Christopher D. Elvidge

27.9k total citations · 13 hit papers
201 papers, 21.3k citations indexed

About

Christopher D. Elvidge is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher D. Elvidge has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 21.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 48 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher D. Elvidge's work include Impact of Light on Environment and Health (132 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (34 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers). Christopher D. Elvidge is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Light on Environment and Health (132 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (34 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (29 papers). Christopher D. Elvidge collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Italy. Christopher D. Elvidge's co-authors include Kimberly Baugh, Tilottama Ghosh, Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng-Chi Hsu, Paul C. Sutton, Benjamin T. Tuttle, H. W. Kroehl, P. Cinzano, Fabio Falchi and Ethan Davis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Christopher D. Elvidge

197 papers receiving 20.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher D. Elvidge United States 65 16.5k 5.0k 4.5k 4.2k 2.7k 201 21.3k
Karen C. Seto United States 73 16.1k 1.0× 4.8k 0.9× 6.4k 1.4× 2.8k 0.7× 5.6k 2.1× 152 26.1k
Yuyu Zhou United States 64 8.8k 0.5× 2.6k 0.5× 7.0k 1.6× 1.4k 0.3× 3.7k 1.4× 272 15.3k
Kimberly Baugh United States 38 8.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.4× 1.8k 0.4× 2.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.5× 62 10.1k
Chenghu Zhou China 58 5.4k 0.3× 1.9k 0.4× 3.4k 0.8× 1.6k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 424 12.8k
Chunyang He China 56 8.6k 0.5× 2.3k 0.5× 2.7k 0.6× 1.3k 0.3× 2.7k 1.0× 191 12.5k
Qihao Weng China 81 13.9k 0.8× 5.5k 1.1× 13.4k 3.0× 783 0.2× 6.2k 2.3× 448 26.4k
Peng Gong China 91 15.0k 0.9× 12.9k 2.6× 10.5k 2.3× 1.1k 0.3× 3.6k 1.3× 597 31.2k
Yaolin Liu China 61 4.3k 0.3× 1.7k 0.3× 2.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 357 11.1k
Peijun Shi China 69 10.2k 0.6× 3.4k 0.7× 2.5k 0.6× 654 0.2× 1.3k 0.5× 455 16.9k
Martin Herold Netherlands 76 15.0k 0.9× 11.0k 2.2× 7.7k 1.7× 350 0.1× 919 0.3× 364 24.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher D. Elvidge

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhizhin, Mikhail, et al.. (2026). VIIRS Nightfire Super-Resolution Method for Multiyear Cataloging of Natural Gas Flaring Sites: 2012-2025. Remote Sensing. 18(2). 314–314.
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Elvidge, Christopher D., et al.. (2025). A comprehensive global mapping of offshore lighting. Earth system science data. 17(2). 579–594.
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McCallum, Ian, Christopher C. M. Kyba, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, et al.. (2022). Estimating global economic well-being with unlit settlements. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2459–2459. 46 indexed citations
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Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Tilottama Ghosh, Feng-Chi Hsu, & Jay Taneja. (2021). Annual Time Series of Global VIIRS Nighttime Lights Derived from Monthly Averages: 2012 to 2019. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 922–922. 376 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhizhin, Mikhail, et al.. (2021). Measuring Gas Flaring in Russia with Multispectral VIIRS Nightfire. Remote Sensing. 13(16). 3078–3078. 20 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Tilottama, et al.. (2021). Extending the DMSP Nighttime Lights Time Series beyond 2013. Remote Sensing. 13(24). 5004–5004. 35 indexed citations
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Zhizhin, Mikhail, et al.. (2021). Cross-Sensor Nighttime Lights Image Calibration for DMSP/OLS and SNPP/VIIRS with Residual U-Net. Remote Sensing. 13(24). 5026–5026. 32 indexed citations
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Elvidge, Christopher D., et al.. (2021). Subpixel Analysis of Primary and Secondary Infrared Emitters with Nighttime VIIRS Data. Fire. 4(4). 83–83. 5 indexed citations
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Hsu, Feng-Chi, Mikhail Zhizhin, Tilottama Ghosh, Christopher D. Elvidge, & Jay Taneja. (2021). The Annual Cycling of Nighttime Lights in India. Remote Sensing. 13(6). 1199–1199. 12 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Tilottama, Christopher D. Elvidge, Feng-Chi Hsu, Mikhail Zhizhin, & Morgan Bazilian. (2020). The Dimming of Lights in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Remote Sensing. 12(20). 3289–3289. 30 indexed citations
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Dix, Barbara, Tim Vlemmix, Alan M. Gorchov Negron, et al.. (2019). Nitrogen Oxide Emissions from U.S. Oil and Gas Production: Recent Trends and Source Attribution. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(1). 38 indexed citations
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Zhizhin, Mikhail & Christopher D. Elvidge. (2018). Ground-truth calibration of VIIRS Nightfire detector for gas flares. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations
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Hsu, Feng-Chi, Kimberly Baugh, Christopher D. Elvidge, & Mikhail Zhizhin. (2013). VIIRS Nighttime Lights: Advances in Satellite Low-Light Imaging. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 2 indexed citations
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Elvidge, Christopher D., Paul C. Sutton, K. Baugh, et al.. (2011). National Trends in Satellite Observed Lighting: 1992-2009. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 20 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Tilottama, Rebecca Powell, Christopher D. Elvidge, et al.. (2010). Shedding Light on the Global Distribution of Economic Activity. 3(1). 184 indexed citations
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Aubrecht, Christoph, Christopher D. Elvidge, Daniel Ziskin, et al.. (2009). Observing power blackouts from space - A disaster related study. EGUGA. 7266. 6 indexed citations
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Aubrecht, Christoph, Christopher D. Elvidge, Travis Longcore, et al.. (2008). A global inventory of coral reef stressors based on satellite observed nighttime lights. Geocarto International. 23(6). 467–479. 44 indexed citations
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Maxwell, Michael R., Christopher D. Elvidge, V. R. Hobson, et al.. (2004). Fishery dynamics of the California market squid (Loligo opalescens), as measured by satellite remote sensing. Fishery Bulletin. 102(4). 1–70. 101 indexed citations
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Cinzano, P., Fabio Falchi, Christopher D. Elvidge, & Kimberly Baugh. (2000). Mapping the artificial sky brightness in Europe from DMSP satellite measurements : the situation of the night sky in Italy in the last quarter of century. CERN Bulletin. 71. 1149. 2 indexed citations
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Hook, Simon J., Christopher D. Elvidge, M. Rast, & Hiroshi Watanabe. (1991). An evaluation of short-wave-infrared (SWIR) data from the AVIRIS and GEOSCAN instruments for mineralogical mapping at Cuprite, Nevada. Geophysics. 56(9). 1432–1440. 18 indexed citations

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