John Odindi

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
150 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

John Odindi is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John Odindi has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Ecology, 56 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 53 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in John Odindi's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (75 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (47 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (23 papers). John Odindi is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (75 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (47 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (23 papers). John Odindi collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. John Odindi's co-authors include Onisimo Mutanga, Elfatih M. Abdel‐Rahman, Timothy Dube, Elhadi Adam, Terence Darlington Mushore, Omosalewa Odebiri, Mbulisi Sibanda, Paidamwoyo Mhangara, Kabir Peerbhay and Pedzisai Kowe and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Environmental Management.

In The Last Decade

John Odindi

143 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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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.

Land-use/cover classification in a heterogeneous coastal landscape using RapidEye imagery: evaluating the performance of random forest and support vector machines classifiers

2014 360 citations Onisimo Mutanga, John Odindi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Odindi South Africa	34	1.6k	1.3k	1.3k	506	504	150	3.2k
Birgit Kleinschmit Germany	37	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	564 1.1×	321 0.6×	116	3.7k
Qingjiu Tian China	31	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	743 1.5×	584 1.2×	182	3.7k
Kasper Johansen Australia	37	2.4k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	355 0.7×	570 1.1×	104	3.9k
Angela Lausch Germany	32	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.5×	347 0.7×	393 0.8×	76	4.0k
Sebastian van der Linden Germany	34	2.1k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	2.2k 1.7×	870 1.7×	270 0.5×	85	4.2k
Wei Yang China	33	1.7k 1.1×	997 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	542 1.1×	313 0.6×	154	3.7k
Dailiang Peng China	39	2.8k 1.8×	1.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.8×	837 1.7×	740 1.5×	126	4.5k
Michael Förster Germany	26	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	799 0.6×	257 0.5×	215 0.4×	82	2.5k
Christopher Conrad Germany	36	2.5k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	2.1k 1.7×	810 1.6×	736 1.5×	168	4.5k
Grégory Duveiller Italy	36	2.8k 1.8×	1.7k 1.3×	3.3k 2.6×	1.2k 2.4×	1.2k 2.4×	97	5.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Odindi

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Abdel‐Rahman, Elfatih M., et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal trends in Anopheles funestus breeding habitats. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 136. 104351–104351.

Mutanga, Onisimo, Mbulisi Sibanda, John Odindi, et al.. (2023). Assessing the Prospects of Remote Sensing Maize Leaf Area Index Using UAV-Derived Multi-Spectral Data in Smallholder Farms across the Growing Season. Remote Sensing. 15(6). 1597–1597. 24 indexed citations

Odebiri, Omosalewa, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of projected soil organic carbon stocks under future climate and land cover changes in South Africa using a deep learning approach. Journal of Environmental Management. 330. 117127–117127. 19 indexed citations

Sibanda, Mbulisi, Onisimo Mutanga, John Odindi, et al.. (2023). EXPLORING THE PROSPECTS OF UAV-REMOTELY SENSED DATA IN ESTIMATING PRODUCTIVITY OF MAIZE CROPS IN TYPICAL SMALLHOLDER FARMS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. X-1/W1-2023. 1143–1150. 1 indexed citations

Ramoelo, Abel, et al.. (2023). Apportioning Human-Induced and Climate-Induced Land Degradation: A Case of the Greater Sekhukhune District Municipality. Applied Sciences. 13(6). 3644–3644. 1 indexed citations

Mutanga, Onisimo, et al.. (2023). The role of remote sensing in tropical grassland nutrient estimation: a review. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 195(8). 954–954. 4 indexed citations

Odindi, John, et al.. (2022). The influence of bioclimatic and topographic variables on grassland fire occurrence within an urbanized landscape. Scientific African. 15. e01127–e01127. 7 indexed citations

Odindi, John, et al.. (2022). Quantitative remote sensing of forest ecosystem services in sub-Saharan Africa’s urban landscapes: a review. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 194(4). 242–242. 6 indexed citations

Abdel‐Rahman, Elfatih M., John Odindi, Onisimo Mutanga, et al.. (2022). The use of multisource spatial data for determining the proliferation of stingless bees in Kenya. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 59(1). 648–669. 6 indexed citations

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Ramoelo, Abel, et al.. (2021). A triangulation approach for assessing and mapping land degradation in the Lepellane catchment of the greater Sekhukhune District, South Africa. South African Geographical Journal. 104(4). 514–538. 6 indexed citations

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Mutanga, Onisimo, et al.. (2020). A Hybrid Feature Method for Handling Redundant Features in a Sentinel-2 Multidate Image for Mapping Parthenium Weed. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 13. 3644–3655. 6 indexed citations

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Odindi, John, et al.. (2020). Testing the utility of multivariate techniques in mapping commercial forest species using freely available Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI). Journal of Forest Research. 25(5). 354–357. 4 indexed citations

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Odindi, John, et al.. (2019). Examining the effectiveness of Sentinel-1 and 2 imagery for commercial forest species mapping. Geocarto International. 36(1). 1–12. 37 indexed citations

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Odindi, John, et al.. (2017). Potential of interval partial least square regression in estimating leaf area index. South African Journal of Science. 113(9/10). 9–9. 20 indexed citations

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Odindi, John, et al.. (2015). THE EFFECT OF FOREST FRAGMENTATION ON TREE SPECIES ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY IN THE EASTERN ARC MOUNTAINS OF TANZANIA. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research. 13(2). 6 indexed citations

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Odindi, John, et al.. (2015). Assessing theValue ofUrbanGreen Spaces inMitigatingMulti-SeasonalUrban Heat usingMODISLand SurfaceTemperature (LST) andLandsat 8 data. International Journal of Environmental Research. 9(1). 9–18. 31 indexed citations

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Mhangara, Paidamwoyo & John Odindi. (2013). Opportunities for Increasing Societal Value of Remote Sensing Data in South Africa’s Strategic Development Priorities: A Review. South African Journal of Geomatics. 2(1). 28–40. 2 indexed citations

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Odindi, John & Paidamwoyo Mhangara. (2012). Green Spaces Trends in the City of Port Elizabeth from 1990 to 2000 using Remote Sensing. International Journal of Environmental Research. 6(3). 653–662. 27 indexed citations

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Odindi, John, Paidamwoyo Mhangara, & Vincent Kakembo. (2012). Remote sensing land-cover change in Port Elizabeth during South Africa's democratic transition : research article. South African Journal of Science. 108. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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Odindi, John, et al.. (2010). Communities and conservation: in search for a win-win situation in the Great Fish River Reserve.. Journal of sustainable development in Africa. 12(1). 13–26. 3 indexed citations

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