Lara A. Roman

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Lara A. Roman is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lara A. Roman has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 24 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Lara A. Roman's work include Urban Green Space and Health (56 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (29 papers) and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (19 papers). Lara A. Roman is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (56 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (29 papers) and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (19 papers). Lara A. Roman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Belarus. Lara A. Roman's co-authors include Andrew K. Koeser, Jess Vogt, Frederick N. Scatena, John J. Battles, Dexter H. Locke, Joe R. McBride, Theodore S. Eisenman, Tenley M. Conway, Deborah R. Hilbert and Jason G. Henning and has published in prestigious journals such as Landscape and Urban Planning, Sustainability and Landscape Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Lara A. Roman

65 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Stewardship matters: Case studies in establishment success of urban trees

2015 89 citations Lara A. Roman et al. Urban forestry & urban greening profile →

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Lara A. Roman

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Tenley M. Conway Canada

Melissa R. McHale United States

Camilo Ordóñez Canada

Alessandro Ossola Australia

Sven Hunhammar Sweden

Michael W. Strohbach Germany

Maria Ignatieva Australia

Olga Barbosa Chile

Fabio Salbitano Italy

Horst Korn Germany

Tenley M. Conway Canada

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1.4k ×1.2

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211 ×0.6

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Citations per year, relative to Lara A. Roman Lara A. Roman (= 1×) peers Tenley M. Conway

Countries citing papers authored by Lara A. Roman

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lara A. Roman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lara A. Roman. 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 Lara A. Roman. The network helps show where Lara A. Roman may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lara A. Roman

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

All Works

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Day, Susan D., et al.. (2025). From tyranny to hope: Harnessing the power of small decisions to achieve urban sustainability goals. Environmental Science & Policy. 170. 104125–104125.

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Morgenroth, Justin, Kieron J. Doick, Richard J. Hauer, et al.. (2025). Urban tree cover targets: The good, the bad and the SMART. Urban forestry & urban greening. 112. 128979–128979.

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Day, Susan D., et al.. (2025). The best laid plans: How do adopted city sustainability goals influence site-level action in urban forestry?. AMBIO. 55(3). 591–607.

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Clarke, Mysha, et al.. (2024). Managing urban trees through storms in three United States cities. Landscape and Urban Planning. 248. 105102–105102. 6 indexed citations

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Fry, Dustin, Lara A. Roman, & Michelle C. Kondo. (2024). Comparing mapped park and greenspace boundaries in Philadelphia: implications for exposure assessment in health studies. International Journal of Health Geographics. 23(1). 20–20. 2 indexed citations

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Edge, Sara, et al.. (2024). Centering Community Perspectives to Advance Recognitional Justice for Sustainable Cities: Lessons from Urban Forest Practice. Sustainability. 16(12). 4915–4915. 4 indexed citations

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Koeser, Andrew K., Mysha Clarke, Gail Hansen, et al.. (2023). Greening development: Reducing urban tree canopy loss through incentives. Urban forestry & urban greening. 91. 128184–128184. 8 indexed citations

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Locke, Dexter H., et al.. (2023). Four decades of urban land cover change in Philadelphia. Landscape and Urban Planning. 236. 104764–104764. 12 indexed citations

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Pearsall, Hamil, et al.. (2022). Building knowledge infrastructure for diverse stakeholders to scale up co-production equitably. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 54. 101156–101156. 14 indexed citations

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Roman, Lara A., et al.. (2022). Linking tree cover change to historical management practices in urban parks. Landscape Ecology. 38(12). 4227–4245. 9 indexed citations

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Rogan, John, et al.. (2022). Historical Urban Tree Canopy Cover Change in Two Post-Industrial Cities. Environmental Management. 70(1). 16–34. 16 indexed citations

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Pearsall, Hamil, Víctor Hugo Gutiérrez-Vélez, Melissa R. Gilbert, et al.. (2021). Advancing equitable health and well-being across urban–rural sustainable infrastructure systems. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(1). 33 indexed citations

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Roman, Lara A., Tenley M. Conway, Theodore S. Eisenman, et al.. (2020). Beyond ‘trees are good’: Disservices, management costs, and tradeoffs in urban forestry. AMBIO. 50(3). 615–630. 195 indexed citations

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Huff, Emily S., Michelle Johnson, Lara A. Roman, et al.. (2020). A Literature Review of Resilience in Urban Forestry. Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. 46(3). 185–196. 21 indexed citations

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Eisenman, Theodore S., et al.. (2019). Urban tree survival and stewardship in a state-managed planting initiative: A case study in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Urban forestry & urban greening. 43. 126382–126382. 38 indexed citations

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Koeser, Andrew K., et al.. (2019). Visual health assessments for palms. Urban forestry & urban greening. 41. 195–200. 4 indexed citations

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Roman, Lara A., Hamil Pearsall, Theodore S. Eisenman, et al.. (2018). Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: A literature synthesis. Urban forestry & urban greening. 31. 157–168. 184 indexed citations

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Campbell, Lindsay K., Erika S. Svendsen, & Lara A. Roman. (2016). Knowledge Co-production at the Research–Practice Interface: Embedded Case Studies from Urban Forestry. Environmental Management. 57(6). 1262–1280. 76 indexed citations

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Roman, Lara A.. (2013). Urban Tree Mortality. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 7 indexed citations

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Roman, Lara A.. (2006). Trends in street tree survival, Philadelphia, PA. Integrative Medicine Research. 6(1). 1–11. 2 indexed citations

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