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

Urban Climates 2015 2026 2018 2022 2017 2015 2019 2022 250 500 750
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.

  1. Urban Climates
    2017 887 citations Gerald Mills et al. profile →
  2. 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 →
  3. SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities
    2019 257 citations Benjamin Bechtel, Matthias Demuzere et al. Urban Climate profile →
  4. A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science
    2022 176 citations Matthias Demuzere, Jonas Kittner et al. Earth system science data profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Gerald Mills 4.1k 2.3k 2.0k 1.2k 1.2k 90 5.0k
Iain D. Stewart 5.0k 1.2× 2.4k 1.0× 2.8k 1.4× 1.4k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 32 5.6k
Chao Ren 5.6k 1.4× 2.6k 1.1× 3.6k 1.8× 1.5k 1.2× 1.6k 1.3× 150 7.1k
Matthias Demuzere 3.9k 1.0× 3.9k 1.7× 2.6k 1.3× 2.4k 1.9× 753 0.6× 115 6.9k
Constantinos Cartalis 2.7k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 805 0.6× 1.1k 1.0× 103 4.0k
Ariane Middel 4.8k 1.2× 1.9k 0.8× 3.5k 1.8× 562 0.5× 1.9k 1.6× 136 6.0k
Matei Georgescu 3.0k 0.7× 2.2k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 745 0.6× 978 0.8× 94 5.0k
E. Scott Krayenhoff 3.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.6× 2.2k 1.1× 712 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 84 4.5k
Xiaoma Li 2.8k 0.7× 2.3k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 780 0.6× 675 0.6× 42 4.1k
Matthias Roth 4.4k 1.1× 2.3k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 68 5.3k
Haider Taha 5.4k 1.3× 2.2k 1.0× 3.0k 1.5× 1.2k 1.0× 2.1k 1.7× 49 6.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Gerald Mills

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Fields of papers citing papers 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

20 of 20 papers shown
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Oleson, Keith W., Lei Zhao, Gerald Mills, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Global‐Scale Urban Land Cover Representation Using Local Climate Zones in the Community Earth System Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(11).
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Wang, Renfeng, Mengmeng Wang, Chao Ren, et al.. (2024). Mapping local climate zones and its applications at the global scale: A systematic review of the last decade of progress and trend. Urban Climate. 57. 102129–102129. 30 indexed citations
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Nazarian, Negin, Benjamin Bechtel, Gerald Mills, et al.. (2024). Integration of urban climate research within the global climate change discourse. PLOS Climate. 3(8). e0000473–e0000473. 2 indexed citations
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Bonafoni, Stefania, et al.. (2024). Automated Pixel Purification for Delineating Pervious and Impervious Surfaces in a City Using Advanced Hyperspectral Imagery Techniques. IEEE Access. 12. 82560–82583. 4 indexed citations
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Pereira, Roberto M., et al.. (2024). A global (South) collective burden: A systematic review of the current state of climate-related hazards in informal settlements. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 114. 104940–104940. 5 indexed citations
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Morakinyo, Tobi Eniolu, et al.. (2023). A study of the impact of landscape heterogeneity on surface energy fluxes in a tropical climate using SUEWS. Urban Climate. 53. 101788–101788. 4 indexed citations
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Arodudu, Oludunsin, et al.. (2023). A health data led approach for assessing potential health benefits of green and blue spaces: Lessons from an Irish case study. Journal of Environmental Management. 345. 118758–118758. 5 indexed citations
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Demuzere, Matthias, Jonas Kittner, Alberto Martilli, et al.. (2022). A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science. Earth system science data. 14(8). 3835–3873. 176 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mills, Gerald, et al.. (2021). Designing an Energy-Resilient Neighbourhood Using an Urban Building Energy Model. Energies. 14(15). 4445–4445. 28 indexed citations
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Mills, Gerald, et al.. (2020). An inventory of buildings in Dublin City for energy management. Irish Geography. 53(1). 5–22. 3 indexed citations
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Demuzere, Matthias, Benjamin Bechtel, Ariane Middel, & Gerald Mills. (2019). Mapping Europe into local climate zones. PLoS ONE. 14(4). e0214474–e0214474. 162 indexed citations
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Ishola, Kazeem A., Rowan Fealy, Gerald Mills, et al.. (2018). Developing regional calibration coefficients for estimation of hourly global solar radiation in Ireland. International Journal of Sustainable Energy. 38(3). 297–311. 5 indexed citations
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Bechtel, Benjamin, Paul J. Alexander, Christoph Beck, et al.. (2018). Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation. Urban Climate. 27. 24–45. 223 indexed citations
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Bechtel, Benjamin, Matthias Demuzere, Panagiotis Sismanidis, et al.. (2017). Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX). Urban Science. 1(2). 15–15. 82 indexed citations
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Brousse, Oscar, Alberto Martilli, Michael Foley, Gerald Mills, & Benjamin Bechtel. (2016). WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid. Urban Climate. 17. 116–134. 212 indexed citations
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Mills, Gerald. (2014). Urban climatology: History, status and prospects. Urban Climate. 10. 479–489. 78 indexed citations

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