Lela Prashad

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 954 citations indexed

About

Lela Prashad is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lela Prashad has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 954 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Environmental Engineering, 2 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 1 paper in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lela Prashad's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (2 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (1 paper). Lela Prashad is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (4 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (2 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (1 paper). Lela Prashad collaborates with scholars based in United States and Taiwan. Lela Prashad's co-authors include Anthony J. Brazel, William L. Stefanov, Sharon L. Harlan, Larissa Larsen, Brent C. Hedquist, Jay S. Golden, Chen-Yi Sun and Winston Chow and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Social Science & Medicine and Theoretical and Applied Climatology.

In The Last Decade

Lela Prashad

4 papers receiving 902 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.

Neighborhood microclimates and vulnerability to heat stress

2006 807 citations Sharon L. Harlan, Anthony J. Brazel et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lela Prashad United States	4	719	594	230	159	121	5	954
Juan Declet‐Barreto United States	9	746 1.0×	520 0.9×	369 1.6×	92 0.6×	85 0.7×	16	1.1k
Diego Manya Singapore	5	617 0.9×	566 1.0×	278 1.2×	89 0.6×	135 1.1×	7	862
Jalonne L. White-Newsome United States	13	891 1.2×	331 0.6×	122 0.5×	134 0.8×	69 0.6×	19	1.1k
Marcos Quijal-Zamorano Spain	10	772 1.1×	305 0.5×	225 1.0×	79 0.5×	90 0.7×	21	1.0k
Evan Mallen United States	13	434 0.6×	315 0.5×	125 0.5×	120 0.8×	44 0.4×	21	638
Adam J. Kalkstein United States	13	1.2k 1.7×	838 1.4×	476 2.1×	190 1.2×	110 0.9×	17	1.7k
Dana Habeeb United States	5	451 0.6×	376 0.6×	269 1.2×	72 0.5×	46 0.4×	8	664
Tanja Wolf Germany	13	623 0.9×	288 0.5×	185 0.8×	30 0.2×	95 0.8×	22	861
Gudrun Laschewski Germany	11	539 0.7×	409 0.7×	151 0.7×	248 1.6×	85 0.7×	18	821
Katherine Arbuthnott United Kingdom	8	730 1.0×	280 0.5×	240 1.0×	45 0.3×	70 0.6×	13	891

Countries citing papers authored by Lela Prashad

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lela Prashad

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lela Prashad

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

All Works

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5 of 5 papers shown

1.

Prashad, Lela. (2014). Urban Heat Island.. 878–881. 1 indexed citations

2.

Sun, Chen-Yi, Anthony J. Brazel, Winston Chow, Brent C. Hedquist, & Lela Prashad. (2009). Desert heat island study in winter by mobile transect and remote sensing techniques. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 98(3-4). 323–335. 51 indexed citations

3.

Harlan, Sharon L., Anthony J. Brazel, Lela Prashad, William L. Stefanov, & Larissa Larsen. (2006). Neighborhood microclimates and vulnerability to heat stress. Social Science & Medicine. 63(11). 2847–2863. 807 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Prashad, Lela, et al.. (2006). Linking satellite images and hand-held infrared thermography to observed neighborhood climate conditions. Remote Sensing of Environment. 104(2). 190–200. 81 indexed citations

5.

Stefanov, William L., et al.. (2004). Investigation of human modifications of landscape and climate in the phoenix Arizona Metropolitan area using master data. 1339–1347. 14 indexed citations

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