Alexis Comber

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
148 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Alexis Comber is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Geography, Planning and Development and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexis Comber has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 34 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 33 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Alexis Comber's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (57 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (34 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (22 papers). Alexis Comber is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (57 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (34 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (22 papers). Alexis Comber collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Ireland. Alexis Comber's co-authors include Chris Brunsdon, Peter Fisher, Alistair Lamb, Paul Harris, Richard Wadsworth, Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü, Andrew Tewkesbury, Nicholas Tate and Sybrand van Beijma and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alexis Comber

144 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A critical synthesis of remotely sensed optical image change detection techniques

2015 395 citations Alexis Comber et al. profile →
Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information

2016 302 citations Linda See, Peter Mooney et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexis Comber United Kingdom	38	2.3k	1.4k	1.0k	783	683	148	5.4k
Qingfeng Guan China	34	2.6k 1.1×	859 0.6×	639 0.6×	864 1.1×	741 1.1×	185	5.3k
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani Denmark	32	2.1k 0.9×	663 0.5×	551 0.5×	621 0.8×	383 0.6×	85	3.3k
Xiao Huang United States	39	1.5k 0.6×	727 0.5×	803 0.8×	692 0.9×	389 0.6×	289	4.9k
Anthony Gar‐On Yeh Hong Kong	37	3.6k 1.6×	755 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	555 0.7×	501 0.7×	92	6.2k
Martino Pesaresi Italy	41	2.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	632 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	366 0.5×	141	6.2k
Hannes Taubenböck Germany	46	4.5k 2.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	1.8k 2.3×	875 1.3×	314	7.8k
Gilberto Câmara Brazil	34	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	349 0.3×	645 0.8×	131 0.2×	146	4.9k
Philippe De Maeyer Belgium	47	4.2k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	278 0.4×	409	9.3k
Tao Pei China	40	2.3k 1.0×	631 0.5×	1.9k 1.8×	1.2k 1.6×	701 1.0×	236	6.5k
Weidong Li United States	37	1.7k 0.7×	585 0.4×	405 0.4×	1.7k 2.2×	1.1k 1.5×	179	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexis Comber

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Carrivick, Jonathan L., et al.. (2025). Land cover change across the major proglacial regions of the sub-Antarctic islands, Antarctic Peninsula, and McMurdo Dry Valleys, during the 21 ^st century. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 57(1). 2483474–2483474. 1 indexed citations

Tong, Yongping, Yunqiang Wang, Zimin Li, et al.. (2025). Deciphering spatial pattern and environmental drivers of deep soil moisture security: insights from integrating spatial non-stationarity in large-scale analysis. CATENA. 261. 109516–109516.

Ge, Jiaqi, et al.. (2025). Modelling emergent pedestrian evacuation behaviors from intelligent, game-playing agents. Journal of Computational Social Science. 8(2).

Galdos, Marcelo Valadares, et al.. (2024). Potential for low-emissions oil palm production in Indonesia: insights from spatiotemporal dynamics. Environmental Research Letters. 19(5). 54045–54045. 3 indexed citations

Comber, Alexis, et al.. (2023). Identifying Neighbourhood Change Using a Data Primitive Approach: the Example of Gentrification. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 16(2). 897–921. 4 indexed citations

Comber, Alexis, et al.. (2023). Predicting Gentrification in England: A Data Primitive Approach. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(2). 64–64. 3 indexed citations

Comber, Alexis & Narumasa Tsutsumida. (2023). Geographically weighted accuracy for hard and soft land cover classifications: 5 approaches with coded illustrations. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 44(19). 6233–6257. 2 indexed citations

Malleson, Nick, et al.. (2023). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the dynamics of topics in urban green space. 4. 1–7. 1 indexed citations

Ge, Jiaqi, et al.. (2023). A pedestrian ABM in complex evacuation environments based on Bayesian Nash Equilibrium. 4. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Comber, Alexis, Chris Brunsdon, Martin Charlton, et al.. (2022). A Route Map for Successful Applications of Geographically Weighted Regression. Geographical Analysis. 55(1). 155–178. 103 indexed citations

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Song, Yi, Yunqiang Wang, Long Jin, et al.. (2022). Quantitative contribution of the Grain for Green Program to vegetation greening and its spatiotemporal variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau. Land Degradation and Development. 33(11). 1878–1891. 24 indexed citations

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Lu, Binbin, Daisuke Murakami, Chris Brunsdon, et al.. (2022). High-performance solutions of geographically weighted regression in R. Geo-spatial Information Science. 25(4). 536–549. 23 indexed citations

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Fu, Yongyong, Jinsong Deng, Hongquan Wang, et al.. (2021). A new satellite-derived dataset for marine aquaculture areas in China's coastal region. Earth system science data. 13(5). 1829–1842. 49 indexed citations

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Li, Zhan, Joanne C. White, Michael A. Wulder, et al.. (2020). Land cover harmonization using Latent Dirichlet Allocation. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 35(2). 348–374. 16 indexed citations

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Ye, Ziran, Yongyong Fu, Muye Gan, et al.. (2019). Building Extraction from Very High Resolution Aerial Imagery Using Joint Attention Deep Neural Network. Remote Sensing. 11(24). 2970–2970. 56 indexed citations

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Harris, Paul, Chris Brunsdon, Alexis Comber, et al.. (2016). Modelling, interpreting and visualizing uncertainties for the North Wyke Farm Platform baseline field surveys. MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). 1 indexed citations

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Comber, Alexis, Peter Mooney, Ross S. Purves, Duccio Rocchini, & Ariane Walz. (2016). Crowdsourcing: It Matters Who the Crowd Are. The Impacts of between Group Variations in Recording Land Cover. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158329–e0158329. 30 indexed citations

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Brunsdon, Chris & Alexis Comber. (2015). An introduction to R for spatial analysis & mapping. Sage eBooks. 11 indexed citations

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Foody, Giles M., Linda See, Steffen Fritz, et al.. (2014). Accurate Attribute Mapping from Volunteered Geographic Information: Issues of Volunteer Quantity and Quality. The Cartographic Journal. 52(4). 336–344. 20 indexed citations

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Comber, Alexis, et al.. (2006). Identifying crop vulnerability to groundwater abstraction: Modelling and expert knowledge in a GIS. Journal of Environmental Management. 81(3). 296–306. 3 indexed citations

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