Leonard Zobler

811 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 547 citations indexed

About

Leonard Zobler is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonard Zobler has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 547 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 2 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 2 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Leonard Zobler's work include American Environmental and Regional History (2 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (1 paper). Leonard Zobler is often cited by papers focused on American Environmental and Regional History (2 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (1 paper). Leonard Zobler collaborates with scholars based in United States. Leonard Zobler's co-authors include Gilbert F. White, Harold J. Barnett, Chandler Morse, Ian Burton, Robert W. Kates, George W. Carey and Michael Greenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Economic Geography and Geographical Review.

In The Last Decade

Leonard Zobler

9 papers receiving 457 citations

Hit Papers

Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global
    1976 466 citations Leonard Zobler, Gilbert F. White Geographical Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leonard Zobler United States 5 248 212 70 70 49 10 547
R. L. Heathcote Australia 12 103 0.4× 139 0.7× 61 0.9× 47 0.7× 18 0.4× 28 446
Edward J. Kaiser United States 13 412 1.7× 285 1.3× 47 0.7× 67 1.0× 132 2.7× 34 674
David Thomas United States 13 203 0.8× 311 1.5× 70 1.0× 23 0.3× 41 0.8× 35 698
John Hay United Kingdom 13 173 0.7× 192 0.9× 140 2.0× 110 1.6× 28 0.6× 19 634
Bo Wiman Sweden 11 149 0.6× 307 1.4× 33 0.5× 159 2.3× 38 0.8× 37 621
Peter Hastings Australia 10 269 1.1× 200 0.9× 23 0.3× 94 1.3× 44 0.9× 33 505
David Etkin Canada 16 358 1.4× 405 1.9× 88 1.3× 190 2.7× 47 1.0× 32 804
Emma Porio Philippines 11 264 1.1× 178 0.8× 46 0.7× 52 0.7× 24 0.5× 36 520
Grete Hovelsrud-Broda United States 6 209 0.8× 238 1.1× 74 1.1× 41 0.6× 34 0.7× 7 573
Valentin Przyluski France 5 245 1.0× 391 1.8× 47 0.7× 138 2.0× 74 1.5× 7 591

Countries citing papers authored by Leonard Zobler

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leonard Zobler

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonard Zobler

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Zobler, Leonard & Gilbert F. White. (1976). Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global. Geographical Review. 66(2). 247–247. 466 indexed citations breakdown →
2.
Zobler, Leonard, et al.. (1976). A Geographical Systems Analysis of the Water Disposal Networks of the New York Metropolitan Region. Geographical Review. 66(1). 32–32. 1 indexed citations
3.
Greenberg, Michael, et al.. (1973). A Statistical Dissolved Oxygen Model for a Free-Flowing River System. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 68(342). 279–283. 1 indexed citations
4.
Greenberg, Michael, et al.. (1971). A Geographical Systems Analysis of the Water Supply Networks of the New York Metropolitan Region. Geographical Review. 61(3). 339–339. 2 indexed citations
5.
Zobler, Leonard, Ian Burton, & Robert W. Kates. (1966). Readings in Resource Management and Conservation. Economic Geography. 42(3). 281–281. 18 indexed citations
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Zobler, Leonard, Harold J. Barnett, & Chandler Morse. (1964). Scarcity and Growth: The Economics of Natural Resource Availability. Geographical Review. 54(2). 302–302. 36 indexed citations
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Zobler, Leonard. (1962). An Economic-Historical View of Natural Resource Use and Conservation. Economic Geography. 38(3). 189–189. 3 indexed citations
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Zobler, Leonard. (1958). THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE FREQUENCIES IN USING CHI SQUARE FOR REGIONAL ANALYSIS. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 48(4). 456–457. 1 indexed citations
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Zobler, Leonard. (1958). DECISION MAKING IN REGIONAL CONSTRUCTION1. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 48(2). 140–148. 8 indexed citations
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Zobler, Leonard. (1957). STATISTICAL TESTING OF REGIONAL BOUNDARIES. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 47(1). 83–96. 11 indexed citations

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