Dan Savastru

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
124 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Dan Savastru is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Savastru has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 20 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dan Savastru's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (21 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (17 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (17 papers). Dan Savastru is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (21 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (17 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (17 papers). Dan Savastru collaborates with scholars based in Romania, United States and France. Dan Savastru's co-authors include Roxana Savastru, Maria A. Zoran, Marina N. Tautan, Mihaela Antonina Călin, Dragoș Manea, Sorin Viorel Parasca, Elfrida M. Cârstea, Radu Malureanu, Andrei V. Lavrinenko and Maksim Zalkovskij and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied Surface Science.

In The Last Decade

Dan Savastru

111 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

  1. Assessing the relationship between surface levels of PM2.5 and PM10 particulate matter impact on COVID-19 in Milan, Italy
    2020 378 citations Maria A. Zoran, Roxana Savastru et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dan Savastru Romania 17 555 502 222 203 199 124 1.5k
Roxana Savastru Romania 14 542 1.0× 494 1.0× 222 1.0× 77 0.4× 195 1.0× 81 1.2k
Francesco Tampieri Italy 24 437 0.8× 265 0.5× 116 0.5× 320 1.6× 453 2.3× 125 2.0k
Vladimir Ždı́mal Czechia 29 420 0.8× 1.6k 3.1× 305 1.4× 131 0.6× 641 3.2× 114 3.3k
A. Piazzalunga Italy 37 652 1.2× 1.8k 3.7× 62 0.3× 85 0.4× 645 3.2× 73 3.5k
El Mahjoub Chakir Morocco 12 291 0.5× 247 0.5× 38 0.2× 22 0.1× 125 0.6× 116 779
Yannis Drossinos Italy 24 107 0.2× 564 1.1× 156 0.7× 471 2.3× 318 1.6× 77 2.0k
Joshua L. Santarpia United States 20 232 0.4× 353 0.7× 235 1.1× 57 0.3× 138 0.7× 68 1.4k
David Katoshevski Israel 17 212 0.4× 445 0.9× 542 2.4× 260 1.3× 309 1.6× 86 3.1k
Daniele Contini Italy 42 970 1.7× 2.6k 5.2× 214 1.0× 63 0.3× 1.9k 9.6× 136 4.9k
Nan Ma China 35 2.2k 4.0× 2.1k 4.2× 73 0.3× 57 0.3× 703 3.5× 165 4.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Savastru

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Savastru

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

All Works

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Zoran, Maria A., et al.. (2024). Urban Air Pollution Exposure Impact on COVID-19 Transmission in a Few Metropolitan Regions. Sustainability. 16(14). 6119–6119. 1 indexed citations
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Zoran, Maria A., Roxana Savastru, Dan Savastru, & Marina N. Tautan. (2023). Peculiar weather patterns effects on air pollution and COVID-19 spread in Tokyo metropolis. Environmental Research. 228. 115907–115907. 11 indexed citations
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Zoran, Maria A., et al.. (2023). Linkage between Airborne Particulate Matter and Viral Pandemic COVID-19 in Bucharest. Microorganisms. 11(10). 2531–2531. 4 indexed citations
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Zoran, Maria A., et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal Changes of Urban Land Surface Albedo Impact on Thermal Environment in Bucharest Metropolitan City. WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT. 19. 1037–1044. 1 indexed citations
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Savastru, Dan, et al.. (2023). Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization on Vegetation Phenology in the Bucharest Metropolitan Area. WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT. 19. 961–968. 1 indexed citations
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Savastru, Dan, et al.. (2023). Four-Layer Surface Plasmon Resonance Structures with Amorphous As2S3 Chalcogenide Films: A Review. Materials. 16(18). 6110–6110. 3 indexed citations
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Zoran, Maria A., Roxana Savastru, Dan Savastru, & Marina N. Tautan. (2022). Impacts of exposure to air pollution, radon and climate drivers on the COVID-19 pandemic in Bucharest, Romania: A time series study. Environmental Research. 212(Pt D). 113437–113437. 27 indexed citations
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Zoran, Maria A., Roxana Savastru, Dan Savastru, & Marina N. Tautan. (2022). Cumulative effects of air pollution and climate drivers on COVID-19 multiwaves in Bucharest, Romania. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 166. 368–383. 7 indexed citations
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Zoran, Maria A., et al.. (2021). Assessing the impact of air pollution and climate seasonality on COVID-19 multiwaves in Madrid, Spain. Environmental Research. 203. 111849–111849. 30 indexed citations
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Zoran, Maria A., et al.. (2021). Exploring the linkage between seasonality of environmental factors and COVID-19 waves in Madrid, Spain. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 152. 583–600. 20 indexed citations
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Fara, Laurențiu, Dan Crăciunescu, Dan Savastru, et al.. (2020). Complex Investigation of High Efficiency and Reliable Heterojunction Solar Cell Based on an Improved Cu2O Absorber Layer. Energies. 13(18). 4667–4667. 6 indexed citations
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Zoran, Maria A., et al.. (2019). Temporal trends of carbon monoxide (CO) and radon (222Rn) tracers of urban air pollution. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 320(1). 55–70. 15 indexed citations
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Parasca, Sorin Viorel, et al.. (2015). Algorithm for mapping cutaneous tissue oxygen concentration using hyperspectral imaging. Biomedical Optics Express. 6(9). 3420–3420. 16 indexed citations
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Savastru, Dan, et al.. (2011). Theoretical analysis of a high power fiber laser. International Conference on Applied Mathematics. 121–125.
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Călin, Mihaela Antonina, et al.. (2011). Photosensitizers and light sources for photodynamic therapy of the Bowen’s disease. Archives of Dermatological Research. 303(3). 145–151. 25 indexed citations
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Monnereau, O., Laurence Tortet, C.E.A. Grigorescu, et al.. (2010). Chromium oxides mixtures in PLD films investigated by Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials. 12(8). 1752–1757. 48 indexed citations
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Baker, Andy, et al.. (2008). Pollution analysis on the Arges River using fluorescence spectroscopy. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 6 indexed citations
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Călin, Mihaela Antonina, et al.. (2005). Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) Efficacy in Post-operative Wounds. Photomedicine and Laser Surgery. 23(1). 70–73. 34 indexed citations

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