Michael Wurm

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Wurm is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Media Technology and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Wurm has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Media Technology and 25 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Michael Wurm's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (73 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (30 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (26 papers). Michael Wurm is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (73 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (30 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (26 papers). Michael Wurm collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Austria. Michael Wurm's co-authors include Hannes Taubenböck, Stefan Dech, Matthias Weigand, Thomas Stark, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Nicolas J. Kraff, Christian Geiß, Stefan Siedentop, Thomas Esch and Achim Roth and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Diabetes Care.

In The Last Decade

Michael Wurm

124 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Semantic segmentation of slums in satellite images using transfer learning on fully convolutional neural networks

2019 268 citations Michael Wurm, Thomas Stark et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Wurm Germany	31	1.7k	733	606	579	450	135	3.1k
Monika Kuffer Netherlands	26	1.4k 0.8×	718 1.0×	285 0.5×	424 0.7×	289 0.6×	110	2.3k
Thomas Kemper Italy	28	1.6k 0.9×	631 0.9×	733 1.2×	520 0.9×	430 1.0×	69	3.0k
Daniel L. Civco United States	29	2.3k 1.3×	1.4k 2.0×	1.2k 1.9×	776 1.3×	316 0.7×	80	4.8k
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani Denmark	32	2.1k 1.2×	231 0.3×	621 1.0×	540 0.9×	551 1.2×	85	3.3k
Sérgio Freire Italy	31	1.6k 1.0×	192 0.3×	410 0.7×	342 0.6×	725 1.6×	90	2.7k
Xiaocong Xu China	22	3.5k 2.1×	300 0.4×	1.1k 1.9×	873 1.5×	488 1.1×	51	4.7k
Martino Pesaresi Italy	41	2.4k 1.4×	2.5k 3.4×	1.1k 1.7×	1.9k 3.2×	632 1.4×	141	6.2k
Changshan Wu United States	32	2.9k 1.7×	1.0k 1.4×	2.1k 3.5×	1.1k 1.9×	422 0.9×	89	4.9k
Chengbin Deng United States	21	1.2k 0.7×	314 0.4×	1.1k 1.9×	530 0.9×	219 0.5×	46	2.3k
Chuanrong Zhang United States	30	1.3k 0.8×	270 0.4×	831 1.4×	294 0.5×	407 0.9×	87	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Wurm

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shi, Lifeng, Tobias Leichtle, Xianjin Huang, Michael Wurm, & Hannes Taubenböck. (2025). The decreasing housing utilization efficiency in China’s cities. Nature Cities. 2(1). 70–80. 4 indexed citations

Staab, Jeroen, Matthias Weigand, Marco Dallavalle, et al.. (2025). Pixels, chisels and contours - technical variations in European road traffic noise exposure maps. Journal of Environmental Management. 385. 125475–125475.

Taubenböck, Hannes, et al.. (2025). Was global urbanization from 1985 to 2015 efficient in terms of land consumption?. Habitat International. 160. 103397–103397. 2 indexed citations

Wurm, Michael, et al.. (2025). Does formal public transport serve the city well? The importance of semiformal transport for the accessibility in Medellín, Colombia. PLoS ONE. 20(4). e0321691–e0321691.

Weigand, Matthias, Michael Wurm, Thomas Stark, et al.. (2023). Are public green spaces distributed fairly? A nationwide analysis based on remote sensing, OpenStreetMap and census data. Geocarto International. 38(1). 6 indexed citations

Taubenböck, Hannes, et al.. (2023). Learning income levels and inequality from spatial and sociodemographic data in Germany. Applied Geography. 159. 103058–103058. 6 indexed citations

Stark, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Efficiency of CNNs for Building Extraction: Comparative Analysis of Performance and Time. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1–4. 2 indexed citations

Taubenböck, Hannes, Lifeng Shi, Tobias Leichtle, Shihong Du, & Michael Wurm. (2023). The ‘ghost city’ phenomenon in China: mapping and categorization at intra-urban scale. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1–4. 2 indexed citations

Stark, Thomas, et al.. (2023). YOLO object detection models can locate and classify broad groups of flower-visiting arthropods in images. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16364–16364. 19 indexed citations

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Wurm, Michael, et al.. (2022). Multitemporal landslide exposure and vulnerability assessment in Medellín, Colombia. Natural Hazards. 119(2). 883–906. 13 indexed citations

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Wurm, Michael, et al.. (2022). Empiric recommendations for population disaggregation under different data scenarios. PLoS ONE. 17(9). e0274504–e0274504. 22 indexed citations

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Auzanneau, Marie, Joachim Rosenbauer, Katharina Warncke, et al.. (2022). Frequency of Ketoacidosis at Diagnosis of Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Associated With Socioeconomic Deprivation and Urbanization: Results From the German Multicenter DPV Registry. Diabetes Care. 45(8). 1807–1813. 8 indexed citations

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Wurm, Michael, Jan Goebel, Gert G. Wagner, et al.. (2020). Inferring Floor Area Ratio Thresholds for the Delineation of City Centers Based on Cognitive Perception. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Friesen, John W., Hannes Taubenböck, Michael Wurm, & Peter F. Pelz. (2019). Size distributions of slums across the globe using different data and classification methods. European Journal of Remote Sensing. 52(sup2). 99–111. 27 indexed citations

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Taubenböck, Hannes, et al.. (2017). Mega-regions in China - A spatial analysis of settlement patterns using Earth observation data. elib (German Aerospace Center). 3 indexed citations

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Krauß, Thomas, Rudolf Richter, Erik Borg, et al.. (2012). Operational pre-processing of MERIS, (A)ATSR and VEGETATION data for the ESA-CCI project "Fire-Disturbance". EGUGA. 3. 345–9. 3 indexed citations

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Heldens, Wieke, Hannes Taubenböck, Michael Wurm, & Thomas Esch. (2010). Urban heat island of Munich, Germany – a multisensoral and multiscale approach. Food & Function. 10(4). 1826–1835. 2 indexed citations

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Wurm, Michael & Hannes Taubenböck. (2010). Fernerkundungsdaten als Grundlage zur Identifikation von Stadtstrukturtypen. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 20(6). 719–20. 1 indexed citations

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Taubenböck, Hannes, Thomas Esch, Michael Wurm, Wieke Heldens, & Stefan Dech. (2010). From Earth Observation to Urban Planning in Cities. elib (German Aerospace Center). 2(5549). 393–4. 1 indexed citations

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Thiel, Michael, Hannes Taubenböck, Thomas Esch, et al.. (2008). Classification of urban environments with TerraSAR-X and ALOS-PALSAR data. elib (German Aerospace Center). 65. 185–95. 4 indexed citations

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