Christopher Small

10.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
118 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Christopher Small is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Small has authored 118 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 43 papers in Ecology and 29 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christopher Small's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (38 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (37 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (36 papers). Christopher Small is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (38 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (37 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (36 papers). Christopher Small collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bangladesh and Italy. Christopher Small's co-authors include Robert J. Nicholls, Joel E. Cohen, Christopher D. Elvidge, Christopher H. Scholz, Daniel Sousa, David T. Sandwell, Jacqueline W.T. Lu, Roberta Balstad Miller, M. S. Steckler and Deborah Balk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Small

114 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

A global analysis of human settlement in coastal zones 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2019 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. A global analysis of human settlement in coastal zones
    2003 1.1k citations Christopher Small, Robert J. Nicholls Journal of Coastal Research profile →
  2. SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities
    2019 257 citations Christopher Small 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
Christopher Small United States 41 3.3k 1.9k 1.6k 1.4k 961 118 7.3k
Yasushi Yamaguchi Japan 39 3.4k 1.0× 1.8k 0.9× 2.0k 1.3× 2.0k 1.4× 784 0.8× 159 6.8k
Riley Duren United States 35 4.9k 1.5× 1.3k 0.7× 2.1k 1.3× 3.6k 2.5× 592 0.6× 100 9.7k
Robert E. Crippen United States 18 2.5k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 1.9k 1.2× 2.3k 1.6× 110 0.1× 42 7.8k
Martin J. Wooster United Kingdom 52 6.6k 2.0× 2.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.0× 3.5k 2.4× 590 0.6× 172 9.1k
Achim Roth Germany 31 2.5k 0.8× 965 0.5× 1.9k 1.2× 2.1k 1.4× 228 0.2× 189 6.1k
Yuei‐An Liou Taiwan 38 2.6k 0.8× 881 0.5× 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.1× 334 0.3× 210 5.6k
Okke Batelaan Belgium 50 4.0k 1.2× 1.1k 0.6× 4.2k 2.6× 949 0.7× 193 0.2× 289 8.9k
LI - China 35 1.7k 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 425 0.3× 1.6k 1.1× 767 0.8× 1.2k 7.8k
J. Shimada United States 5 2.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 2.0k 1.4× 93 0.1× 15 6.4k
Qi Feng China 51 4.2k 1.3× 1.6k 0.8× 2.5k 1.6× 2.4k 1.7× 341 0.4× 406 9.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Christopher Small

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Small

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Small

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Small, Christopher & Daniel Sousa. (2024). Robust Cloud Suppression and Anomaly Detection in Time-Lapse Thermography. Remote Sensing. 16(2). 255–255. 2 indexed citations
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Small, Christopher & Daniel Sousa. (2023). Spectral Characteristics of the Dynamic World Land Cover Classification. Remote Sensing. 15(3). 575–575. 4 indexed citations
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Sousa, Daniel & Christopher Small. (2023). Which Vegetation Index? Benchmarking Multispectral Metrics to Hyperspectral Mixture Models in Diverse Cropland. Remote Sensing. 15(4). 971–971. 10 indexed citations
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Sousa, Daniel, Philip G. Brodrick, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, et al.. (2022). The Spectral Mixture Residual: A Source of Low‐Variance Information to Enhance the Explainability and Accuracy of Surface Biology and Geology Retrievals. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 127(2). 23 indexed citations
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Cohn, Nicholas, et al.. (2022). Assessing Drivers of Coastal Tundra Retreat at Point Hope, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface. 127(11). 3 indexed citations
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Sousa, Daniel & Christopher Small. (2022). Joint Characterization of Sentinel-2 Reflectance: Insights from Manifold Learning. Remote Sensing. 14(22). 5688–5688. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Congxiao, Bailang Yu, Zuoqi Chen, et al.. (2021). Evolution of Urban Spatial Clusters in China: A Graph-Based Method Using Nighttime Light Data. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 112(1). 56–77. 28 indexed citations
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Sousa, Daniel & Christopher Small. (2019). Globally standardized MODIS spectral mixture models. Remote Sensing Letters. 10(10). 1018–1027. 23 indexed citations
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Wilson, Carol A., et al.. (2015). Anthropogenic changes to the tidal channel network, sediment rerouting, and social implications in southwest Bangladesh. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. 2015. 1 indexed citations
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Small, Christopher & Joel E. Cohen. (2004). Continental Physiography, Climate, and the Global Distribution of Human Population. Current Anthropology. 45(2). 269–277. 146 indexed citations
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Small, Christopher. (2004). A global analysis of urban reflectance. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 26(4). 661–681. 149 indexed citations
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Landrigan, Philip J., Paul J. Lioy, George D. Thurston, et al.. (2004). Health and environmental consequences of the world trade center disaster.. Environmental Health Perspectives. 112(6). 731–739. 287 indexed citations
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Carbotte, S. M., Christopher Small, & K. Donnelly. (2004). The influence of ridge migration on the magmatic segmentation of mid-ocean ridges. Nature. 429(6993). 743–746. 48 indexed citations
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Small, Christopher. (2003). Exploración, afirmación y celebración. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 8–19. 3 indexed citations
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Buck, W. Roger, et al.. (2003). Constraints on Asthenospheric Flow From the Depth of Oceanic Spreading Centers. AGUFM. 2003. 2 indexed citations
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Small, Christopher & L Danyushevsky. (2003). Geophysical consequences of spreading center migration. EAEJA. 13016. 1 indexed citations
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Small, Christopher & Robert J. Nicholls. (2003). A global analysis of human settlement in coastal zones. Journal of Coastal Research. 19(3). 584–599. 1096 indexed citations breakdown →
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Small, Christopher & L Danyushevsky. (2002). A Plate Kinematic Explanation For Midocean Ridge Depth Discontinuities. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 6561. 2 indexed citations
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Small, Christopher & David T. Sandwell. (1992). A comparison of satellite and shipboard gravity measurements in the Gulf of Mexico. Geophysics. 57(7). 885–893. 18 indexed citations

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