Alfred Stein

17.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
476 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Alfred Stein is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfred Stein has authored 476 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Environmental Engineering, 120 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 116 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alfred Stein's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (92 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (86 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (73 papers). Alfred Stein is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (92 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (86 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (73 papers). Alfred Stein collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and United States. Alfred Stein's co-authors include G.B.M. Heuvelink, Tomislav Hengl, W. Bijker, Valentyn Tolpekin, Claudio Persello, Jan Willem van Groenigen, Norman Kerle, Frank Osei, J. Bouma and Mariana Belgiu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alfred Stein

457 papers receiving 12.2k 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 generic framework for spatial prediction of soil variables based on regression-kriging

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alfred Stein	4.3k	3.7k	2.9k	1.9k	1.8k	476	13.0k
T. M. Lillesand	2.7k 0.6×	3.6k 1.0×	4.4k 1.5×	1.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	41	10.2k
Lucian Drăguţ	2.7k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	3.6k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	46	7.8k
John R. Jensen	2.9k 0.7×	3.8k 1.0×	5.0k 1.7×	2.3k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	113	10.1k
Lalit Kumar	2.9k 0.7×	5.0k 1.3×	5.3k 1.9×	537 0.3×	1.3k 0.8×	299	13.7k
Kun Tan	1.4k 0.3×	3.6k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.5×	267	13.0k
Patrick Hostert	3.8k 0.9×	8.4k 2.3×	7.8k 2.7×	1.9k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	201	14.6k
Michael E. Schaepman	5.9k 1.4×	7.5k 2.0×	10.7k 3.8×	1.6k 0.9×	2.6k 1.5×	398	17.7k
Chenghu Zhou	3.4k 0.8×	5.4k 1.4×	1.9k 0.7×	427 0.2×	1.9k 1.1×	424	12.8k
Yaolin Liu	2.5k 0.6×	4.3k 1.2×	1.7k 0.6×	595 0.3×	1.0k 0.6×	357	11.1k
Linda See	3.7k 0.9×	4.8k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	614 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	259	10.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Alfred Stein

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alfred Stein

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Chang, Ling, et al.. (2025). Creating and leveraging SAR benchmark datasets to facilitate machine learning application. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 142. 104722–104722.

Lv, Xianwei, et al.. (2025). Deep Merge: Deep-Learning-Based Region Merging for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–20.

Persello, Claudio, et al.. (2024). Hierarchical building use classification from multiple modalities with a multi-label multimodal transformer network. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 132. 104038–104038. 5 indexed citations

Belgiu, Mariana, et al.. (2024). A source-free unsupervised domain adaptation method for cross-regional and cross-time crop mapping from satellite image time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 314. 114385–114385. 9 indexed citations

Osei, Frank, et al.. (2024). Multivariate Poisson cokriging: A geostatistical model for health count data. Statistical Methods in Medical Research. 33(9). 1637–1659.

Diniz, Cesar Guerreiro, Claudio Persello, Márcia C. Castro, et al.. (2024). Uncontrolled Illegal Mining and Garimpo in the Brazilian Amazon. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9847–9847. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Chisheng, Ling Chang, Xiangsheng Wang, Bochen Zhang, & Alfred Stein. (2024). Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Statistical Inference in Deformation Measurement and Geophysical Inversion: A review. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 12(1). 8–35. 21 indexed citations

Li, Mengmeng, Long Jiang, Alfred Stein, & Xiaoqin Wang. (2023). Using a semantic edge-aware multi-task neural network to delineate agricultural parcels from remote sensing images. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 200. 24–40. 63 indexed citations

Lv, Xianwei, Claudio Persello, Wufan Zhao, et al.. (2023). Pruning for image segmentation: Improving computational efficiency for large-scale remote sensing applications. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 202. 13–29. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Mengxiao, Yong Ge, Shan Hu, Alfred Stein, & Zhoupeng Ren. (2022). The spatial–temporal variation of poverty determinants. Spatial Statistics. 50. 100631–100631. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Na, Xiaoping Pang, Xi Zhao, et al.. (2020). PREDICTION OF THE ANTARCTIC MARGINAL ICE ZONE EXTENT BASED UPON ITS MULTIFRACTAL PROPERTY. Fractals. 29(2). 2150035–2150035. 2 indexed citations

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Stein, Alfred, et al.. (2019). The use of bivariate copulas for bias correction of reanalysis air temperature data. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0216059–e0216059. 7 indexed citations

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Stein, Alfred, et al.. (2018). High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Classification Using Associative Hierarchical CRF Considering Segmentation Quality. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 15(5). 754–758. 11 indexed citations

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Tolpekin, Valentyn, et al.. (2018). Assessment of Forest Above-Ground Biomass Estimation from PolInSAR in the Presence of Temporal Decorrelation. Remote Sensing. 10(6). 815–815. 11 indexed citations

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Tolpekin, Valentyn, et al.. (2018). Estimating Tree Heights Using Multibaseline PolInSAR Data With Compensation for Temporal Decorrelation, Case Study: AfriSAR Campaign Data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 11(10). 3464–3477. 7 indexed citations

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Stein, Alfred & Valentyn Tolpekin. (2018). Uncertainty in the modeling of spatial big data on a pattern of bushfires holes. Natural Resource Modeling. 31(3). 1 indexed citations

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Bhatia, Nitin, Valentyn Tolpekin, Alfred Stein, & I. Reusen. (2018). Estimation of AOD Under Uncertainty: An Approach for Hyperspectral Airborne Data. Remote Sensing. 10(6). 947–947. 17 indexed citations

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Mullissa, Adugna, Daniele Perissin, Valentyn Tolpekin, & Alfred Stein. (2018). Polarimetry-Based Distributed Scatterer Processing Method for PSI Applications. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 56(6). 3371–3382. 28 indexed citations

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Heijting, S., Wopke van der Werf, Willem Kruijer, & Alfred Stein. (2007). Testing the spatial significance of weed patterns in arable land using Mead’s test. Weed Research. 47(5). 396–405. 10 indexed citations

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Okx, J. P., et al.. (2000). A knowledge-based decision model for ex situ soil remediation. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 1 indexed citations

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