Matamyo Simwanda

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Matamyo Simwanda is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Matamyo Simwanda has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Matamyo Simwanda's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (5 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (5 papers). Matamyo Simwanda is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (5 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (5 papers). Matamyo Simwanda collaborates with scholars based in Zambia, Japan and Sri Lanka. Matamyo Simwanda's co-authors include Yuji Murayama, Manjula Ranagalage, Vincent R. Nyirenda, Darius Phiri, Serajis Salekin, Ronald C. Estoque, DMSLB Dissanayake, M.H.J.P. Gunarathna, Takehiro Morimoto and Ruci Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Sustainability and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Matamyo Simwanda

24 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Sentinel-2 Data for Land Cover/Use Mapping: A Review 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Sentinel-2 Data for Land Cover/Use Mapping: A Review
    2020 520 citations Darius Phiri, Matamyo Simwanda et al. Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matamyo Simwanda Zambia 15 687 473 378 252 250 26 1.2k
Yanhua Xie United States 20 936 1.4× 483 1.0× 419 1.1× 162 0.6× 270 1.1× 43 1.4k
Luca Congedo Italy 16 574 0.8× 457 1.0× 251 0.7× 261 1.0× 164 0.7× 29 1.0k
Yuean Qiu China 10 575 0.8× 287 0.6× 286 0.8× 224 0.9× 205 0.8× 14 1.0k
James D. Hurd United States 13 771 1.1× 326 0.7× 397 1.1× 132 0.5× 264 1.1× 35 1.1k
Xinli Ke China 23 1.2k 1.7× 338 0.7× 280 0.7× 330 1.3× 270 1.1× 60 1.7k
Emily H. Wilson United States 7 992 1.4× 475 1.0× 754 2.0× 114 0.5× 308 1.2× 9 1.5k
Junmei Tang United States 18 535 0.8× 280 0.6× 306 0.8× 122 0.5× 216 0.9× 43 974
Yingchun Fu China 17 700 1.0× 411 0.9× 323 0.9× 165 0.7× 244 1.0× 41 1.0k
Tingting He China 22 810 1.2× 336 0.7× 336 0.9× 133 0.5× 290 1.2× 75 1.4k
Wenjuan Yu China 17 1.1k 1.5× 421 0.9× 299 0.8× 552 2.2× 266 1.1× 30 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matamyo Simwanda

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matamyo Simwanda

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

All Works

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Phiri, Darius, et al.. (2026). Effects of acid mine drainage from collapsed tailings dam on Zambia’s human riparian communities: a fuzzy cognitive model perspective. Scientific Reports. 16(1). 4618–4618. 1 indexed citations
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Phiri, Darius, et al.. (2025). Effects of urban driven land use/land cover change on forest reserves in Zambia: a geospatial approach. African Geographical Review. 45(2). 132–158.
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Phiri, Darius, Serajis Salekin, Vincent R. Nyirenda, et al.. (2021). Spread of COVID-19 in Zambia: An assessment of environmental and socioeconomic factors using a classification tree approach. Scientific African. 12. e00827–e00827. 13 indexed citations
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Simwanda, Matamyo, Yuji Murayama, Darius Phiri, Vincent R. Nyirenda, & Manjula Ranagalage. (2021). Simulating Scenarios of Future Intra-Urban Land-Use Expansion Based on the Neural Network–Markov Model: A Case Study of Lusaka, Zambia. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 942–942. 19 indexed citations
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Ranagalage, Manjula, Takehiro Morimoto, Matamyo Simwanda, & Yuji Murayama. (2021). Spatial Analysis of Urbanization Patterns in Four Rapidly Growing South Asian Cities Using Sentinel-2 Data. Remote Sensing. 13(8). 1531–1531. 29 indexed citations
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Ranagalage, Manjula, Sujith S. Ratnayake, DMSLB Dissanayake, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal Variation of Urban Heat Islands for Implementing Nature-Based Solutions: A Case Study of Kurunegala, Sri Lanka. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 9(7). 461–461. 36 indexed citations
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Ranagalage, Manjula, M.H.J.P. Gunarathna, Thilina D. Surasinghe, et al.. (2020). Multi-Decadal Forest-Cover Dynamics in the Tropical Realm: Past Trends and Policy Insights for Forest Conservation in Dry Zone of Sri Lanka. Forests. 11(8). 836–836. 36 indexed citations
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Phiri, Darius, Matamyo Simwanda, & Vincent R. Nyirenda. (2020). Mapping the impacts of cyclone Idai in Mozambique using Sentinel-2 and OBIA approach. South African Geographical Journal. 103(2). 237–258. 28 indexed citations
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Phiri, Darius, Matamyo Simwanda, Serajis Salekin, et al.. (2020). Sentinel-2 Data for Land Cover/Use Mapping: A Review. Remote Sensing. 12(14). 2291–2291. 520 indexed citations breakdown →
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Phiri, Darius, Matamyo Simwanda, Vincent R. Nyirenda, Yuji Murayama, & Manjula Ranagalage. (2020). Decision Tree Algorithms for Developing Rulesets for Object-Based Land Cover Classification. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 9(5). 329–329. 23 indexed citations
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Ranagalage, Manjula, Ruci Wang, M.H.J.P. Gunarathna, et al.. (2019). Spatial Forecasting of the Landscape in Rapidly Urbanizing Hill Stations of South Asia: A Case Study of Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka (1996–2037). Remote Sensing. 11(15). 1743–1743. 47 indexed citations
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Ranagalage, Manjula, Yuji Murayama, DMSLB Dissanayake, & Matamyo Simwanda. (2019). The Impacts of Landscape Changes on Annual Mean Land Surface Temperature in the Tropical Mountain City of Sri Lanka: A Case Study of Nuwara Eliya (1996–2017). Sustainability. 11(19). 5517–5517. 54 indexed citations
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Simwanda, Matamyo & Yuji Murayama. (2018). Spatiotemporal patterns of urban land use change in the rapidly growing city of Lusaka, Zambia: Implications for sustainable urban development. Sustainable Cities and Society. 39. 262–274. 101 indexed citations
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Simwanda, Matamyo & Yuji Murayama. (2017). Integrating Geospatial Techniques for Urban Land Use Classification in the Developing Sub-Saharan African City of Lusaka, Zambia. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 6(4). 102–102. 34 indexed citations
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Estoque, Ronald C., Yuji Murayama, Manjula Ranagalage, et al.. (2017). 〈Original Papers〉Validating ALOS PRISM DSM-derived surface feature height: Implications for urban volume estimation. 13. 13–22. 8 indexed citations
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Simwanda, Matamyo, et al.. (2017). An Internet-Based GIS Platform Providing Data for Visualization and Spatial Analysis of Urbanization in Major Asian and African Cities. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 6(8). 257–257. 20 indexed citations

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