Taher Kahil

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Taher Kahil is a scholar working on Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Taher Kahil has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Ocean Engineering, 44 papers in Water Science and Technology and 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Taher Kahil's work include Water resources management and optimization (46 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (38 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (17 papers). Taher Kahil is often cited by papers focused on Water resources management and optimization (46 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (38 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (17 papers). Taher Kahil collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Spain and Netherlands. Taher Kahil's co-authors include José Albiac, Ariel Dinar, Yoshihide Wada, Peter Burek, Peter Greve, Yusuke Satoh, Sylvia Tramberend, Simon Langan, R. Burtscher and Junko Mochizuki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Taher Kahil

64 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty i... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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. Global assessment of water challenges under uncertainty in water scarcity projections
    2018 408 citations Peter Greve, Taher Kahil et al. profile →

Peers

Taher Kahil
Sylvia Tramberend Austria
Evan Davies Canada
Janez Sušnik Netherlands
Xinan Yin China
Upali A. Amarasinghe Sri Lanka
Ilona Bärlund Finland
M. Dinesh Kumar India
Chris Vernon United States
Edoardo Borgomeo United Kingdom
José Albiac Spain
Sylvia Tramberend Austria
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Citations per year, relative to Taher Kahil Taher Kahil (= 1×) peers Sylvia Tramberend

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Fields of papers citing papers by Taher Kahil

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Taher Kahil

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

All Works

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Chen, Zhuo, Reetik Kumar Sahu, Taher Kahil, et al.. (2025). Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 29(3). 777–793. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Jincheng, et al.. (2025). Temporal lag in nitrogen use efficiency and its implications for sustainable cropland management. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 222. 108451–108451. 2 indexed citations
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Parrado, Ramiro, et al.. (2025). Integrated assessment of resilience to drought by coupling hydro-economic and macroeconomic models. Journal of Hydrology. 661. 133549–133549. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Jincheng, Yanxin Sun, Ting Tang, et al.. (2024). Uncovering the spatial characteristics of global net anthropogenic nitrogen input at high resolution and across 1.42 million lake basins. The Science of The Total Environment. 953. 176143–176143. 3 indexed citations
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Smilovic, Mikhail, Peter Burek, Luca Guillaumot, et al.. (2023). Water circles—a tool to assess and communicate the water cycle. Environmental Research Letters. 19(2). 21003–21003.
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Greve, Peter, Peter Burek, Luca Guillaumot, et al.. (2023). Low flow sensitivity to water withdrawals in Central and Southwestern Europe under 2 K global warming. Environmental Research Letters. 18(9). 94020–94020. 6 indexed citations
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Ermolieva, T., Peter Havlík, Esther Boere, et al.. (2023). A Novel Robust Meta-Model Framework for Predicting Crop Yield Probability Distributions Using Multisource Data. Cybernetics and Systems Analysis. 59(5). 844–858. 2 indexed citations
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Guillaumot, Luca, Mikhail Smilovic, Peter Burek, et al.. (2022). Coupling a large-scale hydrological model (CWatM v1.1) with a high-resolution groundwater flow model (MODFLOW 6) to assess the impact of irrigation at regional scale. Geoscientific model development. 15(18). 7099–7120. 19 indexed citations
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Albiac, José, et al.. (2022). Integrating ecosystem benefits for sustainable water allocation in hydroeconomic modeling. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0267439–e0267439. 10 indexed citations
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Burek, Peter, Yusuke Satoh, Taher Kahil, et al.. (2020). Development of the Community Water Model (CWatM v1.04) – a high-resolution hydrological model for global and regional assessment of integrated water resources management. Geoscientific model development. 13(7). 3267–3298. 122 indexed citations
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Kahil, Taher, Peter Burek, Ting Tang, et al.. (2019). An integrated modeling framework for assessing water-energy-land nexus solutions: Application to the Zambezi transboundary river basin. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9113. 1 indexed citations
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Burek, Peter, Sylvia Tramberend, Taher Kahil, R. Burtscher, & Yoshihide Wada. (2019). Exploring water management options under changing climate, land cover and socio-economic drivers for the extended Lake Victoria Basin. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Chebil, Ali, et al.. (2018). Policy measures for reducing aquifer depletion in a context of climate change: the case of the coastal area of Cap-Bon. New Medit. XVII(4). 33–44. 5 indexed citations
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Burek, Peter, Yusuke Satoh, Peter Greve, Taher Kahil, & Yoshihide Wada. (2017). The CommunityWater Model (CWATM) / Development of a communitydriven global water model. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 9769. 2 indexed citations
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Burek, Peter, Yoshinori Sato, Yukihisa Wada, et al.. (2016). Looking at the spatial and temporal distribution of global water availability and demand. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 2 indexed citations
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Satoh, Yusuke, Peter Burek, Yoshihide Wada, et al.. (2016). Asian water futures - Multi scenarios, models and criteria assessment -. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 1 indexed citations

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