WISE CDT

Centre for Water SystemsEducationWISE CDTImpact and LegacyPublications

Publications

WISE students have been encouraged and supported to present conference papers during their studentships and to have journal papers accepted for publication prior to being awarded their degree. 

At December 2024, student publications attached to the WISE CDT training grant have been cited more than 3,000 times (over 2,960 times excluding self-citations), with over 2,600 citing articles, and have an H-index of 29. This has increased from around 1,200 citations and an H-index of 18 at the time of the previous CDT Report in 2022. See Web of Science citation report for grant EP/L016214/1.

Several WISE CDT students have received recognition for their publications, including editor’s choice awards and awards for being among the most downloaded articles in the first 12 months of publication. Examples at December 2024 are:

  • Dr Wouter Knoben (Bristol, Cohort 1) was awarded the STAHY Best Paper Award 2023. The STAHY award is made by the International Commission on Statistical Hydrology, a commission of the International Association for Hydrological Sciences, and is awarded to the best paper in the field of Statistical Hydrology. Wouter's award-winning paper, for work published in the period 2019-2021, was for his 2019 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) paper on ‘Inherent benchmark or not? Comparing Nash–Sutcliffe and Kling–Gupta efficiency scores’.  
  • In 2020, Dr Olivia Bailey (Bath, Cohort 2) was awarded the 23rd Water Science & Technology editor’s choice award for her paper on ‘Predicting Impacts of Water Conservation with a Stochastic Sewer Model’.

Recent awards from Wiley Publishing have gone to three Bristol WISE students for works published in Hydrological Processes and Water Resources Research:

  • Dr Lina Stein (Bristol, Cohort 3): Hydrological Processes (work published between 1 January 2020–31 December 2020.) Stein L, Pianosi F, Woods R. Event based classification for global study of river flood generating processes. Hydrological Processes. 2019;1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13678
  • Dr Wouter Knoben (Bristol, Cohort 1): Water Resources Research (work published in an issue between 1 January 2021-31 December 2021). Knoben, W. J. M., Freer, J. E., Peel, M. C., Fowler, K. J. A., & Woods, R. A. (2020). A brief analysis of conceptual model structure uncertainty using 36 models and 559 catchments. Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR025975. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025975
  • Dr Giulia Giani (Bristol, Cohort 4): Water Resources Research (work published in an issue between 1 January 2022–31 December 2022). Giani, G., Tarasova, L., Woods, R.A., & Rico-Ramirez, M. A. (2022). An objective time-series-analysis method for rainfallrunoff event identification. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR031283. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031283

In 2021 the WISE CDT published a paper about its programme in the international open-access journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. Authored by then Bristol Co-Director Professor Thorsten Wagener with Programme Management Group colleagues, ‘Hydroinformatics Education - the Water Informatics in Science and Engineering (WISE) Centre for Doctoral Training’ discusses the need for this type of postgraduate training, the CDT’s structure and approach, and the results and lessons learned up to that point. Read more here: https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/25/2721/2021/.