota Hanasaki, et al.. (2021). Decomposing the uncertainties in global drought projection.

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Satoh, Yusuke, Hideo Shiogama, Naota Hanasaki, et al.. (2021). A quantitative evaluation of the issue of drought definition: a source of disagreement in future drought assessments. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104001–104001. 27 indexed citations

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Boulangé, Julien, Naota Hanasaki, Yusuke Satoh, et al.. (2021). Validity of estimating flood and drought characteristics under equilibrium climates from transient simulations. Environmental Research Letters. 16(10). 104028–104028. 4 indexed citations

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Gudmundsson, Lukas, Julien Boulangé, Hong Xuan, et al.. (2021). Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change. Science. 371(6534). 1159–1162. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vanderkelen, Inne, Nicole Van Lipzig, David M. Lawrence, et al.. (2020). Global heat uptake by inland waters. 4 indexed citations

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Krysanova, Valentina, Jamal Zaherpour, Iulii Didovets, et al.. (2020). How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change. Climatic Change. 163(3). 1353–1377. 38 indexed citations

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Xuan, Hong, Fang Zhao, Seth Westra, et al.. (2020). Historical and future changes in global flood magnitude – evidence from a model–observation investigation. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(3). 1543–1564. 57 indexed citations

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Dawson, Richard, David B. Thompson, Frances Wood, et al.. (2018). A systems framework for national assessment of climate risks to infrastructure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 376(2121). 56 indexed citations

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Veldkamp, Ted, Yoshihide Wada, Jeroen C. J. H. Aerts, et al.. (2017). Water scarcity hotspots travel downstream due to human interventions in the 20th and 21st century. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15697–15697. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hagemann, Stefan, Sonja Folwell, Simon N. Gosling, et al.. (2011). Projected hydrological changes in the 21st century and related uncertainties obtained from a multi-model ensemble. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 4815. 2 indexed citations

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