Franz Schug

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 978 citations indexed

About

Franz Schug is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Franz Schug has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 978 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Franz Schug's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (8 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers). Franz Schug is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (19 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (8 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (6 papers). Franz Schug collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Franz Schug's co-authors include Sebastian van der Linden, Patrick Hostert, David Frantz, Akpona Okujeni, Dagmar Haase, Thilo Wellmann, Claudio Navacchi, Wolfgang Wagner, Dirk Pflugmacher and Volker C. Radeloff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Franz Schug

23 papers receiving 963 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The global wildland–urban interface

2023 88 citations Franz Schug, Avi Bar‐Massada et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Franz Schug Germany	13	602	344	199	171	131	24	978
Cidália C. Fonte Portugal	16	443 0.7×	349 1.0×	223 1.1×	126 0.7×	198 1.5×	53	964
Julian Zeidler Germany	15	632 1.0×	440 1.3×	348 1.7×	98 0.6×	218 1.7×	39	1.2k
Junmei Tang United States	18	535 0.9×	280 0.8×	306 1.5×	122 0.7×	216 1.6×	43	974
Jiejun Huang China	17	619 1.0×	393 1.1×	130 0.7×	194 1.1×	210 1.6×	70	1.2k
Hanfa Xing China	16	471 0.8×	226 0.7×	89 0.4×	200 1.2×	143 1.1×	35	879
Yuean Qiu China	10	575 1.0×	287 0.8×	286 1.4×	224 1.3×	205 1.6×	14	1.0k
Jorge E. Patiño Colombia	13	499 0.8×	133 0.4×	100 0.5×	156 0.9×	130 1.0×	27	828
Hasi Bagan Japan	16	633 1.1×	280 0.8×	292 1.5×	152 0.9×	274 2.1×	51	1.0k
Yanhua Xie United States	20	936 1.6×	483 1.4×	419 2.1×	162 0.9×	270 2.1×	43	1.4k
Andreas Felbier Germany	11	692 1.1×	276 0.8×	197 1.0×	84 0.5×	305 2.3×	22	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Franz Schug

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Fields of papers citing papers by Franz Schug

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franz Schug

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

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Kaim, Dominik, Carlos Bautista, Michael Leitner, et al.. (2025). Impact of the wildland–urban interface on large carnivore damage in the Polish Carpathians. AMBIO.

Simkin, Rohan, Barbara A. Han, Volker C. Radeloff, et al.. (2025). Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland–Urban Interface. Global Change Biology. 31(2). e70039–e70039. 1 indexed citations

Haberl, Helmut, André Baumgart, Julian Zeidler, et al.. (2024). Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 29(1). 159–172. 7 indexed citations

Schug, Franz, et al.. (2024). Land cover fraction mapping across global biomes with Landsat data, spatially generalized regression models and spectral-temporal metrics. Remote Sensing of Environment. 311. 114260–114260. 8 indexed citations

Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Franz Schug, Maud Lanau, et al.. (2024). Mapping material stocks of buildings and mobility infrastructure in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 206. 107630–107630. 7 indexed citations

Schug, Franz, Avi Bar‐Massada, Amanda R. Carlson, et al.. (2023). The global wildland–urban interface. Nature. 621(7977). 94–99. 88 indexed citations breakdown →

Radeloff, Volker C., Miranda H. Mockrin, David P. Helmers, et al.. (2023). Rising wildfire risk to houses in the United States, especially in grasslands and shrublands. Science. 382(6671). 702–707. 53 indexed citations

Wiedenhofer, Dominik, Franz Schug, Maud Lanau, et al.. (2023). Mapping material stocks of buildings and mobility infrastructure in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Schug, Franz, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl, et al.. (2023). High-resolution data and maps of material stock, population, and employment in Austria from 1985 to 2018. Data in Brief. 47. 108997–108997. 8 indexed citations

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Bar‐Massada, Avi, Fermín Alcasena, Franz Schug, & Volker C. Radeloff. (2023). The wildland – urban interface in Europe: Spatial patterns and associations with socioeconomic and demographic variables. Landscape and Urban Planning. 235. 104759–104759. 30 indexed citations

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Frantz, David, Franz Schug, Dominik Wiedenhofer, et al.. (2023). Unveiling patterns in human dominated landscapes through mapping the mass of US built structures. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8014–8014. 24 indexed citations

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Schug, Franz, David Frantz, Dominik Wiedenhofer, et al.. (2022). High‐resolution mapping of 33 years of material stock and population growth in Germany using Earth Observation data. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 27(1). 110–124. 14 indexed citations

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Schug, Franz, David Frantz, Akpona Okujeni, & Patrick Hostert. (2022). Sub-pixel building area mapping based on synthetic training data and regression-based unmixing using Sentinel-1 and -2 data. Remote Sensing Letters. 13(8). 822–832. 3 indexed citations

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Schug, Franz, David Frantz, Sebastian van der Linden, & Patrick Hostert. (2021). Gridded population mapping for Germany based on building density, height and type from Earth Observation data using census disaggregation and bottom-up estimates. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0249044–e0249044. 51 indexed citations

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Haberl, Helmut, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Franz Schug, et al.. (2021). High-Resolution Maps of Material Stocks in Buildings and Infrastructures in Austria and Germany. Environmental Science & Technology. 55(5). 3368–3379. 89 indexed citations

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Frantz, David, Franz Schug, Akpona Okujeni, et al.. (2020). National-scale mapping of building height using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 252. 112128–112128. 168 indexed citations

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Schug, Franz, David Frantz, Akpona Okujeni, Sebastian van der Linden, & Patrick Hostert. (2020). Mapping urban-rural gradients of settlements and vegetation at national scale using Sentinel-2 spectral-temporal metrics and regression-based unmixing with synthetic training data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 246. 111810–111810. 66 indexed citations

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Wellmann, Thilo, Franz Schug, Dagmar Haase, Dirk Pflugmacher, & Sebastian van der Linden. (2020). Green growth? On the relation between population density, land use and vegetation cover fractions in a city using a 30-years Landsat time series. Landscape and Urban Planning. 202. 103857–103857. 91 indexed citations

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Schug, Franz, David Frantz, Sebastian van der Linden, & Patrick Hostert. (2020). Large area gridded population mapping based on building density, height and type from Earth Observation data using census disaggregation and bottom-up estimates. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Schug, Franz, et al.. (2018). Mapping patterns of urban development in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, using machine learning regression modeling with bi-seasonal Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment. 210. 217–228. 65 indexed citations

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