Stephan Thober

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Stephan Thober is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Thober has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Water Science and Technology and 18 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephan Thober's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (21 papers) and Climate variability and models (21 papers). Stephan Thober is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (38 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (21 papers) and Climate variability and models (21 papers). Stephan Thober collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Czechia and United States. Stephan Thober's co-authors include Luis Samaniego, Rohini Kumar, Oldřich Rakovec, Matthias Zink, Andréas Marx, Niko Wanders, Justin Sheffield, Ming Pan, Eric F. Wood and Juliane Mai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Thober

58 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture ... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2022 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Anthropogenic warming exacerbates European soil moisture droughts
    2018 526 citations Luis Samaniego, Stephan Thober et al. profile →
  2. The 2018–2020 Multi‐Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe
    2022 167 citations Oldřich Rakovec, Luis Samaniego et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephan Thober Germany 25 1.8k 1.3k 601 546 205 60 2.5k
Zhongwang Wei China 26 1.6k 0.9× 896 0.7× 471 0.8× 669 1.2× 91 0.4× 90 2.2k
Oldřich Rakovec Germany 32 2.8k 1.6× 2.2k 1.6× 1.0k 1.7× 1.1k 1.9× 228 1.1× 86 4.1k
René Orth Germany 32 2.6k 1.5× 821 0.6× 855 1.4× 1.6k 2.9× 199 1.0× 79 3.4k
Pere Quintana‐Seguí Spain 23 1.4k 0.8× 868 0.7× 599 1.0× 947 1.7× 81 0.4× 56 2.2k
Jianhua Si China 28 1.3k 0.7× 877 0.7× 691 1.1× 584 1.1× 93 0.5× 132 2.3k
Yonghua Zhu China 30 1.3k 0.7× 952 0.7× 717 1.2× 1.1k 2.0× 84 0.4× 83 2.3k
James H. Stagge United States 16 1.9k 1.1× 758 0.6× 345 0.6× 443 0.8× 406 2.0× 50 2.4k
Justin Huntington United States 21 1.5k 0.8× 724 0.5× 315 0.5× 323 0.6× 110 0.5× 53 1.9k
Monireh Faramarzi Canada 24 1.3k 0.7× 1.5k 1.2× 479 0.8× 339 0.6× 244 1.2× 52 2.3k
Peter V. Caldwell United States 28 1.5k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 380 0.6× 428 0.8× 88 0.4× 85 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Thober

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Thober

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Thober

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Thober, Stephan, et al.. (2022). Automatic Regionalization of Model Parameters for Hydrological Models. Water Resources Research. 58(12). e2022WR031966–e2022WR031966. 19 indexed citations
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Rakovec, Oldřich, Rohini Kumar, Luis Samaniego, et al.. (2022). High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(19). 5137–5161. 46 indexed citations
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Hildebrandt, Anke, Stephan Thober, Corinna Rebmann, et al.. (2022). Developing a parsimonious canopy model (PCM v1.0) to predict forest gross primary productivity and leaf area index of deciduous broad-leaved forest. Geoscientific model development. 15(18). 6957–6984. 5 indexed citations
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Thober, Stephan, et al.. (2022). MPR 1.0: a stand-alone multiscale parameter regionalization tool for improved parameter estimation of land surface models. Geoscientific model development. 15(2). 859–882. 22 indexed citations
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Shrestha, Pallav Kumar, et al.. (2021). A drought monitoring tool for South Asia. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 54014–54014. 24 indexed citations
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Thober, Stephan, et al.. (2021). Machine-learning methods to assess the effects of a non-linear damage spectrum taking into account soil moisture on winter wheat yields in Germany. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 25(12). 6523–6545. 21 indexed citations
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Kumar, Rohini, Luis Samaniego, Martin Schrön, et al.. (2021). High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany. Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). 3 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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Thober, Stephan, et al.. (2019). Development of a stand-alone Multiscale Parameter Regionalization (MPR) tool for the estimation of effective model parameters for any distributed model. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 7478. 1 indexed citations
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Thober, Stephan, et al.. (2019). The multiscale routing model mRM v1.0: simple river routing at resolutions from 1 to 50 km. Geoscientific model development. 12(6). 2501–2521. 52 indexed citations
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Thober, Stephan, et al.. (2018). The effect of soil moisture anomalies on maize yield in Germany. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 18(3). 889–906. 36 indexed citations
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Thober, Stephan, Niko Wanders, Andréas Marx, et al.. (2017). Multi-model ensemble projections of European river floods and high flows at 1.5, 2, and 3 degree global warming. AGUFM. 2017. 1 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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Wood, Eric F., Niko Wanders, Ming Pan, et al.. (2017). The End-to-end Demonstrator for improved decision making in the water sector in Europe (EDgE). EGUGA. 3946. 2 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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Marx, Andréas, Rohini Kumar, Stephan Thober, et al.. (2017). Climate change alters low flows in Europe under a 1.5, 2, and 3 degree global warming. 14 indexed citations
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Samaniego, Luis, Rohini Kumar, Stephan Thober, et al.. (2017). Toward seamless hydrologic predictions across spatial scales. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(9). 4323–4346. 107 indexed citations
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Nijzink, Remko C., Luis Samaniego, Juliane Mai, et al.. (2016). The importance of topography-controlled sub-grid process heterogeneity and semi-quantitative prior constraints in distributed hydrological models. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 20(3). 1151–1176. 55 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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