Christa Brelsford

1.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 778 citations indexed

About

Christa Brelsford is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christa Brelsford has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 778 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Transportation and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christa Brelsford's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (6 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (5 papers). Christa Brelsford is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (6 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (5 papers). Christa Brelsford collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Christa Brelsford's co-authors include Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Karen C. Seto, Bhartendu Pandey, Xin Lü, José Lobo, Joshua K. Abbott, Jim Yoon, Casey Burleyson, Erwan Monier and David Gold and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christa Brelsford

29 papers receiving 756 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.

Infrastructure inequality is a characteristic of urbanization

2022 112 citations Bhartendu Pandey, Christa Brelsford et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Rising infrastructure inequalities accompany urbanization and economic development

2025 14 citations Bhartendu Pandey, Christa Brelsford et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christa Brelsford United States	13	284	165	133	114	108	29	778
Paolo Avner United States	10	310 1.1×	185 1.1×	128 1.0×	129 1.1×	85 0.8×	32	743
Hsueh‐Sheng Chang Taiwan	11	221 0.8×	147 0.9×	86 0.6×	57 0.5×	67 0.6×	42	484
Małgorzata Świąder Poland	16	292 1.0×	92 0.6×	80 0.6×	83 0.7×	184 1.7×	38	804
Scott N. Lieske Australia	13	279 1.0×	186 1.1×	116 0.9×	127 1.1×	37 0.3×	51	788
Florent Joerin Canada	14	279 1.0×	90 0.5×	121 0.9×	65 0.6×	116 1.1×	42	926
Koichiro Mori Japan	7	216 0.8×	118 0.7×	85 0.6×	133 1.2×	134 1.2×	18	825
Zhang Zuo China	17	447 1.6×	234 1.4×	61 0.5×	246 2.2×	150 1.4×	77	1.1k
Walter Musakwa South Africa	17	401 1.4×	173 1.0×	132 1.0×	75 0.7×	94 0.9×	75	961
Aromar Revi United Kingdom	14	508 1.8×	104 0.6×	329 2.5×	131 1.1×	105 1.0×	42	1.1k
Yishao Shi China	16	514 1.8×	204 1.2×	69 0.5×	132 1.2×	94 0.9×	68	925

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christa Brelsford

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christa Brelsford. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christa Brelsford 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 Christa Brelsford. Christa Brelsford is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pandey, Bhartendu, Christa Brelsford, & Karen C. Seto. (2025). Rising infrastructure inequalities accompany urbanization and economic development. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1193–1193. 14 indexed citations breakdown →

Allen‐Dumas, Melissa, et al.. (2024). Sensitivity of mesoscale modeling to urban morphological feature inputs and implications for characterizing urban sustainability. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 2 indexed citations

Mach, Katharine J., Kripa Jagannathan, Linda Shi, et al.. (2024). Research to Confront Climate Change Complexity: Intersectionality, Integration, and Innovative Governance. Earth s Future. 12(6). 1–17. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Yaoping, Jiafu Mao, Christa Brelsford, et al.. (2024). Thermal, water, and land cover factors led to contrasting urban and rural vegetation resilience to extreme hot months. PNAS Nexus. 3(4). pgae147–pgae147. 2 indexed citations

Brelsford, Christa, Andrew D. Jones, Bhartendu Pandey, et al.. (2024). Cities Are Concentrators of Complex, MultiSectoral Interactions Within the Human‐Earth System. Earth s Future. 12(11). 4 indexed citations

Brelsford, Christa, et al.. (2024). A Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Travel Time Gap and Inequality between Public Transportation and Personal Vehicles. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 554–564. 1 indexed citations

Schlüter‬, Maja, Christa Brelsford, Paul J. Ferraro, et al.. (2023). Unraveling complex causal processes that affect sustainability requires more integration between empirical and modeling approaches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(41). e2215676120–e2215676120. 26 indexed citations

Reed, Patrick M., Antonia Hadjimichael, Richard H. Moss, et al.. (2022). Multisector Dynamics: Advancing the Science of Complex Adaptive Human‐Earth Systems. Earth s Future. 10(3). 77 indexed citations

Pandey, Bhartendu, Christa Brelsford, & Karen C. Seto. (2022). Infrastructure inequality is a characteristic of urbanization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(15). e2119890119–e2119890119. 112 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brelsford, Christa, et al.. (2022). Spatial and Temporal Characterization of Activity in Public Space, 2019–2020. Scientific Data. 9(1). 379–379. 18 indexed citations

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Pearsall, Hamil, Víctor Hugo Gutiérrez-Vélez, Melissa R. Gilbert, et al.. (2021). Advancing equitable health and well-being across urban–rural sustainable infrastructure systems. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(1). 33 indexed citations

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Brelsford, Christa, et al.. (2020). Urban Scaling as Validation for Predictions of Imperviousness From Population. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(23). 6 indexed citations

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Zipper, Samuel C., Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Jillian M. Deines, et al.. (2019). Balancing Open Science and Data Privacy in the Water Sciences. Water Resources Research. 55(7). 5202–5211. 52 indexed citations

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Bacco, Caterina De, Christopher P. Kempes, Eric Libby, et al.. (2019). Dynamics of beneficial epidemics. CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder). 8 indexed citations

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Brelsford, Christa, et al.. (2018). Toward cities without slums: Topology and the spatial evolution of neighborhoods. Science Advances. 4(8). eaar4644–eaar4644. 70 indexed citations

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Brelsford, Christa, et al.. (2017). Optimal reblocking as a practical tool for neighborhood development. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 46(2). 303–321. 18 indexed citations

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Brelsford, Christa & Joshua K. Abbott. (2016). Growing into Water Conservation? Decomposing the Drivers of Reduced Water Consumption in Las Vegas, NV. Ecological Economics. 133. 99–110. 42 indexed citations

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Bettencourt, Luís M. A. & Christa Brelsford. (2015). Industrial Ecology: The View From Complex Systems. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19(2). 195–197. 9 indexed citations

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Brelsford, Christa, et al.. (2014). Using mixture-tuned match filtering to measure changes in subpixel vegetation area in Las Vegas, Nevada. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 8(1). 83660–83660. 8 indexed citations

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Lü, Xin & Christa Brelsford. (2014). Network Structure and Community Evolution on Twitter: Human Behavior Change in Response to the 2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 6773–6773. 77 indexed citations

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