Colin Polsky

81 total papers · 8.7k total citations
49 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Colin Polsky is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Polsky has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 13 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Colin Polsky's work include Urban Green Space and Health (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 papers). Colin Polsky is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 papers) and Climate change impacts on agriculture (10 papers). Colin Polsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Slovakia. Colin Polsky's co-authors include Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Noelle Eckley, Lindsey Christensen, James J. McCarthy, Pamela A. Matson, Robert W. Corell, B. L. Turner and Marybeth Long Martello and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Colin Polsky

49 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

A framework for vulnerabi... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
    2003 3.0k citations B. L. Turner, Roger E. Kasperson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Building comparable global change vulnerability assessments: The vulnerability scoping diagram
    2007 446 citations Colin Polsky, Rob Neff et al. Global Environmental Change profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Colin Polsky 3.0k 1.9k 1.7k 785 709 49 6.2k
Amy Luers 2.7k 0.9× 2.2k 1.1× 1.9k 1.1× 309 0.4× 524 0.7× 36 6.0k
Michael D. Mastrandrea 3.3k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 1.8k 1.1× 414 0.5× 840 1.2× 46 7.4k
Hans‐Martin Füssel 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 378 0.5× 284 0.4× 37 4.7k
Thomas J. Wilbanks 4.6k 1.6× 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 529 0.7× 838 1.2× 68 8.4k
Ian Burton 3.4k 1.1× 3.7k 1.9× 2.2k 1.3× 394 0.5× 382 0.5× 101 7.8k
Hallie Eakin 3.2k 1.1× 3.1k 1.6× 2.5k 1.5× 380 0.5× 725 1.0× 139 9.0k
Jeanne X. Kasperson 2.6k 0.9× 4.4k 2.3× 1.4k 0.8× 317 0.4× 434 0.6× 34 8.0k
Saleemul Huq 3.1k 1.1× 3.1k 1.6× 2.6k 1.6× 415 0.5× 536 0.8× 123 7.5k
Noelle Eckley 3.3k 1.1× 2.2k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 370 0.5× 591 0.8× 13 6.5k
Joern Birkmann 4.4k 1.5× 3.7k 1.9× 1.6k 1.0× 513 0.7× 520 0.7× 140 8.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Polsky

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Polsky

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Colin Polsky. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Colin Polsky. The network helps show where Colin Polsky may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Polsky

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

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