Ashraf Dewan

11.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
159 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Ashraf Dewan is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ashraf Dewan has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Atmospheric Science and 35 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ashraf Dewan's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (41 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (31 papers) and Climate variability and models (28 papers). Ashraf Dewan is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (41 papers), Hydrology and Drought Analysis (31 papers) and Climate variability and models (28 papers). Ashraf Dewan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Bangladesh and United Kingdom. Ashraf Dewan's co-authors include Yasushi Yamaguchi, Quazi K. Hassan, Robert J. Corner, Mohammed Sarfaraz Gani Adnan, Shamsuddin Shahid, Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Md Asaduzzaman, Md Monirul Islam, Hamere Yohannes and Mekuria Argaw and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ashraf Dewan

157 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

Land use and land cover change in Greater Dhaka, Banglade... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2020 2019 2021 2021 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Land use and land cover change in Greater Dhaka, Bangladesh: Using remote sensing to promote sustainable urbanization
    2009 835 citations Ashraf Dewan et al. profile →
  2. Low impact development techniques to mitigate the impacts of climate-change-induced urban floods: Current trends, issues and challenges
    2020 292 citations Ashraf Dewan et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →
  3. Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Land Use/Land Cover Change in the Heterogeneous Coastal Region of Bangladesh between 1990 and 2017
    2019 227 citations Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Arif Masrur et al. Remote Sensing profile →
  4. Surface urban heat island intensity in five major cities of Bangladesh: Patterns, drivers and trends
    2021 181 citations Ashraf Dewan, Quazi K. Hassan et al. Sustainable Cities and Society profile →
  5. Impact of landscape pattern changes on hydrological ecosystem services in the Beressa watershed of the Blue Nile Basin in Ethiopia
    2021 166 citations Ashraf Dewan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ashraf Dewan Australia 47 5.5k 2.1k 1.8k 1.3k 1.2k 159 8.0k
Linda See Austria 57 4.8k 0.9× 3.7k 1.8× 1.4k 0.8× 2.5k 1.9× 1.7k 1.4× 259 10.9k
Xuecao Li China 51 6.6k 1.2× 3.4k 1.6× 2.0k 1.1× 2.9k 2.2× 423 0.4× 177 9.9k
Robert Gilmore Pontius United States 42 6.3k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 3.0k 2.4× 766 0.6× 104 8.5k
Jay Gao New Zealand 37 3.0k 0.6× 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 2.4k 1.8× 639 0.5× 141 6.8k
George Christakos United States 45 2.3k 0.4× 2.9k 1.4× 1.1k 0.6× 998 0.8× 865 0.7× 209 8.5k
Jiyuan Liu China 41 7.1k 1.3× 1.7k 0.8× 2.6k 1.5× 4.0k 3.1× 929 0.8× 201 10.2k
Dafang Zhuang China 37 3.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 1.5k 0.8× 2.5k 2.0× 538 0.5× 151 7.1k
George Xian United States 30 4.8k 0.9× 2.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.9× 4.1k 3.2× 1.4k 1.2× 78 9.1k
Simon Ilyushchenko United States 5 5.1k 0.9× 2.6k 1.2× 1.9k 1.1× 4.6k 3.6× 991 0.8× 6 9.7k
Mike Dixon United States 8 5.0k 0.9× 2.5k 1.2× 2.1k 1.2× 4.4k 3.4× 1.0k 0.9× 10 9.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ashraf Dewan

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dewan, Ashraf, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal analysis of land surface temperature and wind dynamics during winter in Bangladesh. Results in Engineering. 27. 106498–106498. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Jiping, Xufeng Wang, Yongze Song, et al.. (2024). Assessing the stability of terrestrial water storage to drought based on CMIP6 forcing scenarios. Journal of Hydrology. 645. 132232–132232. 2 indexed citations
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Dewan, Ashraf, Zecheng Guo, Xiaoyan Cao, et al.. (2024). Ecological influence of oasisation on peripheral regions. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 132. 104004–104004. 5 indexed citations
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Dewan, Ashraf, et al.. (2024). Combining Local Knowledge with Object-Based Machine Learning Techniques for Extracting Informal Settlements from Very High-Resolution Satellite Data. Earth Systems and Environment. 8(2). 281–296. 2 indexed citations
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Yi, Jiawei, Yunyan Du, Sheng Huang, et al.. (2024). Identifying publicly perceived high temperature thresholds across Chinese cities using geotagged social media data. Sustainable Cities and Society. 119. 106115–106115. 2 indexed citations
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Newnham, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2024). Climate hazards and psychological health among coastal communities in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence. Health Psychology Review. 19(3). 494–512. 5 indexed citations
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Ahmed, M. Razu, Ebrahim Ghaderpour, Anil Gupta, Ashraf Dewan, & Quazi K. Hassan. (2023). Opportunities and Challenges of Spaceborne Sensors in Delineating Land Surface Temperature Trends: A Review. IEEE Sensors Journal. 23(7). 6460–6472. 31 indexed citations
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Habumugisha, Jules Maurice, Ningsheng Chen, Mahfuzur Rahman, et al.. (2022). Landslide Susceptibility Mapping with Deep Learning Algorithms. Sustainability. 14(3). 1734–1734. 90 indexed citations
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Xia, Jianhong, et al.. (2021). Children’s outdoor active mobility behaviour and neighbourhood safety: a systematic review in measurement methods and future research directions. International Journal of Health Geographics. 20(1). 2–2. 14 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Hilal, Chen Ningsheng, Mahfuzur Rahman, et al.. (2021). Geohazards Susceptibility Assessment along the Upper Indus Basin Using Four Machine Learning and Statistical Models. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 10(5). 315–315. 32 indexed citations
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Hassan, Quazi K., et al.. (2021). Remote Sensing of Local Warming Trend in Alberta, Canada during 2001–2020, and Its Relationship with Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulations. Remote Sensing. 13(17). 3441–3441. 31 indexed citations
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Ishtiaque, Asif, et al.. (2020). Remote Sensing-Based Research for Monitoring Progress towards SDG 15 in Bangladesh: A Review. Remote Sensing. 12(4). 691–691. 45 indexed citations
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Abdullah, Abu Yousuf Md, et al.. (2020). Extreme temperature and rainfall events in Bangladesh: A comparison between coastal and inland areas. International Journal of Climatology. 42(6). 3253–3273. 52 indexed citations
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Hassan, Quazi K., Khan Rubayet Rahaman, Kazi Z. Sumon, & Ashraf Dewan. (2019). Lessons Learned from the Development of Open Educational Resources at Post-Secondary Level in the Field of Environmental Modelling: An Exploratory Study. Education Sciences. 9(2). 103–103. 4 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Atique Iqbal, Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah, Sk Masum Billah, et al.. (2019). Analyzing spatial and space-time clustering of facility-based deliveries in Bangladesh. Tropical Medicine and Health. 47(1). 8 indexed citations
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Dewan, Ashraf & Robert J. Corner. (2012). The impact of land use and land cover changes on land surface temperature in a rapidly urbanizing megacity. eSpace (Curtin University). 6337–6339. 39 indexed citations
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Dewan, Ashraf, et al.. (2005). Remote Sensing of 1998 and 2000 Floods in Greater Dhaka, Bangladesh: Experiences from Catastrophic and Normal events. Okayama University Scientific Achievement Repository (Okayama University). 10(1). 57–65. 2 indexed citations

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