Deborah Balk

16.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
79 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Deborah Balk is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Balk has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Transportation and 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Deborah Balk's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (16 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (12 papers). Deborah Balk is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (16 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (12 papers). Deborah Balk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Deborah Balk's co-authors include Adam Storeygard, Marc A. Levy, Kate E. Jones, Nikkita Patel, Peter Daszak, John L. Gittleman, Gordon McGranahan, Mark R. Montgomery, Robert I. McDonald and Pamela Green and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Balk

77 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

2008 5.4k citations Kate E. Jones, Nikkita Patel et al. Nature profile →
The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones

2007 1.7k citations Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk et al. profile →
Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability

2011 550 citations Robert I. McDonald, Deborah Balk et al. profile →
Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure

2014 493 citations Robert I. McDonald, Deborah Balk et al. profile →
The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use

2019 245 citations Stefan Leyk, Andrea E. Gaughan et al. Earth system science data profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Balk

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Balk

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Balk

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	NPCC4: New York City climate risk information 2022—observations and projections 2024 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Daniel Bader, Naresh Devineni, Philip Orton, B. Rosenzweig, Timon McPhearson, (unknown), Vivien Gornitz, Talea Mayo, (unknown), (unknown), Equisha Glenn, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Robin Leichenko, Deborah Balk, Peter J. Marcotullio, Radley M. Horton	10
2	NPCC4: Climate risk and equity—advancing knowledge toward a sustainable future \| Introduction 2024 ·Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·Deborah Balk, (unknown), Robin Leichenko, Richard H. Moss, (unknown)	3
3	Marsh archive reveals human population history and future implications for estuarine health in Long Island Sound 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), D. M. Peteet, Deborah Balk, Clara Chang, Bryan Jones, Maria Tzortziou	0
4	Uneven vulnerability: characterizing population composition and change in the low elevation coastal zone in the United States with a climate justice lens, 1990–2020 2023 ·Frontiers in Environmental Science ·(unknown), Deborah Balk	7
5	People and infrastructure: multi-scale assessment of coastal and fluvial flood exposure in India 2022 ·Environmental Research Communications ·(unknown), Jessie Pinchoff, Deborah Balk, Mark R. Montgomery, (unknown)	1
6	Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States 2021 ·Nature Sustainability ·Erica N. Spotswood, (unknown), (unknown), Megan M. Wheeler, Erin E. Beller, Deborah Balk, Timon McPhearson, Ming Kuo, Robert I. McDonald	131
7	Fine-grained, spatiotemporal datasets measuring 200 years of land development in the United States 2021 ·Earth system science data ·Johannes Uhl, Stefan Leyk, (unknown), Anna Braswell, Dylan S. Connor, Deborah Balk	28
8	The tree cover and temperature disparity in US urbanized areas: Quantifying the association with income across 5,723 communities 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·Robert I. McDonald, (unknown), (unknown), Ian W. Housman, Timothy Boucher, Deborah Balk, David J. Nowak, Erica N. Spotswood, (unknown), Stefan Leyk	83
9	Estimating Population and Urban Areas at Risk of Coastal Hazards, 1990–2015: How data choices matter 2021 ·Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University) ·Kytt MacManus, Deborah Balk, (unknown), Gordon McGranahan, (unknown)	6
10	Estimating population and urban areas at risk of coastal hazards, 1990–2015: how data choices matter 2021 ·Earth system science data ·Kytt MacManus, Deborah Balk, (unknown), Gordon McGranahan, (unknown)	54
11	Looking Back, Looking Forward: Progress and Prospect for Spatial Demography 2021 ·PubMed ·Stephen A. Matthews, (unknown), James Raymer, Tse‐Chuan Yang, Ezra Gayawan, (unknown), (unknown), Daniel M. Parker, Deborah Balk, Stefan Leyk, Mark R. Montgomery, Katherine J. Curtis, David W. S. Wong	9
12	Urbanization and health: The effects of the built environment on chronic disease risk factors among women in Tanzania 2020 ·PLoS ONE ·Jessie Pinchoff, (unknown), Deborah Balk	28
13	Allocating people to pixels: A review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use 2019 ·Joint Research Centre (European Commission) ·Stefan Leyk, Andrea E. Gaughan, Susana B. Adamo, Alex de Sherbinin, Deborah Balk, Sérgio Freire, Amy Rose, Forrest R. Stevens, Brian Blankespoor, Charlie Frye, Joshua Comenetz, Alessandro Sorichetta, Kytt MacManus, Linda Pistolesi, Marc A. Levy, Andrew J. Tatem	12
14	The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use breakdown → 2019 ·Earth system science data ·Stefan Leyk, Andrea E. Gaughan, Susana B. Adamo, Alex de Sherbinin, Deborah Balk, Sérgio Freire, Amy Rose, Forrest R. Stevens, Brian Blankespoor, Charlie Frye, Joshua Comenetz, Alessandro Sorichetta, Kytt MacManus, Linda Pistolesi, Marc A. Levy, Andrew J. Tatem, Martino Pesaresi	245
15	Modeling the Impacts of Sea Level Rise Globally: Low Elevation Coastal Zones Based On New Sources 2019 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Deborah Balk, Gordon McGranahan, (unknown)	1
16	Spatially varying relationships between risk factors and child diarrhea in West Africa, 2008-2013 2019 ·Mathematical Population Studies ·Gillian Dunn, Glen D. Johnson, Deborah Balk, Grace Sembajwe	12
17	The heterogeneity and change in the urban structure of metropolitan areas in the United States, 1990–2010 2019 ·Scientific Data ·Stefan Leyk, Deborah Balk, Bryan Jones, Mark R. Montgomery, (unknown)	23
18	Understanding urbanization: A study of census and satellite-derived urban classes in the United States, 1990-2010 2018 ·PLoS ONE ·Deborah Balk, Stefan Leyk, Bryan Jones, Mark R. Montgomery, (unknown)	54
19	Global trends in emerging infectious diseases breakdown → 2008 ·Nature ·Kate E. Jones, Nikkita Patel, Marc A. Levy, Adam Storeygard, Deborah Balk, John L. Gittleman, Peter Daszak	5380
20	The global distribution of infant mortality: a subnational spatial view 2008 ·Population Space and Place ·Adam Storeygard, Deborah Balk, Marc A. Levy, Glenn Deane	52

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