Aleš Urban

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 750 citations indexed

About

Aleš Urban is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aleš Urban has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 750 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 9 papers in General Health Professions and 9 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Aleš Urban's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (21 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (14 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (9 papers). Aleš Urban is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (21 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (14 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (9 papers). Aleš Urban collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United Kingdom and United States. Aleš Urban's co-authors include Jan Kyselý, Eva Plavcová, David M. Hondula, Ladislav Hosák, Jiří Masopust, Radován Malý, Éric Lavigne, Ana M. Vicedo‐Cabrera, Antonio Gasparrini and Dominic Royé and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Aleš Urban

31 papers receiving 728 citations

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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.

Rapid increase in the risk of heat-related mortality

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aleš Urban Czechia	16	529	220	179	108	103	33	750
Laurence Mandereau-Bruno France	9	428 0.8×	136 0.6×	191 1.1×	36 0.3×	105 1.0×	23	693
Daniel Oudin Åström Sweden	18	1.1k 2.2×	178 0.8×	337 1.9×	119 1.1×	371 3.6×	49	1.4k
Huashuai Chen China	14	350 0.7×	95 0.4×	165 0.9×	39 0.4×	82 0.8×	32	881
Anna Kosheleva United States	17	543 1.0×	120 0.5×	131 0.7×	41 0.4×	107 1.0×	41	929
Cizao Ren United States	12	765 1.4×	129 0.6×	82 0.5×	38 0.4×	147 1.4×	17	896
Katharina M. A. Gabriel Germany	6	516 1.0×	348 1.6×	97 0.5×	305 2.8×	61 0.6×	11	815
F Laurent France	6	911 1.7×	210 1.0×	363 2.0×	220 2.0×	241 2.3×	7	1.2k
Ross Thompson United Kingdom	6	380 0.7×	113 0.5×	104 0.6×	48 0.4×	109 1.1×	10	517
Fangrong Fei China	12	390 0.7×	132 0.6×	112 0.6×	47 0.4×	87 0.8×	24	646
Wan‐Hsiang Hsu United States	10	375 0.7×	119 0.5×	86 0.5×	45 0.4×	110 1.1×	20	515

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aleš Urban

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kynčl, Jan, et al.. (2025). Influenza‐Related Deaths in the Czech Republic Over 21 Seasons. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 19(3). e70072–e70072.

Batıbeniz, Fulden, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Srinidhi Jha, et al.. (2025). Rapid climate action is needed: comparing heat vs. COVID-19-related mortality. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1002–1002.

Urban, Aleš, et al.. (2025). Thermal comfort perception among park users in Prague, Central Europe on hot summer days—A comparison of thermal indices. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0299377–e0299377. 2 indexed citations

Urban, Aleš, et al.. (2024). Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Urban Heat Island Dynamics in Prague, Czechia. Remote Sensing. 16(7). 1113–1113. 1 indexed citations

Geletič, Jan, Michal Lehnert, Jaroslav Resler, et al.. (2023). Heat exposure variations and mitigation in a densely populated neighborhood during a hot day: Towards a people-oriented approach to urban climate management. Building and Environment. 242. 110564–110564. 23 indexed citations

Urban, Aleš, et al.. (2023). Gender inequalities in heat-related mortality in the Czech Republic. International Journal of Biometeorology. 67(8). 1373–1385. 14 indexed citations

Lo, Y. T. Eunice, Dann Mitchell, Jonathan Buzan, et al.. (2023). Optimal heat stress metric for modelling heat‐related mortality varies from country to country. International Journal of Climatology. 43(12). 5553–5568. 28 indexed citations

Urban, Aleš, Osvaldo Fonseca‐Rodríguez, Claudia Di Napoli, & Eva Plavcová. (2022). Temporal changes of heat-attributable mortality in Prague, Czech Republic, over 1982–2019. Urban Climate. 44. 101197–101197. 22 indexed citations

Plavcová, Eva & Aleš Urban. (2020). Intensified impacts on mortality due to compound winter extremes in the Czech Republic. The Science of The Total Environment. 746. 141033–141033. 26 indexed citations

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Urban, Aleš, et al.. (2020). Temporal changes in years of life lost associated with heat waves in the Czech Republic. The Science of The Total Environment. 716. 137093–137093. 21 indexed citations

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Urban, Aleš, et al.. (2019). The predictability of heat-related mortality in Prague, Czech Republic, during summer 2015—a comparison of selected thermal indices. International Journal of Biometeorology. 63(4). 535–548. 22 indexed citations

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Hondula, David M., Robert C. Balling, Riley Andrade, et al.. (2017). Biometeorology for cities. International Journal of Biometeorology. 61(S1). 59–69. 28 indexed citations

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Urban, Aleš & Jan Kyselý. (2015). Application of spatial synoptic classification in evaluating links between heat stress and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in Prague, Czech Republic. International Journal of Biometeorology. 62(1). 85–96. 16 indexed citations

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Urban, Aleš, et al.. (2013). Heat- and cold-stress effects on cardiovascular mortality and morbidity among urban and rural populations in the Czech Republic. International Journal of Biometeorology. 58(6). 1057–1068. 89 indexed citations

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Kremláček, Jan, Martin Vališ, Aleš Urban, et al.. (2010). An Electrophysiological Study of Visual Processing in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 2 (SCA2). The Cerebellum. 10(1). 32–42. 13 indexed citations

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Masopust, Jiří, et al.. (2009). Case study Impulse control disorder associated with dopaminergic therapy in Parkinson’s disease - a case report. 4(3). 3–4. 1 indexed citations

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Malý, Radován, Jiří Masopust, Ladislav Hosák, & Aleš Urban. (2008). Four cases of venous thromboembolism associated with olanzapine. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 63(1). 116–118. 18 indexed citations

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Urban, Aleš, Jan Kremláček, & Jan Libiger. (2007). Mismatch Negativity in Patients with Schizophrenia. Acta Medica (Hradec Kralove Czech Republic). 50(1). 23–28. 6 indexed citations

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Masopust, Jiří, Radován Malý, Aleš Urban, Ladislav Hosák, & Eva Čermáková. (2006). Antipsychotic drugs as a risk factor for venous thromboembolism. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. 11(3). 246–249. 15 indexed citations

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Urban, Aleš, Jan Libiger, Ladislav Hosák, & Karel Kupka. (2003). Comorbidity of parkinsonism and schizophrenia in a patient treated with clozapine. European Psychiatry. 18(5). 258–259. 9 indexed citations

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