Wouter Buytaert

14.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
181 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Wouter Buytaert is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Buytaert has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Water Science and Technology, 79 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 42 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Wouter Buytaert's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (84 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (41 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers). Wouter Buytaert is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (84 papers), Flood Risk Assessment and Management (41 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (24 papers). Wouter Buytaert collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Peru and Ecuador. Wouter Buytaert's co-authors include Bert De Bièvre, Rolando Célleri, Guido Wyseure, Jozef Deckers, Francisco Cuesta, Patrick Willems, Conrado Tobón, Mathias Vuille, Zed Zulkafli and Keith Beven and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Buytaert

170 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

Climate change and mountain water resources: overview and recommendations for research, management and policy

2011 512 citations Wouter Buytaert, Gregory B. Greenwood et al. Hydrology and earth system sciences profile →
Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

2017 367 citations Matthias Huss, Bodo Bookhagen et al. Earth s Future profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Wouter Buytaert	4.0k	3.3k	2.7k	1.2k	1.2k	181	8.3k
Shaohong Wu	3.8k 1.0×	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	706 0.6×	213	6.5k
Katherine Calvin	5.6k 1.4×	1.7k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	2.4k 2.1×	158	12.3k
Richard H. Moss	7.8k 2.0×	1.8k 0.5×	4.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	62	13.5k
Steven K. Rose	7.8k 2.0×	1.9k 0.6×	3.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.4×	1.9k 1.6×	65	14.2k
Xi Chen	4.4k 1.1×	4.3k 1.3×	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.9×	374	9.2k
Philippe De Maeyer	4.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	409	9.3k
Georgia Destouni	2.9k 0.7×	3.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	1.4k 1.2×	2.5k 2.1×	267	9.5k
Toshihiko Masui	5.0k 1.3×	1.6k 0.5×	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	3.4k 2.8×	166	13.8k
Mikiko Kainuma	7.5k 1.9×	1.9k 0.6×	4.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.2×	1.7k 1.4×	56	13.2k
Tom Kram	8.6k 2.2×	2.3k 0.7×	4.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.5×	2.0k 1.7×	55	15.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wouter Buytaert

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter Buytaert

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Li, Xintong, Wouter Buytaert, Qi Tang, et al.. (2025). Hydrological impact of small hydropower development on mountain rivers in Southwest China and the role of environmental flows. Journal of Hydrology. 657. 133078–133078.

Moulds, Simon, et al.. (2025). Four Principles of Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change‐Exacerbated Hazards in Informal Settlements. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 16(3).

Dussaillant, Alejandro, et al.. (2025). Mapping hydro-ecological citizen science activities to inform research infrastructure design (Chess Catchment, UK). Hydrology research. 56(11). 1161–1181.

Zulkafli, Zed, Asnor Juraiza Ishak, Simon De Stercke, et al.. (2023). Supervised feature selection using principal component analysis. Knowledge and Information Systems. 66(3). 1955–1995. 22 indexed citations

Ross, A., et al.. (2023). Seasonal water storage and release dynamics of bofedal wetlands in the Central Andes. Hydrological Processes. 37(8). 8 indexed citations

Butler, Adrian P., et al.. (2022). Localizing Hydrological Drought Early Warning Using In Situ Groundwater Sensors. Water Resources Research. 58(8). 11 indexed citations

Moulds, Simon, Honor Bixby, George Owusu, et al.. (2022). Sachet water in Ghana: A spatiotemporal analysis of the recent upward trend in consumption and its relationship with changing household characteristics, 2010–2017. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0265167–e0265167. 14 indexed citations

Heal, Kate V., Alena Bartošová, Matthew R. Hipsey, et al.. (2022). Ensuring consideration of water quality in nexus approaches in the science–practice continuum: reply to discussion of “Water quality: the missing dimension of water in the water–energy–food nexus?”. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 67(8). 1291–1293. 1 indexed citations

Ochoa‐Tocachi, B. F., et al.. (2022). Parameterizing the JULES land surface model for different land covers in the tropical Andes. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 67(10). 1516–1526. 2 indexed citations

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Moulds, Simon, et al.. (2021). Modeling the Impacts of Urban Flood Risk Management on Social Inequality. Water Resources Research. 57(6). e2020WR029024–e2020WR029024. 31 indexed citations

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Parajuli, Binod, Puja Shakya, Wei Liu, et al.. (2020). An Open Data and Citizen Science Approach to Building Resilience to Natural Hazards in a Data-Scarce Remote Mountainous Part of Nepal. Sustainability. 12(22). 9448–9448. 53 indexed citations

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Heal, Kate V., Alena Bartošová, Matthew R. Hipsey, et al.. (2020). Water quality: the missing dimension of water in the water–energy–food nexus. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 66(5). 745–758. 26 indexed citations

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Straatsma, Menno, P. Droogers, Johannes Hunink, et al.. (2019). Global to regional scale evaluation of adaptation measures to reduce the future water gap. Environmental Modelling & Software. 124. 104578–104578. 16 indexed citations

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Cuesta, Francisco, Carolina Tovar, Luis D. Llambí, et al.. (2019). Thermal niche traits of high alpine plant species and communities across the tropical Andes and their vulnerability to global warming. Journal of Biogeography. 47(2). 408–420. 56 indexed citations

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Moulds, Simon, Wouter Buytaert, & Ana Mijić. (2018). A spatio-temporal land use and land cover reconstruction for India from 1960–2010. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180159–180159. 26 indexed citations

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Ochoa‐Tocachi, B. F., Tilashwork C. Alemie, Christian D. Guzmán, et al.. (2018). Sensitivity analysis of the parameter‐efficient distributed (PED) model for discharge and sediment concentration estimation in degraded humid landscapes. Land Degradation and Development. 30(2). 151–165. 7 indexed citations

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Vine, Nataliya Le, et al.. (2017). The role of rating curve uncertainty in real‐time flood forecasting. Water Resources Research. 53(5). 4197–4213. 35 indexed citations

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Huss, Matthias, Bodo Bookhagen, Christian Huggel, et al.. (2017). Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice. Earth s Future. 5(5). 418–435. 367 indexed citations breakdown →

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Buytaert, Wouter, et al.. (2015). The impact of pine plantations on water yield: a case study from the Ecuadorian Andes. Repositorio Institucional (Universidad de Cuenca). 4 indexed citations

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Zulkafli, Zed, et al.. (2013). A critical assessment of the JULES land surface model hydrology for humid tropical environments. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 17(3). 1113–1132. 30 indexed citations

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