| Costs of adapting coastal defences to sea-level rise—new estimates and their implications SN Jonkman, MM Hillen, RJ Nicholls, W Kanning, M Van Ledden Journal of Coastal Research 29 (5), 1212-1226, 2013 | 188 | 2013 |
| Dune behavior and aeolian transport on decadal timescales S de Vries, HN Southgate, W Kanning, R Ranasinghe Coastal engineering 67, 41-53, 2012 | 140 | 2012 |
| Coastal defence cost estimates: Case study of the Netherlands, New Orleans and Vietnam MM Hillen, SN Jonkman, W Kanning, M Kok, MA Geldenhuys, MJF Stive Communications on Hydraulic and Geotechnical Engineering, No. 2010-01, 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
| The weakest link: spatial variability in the piping failure mechanism of dikes W Kanning | 44 | 2012 |
| Monitoring the tidal response of a sea levee with ambient seismic noise T Planès, JB Rittgers, MA Mooney, W Kanning, D Draganov Journal of Applied Geophysics 138, 255-263, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Safety standards of flood defenses JK Vrijling, T Schweckendiek, W Kanning Keynote paper at ISGSR, 67-84, 2011 | 33 | 2011 |
| Optimal planning of flood defence system reinforcements using a greedy search algorithm WJ Klerk, W Kanning, M Kok, R Wolfert Reliability Engineering & System Safety 207, 107344, 2021 | 24 | 2021 |
| Backward erosion monitored by spatial–temporal pore pressure changes during field experiments ML Parekh, W Kanning, C Bocovich, MA Mooney, AR Koelewijn Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 142 (10), 04016050, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| Temporal development of backward erosion piping in a large-scale experiment JC Pol, W Kanning, SN Jonkman Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 147 (2), 04020168, 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
| The technical and financial sustainability of the D utch polder approach JW Stijnen, W Kanning, SN Jonkman, M Kok Journal of Flood Risk Management 7 (1), 3-15, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Target reliabilities and partial factors for flood defenses in the Netherlands T Schweckendiek, T Vrouwenvelder, E Calle, W Kanning, R Jongejan Modern Geotechnical Design Codes of Practice, 311-328, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| Forensic analysis of levee failures: The Breitenhagen case J Kool, W Kanning, T Heyer, C Jommi, SN Jonkman International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories 5 (2), 70-92, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Coastal defense cost estimates M Hillen, S Jonkman, W Kanning, M Kok, M Geldenhuys, M Stive Delft University of Technology, in cooperation with Royal Haskoning, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
| Reliability analysis of flood defence structures and systems in Europe P van Gelder, F Buijs, W ter Horst, W Kanning, CM Van, M Rajabalinejad, ... 1st European Conference on Floodrisk Management, FLOODrisk 2008: Research …, 2008 | 17* | 2008 |
| Reliability-based partial factors for flood defenses RB Jongejan, F Diermanse, W Kanning, M Bottema Reliability Engineering & System Safety 193, 106589, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Probabilistic assessment of the flood wall at 17th Street Canal, New Orleans M Rajabalinejad, W Kanning, P Van Gelder, JK Vrijling, S Van Baars Risk, Reliability and Societal Safety, vols, 1-3, 2007 | 16 | 2007 |
| Temporal evolution of backward erosion piping in small-scale experiments JC Pol, W Kanning, VM van Beek, BA Robbins, SN Jonkman Acta Geotechnica 17 (10), 4555-4576, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| A Bayesian hindcasting method of levee failures applied to the Breitenhagen slope failure JJ Kool, W Kanning, C Jommi, SN Jonkman Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and …, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Cost‐optimal design of river dikes using probabilistic methods K Bischiniotis, W Kanning, SN Jonkman, M Kok Journal of Flood Risk Management 11, S1002-S1014, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Lessons from New Orleans for the design and maintenance of flood defence systems W Kanning, S Van Baars, P Van Gelder, JK Vrijling Proc. ESREL, 2007 | 15 | 2007 |