Sujan Koirala

8.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
53 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Sujan Koirala is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sujan Koirala has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 30 papers in Water Science and Technology and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sujan Koirala's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (29 papers), Climate variability and models (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers). Sujan Koirala is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (29 papers), Climate variability and models (14 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers). Sujan Koirala collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and Portugal. Sujan Koirala's co-authors include Shinjiro Kanae, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Hyungjun Kim, Mahendran Roobavannan, Dai Yamazaki, Satoshi WATANABE, Markus Reichstein, Martin Jung, Taikan Oki and Pat J.‐F. Yeh and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Science of The Total Environment and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

Sujan Koirala

52 papers receiving 4.2k citations

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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.

Global flood risk under climate change

2013 2.0k citations Yukiko Hirabayashi, Mahendran Roobavannan et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
The FLUXCOM ensemble of global land-atmosphere energy fluxes

2019 487 citations Martin Jung, Sujan Koirala et al. profile →
Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change

2022 180 citations Jasper Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
Majority of global river flow sustained by groundwater

2024 54 citations Jiaxin Xie, Xiaomang Liu et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sujan Koirala

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Majority of global river flow sustained by groundwater breakdown → 2024 ·Nature Geoscience ·Jiaxin Xie, Xiaomang Liu, Scott Jasechko, Wouter R. Berghuijs, Kaiwen Wang, Changming Liu, Markus Reichstein, Martin Jung, Sujan Koirala	54
2	Intensified future heat extremes linked with increasing ecosystem water limitation 2024 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Jasper Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling, Sujan Koirala, Markus Reichstein, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Martha M. Vogel, (unknown), René Orth	5
3	Implications of the steady-state assumption for the global vegetation carbon turnover 2023 ·Environmental Research Letters ·(unknown), Maurizio Santoro, Simon Besnard, Oliver Cartus, Sujan Koirala, Nuno Carvalhais	1
4	Impact of Updating Vegetation Information on Land Surface Model Performance 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·(unknown), O Sungmin, Gabriele Arduini, Souhail Boussetta, Alexander Brenning, Ana Bastos, Sujan Koirala, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Markus Reichstein, René Orth	11
5	Calibrating global hydrological models with GRACE TWS: does river storage matter? 2023 ·Environmental Research Communications ·(unknown), Sujan Koirala, (unknown), Hyungjun Kim, Martin Jung	1
6	Author Correction: Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change 2023 ·Nature Climate Change ·Jasper Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling, A. J. Pitman, Sujan Koirala, Mirco Migliavacca, Wantong Li, Markus Reichstein, Alexander J. Winkler, Chunhui Zhan, René Orth	1
7	Global apparent temperature sensitivity of terrestrial carbon turnover modulated by hydrometeorological factors 2022 ·Nature Geoscience ·(unknown), Markus Reichstein, Sujan Koirala, Bernhard Ahrens, Miguel D. Mahecha, Nuno Carvalhais	16
8	The fate of the snow in the western Himalaya region: A climate change perspective 2021 ·Santosh Nepal, (unknown), Saurav Pradhananga, Sven Kralisch, Denis Samyn, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Peter Krause, Sujan Koirala, Pierre Chevallier	0
9	Global sensitivities of forest carbon changes to environmental conditions 2021 ·Global Change Biology ·Simon Besnard, Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, (unknown), Nora Linscheid, Richard Nair, Ulrich Weber, Sujan Koirala, Nuno Carvalhais	22
10	Mapping global forest age from forest inventories, biomass and climate data 2021 ·Earth system science data ·Simon Besnard, Sujan Koirala, Maurizio Santoro, Ulrich Weber, Jacob A. Nelson, (unknown), Bruno Hérault, Justin Kassi, Anny Estelle N’Guessan, C. S. R. Neigh, Benjamin Poulter, Tao Zhang, Nuno Carvalhais	92
11	Apparent ecosystem carbon turnover time: uncertainties and robust features 2020 ·Earth system science data ·(unknown), Sujan Koirala, Markus Reichstein, Martin Thurner, Valerio Avitabile, Maurizio Santoro, Bernhard Ahrens, Ulrich Weber, Nuno Carvalhais	25
12	Global variability of carbon use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems 2019 ·Xiaolu Tang, Nuno Carvalhais, Catarina Moura, Bernhard Ahrens, Sujan Koirala, Shaohui Fan, Fengying Guan, Wenjie Zhang, Sicong Gao, Vincenzo Magliulo, Pauline Buysse, Shibin Liu, (unknown), Wunian Yang, Zhen Yu, Jingjing Liang, Leilei Shi, (unknown), Markus Reichstein	21
13	Human and climate global-scale imprint on sediment transfer during the Holocene 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jean‐Philippe Jenny, Sujan Koirala, Irene Gregory‐Eaves, Pierre Francus, Christoph Niemann, Bernhard Ahrens, Victor Brovkin, (unknown), Antti Ojala, Alexandre Normandeau, Bernd Zolitschka, Nuno Carvalhais	98
14	Long‐Term Changes in Global Socioeconomic Benefits of Flood Defenses and Residual Risk Based on CMIP5 Climate Models 2018 ·Earth s Future ·Wee Ho Lim, Dai Yamazaki, Sujan Koirala, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Shinjiro Kanae, Simon Dadson, Jim W. Hall, Fubao Sun	28
15	Sensitivity of Global Hydrological Simulations to Groundwater Capillary Flux Parameterizations 2018 ·Water Resources Research ·Sujan Koirala, Hyungjun Kim, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki	17
16	Illustrating a new global-scale approach to estimating potential reduction in fish species richness due to flow alteration 2014 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Sayaka Yoshikawa, (unknown), Yuichi Iwasaki, (unknown), Sujan Koirala, (unknown), Anupam Khajuria, Mahendran Roobavannan, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Chihiro Yoshimura, Shinjiro Kanae	15
17	Spatio-temporal covariation of evapotranspiration, plant productivity, and groundwater dynamics at the global scale 2014 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Sujan Koirala, Martin Jung, Nuno Carvalhais, Inge de Graaf, Markus Reichstein	1
18	Illustrating a new approach to estimating potential reduction in fish species richness due to flow alteration on a global scale 2013 ·Sayaka Yoshikawa, (unknown), Anupam Khajuria, (unknown), Yuichi Iwasaki, (unknown), Mahendran Roobavannan, Sujan Koirala, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Chihiro Yoshimura, (unknown)	4
19	Explicit representation of groundwater process in a global-scale land surface model to improve the prediction of water resources 2010 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Sujan Koirala, Pat J.‐F. Yeh, Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki	2
20	Application of Markowitz and Sharpe Models in Nepalese Stock 2007 ·Rajan Paudel, Sujan Koirala	9

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