Billy Hales

555 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 400 citations indexed

About

Billy Hales is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Billy Hales has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 400 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 2 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Billy Hales's work include Flood Risk Assessment and Management (4 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (4 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 papers). Billy Hales is often cited by papers focused on Flood Risk Assessment and Management (4 papers), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (4 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (2 papers). Billy Hales collaborates with scholars based in United States. Billy Hales's co-authors include Burak Güneralp, Karen C. Seto, Elizabeth A. Wentz, Meredith Reba, İnci Güneralp, Anthony M. Filippi, Chris Houser, Douglas J. Sherman, Hongxing Liu and Jean T. Ellis and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Hydrology and Geomorphology.

In The Last Decade

Billy Hales

7 papers receiving 392 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis

2020 308 citations Burak Güneralp, Meredith Reba et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Billy Hales United States	5	252	96	87	86	66	7	400
Biswajit Mondal India	11	459 1.8×	166 1.7×	113 1.3×	128 1.5×	113 1.7×	13	621
Junwei Pu China	11	327 1.3×	126 1.3×	51 0.6×	39 0.5×	54 0.8×	33	481
Lorena Fiorini Italy	12	333 1.3×	45 0.5×	68 0.8×	97 1.1×	47 0.7×	31	455
Xi Yu China	5	435 1.7×	148 1.5×	117 1.3×	53 0.6×	129 2.0×	5	487
Gour Dolui India	8	202 0.8×	91 0.9×	49 0.6×	92 1.1×	33 0.5×	10	347
Feifei Sun China	9	215 0.9×	114 1.2×	33 0.4×	96 1.1×	154 2.3×	14	467
Kunpeng Yi China	13	515 2.0×	313 3.3×	92 1.1×	91 1.1×	108 1.6×	26	723
Yonghui Li China	12	327 1.3×	104 1.1×	173 2.0×	99 1.2×	49 0.7×	43	704
Pei Xu China	12	279 1.1×	89 0.9×	53 0.6×	42 0.5×	32 0.5×	35	509

Countries citing papers authored by Billy Hales

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Fields of papers citing papers by Billy Hales

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Billy Hales

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Billy Hales. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Billy Hales based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Billy Hales. Billy Hales is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Güneralp, İnci, et al.. (2024). Monitoring surface-water connectivity in a coastal lowland river using field-based data loggers. Journal of Hydrology. 633. 130972–130972. 1 indexed citations

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Güneralp, İnci, et al.. (2020). Scale‐Free Structure of Surface‐Water Connectivity Within a Lowland River‐Floodplain Landscape. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(16). 6 indexed citations

3.

Güneralp, Burak, Meredith Reba, Billy Hales, Elizabeth A. Wentz, & Karen C. Seto. (2020). Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4). 44015–44015. 308 indexed citations breakdown →

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Güneralp, İnci, et al.. (2018). Tree Blowdown Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on Hydrologic Surface Connectivity in a Coastal River Channel-Floodplain System. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Güneralp, İnci, Anthony M. Filippi, & Billy Hales. (2014). Influence of river channel morphology and bank characteristics on water surface boundary delineation using high‐resolution passive remote sensing and template matching. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 39(7). 977–986. 18 indexed citations

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Sherman, Douglas J., et al.. (2013). Impacts of Hurricane Ike on the beaches of the Bolivar Peninsula, TX, USA. Geomorphology. 199. 62–81. 38 indexed citations

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Güneralp, İnci, Anthony M. Filippi, & Billy Hales. (2013). River-flow boundary delineation from digital aerial photography and ancillary images using Support Vector Machines. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 50(1). 1–25. 28 indexed citations

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