| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A new model for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media | Water Resources Research | 1976 | 5,892 |
| 2 | Electromagnetic determination of soil water content: Measurements in coaxial transmission lines | Water Resources Research | 1980 | 4,020 |
| 3 | Evaluating the use of “goodness-of-fit” Measures in hydrologic and hydroclimatic model validation | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 3,352 |
| 4 | Effective and efficient global optimization for conceptual rainfall-runoff models | Water Resources Research | 1992 | 2,584 |
| 5 | Techniques of trend analysis for monthly water quality data | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 2,159 |
| 6 | Macropores and water flow in soils | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 2,128 |
| 7 | Empirical equations for some soil hydraulic properties | Water Resources Research | 1978 | 1,965 |
| 8 | Response of mean annual evapotranspiration to vegetation changes at catchment scale | Water Resources Research | 2001 | 1,944 |
| 9 | A new method for the determination of flow directions and upslope areas in grid digital elevation models | Water Resources Research | 1997 | 1,813 |
| 10 | Model for predicting evaporation from a row crop with incomplete cover | Water Resources Research | 1972 | 1,789 |
| 11 | Validity of Cubic Law for fluid flow in a deformable rock fracture | Water Resources Research | 1980 | 1,785 |
| 12 | Developing joint probability distributions of soil water retention characteristics | Water Resources Research | 1988 | 1,772 |
| 13 | A critical review of data on field-scale dispersion in aquifers | Water Resources Research | 1992 | 1,529 |
| 14 | Canopy temperature as a crop water stress indicator | Water Resources Research | 1981 | 1,462 |
| 15 | Three‐dimensional stochastic analysis of macrodispersion in aquifers | Water Resources Research | 1983 | 1,447 |
| 16 | Landslide triggering by rain infiltration | Water Resources Research | 2000 | 1,443 |
| 17 | A general mass‐conservative numerical solution for the unsaturated flow equation | Water Resources Research | 1990 | 1,322 |
| 18 | Reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability criteria for water resource system performance evaluation | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 1,315 |
| 19 | A Statistical Exploration of the Relationships of Soil Moisture Characteristics to the Physical Properties of Soils | Water Resources Research | 1984 | 1,297 |
| 20 | A Nonparametric Trend Test for Seasonal Data With Serial Dependence | Water Resources Research | 1984 | 1,261 |
| 21 | A physically based model for the topographic control on shallow landsliding | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 1,206 |
| 22 | Artificial Neural Network Modeling of the Rainfall-Runoff Process | Water Resources Research | 1995 | 1,198 |
| 23 | Toward improved calibration of hydrologic models: Multiple and noncommensurable measures of information | Water Resources Research | 1998 | 1,154 |
| 24 | Reservoir Management and Operations Models: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review | Water Resources Research | 1985 | 1,152 |
| 25 | A distributed hydrology-vegetation model for complex terrain | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 1,052 |
| 26 | Drag, turbulence, and diffusion in flow through emergent vegetation | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 1,019 |
| 27 | Floods, channel change, and the hyporheic zone | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 1,018 |
| 28 | A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer: Spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and its role in the dispersion process | Water Resources Research | 1986 | 1,017 |
| 29 | A detachment-limited model of drainage basin evolution | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 992 |
| 30 | Application of a fractional advection-dispersion equation | Water Resources Research | 2000 | 989 |
| 31 | Stochastic simulation of daily precipitation, temperature, and solar radiation | Water Resources Research | 1981 | 983 |
| 32 | The Millennium Drought in southeast Australia (2001–2009): Natural and human causes and implications for water resources, ecosystems, economy, and society | Water Resources Research | 2013 | 977 |
| 33 | Review of Parameter Identification Procedures in Groundwater Hydrology: The Inverse Problem | Water Resources Research | 1986 | 974 |
| 34 | A dual-porosity model for simulating the preferential movement of water and solutes in structured porous media | Water Resources Research | 1993 | 972 |
| 35 | Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates | Water Resources Research | 2012 | 972 |
| 36 | Interpolating the isotopic composition of modern meteoric precipitation | Water Resources Research | 2003 | 968 |
| 37 | Probability weighted moments: Definition and relation to parameters of several distributions expressable in inverse form | Water Resources Research | 1979 | 956 |
| 38 | Partial Area Contributions to Storm Runoff in a Small New England Watershed | Water Resources Research | 1970 | 920 |
| 39 | A Shuffled Complex Evolution Metropolis algorithm for optimization and uncertainty assessment of hydrologic model parameters | Water Resources Research | 2003 | 914 |
| 40 | Noah, Joseph, and Operational Hydrology | Water Resources Research | 1968 | 910 |
| 41 | How much complexity is warranted in a rainfall-runoff model? | Water Resources Research | 1993 | 896 |
| 42 | Getting the right answers for the right reasons: Linking measurements, analyses, and models to advance the science of hydrology | Water Resources Research | 2006 | 881 |
| 43 | Porous media equivalents for networks of discontinuous fractures | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 880 |
| 44 | A stochastic‐conceptual analysis of one‐dimensional groundwater flow in nonuniform homogeneous media | Water Resources Research | 1975 | 866 |
| 45 | Evaluation of automated techniques for base flow and recession analyses | Water Resources Research | 1990 | 851 |
| 46 | The geomorphologic structure of hydrologic response | Water Resources Research | 1979 | 849 |
| 47 | A slug test for determining hydraulic conductivity of unconfined aquifers with completely or partially penetrating wells | Water Resources Research | 1976 | 844 |
| 48 | Mountains of the world, water towers for humanity: Typology, mapping, and global significance | Water Resources Research | 2007 | 839 |
| 49 | Some long‐run properties of geophysical records | Water Resources Research | 1969 | 825 |
| 50 | Hydraulic conductivity estimation for soils with heterogeneous pore structure | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 824 |
