Catherine Linard

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
100 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Catherine Linard is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine Linard has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 29 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 24 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Catherine Linard's work include Impact of Light on Environment and Health (24 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (20 papers). Catherine Linard is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Light on Environment and Health (24 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (22 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (20 papers). Catherine Linard collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United Kingdom and United States. Catherine Linard's co-authors include Andrew J. Tatem, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forrest R. Stevens, Marius Gilbert, Robert W. Snow, Abdisalan M. Noor, Éric F. Lambin, Sophie Vanwambeke, Pierre Deville and Vincent D. Blondel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Catherine Linard

96 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Disaggregating Census Data for Population Mapping Using Random Forests with Remotely-Sensed and Ancillary Data

2015 734 citations Forrest R. Stevens, Andrea E. Gaughan et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Dynamic population mapping using mobile phone data

2014 642 citations Catherine Linard, Marius Gilbert et al. profile →
Population Distribution, Settlement Patterns and Accessibility across Africa in 2010

2012 453 citations Catherine Linard, Marius Gilbert et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Geographical random forests: a spatial extension of the random forest algorithm to address spatial heterogeneity in remote sensing and population modelling

2019 303 citations Stefanos Georganos, Taïs Grippa et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Catherine Linard Belgium	35	2.3k	1.6k	822	659	503	100	5.3k
Isabelle Thomas Belgium	47	1.1k 0.5×	2.4k 1.5×	495 0.6×	802 1.2×	779 1.5×	274	6.6k
Mingshu Wang China	37	867 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	450 0.5×	839 1.3×	753 1.5×	307	5.7k
Tomoki Nakaya Japan	37	688 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	576 0.7×	220 0.3×	320 0.6×	244	5.1k
Yimeng Song China	30	1.6k 0.7×	993 0.6×	236 0.3×	1.2k 1.8×	471 0.9×	66	5.9k
Trevor Bailey United Kingdom	25	748 0.3×	368 0.2×	649 0.8×	315 0.5×	644 1.3×	73	5.1k
Hadi Dowlatabadi Canada	36	1.9k 0.8×	317 0.2×	450 0.5×	398 0.6×	304 0.6×	117	7.4k
Deborah Balk United States	29	2.5k 1.1×	660 0.4×	2.9k 3.5×	2.4k 3.7×	578 1.1×	79	11.0k
Eric Delmelle United States	29	459 0.2×	733 0.5×	647 0.8×	278 0.4×	612 1.2×	89	3.4k
Andrew Cliff United Kingdom	30	941 0.4×	480 0.3×	513 0.6×	290 0.4×	707 1.4×	116	6.5k
Roger Bivand Norway	29	2.7k 1.2×	463 0.3×	396 0.5×	255 0.4×	416 0.8×	84	11.3k

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Snow, Robert W., et al.. (2025). Methods for modelling composite indices of access to healthcare facilities: a systematic literature review. Population Health Metrics. 23(1). 73–73.

Linard, Catherine, et al.. (2024). Addressing bias in national population density models: Focusing on rural Senegal. PLoS ONE. 19(11). e0310809–e0310809. 1 indexed citations

Janssens, Raphaël, Bavo Verhaegen, Peter Delputte, et al.. (2023). Time series modelling for wastewater-based epidemiology of COVID-19: A nationwide study in 40 wastewater treatment plants of Belgium, February 2021 to June 2022. The Science of The Total Environment. 899. 165603–165603. 13 indexed citations

Georganos, Stefanos, Oscar Brousse, Nicole Van Lipzig, et al.. (2023). Spatial Optimization Methods for Malaria Risk Mapping in Sub‐Saharan African Cities Using Demographic and Health Surveys. GeoHealth. 7(10). e2023GH000787–e2023GH000787. 4 indexed citations

Janssens, Raphaël, Sofieke Klamer, Bavo Verhaegen, et al.. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance in Belgian Wastewaters. Viruses. 14(9). 1950–1950. 10 indexed citations

Georganos, Stefanos, Sebastian Häfner, Monika Kuffer, Catherine Linard, & Yifang Ban. (2022). A census from heaven: Unraveling the potential of deep learning and Earth Observation for intra-urban population mapping in data scarce environments. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 114. 103013–103013. 17 indexed citations

Georganos, Stefanos, Oscar Brousse, Jonas Van de Walle, et al.. (2022). The Multi-Satellite Environmental and Socioeconomic Predictors of Vector-Borne Diseases in African Cities: Malaria as an Example. Remote Sensing. 14(21). 5381–5381. 4 indexed citations

Gadiaga, Assane, Florence De Longueville, Taïs Grippa, et al.. (2021). Neighbourhood-level housing quality indices for health assessment in Dakar, Senegal. Geospatial health. 16(1). 3 indexed citations

Brousse, Oscar, Stefanos Georganos, Matthias Demuzere, et al.. (2020). Can we use local climate zones for predicting malaria prevalence across sub-Saharan African cities?. Environmental Research Letters. 15(12). 124051–124051. 21 indexed citations

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Thomson, Dana R., Monika Kuffer, Gianluca Boo, et al.. (2020). Need for an Integrated Deprived Area “Slum” Mapping System (IDEAMAPS) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Social Sciences. 9(5). 80–80. 46 indexed citations

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Vanwambeke, Sophie, Catherine Linard, Marius Gilbert, & Simon Dellicour. (2020). SARS-CoV-2 emergence and diffusion: a new disease manifesting human–environment interactions and a global geography of health. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 46. 43–45. 2 indexed citations

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Brousse, Oscar, Stefanos Georganos, Matthias Demuzere, et al.. (2018). Using Local Climate Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa to tackle urban health issues. Urban Climate. 27. 227–242. 75 indexed citations

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Kabaria, Caroline, Marius Gilbert, Abdisalan M. Noor, Robert W. Snow, & Catherine Linard. (2017). The impact of urbanization and population density on childhood Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence rates in Africa. Malaria Journal. 16(1). 49–49. 63 indexed citations

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Dhingra, Madhur, Jean Artois, Timothy P. Robinson, et al.. (2016). Global mapping of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 and H5Nx clade 2.3.4.4 viruses with spatial cross-validation. eLife. 5. 42 indexed citations

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Erbach-Schoenberg, Elisabeth zu, Victor A. Alegana, Alessandro Sorichetta, et al.. (2016). Dynamic denominators: the impact of seasonally varying population numbers on disease incidence estimates. Population Health Metrics. 14(1). 35–35. 34 indexed citations

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Sorichetta, Alessandro, Graeme Hornby, Forrest R. Stevens, et al.. (2015). High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010, 2015, and 2020. Scientific Data. 2(1). 150045–150045. 173 indexed citations

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Nghiem, S. V., Marco Masetti, Stefania Stevenazzi, et al.. (2014). Interdisciplinary Study of Urbanization and Impacts – the Poplex 2014 Field Campaign. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Linard, Catherine, Andrew J. Tatem, & Marius Gilbert. (2013). Modelling spatial patterns of urban growth in Africa. Applied Geography. 44. 23–32. 153 indexed citations

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Snow, Robert W., Victor A. Alegana, Emelda A. Okiro, et al.. (2010). Estimating the Plasmodium falciparum morbidity and mortality burden 2005 and 2009 in Somalia: Combining models of population distribution, time-space changes in malaria infection risk and the epidemiology of malaria disease burden. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 40(1-2). 3–18. 2 indexed citations

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Linard, Catherine, Katrien Tersago, Herwig Leirs, & Éric F. Lambin. (2007). Environmental conditions and Puumala virus transmission in Belgium. International Journal of Health Geographics. 6(1). 55–55. 66 indexed citations

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