John Connors

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

John Connors is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, John Connors has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 8 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in John Connors's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 papers) and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (6 papers). John Connors is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (7 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 papers) and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (6 papers). John Connors collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. John Connors's co-authors include Christopher S. Galletti, Winston Chow, Shufei Lei, Maggi Kelly, Gabriel Elkaim, Bolanle Wahab, Corrie Griffith, Frank Mugagga, Richard B. Miles and Philip Howard and has published in prestigious journals such as Blood, PLoS ONE and Stroke.

In The Last Decade

John Connors

46 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects: assessing the relationship between landscape characteristics and land surface temperature in Phoenix, Arizona

2012 464 citations John Connors, Christopher S. Galletti et al. Landscape Ecology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Connors United States	17	551	484	452	156	128	49	1.5k
Xiaojun Yang China	27	1.2k 2.1×	534 1.1×	325 0.7×	77 0.5×	703 5.5×	116	2.7k
Hao Wu China	23	701 1.3×	436 0.9×	181 0.4×	38 0.2×	225 1.8×	157	2.0k
Renzhong Guo China	19	469 0.9×	285 0.6×	150 0.3×	27 0.2×	163 1.3×	108	1.4k
Hongchao Fan China	26	353 0.6×	696 1.4×	107 0.2×	30 0.2×	117 0.9×	122	2.3k
Lei Yan China	19	355 0.6×	265 0.5×	156 0.3×	91 0.6×	269 2.1×	91	1.1k
Hongsheng Zhang China	31	1.1k 2.0×	894 1.8×	257 0.6×	104 0.7×	907 7.1×	208	3.1k
Feng Liu China	28	220 0.4×	322 0.7×	139 0.3×	109 0.7×	153 1.2×	141	2.6k
Chongcheng Chen China	28	687 1.2×	553 1.1×	98 0.2×	306 2.0×	801 6.3×	145	2.3k
Kang Liu China	24	380 0.7×	157 0.3×	94 0.2×	70 0.4×	142 1.1×	153	1.8k
Xin Zhang China	26	530 1.0×	332 0.7×	100 0.2×	80 0.5×	444 3.5×	215	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Connors

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Connors. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Connors 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 John Connors. John Connors 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

Connors, John, Antonio Cusano, Kévin A. Hao, et al.. (2025). Return to Sport and Graft Failure Rates After Primary Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With a Bone–Patellar Tendon–Bone Versus Hamstring Tendon Autograft: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 53(8). 1996–2006. 3 indexed citations

Connors, John, et al.. (2024). Measuring access to food banks and food pantries: A scoping review of spatial analysis approaches. Health & Place. 88. 103251–103251. 5 indexed citations

Anderson, Robert M., et al.. (2024). Activating uncertainty: Scientific evidence and environmental values in wildlife management. Geoforum. 151. 103999–103999. 1 indexed citations

Ruddick, Sue, et al.. (2023). Animating the urban: between infrastructure and encounter. Urban Geography. 44(10). 2063–2079. 5 indexed citations

Connors, John, Anne G. Short Gianotti, & Robert M. Anderson. (2023). Policy Mobilities, Infrastructures, and Nonhuman Political Agency. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 114(8). 1877–1887. 1 indexed citations

Connors, John, et al.. (2022). Assessing changes in food pantry access after extreme events. Agriculture and Human Values. 40(2). 619–634. 12 indexed citations

Galletti, Christopher S., Xiaoxiao Li, & John Connors. (2019). Establishing the relationship between urban land-cover configuration and night time land-surface temperature using spatial regression. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 40(17). 6752–6774. 8 indexed citations

Eakin, Hallie, et al.. (2016). Identifying attributes of food system sustainability: emerging themes and consensus. Agriculture and Human Values. 34(3). 757–773. 88 indexed citations

Ward, Peter, Mat D. Duerden, Brian Hill, & John Connors. (2015). The Color Run Case: Racing to Maintain and Grow Market Share. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. 33(3). 76–86. 1 indexed citations

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Connors, John, et al.. (2015). The Impact of Forest Thinning on the Reliability of Water Supply in Central Arizona. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0121596–e0121596. 17 indexed citations

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Connors, John, et al.. (2015). Urban and peri-urban agriculture. 12 indexed citations

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Lwasa, Shuaib, Frank Mugagga, Bolanle Wahab, et al.. (2015). A meta-analysis of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in mediating climate change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 13. 68–73. 52 indexed citations

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Connors, John, Christopher S. Galletti, & Winston Chow. (2012). Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects: assessing the relationship between landscape characteristics and land surface temperature in Phoenix, Arizona. Landscape Ecology. 28(2). 271–283. 464 indexed citations breakdown →

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Connors, John, Shufei Lei, & Maggi Kelly. (2011). Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography: Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information for Environmental Monitoring. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102(6). 1267–1289. 132 indexed citations

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Connors, John, et al.. (2007). Experimental Results for Spline Based Obstacle Avoidance of an Off-Road Ground Vehicle. Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2007). 1484–1490. 3 indexed citations

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Seidenwurm, David, Patrick A. Turski, John D. Barr, et al.. (2007). Performance Measures in Neuroradiology. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 28(8). 1435–1438. 6 indexed citations

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Connors, John. (2007). On the Subject of Solar Vehicles and the Benefits of the Technology. 700–705. 27 indexed citations

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Connors, John & Gabriel Elkaim. (2007). Analysis of a Spline Based, Obstacle Avoiding Path Planning Algorithm. 2565–2569. 46 indexed citations

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Elkaim, Gabriel, et al.. (2006). The Overbot: An Off-Road Autonomous Ground Vehicle Testbed. Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2006). 1449–1456. 9 indexed citations

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John, Renu, et al.. (1963). THIRTY DAY ENDURANCE TEST OF A 30KW ARC JET ENGINE. 5 indexed citations

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