George Luber

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

George Luber is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, George Luber has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 10 papers in General Health Professions and 7 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in George Luber's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (24 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (12 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). George Luber is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (24 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (12 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). George Luber collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Canada. George Luber's co-authors include Michael A. McGeehin, Jeremy Hess, Daniel P. Johnson, Howard Frumkin, Josephine Malilay, Shubhayu Saha, Vijay Lulla, Austin Stanforth, Lorraine C. Backer and Ambrose Misore and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Public Health, Environmental Health Perspectives and Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

In The Last Decade

George Luber

34 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events

2008 894 citations George Luber, Michael A. McGeehin American Journal of Preventive Medicine profile →
Aflatoxin Contamination of Commercial Maize Products during an Outbreak of Acute Aflatoxicosis in Eastern and Central Kenya

2005 571 citations Lauren Lewis, Henry Njapau et al. Environmental Health Perspectives profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Luber United States	21	2.1k	661	577	558	543	34	3.6k
Peter Berry Canada	30	1.2k 0.6×	307 0.5×	539 0.9×	401 0.7×	1.7k 3.1×	69	4.2k
Anna Páldy Hungary	22	3.4k 1.6×	686 1.0×	391 0.7×	1.1k 1.9×	214 0.4×	78	4.3k
Bettina Menne Italy	27	2.7k 1.3×	433 0.7×	671 1.2×	998 1.8×	82 0.2×	64	4.3k
Jeremy Hess United States	43	3.3k 1.6×	704 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	1.1k 1.9×	129 0.2×	124	5.7k
Colin D. Butler Australia	25	1.2k 0.6×	243 0.4×	528 0.9×	622 1.1×	246 0.5×	85	3.6k
David M. Hondula United States	33	2.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.7×	647 1.1×	469 0.8×	72 0.1×	99	3.6k
Tom Kosatsky Canada	36	3.7k 1.7×	713 1.1×	385 0.7×	906 1.6×	91 0.2×	127	5.5k
Paul J. Beggs Australia	29	1.3k 0.6×	226 0.3×	360 0.6×	252 0.5×	224 0.4×	96	2.7k
Clare Heaviside United Kingdom	32	2.9k 1.4×	1.7k 2.5×	896 1.6×	535 1.0×	133 0.2×	56	3.9k
Kim Knowlton United States	22	2.3k 1.1×	472 0.7×	596 1.0×	572 1.0×	61 0.1×	47	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by George Luber

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Luber

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Luber

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hess, Jeremy, Fiona Lo, Claudia Brown, et al.. (2018). Associations between Total and Speciated Pollen Counts and Several Morbidity Measures in the Contiguous United States from 2008 to 2015. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 141(2). AB402–AB402. 1 indexed citations

Hess, Jeremy, Fiona Lo, Claudia Brown, et al.. (2018). Speciated Pollen Season Parameters, Trends, and Associations with Temperature in the Contiguous United States. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 141(2). AB84–AB84. 1 indexed citations

Hutchins, Sonja S., et al.. (2018). Public Health Agency Responses and Opportunities to Protect Against Health Impacts of Climate Change Among US Populations with Multiple Vulnerabilities. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 5(6). 1159–1170. 6 indexed citations

Uejio, Christopher K., Sunny Mak, Arie Manangan, George Luber, & Karen H. Bartlett. (2015). Climatic Influences onCryptoccoccus gattiiPopulations, Vancouver Island, Canada, 2002–2004. Emerging infectious diseases. 21(11). 1989–1996. 19 indexed citations

Hess, Jeremy, et al.. (2014). An Evidence-Based Public Health Approach to Climate Change Adaptation. Environmental Health Perspectives. 122(11). 1177–1186. 51 indexed citations

Hess, Jeremy, Shubhayu Saha, & George Luber. (2014). Summertime Acute Heat Illness in U.S. Emergency Departments from 2006 through 2010: Analysis of a Nationally Representative Sample. Environmental Health Perspectives. 122(11). 1209–1215. 99 indexed citations

Luber, George, et al.. (2014). Building Resilience against Climate Effects—A Novel Framework to Facilitate Climate Readiness in Public Health Agencies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 11(6). 6433–6458. 81 indexed citations

Fiske, Shirley J., Carole L. Crumley, Kathleen A. Galvin, et al.. (2014). Changing the Atmosphere. 7 indexed citations

Dhara, V. Ramana, Paul J. Schramm, & George Luber. (2013). Climate change & infectious diseases in India: implications for health care providers.. PubMed. 138(6). 847–52. 35 indexed citations

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Azziz‐Baumgartner, Eduardo, George Luber, Laura Conklin, et al.. (2012). Assessing the Incidence of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning with Two Surveys Conducted in Culebra, Puerto Rico, during 2005 and 2006. Environmental Health Perspectives. 120(4). 526–529. 17 indexed citations

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Lin, Shao, Wan‐Hsiang Hsu, Alissa R. Van Zutphen, et al.. (2012). Excessive Heat and Respiratory Hospitalizations in New York State: Estimating Current and Future Public Health Burden Related to Climate Change. Environmental Health Perspectives. 120(11). 1571–1577. 83 indexed citations

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Hess, Jeremy, et al.. (2011). Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Public Health Practice: Using Adaptive Management to Increase Adaptive Capacity and Build Resilience. Environmental Health Perspectives. 120(2). 171–179. 137 indexed citations

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Wade, R. A., et al.. (2011). Climate change-related vulnerabilities and local environmental public health tracking through GEMSS: A web-based visualization tool. Applied Geography. 33. 36–44. 27 indexed citations

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Bush, Kathleen F., George Luber, Sudha Rani Kotha, et al.. (2011). Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions. Environmental Health Perspectives. 119(6). 765–770. 64 indexed citations

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Portier, Christopher J., Kimberly Thigpen Tart, Sarah Carter, et al.. (2010). A Human Health Perspective on Climate Change: A Report Outlining Research Needs on the Human Health Effects of Climate Change. Environmental Health Perspectives. 192 indexed citations

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Johnson, Daniel P., Jeffrey S. Wilson, & George Luber. (2009). Socioeconomic indicators of heat-related health risk supplemented with remotely sensed data. International Journal of Health Geographics. 8(1). 57–57. 114 indexed citations

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Sabin, Miriam Lewis, et al.. (2008). Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of HIV/AIDS among Garífuna Communities in Honduras: Informing HIV Surveillance among Garífuna Women. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 17(3-4). 237–257. 7 indexed citations

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Luber, George & Michael A. McGeehin. (2008). Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 35(5). 429–435. 894 indexed citations breakdown →

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Golden, Jay S., et al.. (2008). A biometeorology study of climate and heat-related morbidity in Phoenix from 2001 to 2006. International Journal of Biometeorology. 52(6). 471–480. 101 indexed citations

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Lewis, Lauren, Henry Njapau, George Luber, et al.. (2005). Aflatoxin Contamination of Commercial Maize Products during an Outbreak of Acute Aflatoxicosis in Eastern and Central Kenya. Environmental Health Perspectives. 113(12). 1763–1767. 571 indexed citations breakdown →

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