K. Sparks

4.5k total citations
34 papers, 428 citations indexed

About

K. Sparks is a scholar working on Transportation, Global and Planetary Change and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Sparks has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 428 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Transportation, 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in K. Sparks's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (6 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (5 papers). K. Sparks is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (6 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (5 papers). K. Sparks collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. K. Sparks's co-authors include Jefferson W. Tester, Bernhardt L. Trout, E. Dendy Sloan, Marie Urban, Joe Kiskis, Huina Mao, Budhendra Bhaduri, Jibonananda Sanyal, Kristi D. Snell and Dirk Schweitzer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B and The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

K. Sparks

29 papers receiving 407 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
K. Sparks United States 13 181 91 90 64 51 34 428
K. S. Glavatskiy Australia 15 274 1.5× 72 0.8× 97 1.1× 140 2.2× 16 0.3× 29 601
Alok Gupta India 10 15 0.1× 109 1.2× 230 2.6× 15 0.2× 3 0.1× 36 589
C. M. Freeman United States 16 154 0.9× 148 1.6× 28 0.3× 682 10.7× 3 0.1× 24 1.2k
Carlos Navarro Mexico 16 10 0.1× 35 0.4× 21 0.2× 14 0.2× 29 0.6× 28 672
Han Yue China 26 37 0.2× 8 0.1× 65 0.7× 35 0.5× 11 0.2× 73 2.6k
Young‐Jun Choi South Korea 14 23 0.1× 10 0.1× 138 1.5× 47 0.7× 1 0.0× 62 686
Kevin Mallery United States 9 49 0.3× 16 0.2× 39 0.4× 11 0.2× 1 0.0× 9 449
A. Higashi Japan 14 113 0.6× 14 0.2× 74 0.8× 39 0.6× 42 643

Countries citing papers authored by K. Sparks

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Fields of papers citing papers by K. Sparks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by K. Sparks. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by K. Sparks. The network helps show where K. Sparks may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Sparks

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

All Works

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Brelsford, Christa, Andrew D. Jones, Bhartendu Pandey, et al.. (2024). Cities Are Concentrators of Complex, MultiSectoral Interactions Within the Human‐Earth System. Earth s Future. 12(11). 4 indexed citations
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De, Debraj, et al.. (2024). DICER: Data Intensive Computing Environment and Runtime for Evaluating Unprecedented Scale of Geospatial-Temporal Human Mobility Data. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 139–148. 3 indexed citations
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Tuccillo, Joe, et al.. (2023). Spatial analysis of social capital and community heterogeneity at the United States county level. Applied Geography. 162. 103168–103168. 9 indexed citations
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Brelsford, Christa, et al.. (2022). Spatial and Temporal Characterization of Activity in Public Space, 2019–2020. Scientific Data. 9(1). 379–379. 18 indexed citations
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Sparks, K., et al.. (2020). COVID-19 Joint Pandemic Modeling and Analysis Platform. 43–52. 15 indexed citations
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Masrur, Arif, et al.. (2019). Co-location Pattern Mining of Geosocial Data to Characterize Urban Functional Spaces. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 4099–4102. 1 indexed citations
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Sparks, K., et al.. (2019). A global analysis of cities’ geosocial temporal signatures for points of interest hours of operation. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 34(4). 759–776. 23 indexed citations
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Layec, Patricia, A. Dupas, Dominique Verchère, K. Sparks, & S. Bigo. (2017). Will Metro Networks Be the Playground for (True) Elastic Optical Networks?. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 35(6). 1260–1266. 16 indexed citations
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Sparks, K., et al.. (2016). Facility detection and popularity assessment from text classification of social media and crowdsourced data. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1–7. 2 indexed citations
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Sparks, K., et al.. (2016). Curating Transient Population in Urban Dynamics System. 1. 2 indexed citations
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Sparks, K., et al.. (2016). Demonstrating PlanetSense. 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Klippel, Alexander, Jan Oliver Wallgrün, Jinlong Yang, & K. Sparks. (2015). Intuitive Direction Concepts. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10(1).
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Sparks, K.. (2013). Search for High Energy Emission from GRBs with the HAWC Observatory. ICRC. 33. 1089. 1 indexed citations
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Brewer, Cynthia A., et al.. (2013). Automated thinning of road networks and road labels for multiscale design of The National Map of the United States. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 40(4). 259–270. 14 indexed citations
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Tester, Jefferson W., et al.. (2001). Molecular Computations Using Robust Hydrocarbon−Water Potentials for Predicting Gas Hydrate Phase Equilibria. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 105(44). 10950–10960. 72 indexed citations
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Sparks, K. & Jefferson W. Tester. (1992). Intermolecular potential energy of water clathrates: the inadequacy of the nearest-neighbor approximation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 96(26). 11022–11029. 44 indexed citations
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Frautschi, M., D. Johnson, H. Kagan, et al.. (1991). The AMY inner tracking chamber. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 307(1). 52–62. 7 indexed citations
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Gunion, J. F., et al.. (1986). Q2dependence of exclusive meson production in two-photon reactions. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 33(3). 689–698. 9 indexed citations
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Sloan, E. Dendy, et al.. (1986). An experimental method for the measurement of two phase liquid hydrocarbon-hydrate equilibrium. Fluid Phase Equilibria. 29. 233–240. 12 indexed citations

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