Vijay P. Singh

29.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
573 papers, 23.0k citations indexed

About

Vijay P. Singh is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Vijay P. Singh has authored 573 papers receiving a total of 23.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 374 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 270 papers in Water Science and Technology and 126 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Vijay P. Singh's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (246 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (229 papers) and Climate variability and models (188 papers). Vijay P. Singh is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (246 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (229 papers) and Climate variability and models (188 papers). Vijay P. Singh collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Vijay P. Singh's co-authors include Ashok K. Mishra, Chong‐Yu Xu, Qiang Zhang, Zengchao Hao, Surendra Kumar Mishra, Mingzhong Xiao, Xiaohong Chen, L. Zhang, Jianfeng Li and Qiang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Vijay P. Singh

558 papers receiving 22.1k citations

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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.

Drought modeling – A review

2011 780 citations Ashok K. Mishra, Vijay P. Singh Journal of Hydrology profile →
Contamination of water resources by pathogenic bacteria

2014 516 citations Vijay P. Singh et al. profile →
Drought characterization from a multivariate perspective: A review

2015 497 citations Vijay P. Singh et al. Journal of Hydrology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vijay P. Singh United States	77	15.6k	10.8k	5.0k	3.7k	2.0k	573	23.0k
Chong‐Yu Xu Norway	82	19.5k 1.3×	15.7k 1.5×	5.2k 1.0×	6.7k 1.8×	2.3k 1.1×	583	26.2k
Qingyun Duan China	74	15.8k 1.0×	12.8k 1.2×	6.8k 1.4×	9.5k 2.6×	1.7k 0.9×	326	26.9k
Lu Zhang China	77	14.4k 0.9×	13.5k 1.3×	3.8k 0.8×	3.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.4×	525	23.5k
Robert L. Wilby United Kingdom	78	17.2k 1.1×	10.6k 1.0×	4.8k 1.0×	7.8k 2.1×	2.0k 1.0×	262	24.8k
Vijay P. Singh United States	90	22.9k 1.5×	16.5k 1.5×	9.1k 1.8×	5.5k 1.5×	3.9k 2.0×	757	35.9k
Justin Sheffield United States	77	20.0k 1.3×	9.6k 0.9×	4.3k 0.9×	8.5k 2.3×	2.3k 1.1×	225	27.4k
Thorsten Wagener United Kingdom	75	11.2k 0.7×	13.6k 1.3×	6.9k 1.4×	2.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	264	20.1k
J. V. Sutcliffe United Kingdom	20	10.6k 0.7×	13.9k 1.3×	6.1k 1.2×	3.5k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	42	20.0k
Marc F. P. Bierkens Netherlands	73	9.8k 0.6×	12.2k 1.1×	6.1k 1.2×	8.3k 2.3×	2.1k 1.0×	296	25.8k
I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe United States	85	11.9k 0.8×	9.3k 0.9×	5.8k 1.2×	4.8k 1.3×	6.2k 3.1×	262	24.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vijay P. Singh

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Zhang, Qiang, et al.. (2025). Improved non-stationary SPEI and its application in drought monitoring in China. Journal of Hydrology. 652. 132706–132706. 11 indexed citations

Zhu, Xingyu, et al.. (2025). Improving synergy of the water-agriculture-ecology system in arid areas using a novel co-optimization model. Agricultural Water Management. 312. 109408–109408. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Shuai, Qiang Zhang, Chunxiang Shi, et al.. (2024). Urban irrigation reduces moist heat stress in Beijing, China. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 7(1). 5 indexed citations

Wang, Zhixia, Shengzhi Huang, Vijay P. Singh, et al.. (2024). Contrasting characteristics and drivers of dry and warm snow droughts in China's largest inland river basin. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 53. 101751–101751. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Peng, Rui Yao, Yaojin Bian, et al.. (2024). Development of a nonstationary Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (NSPEI) and its application across China. Atmospheric Research. 300. 107256–107256. 35 indexed citations

Ashofteh, Parisa‐Sadat, et al.. (2024). Development of a multi-objective reservoir operation model for water quality-quantity management. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology. 265. 104385–104385. 16 indexed citations

Zhang, Kaiwen, Qiang Zhang, Gang Wang, et al.. (2023). Interactions between Soil Moisture and Water Availability over the Inner Mongolia Section of the Yellow River Basin, China. Atmosphere. 14(3). 443–443. 1 indexed citations

Timbadiya, P. V., et al.. (2023). Flood Forecasting and Hydraulic Structures. Lecture notes in civil engineering. 2 indexed citations

Barreto, Íkaro Daniel de Carvalho, Tatijana Stošić, Moacyr Cunha Filho, et al.. (2020). Complexity Analyses of Sao Francisco River Streamflow: Influence of Dams and Reservoirs. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 25(10). 14 indexed citations

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Ostad‐Ali‐Askari, Kaveh, et al.. (2019). Decreasing the Number of Coliforms of Wastewater Treatment Plants using Sand Filtration Together with Four-Seed Powder Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari1*, Saeid Eslamian2 , Vijay P. Singh3 , Nicolas R. Dalezios4, Mohsen. International Journal of Research Studies in Agricultural Sciences. 5(3). 2 indexed citations

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Ostad‐Ali‐Askari, Kaveh, et al.. (2018). Localization of City Park Using AHP in GIS, Case Study: District 8 of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. 4(2). 1 indexed citations

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Ostad‐Ali‐Askari, Kaveh, et al.. (2018). Climate Intelligence, a Strategy for Sustainable Urban Tourism Development in Historic City of Gaz Borkhar, Isfahan, Iran. 4(3). 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Yi, Ye Zhu, Liliang Ren, et al.. (2018). On the mechanisms of two composite methods for construction of multivariate drought indices. The Science of The Total Environment. 647. 981–991. 58 indexed citations

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Sang, Yan‐Fang, Fubao Sun, Vijay P. Singh, Ping Xie, & Jian Sun. (2018). A discrete wavelet spectrum approach for identifying non-monotonic trends in hydroclimate data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 22(1). 757–766. 30 indexed citations

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Eslamian, Saeid, Kaveh Ostad‐Ali‐Askari, Vijay P. Singh, et al.. (2017). A Review of Drought Indices. 3(4). 57 indexed citations

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Jain, Sharad K., Pankaj Mani, Sanjay K. Jain, et al.. (2017). A Brief review of flood forecasting techniques and their applications. International Journal of River Basin Management. 16(3). 329–344. 171 indexed citations

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Rajsekhar, Deepthi, Vijay P. Singh, & Ashok K. Mishra. (2014). Multivariate drought index: An information theory based approach for integrated drought assessment. Journal of Hydrology. 526. 164–182. 209 indexed citations

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Singh, Vijay P., Pratap Singh, & Umesh K. Haritashya. (2011). Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Springer eBooks. 77 indexed citations

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Singh, Vijay P.. (2000). The entropy theory as a tool for modelling and decision-making in environmental and water resources.. Water SA. 26(1). 1–11. 58 indexed citations

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Singh, Vijay P.. (1979). A Uniformly Nonlinear Hydrologic Cascade. Water and Energy International. 36(3). 301–318. 2 indexed citations

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