Galen Newman

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Galen Newman is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Galen Newman has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 36 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 30 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Galen Newman's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (31 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (26 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (25 papers). Galen Newman is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (31 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (26 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (25 papers). Galen Newman collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and United Kingdom. Galen Newman's co-authors include Ryun Jung Lee, Jaekyung Lee, Yunmi Park, Youjung Kim, Gunwoo Kim, Dongying Li, Ann O’M. Bowman, Bin Jiang, Jun–Hyun Kim and Shannon Van Zandt and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Hazardous Materials and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Galen Newman

120 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Urban regeneration: Community engagement process for vacant land in declining cities

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Galen Newman United States	26	952	591	546	452	325	127	2.1k
Patricia Romero‐Lankao United States	30	1.2k 1.2×	484 0.8×	821 1.5×	184 0.4×	410 1.3×	65	2.8k
Sigrun Kabisch Germany	20	784 0.8×	433 0.7×	409 0.7×	716 1.6×	154 0.5×	67	1.8k
Johannes Flacke Netherlands	26	981 1.0×	552 0.9×	540 1.0×	208 0.5×	304 0.9×	97	2.5k
Peter J. Marcotullio United States	25	1.0k 1.1×	503 0.9×	216 0.4×	198 0.4×	507 1.6×	62	2.1k
Hashem Dadashpoor Iran	23	1.3k 1.4×	383 0.6×	200 0.4×	360 0.8×	229 0.7×	72	2.1k
Diana Reckien Netherlands	26	1.1k 1.2×	305 0.5×	814 1.5×	249 0.6×	389 1.2×	67	2.5k
Chaolin Gu China	28	1.0k 1.1×	343 0.6×	626 1.1×	346 0.8×	371 1.1×	77	2.8k
Wei Lang China	25	740 0.8×	287 0.5×	294 0.5×	388 0.9×	189 0.6×	83	2.2k
Chao Ye China	18	820 0.9×	276 0.5×	275 0.5×	284 0.6×	204 0.6×	46	1.9k
Ren Yang China	21	1.2k 1.2×	306 0.5×	228 0.4×	273 0.6×	343 1.1×	51	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Galen Newman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Galen Newman

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Sansom, Garett, et al.. (2025). Exploring viable buyout pathways for enhanced health in Galena Park, TX. Sustainable Environment. 11(1).

Ye, Xinyue, Tan Yiğitcanlar, Wenwen Li, et al.. (2025). Artificial intelligence in urban science: why does it matter?. Annals of GIS. 31(2). 181–189. 9 indexed citations

Ye, Xinyue, et al.. (2025). Generating conceptual landscape design via text-to-image generative AI model. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 52(8). 1903–1919. 1 indexed citations

Ye, Xinyue, et al.. (2025). Geodesign in the era of artificial intelligence. PubMed. 3(1). 4–4. 4 indexed citations

Li, Dongying, et al.. (2024). The integration of geographic methods and ecological momentary assessment in public health research: A systematic review of methods and applications. Social Science & Medicine. 354. 117075–117075. 7 indexed citations

Newman, Galen, et al.. (2024). What is the spatiotemporal pattern of benzene concentration spread over susceptible area surrounding the Hartman Park community, Houston, Texas?. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 474. 134666–134666. 2 indexed citations

Kim, Youjung, et al.. (2024). How Plans Prepare for Future Uncertainty: Integrating Land Change Modeling and the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 45(4). 1017–1031. 1 indexed citations

Newman, Galen, et al.. (2023). Associations between vacant urban lands and public health outcomes in growing and shrinking cities. Urban forestry & urban greening. 89. 128127–128127. 9 indexed citations

Newman, Galen, et al.. (2023). The spatial relationship between long-term vacant housing and non-communicable diseases in U.S. shrinking and growing metropolitan areas. Cities. 145. 104718–104718. 4 indexed citations

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Song, Yang, et al.. (2023). COVID-19 and campus users: A longitudinal and place-based study of university mobilities in Texas. Sustainable Cities and Society. 96. 104656–104656. 18 indexed citations

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Yu, Siyu, Galen Newman, Philip Berke, & Xiao Li. (2023). Plan Integration for Ecological Resilience: Examining Factors Associated with Wetland Alteration. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 45(1). 95–107. 4 indexed citations

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Lee, Jaekyung, et al.. (2022). Predicting Detached Housing Vacancy: A Multilevel Analysis. Sustainability. 14(2). 922–922. 10 indexed citations

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Zandt, Shannon Van, et al.. (2022). Engaged Research: Inviting Residents into the Scientific Process. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 42(3). 258–259. 1 indexed citations

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Sohn, Wonmin, et al.. (2021). Green infrastructure for coastal flood protection: The longitudinal impacts of green infrastructure patterns on flood damage. Applied Geography. 135. 102565–102565. 25 indexed citations

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Newman, Galen, et al.. (2021). Recent Trends in LA-Based Research: A Topic Analysis of CELA Abstract Content. Landscape Journal. 39(2). 51–73. 3 indexed citations

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Newman, Galen, et al.. (2021). Buy them out before they are built: evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas. Environmental Conservation. 48(2). 118–126. 17 indexed citations

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Malecha, Matthew, Katie R. Kirsch, Ibraheem M. Karaye, Jennifer A. Horney, & Galen Newman. (2020). Advancing the Toxics Mobility Inventory: Development and Application of a Toxics Mobility Vulnerability Index to Harris County, Texas. Sustainability The Journal of Record. 13(6). 282–291. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Dongying, et al.. (2019). Subtypes of park use and self-reported psychological benefits among older adults: A multilevel latent class analysis approach. Landscape and Urban Planning. 190. 103605–103605. 46 indexed citations

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Brody, Samuel D., et al.. (2017). Hurricane Recovery and Ecological Resilience: Measuring the Impacts of Wetland Alteration Post Hurricane Ike on the Upper TX Coast. Environmental Management. 60(6). 1116–1126. 18 indexed citations

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Newman, Galen, et al.. (2016). The Perceived Effects of Flipped Teaching on Knowledge Acquisition.. 16(1). 52–71. 19 indexed citations

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