David Potere

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
18 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

David Potere is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Potere has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Potere's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (6 papers). David Potere is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (6 papers). David Potere collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. David Potere's co-authors include M. A. Friedl, Annemarie Schneider, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Anton Schneider, Jason Parent, G. Darrel Jenerette, Simon D. Donner, Srikanth Paruchuri and Joel A. C. Baum and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, BioScience and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

David Potere

18 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

The dimensions of global urban expansion: Estimates and p... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2011 2009 2010 250 500 750
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. The dimensions of global urban expansion: Estimates and projections for all countries, 2000–2050
    2011 901 citations Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent et al. Progress in Planning profile →
  2. A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data
    2009 630 citations Anton Schneider, M. A. Friedl et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
  3. Mapping global urban areas using MODIS 500-m data: New methods and datasets based on ‘urban ecoregions’
    2010 559 citations Annemarie Schneider, M. A. Friedl et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Potere United States 11 2.0k 794 632 614 496 18 3.0k
Manchun Li China 33 2.1k 1.0× 621 0.8× 605 1.0× 575 0.9× 428 0.9× 131 3.1k
Lina Tang China 33 2.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 1.2k 1.9× 730 1.2× 704 1.4× 146 4.4k
Thomas Kemper Italy 28 1.6k 0.8× 733 0.9× 429 0.7× 251 0.4× 520 1.0× 69 3.0k
C. P. Lo United States 22 2.3k 1.2× 999 1.3× 783 1.2× 512 0.8× 850 1.7× 57 3.4k
Xiaocong Xu China 22 3.5k 1.8× 1.1k 1.4× 965 1.5× 910 1.5× 873 1.8× 51 4.7k
Benjamin T. Tuttle United States 21 2.8k 1.4× 786 1.0× 770 1.2× 526 0.9× 340 0.7× 29 3.8k
Guohua Hu China 20 1.5k 0.8× 570 0.7× 420 0.7× 440 0.7× 395 0.8× 51 2.3k
Jasper van Vliet Netherlands 37 3.6k 1.8× 797 1.0× 808 1.3× 637 1.0× 492 1.0× 84 4.9k
Bo Wu China 25 1.2k 0.6× 591 0.7× 774 1.2× 325 0.5× 629 1.3× 160 3.4k
Fengsong Pei China 17 3.0k 1.5× 735 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 616 1.0× 613 1.2× 25 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by David Potere

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Potere

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Potere

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Potere, David, et al.. (2018). Mapping Cropland Extent by Asynchronous Fusion of Optical and Active Microwave Imagery. 7. 5319–5321. 1 indexed citations
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Potere, David. (2017). Spaceborne Data Enters the Mainstream. 29–29. 1 indexed citations
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Angel, Shlomo, et al.. (2011). The dimensions of global urban expansion: Estimates and projections for all countries, 2000–2050. Progress in Planning. 75(2). 53–107. 901 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schneider, Annemarie, M. A. Friedl, & David Potere. (2010). Mapping global urban areas using MODIS 500-m data: New methods and datasets based on ‘urban ecoregions’. Remote Sensing of Environment. 114(8). 1733–1746. 559 indexed citations breakdown →
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Angel, Shlomo, Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, Alejandro Blei, & David Potere. (2010). A Planet of Cities: Urban Land Cover Estimates and Projections for All Countries, 2000- 2050. 24 indexed citations
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Jenerette, G. Darrel & David Potere. (2010). Global analysis and simulation of land-use change associated with urbanization. Landscape Ecology. 25(5). 657–670. 91 indexed citations
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Potere, David. (2009). Mapping the world's cities: An examination of global urban maps and their implications for conservation planning. PhDT. 7 indexed citations
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Paruchuri, Srikanth, Joel A. C. Baum, & David Potere. (2009). The Wal‐Mart Effect: Wave of Destruction or Creative Destruction?. Economic Geography. 85(2). 209–236. 37 indexed citations
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Schneider, Anton, M. A. Friedl, & David Potere. (2009). A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data. Environmental Research Letters. 4(4). 44003–44003. 630 indexed citations breakdown →
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Potere, David, Annemarie Schneider, Shlomo Angel, & Daniel L. Civco. (2009). Mapping urban areas on a global scale: which of the eight maps now available is more accurate?. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 30(24). 6531–6558. 233 indexed citations
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Potere, David, et al.. (2008). Wal-Mart from Space. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 74(7). 913–919. 3 indexed citations
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Potere, David. (2008). Horizontal Positional Accuracy of Google Earth’s High-Resolution Imagery Archive. Sensors. 8(12). 7973–7981. 242 indexed citations
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Cheriyadat, Anil, Eddie Bright, David Potere, & Budhendra Bhaduri. (2007). Mapping of settlements in high-resolution satellite imagery using high performance computing. GeoJournal. 69(1-2). 119–129. 36 indexed citations
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Potere, David & Annemarie Schneider. (2007). A critical look at representations of urban areas in global maps. GeoJournal. 69(1-2). 55–80. 131 indexed citations
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Potere, David, Curtis E. Woodcock, Annemarie Schneider, Mutlu Özdoğan, & Alessandro Baccini. (2007). Patterns in Forest Clearing Along the Appalachian Trail Corridor. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 73(7). 783–791. 10 indexed citations
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Donner, Simon D. & David Potere. (2007). The Inequity of the Global Threat to Coral Reefs. BioScience. 57(3). 214–215. 59 indexed citations
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Fang, Yi, et al.. (2006). Online change detection: Monitoring land cover from remotely sensed data. 1. 626–631. 8 indexed citations
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