Denis Rugege

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 987 citations indexed

About

Denis Rugege is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Denis Rugege has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 987 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Ecology, 5 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Denis Rugege's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers). Denis Rugege is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers). Denis Rugege collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Rwanda and Belgium. Denis Rugege's co-authors include Onisimo Mutanga, Elhadi Adam, Riyad Ismail, P. van der Molen, Glenn‐Marie Lange, Michel Masozera, Emmanuel Rukundo, Nsharwasi Léon Nabahungu, Kenneth J. Bagstad and Désiré M. Kagabo and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Remote Sensing, Computers Environment and Urban Systems and Wetlands.

In The Last Decade

Denis Rugege

14 papers receiving 935 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing for identification and mapping of wetland vegetation: a review

2009 737 citations Elhadi Adam, Onisimo Mutanga et al. Wetlands Ecology and Management profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Denis Rugege South Africa	8	652	430	295	150	88	14	987
Alber Sánchez Brazil	13	562 0.9×	400 0.9×	327 1.1×	129 0.9×	144 1.6×	30	945
Scot E. Smith United States	22	584 0.9×	296 0.7×	385 1.3×	102 0.7×	114 1.3×	50	1.2k
A. C. Coutinho Brazil	13	557 0.9×	545 1.3×	202 0.7×	108 0.7×	104 1.2×	33	1.0k
Andrea Ehammer Denmark	11	512 0.8×	448 1.0×	339 1.1×	173 1.2×	188 2.1×	13	957
Anthony M. Filippi United States	18	435 0.7×	551 1.3×	248 0.8×	196 1.3×	145 1.6×	40	1.2k
Alex Held Australia	19	960 1.5×	629 1.5×	449 1.5×	176 1.2×	187 2.1×	45	1.5k
Magdalena Main‐Knorn Germany	10	586 0.9×	440 1.0×	397 1.3×	158 1.1×	150 1.7×	20	1.0k
Sibylle Itzerott Germany	15	513 0.8×	265 0.6×	296 1.0×	104 0.7×	135 1.5×	34	826
Priyakant Sinha Australia	15	412 0.6×	304 0.7×	337 1.1×	104 0.7×	107 1.2×	22	756
Kunihiko Yoshino Japan	19	765 1.2×	533 1.2×	331 1.1×	121 0.8×	167 1.9×	70	1.4k

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Langensiepen, Matthias, Denis Rugege, Michael Adrogu Ugen, et al.. (2023). Reconciling East-African Wetland Conservation with Human Needs: Managing Uncertainties in Environmental Policy Design. Wetlands. 43(4). 9 indexed citations

Bagstad, Kenneth J., Jane Carter Ingram, Glenn‐Marie Lange, et al.. (2019). Towards ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in flows and potential supply of ecosystem services. People and Nature. 2(1). 163–188. 43 indexed citations

Rugege, Denis & Sonja Vermeulen. (2017). Investing in on-farm and post-harvest resilience to climate change in smallholder value chains: Lessons from Rwanda. CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research). 2 indexed citations

Rugege, Denis, et al.. (2014). Women's perceptions of the Girinka (one cow per poor family) programme, poverty alleviation and climate resilience in Rwanda. Agenda. 28(3). 53–64. 6 indexed citations

Mutanga, Onisimo, et al.. (2012). Rearing Rabbits Over Earthen Fish Ponds in Rwanda: Effects on Water and Sediment Quality, Growth, and Production of Nile TilapiaOreochromis niloticus. Journal of Applied Aquaculture. 24(2). 170–181. 5 indexed citations

Mutanga, Onisimo, et al.. (2012). Optimum rabbit density over fish ponds to optimise Nile tilapia production in an integrated rabbit–fish system in Rwanda. African Journal of Aquatic Science. 37(2). 165–174. 1 indexed citations

Adam, Elhadi, Onisimo Mutanga, Denis Rugege, & Riyad Ismail. (2011). Discriminating the papyrus vegetation (Cyperus papyrusL.) and its co-existent species using random forest and hyperspectral data resampled to HYMAP. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 33(2). 552–569. 90 indexed citations

Adam, Elhadi, Onisimo Mutanga, & Denis Rugege. (2009). Multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing for identification and mapping of wetland vegetation: a review. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 18(3). 281–296. 737 indexed citations breakdown →

Molen, P. van der, et al.. (2009). Towards a framework for measuring end to end performance of land administration business processes – A case study. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 33(4). 293–301. 23 indexed citations

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Mutanga, Onisimo, et al.. (2009). Field spectrometry of papyrus vegetation (Cyperus papyrus L.) in swamp wetlands of St Lucia, South Africa. 7. IV–260. 14 indexed citations

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Rugege, Denis, et al.. (2006). Invasion of an alien shrub across four land management regimes, west of St. Lucia, South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 102. 9–12. 7 indexed citations

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Mutanga, Onisimo & Denis Rugege. (2006). Integrating remote sensing and spatial statistics to model herbaceous biomass distribution in a tropical savanna. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 27(16). 3499–3514. 40 indexed citations

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Gils, Hein van, et al.. (2004). Efficacy of Chromolaena odorata control in a South African conservation forest. South African Journal of Science. 100(3). 251–253. 8 indexed citations

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Venus, Valentijn & Denis Rugege. (2004). Combined use of polar orbiting and geo - stationary satellites to improve time interpolation in dynamic crop models for food security assessment. University of Twente Research Information. 212–219. 2 indexed citations

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