Victor Bense

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Victor Bense is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Bense has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Atmospheric Science, 30 papers in Environmental Engineering and 18 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Victor Bense's work include Climate change and permafrost (37 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (32 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (25 papers). Victor Bense is often cited by papers focused on Climate change and permafrost (37 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (32 papers) and Groundwater flow and contamination studies (25 papers). Victor Bense collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States. Victor Bense's co-authors include Mark Person, Olivier Bour, Henk Kooi, Sian Loveless, Grant Ferguson, Jacek Scibek, Tom Gleeson, R.T. van Balen, Huijun Jin and T. Read and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Victor Bense

89 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Fault zone hydrogeology 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 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. Fault zone hydrogeology
    2013 564 citations Victor Bense, Olivier Bour et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Victor Bense 1.3k 1.2k 1.0k 559 443 91 3.5k
Henk Kooi 1.4k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 1.3k 1.2× 967 1.7× 382 0.9× 79 4.6k
Mark Person 744 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 861 1.5× 693 1.6× 117 3.5k
Grant Ferguson 1.1k 0.8× 1.7k 1.5× 373 0.4× 1.2k 2.1× 371 0.8× 90 3.6k
S. E. Ingebritsen 720 0.5× 1.5k 1.3× 2.8k 2.7× 629 1.1× 776 1.8× 97 5.2k
Shemin Ge 702 0.5× 1.4k 1.2× 2.5k 2.5× 584 1.0× 692 1.6× 100 5.1k
Yoseph Yechieli 872 0.7× 1.4k 1.2× 586 0.6× 1.7k 3.1× 246 0.6× 120 3.6k
Peter Huggenberger 403 0.3× 1.5k 1.3× 721 0.7× 586 1.0× 243 0.5× 116 3.3k
Zhonghe Pang 1.0k 0.8× 1.6k 1.3× 792 0.8× 2.5k 4.4× 1.2k 2.6× 164 4.9k
Harihar Rajaram 926 0.7× 2.4k 2.0× 585 0.6× 395 0.7× 549 1.2× 127 4.2k
Devin L. Galloway 1.0k 0.8× 1.5k 1.3× 819 0.8× 255 0.5× 308 0.7× 58 4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Victor Bense

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Fields of papers citing papers by Victor Bense

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Victor Bense

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klepikova, Maria, et al.. (2025). Impact of groundwater extraction on subsurface thermal regimes. Environmental Research Letters. 20(5). 54048–54048. 1 indexed citations
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Bense, Victor, et al.. (2024). The impact of future changes in climate variables and groundwater abstraction on basin-scale groundwater availability. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 28(22). 5107–5131. 6 indexed citations
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Bense, Victor, et al.. (2023). Measuring Groundwater Flow Velocities near Drinking Water Extraction Wells in Unconsolidated Sediments. Water. 15(12). 2167–2167. 2 indexed citations
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Bittner, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Revealing the positive influence of young water fractions derived from stable isotopes on the robustness of karst water resources predictions. Journal of Hydrology. 621. 129549–129549. 8 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Carreras, Núria, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Flocculation on In Situ and Ex Situ Particle Size Measurements by Laser Diffraction. Water Resources Research. 60(1). 4 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Carreras, Núria, et al.. (2022). A Generic Relation Between Turbidity, Suspended Particulate Matter Concentration, and Sediment Characteristics. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 127(12). 11 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Carreras, Núria, et al.. (2022). Inferring Suspended Sediment Carbon Content and Particle Size at High Frequency From the Optical Response of a Submerged Spectrometer. Water Resources Research. 58(5). 4 indexed citations
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Jin, Huijun, Yadong Huang, Victor Bense, et al.. (2022). Permafrost Degradation and Its Hydrogeological Impacts. Water. 14(3). 372–372. 75 indexed citations
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Ma, Qiang, Huijun Jin, Sihai Liang, et al.. (2021). Streamflow Changes in the Headwater Area of Yellow River, NE Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during 1955–2040 and Their Implications. Water. 13(10). 1360–1360. 9 indexed citations
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McKenzie, Jeffrey M., Barret L. Kurylyk, Michelle A. Walvoord, et al.. (2021). Invited perspective: What lies beneath a changing Arctic?. ˜The œcryosphere. 15(1). 479–484. 37 indexed citations
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Hodson, Andy, et al.. (2020). Numerical modelling of permafrost spring discharge and open-system pingo formation induced by basal permafrost aggradation. ˜The œcryosphere. 14(12). 4627–4651. 18 indexed citations
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Kasse, C., et al.. (2019). An overview of fault zone permeabilities and groundwater level steps in the Roer Valley Rift System. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw. 98. 10 indexed citations
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Kurylyk, Barret L., Dylan J. Irvine, Sean K. Carey, et al.. (2017). Climate reconstruction from borehole temperatures influenced by groundwater flow. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2017. 1 indexed citations
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Read, T., Victor Bense, Rébecca Hochreutener, et al.. (2015). Thermal-plume fibre optic tracking (T-POT) test for flow velocity measurement in groundwater boreholes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 197–202. 17 indexed citations
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Bense, Victor, Henk Kooi, Grant Ferguson, & T. Read. (2012). Permafrost degradation as a control on hydrogeological regime shifts in a warming climate. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 8316. 15 indexed citations
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Bense, Victor. (2012). Salinity driven groundwater flow in layered aquifer systems on the continental shelf during transgression. EGUGA. 8282. 1 indexed citations

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