Wolfgang Schwanghart

7.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
82 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Schwanghart is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Schwanghart has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Atmospheric Science, 31 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Schwanghart's work include Landslides and related hazards (25 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (23 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (20 papers). Wolfgang Schwanghart is often cited by papers focused on Landslides and related hazards (25 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (23 papers) and Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (20 papers). Wolfgang Schwanghart collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Wolfgang Schwanghart's co-authors include Dirk Scherler, Jan Beck, Nikolaus J. Kuhn, Tobias Heckmann, Andreas Erhardt, Oliver Korup, Jonathan D. Phillips, Thomas Jarmer, Brigitta Schütt and Jeremy D. Holloway and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Schwanghart

79 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Short Communication: TopoToolbox 2 – MATLAB-based software for topographic analysis and modeling in Earth surface sciences

2014 828 citations Wolfgang Schwanghart, Dirk Scherler Earth Surface Dynamics profile →
Spatial bias in the GBIF database and its effect on modeling species' geographic distributions

2013 462 citations Wolfgang Schwanghart et al. profile →
The Influence of Topography on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle

2025 19 citations Wolfgang Schwanghart et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wolfgang Schwanghart Germany	30	1.6k	1.4k	950	869	737	82	4.2k
David Seal United States	4	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	798 0.8×	2.1k 2.4×	429 0.6×	7	6.3k
J. Shimada United States	5	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	829 0.9×	2.1k 2.4×	434 0.6×	15	6.4k
Matthew Larsen United States	25	1.2k 0.8×	610 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	885 1.0×	496 0.7×	88	3.3k
John D. Jansen United Kingdom	33	2.2k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	946 1.0×	461 0.5×	556 0.8×	103	3.7k
Mimi Paller United States	4	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	797 0.8×	2.0k 2.4×	427 0.6×	6	6.3k
E.R. Caro United States	6	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	801 0.8×	2.1k 2.4×	428 0.6×	7	6.3k
S. Shaffer United States	15	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	873 0.9×	2.1k 2.5×	454 0.6×	51	7.1k
Jon J. Major United States	32	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 2.0×	727 0.8×	559 0.8×	85	3.8k
Jeffrey W. Umland United States	7	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	797 0.8×	2.1k 2.4×	428 0.6×	16	6.5k
Jonathan L. Carrivick United Kingdom	45	3.9k 2.5×	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	733 0.8×	346 0.5×	160	5.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Kašanin-Grubin, Milica, Mariano Moreno de las Heras, Ali Mohammadi, et al.. (2024). How does climate seasonality influence weathering processes in badland landscapes?. CATENA. 243. 108136–108136. 4 indexed citations

Bernhardt, Anne & Wolfgang Schwanghart. (2021). Where and Why Do Submarine Canyons Remain Connected to the Shore During Sea‐Level Rise? Insights From Global Topographic Analysis and Bayesian Regression. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(10). 33 indexed citations

Campforts, Benjamin, Veerle Vanacker, Frédéric Herman, et al.. (2020). Parameterization of river incision models requires accounting for environmental heterogeneity: insights from the tropical Andes. Earth Surface Dynamics. 8(2). 447–470. 37 indexed citations

Scherler, Dirk & Wolfgang Schwanghart. (2020). Drainage divide networks – Part 2: Response to perturbations. Earth Surface Dynamics. 8(2). 261–274. 30 indexed citations

Scherler, Dirk & Wolfgang Schwanghart. (2020). Drainage divide networks – Part 1: Identification and ordering in digital elevation models. Earth Surface Dynamics. 8(2). 245–259. 37 indexed citations

Greene, Chad A., Kaustubh Thirumalai, Kelly Kearney, et al.. (2019). The Climate Data Toolbox for MATLAB. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 20(7). 3774–3781. 188 indexed citations

Scherler, Dirk & Wolfgang Schwanghart. (2019). Identification and ordering of drainage divides in digital elevation models. 2 indexed citations

Campforts, Benjamin, Veerle Vanacker, Frédéric Herman, et al.. (2019). Lithology and orographic precipitation control river incision in thetropical Andes. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 1 indexed citations

Campforts, Benjamin, Wolfgang Schwanghart, & Gérard Govers. (2017). Accurate simulation of transient landscape evolution by eliminating numerical diffusion: the TTLEM 1.0 model. Earth Surface Dynamics. 5(1). 47–66. 60 indexed citations

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Schwanghart, Wolfgang & Dirk Scherler. (2017). Bumps in river profiles: uncertainty assessment and smoothing using quantile regression techniques. Earth Surface Dynamics. 5(4). 821–839. 110 indexed citations

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Schwanghart, Wolfgang & Dirk Scherler. (2017). Bumps in river profiles: the good, the bad, and the ugly. 2 indexed citations

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Campforts, Benjamin & Wolfgang Schwanghart. (2016). TTLEM - an implicit-explicit (IMEX) scheme for modelling landscape evolution in MATLAB. Lirias (KU Leuven). 18. 1 indexed citations

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Campforts, Benjamin, Wolfgang Schwanghart, & Gérard Govers. (2016). Accurate simulation of transient landscape evolution by eliminatingnumerical diffusion: the TTLEM 1.0 model. 1 indexed citations

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Schwanghart, Wolfgang, et al.. (2015). Landslide susceptibility mapping in three selected target zones in Afghanistan. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14300. 2 indexed citations

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Clason, Caroline, Douglas Mair, Peter Nienow, et al.. (2015). Modelling the transfer of supraglacial meltwater to the bed of Leverett Glacier, Southwest Greenland. The cryosphere. 9(1). 123–138. 54 indexed citations

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Meyer, Nele, Wolfgang Schwanghart, Oliver Korup, & Farrokh Nadim. (2015). Roads at risk: traffic detours from debris flows in southern Norway. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 15(5). 985–995. 24 indexed citations

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Schwanghart, Wolfgang, et al.. (2014). Reassessing Catastrophic Infill of the Pokhara Valley, Nepal Himalaya. EGUGA. 15787. 1 indexed citations

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Heckmann, Tobias, et al.. (2014). Network analysis of sediment cascades derived from digital geomorphological maps - a comparative study of three catchments in the Austrian and Swiss Alps. EGUGA. 11452. 5 indexed citations

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Schwanghart, Wolfgang & Dirk Scherler. (2014). Short Communication: TopoToolbox 2 – MATLAB-based software for topographic analysis and modeling in Earth surface sciences. Earth Surface Dynamics. 2(1). 1–7. 828 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schwanghart, Wolfgang & Dirk Scherler. (2013). Short Communication: TopoToolbox 2 – an efficient and user-friendly tool for Earth surface sciences. 5 indexed citations

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