Gerald Mills

7.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Gerald Mills is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Mills has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Environmental Engineering, 38 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 27 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Gerald Mills's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (59 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (25 papers). Gerald Mills is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (59 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (25 papers). Gerald Mills collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United States and Germany. Gerald Mills's co-authors include Benjamin Bechtel, James Voogt, T. R. Oke, Andreas Christen, Paul J. Alexander, Matthias Demuzere, Linda See, Iain D. Stewart, Jason Ching and Jürgen Böhner and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Mills

86 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Urban Climates

2017 887 citations Gerald Mills, James Voogt et al. profile →
Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities

2015 532 citations Benjamin Bechtel, Paul J. Alexander et al. profile →
SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities

2019 257 citations Benjamin Bechtel, Matthias Demuzere et al. Urban Climate profile →
A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science

2022 176 citations Matthias Demuzere, Alberto Martilli et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Gerald Mills

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Mills

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerald Mills. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerald Mills 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 Gerald Mills. Gerald Mills 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	Developing an urban geographic archetype dataset to support energy retrofit strategy on residential buildings in Düsseldorf, Germany 2025 ·Energy Reports ·(unknown), Gerald Mills, (unknown), Michael Leuchner	0
2	Mapping local climate zones and its applications at the global scale: A systematic review of the last decade of progress and trend 2024 ·Urban Climate ·Renfeng Wang, Mengmeng Wang, Chao Ren, Guangzhao Chen, Gerald Mills, Jason Ching	30
3	A novel parametric workflow for simulating urban heat island effects on residential building energy use: Coupling local climate zones with the urban weather generator a case study of seven U.S. cities 2024 ·Sustainable Cities and Society ·(unknown), Gerald Mills, (unknown), (unknown), Gregory S. Pavlak, (unknown)	18
4	Automated Pixel Purification for Delineating Pervious and Impervious Surfaces in a City Using Advanced Hyperspectral Imagery Techniques 2024 ·IEEE Access ·(unknown), (unknown), Stefania Bonafoni, Gerald Mills, Yan‐Fang Sang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Francesco Pilla	4
5	A global (South) collective burden: A systematic review of the current state of climate-related hazards in informal settlements 2024 ·International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ·(unknown), Roberto M. Pereira, Christine Bonnin, (unknown), Gerald Mills, Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo, Paul Holloway	5
6	Integration of urban climate research within the global climate change discourse 2024 ·PLOS Climate ·Negin Nazarian, Benjamin Bechtel, Gerald Mills, Melissa Hart, Ariane Middel, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Gaby S. Langendijk, Lei Zhao, A. J. Pitman, Winston Chow	2
7	Jason Ching and the development of an Urban Climate Science: An introduction to the special issue on the World Urban Database Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) 2024 ·Urban Climate ·Gerald Mills, Saravanan Arunachalam, (unknown), Alexander Baklanov	1
8	A health data led approach for assessing potential health benefits of green and blue spaces: Lessons from an Irish case study 2023 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Oludunsin Arodudu, Ronan Foley, Firouzeh Taghikhah, Michael Brennan, Gerald Mills, (unknown)	5
9	A study of the impact of landscape heterogeneity on surface energy fluxes in a tropical climate using SUEWS 2023 ·Urban Climate ·(unknown), Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo, Gerald Mills	4
10	Designing an Energy-Resilient Neighbourhood Using an Urban Building Energy Model 2021 ·Energies ·(unknown), Gerald Mills, (unknown), Khadija Benis	28
11	An inventory of buildings in Dublin City for energy management 2020 ·Irish Geography ·(unknown), Gerald Mills, Rowan Fealy	3
12	Integrated urban hydrometeorological, climate and environmental services: Concept, methodology and key messages 2020 ·Urban Climate ·Sue Grimmond, V. S. Bouchet, L. T. Molina, Alexander Baklanov, Jianguo Tan, K. Heinke Schlünzen, Gerald Mills, Brian Golding, Valéry Masson, Chao Ren, James Voogt, Shiguang Miao, Humphrey Lean, B.G. Heusinkveld, (unknown), (unknown), Patrick Parrish, Paul Joe	45
13	Mapping Europe into local climate zones 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Matthias Demuzere, Benjamin Bechtel, Ariane Middel, Gerald Mills	162
14	Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation 2018 ·Urban Climate ·Benjamin Bechtel, Paul J. Alexander, Christoph Beck, Jürgen Böhner, Oscar Brousse, Jason Ching, Matthias Demuzere, Cidália C. Fonte, Tamás Gál, Julia Hidalgo, Peter Hoffmann, Ariane Middel, Gerald Mills, Chao Ren, Linda See, Panagiotis Sismanidis, Marie-Leen Verdonck, Guang Xu, Yong Xu	223
15	Developing regional calibration coefficients for estimation of hourly global solar radiation in Ireland 2018 ·International Journal of Sustainable Energy ·Kazeem A. Ishola, Rowan Fealy, Gerald Mills, Réamonn Fealy, Stuart Green, (unknown), Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri	5
16	Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX) 2017 ·Urban Science ·Benjamin Bechtel, Matthias Demuzere, Panagiotis Sismanidis, Daniel Fenner, Oscar Brousse, Christoph Beck, Frieke Van Coillie, Olaf Conrad, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Ariane Middel, Gerald Mills, Dev Niyogi, Marco Otto, Linda See, Marie-Leen Verdonck	82
17	The green ‘signature’ of Irish cities: An examination of the ecosystem services provided by trees using i-Tree Canopy software 2016 ·Irish Geography ·Gerald Mills, (unknown), Michael Brennan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	5
18	WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid 2016 ·Urban Climate ·Oscar Brousse, Alberto Martilli, Michael Foley, Gerald Mills, Benjamin Bechtel	212
19	The green ‘signature’ of Irish cities: An examination of the ecosystem services provided by trees using i-Tree Canopy software 2015 ·Irish Geography ·Gerald Mills, (unknown), Michael Brennan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	6
20	Urban climatology: History, status and prospects 2014 ·Urban Climate ·Gerald Mills	78

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