Michail Fragkias

7.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
28 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Michail Fragkias is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michail Fragkias has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 7 papers in Transportation and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Michail Fragkias's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (7 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (6 papers). Michail Fragkias is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (7 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (6 papers). Michail Fragkias collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Michail Fragkias's co-authors include Karen C. Seto, Burak Güneralp, Michael Reilly, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Christopher G. Boone, Peter J. Marcotullio, José Lobo, Anette Reenberg, Branislav Olah and Tobias Langanke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michail Fragkias

27 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion 2005 2026 2012 2019 2011 2012 2005 2010 2015 500 1000 1.5k
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. A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion
    2011 1.6k citations Karen C. Seto, Michail Fragkias et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  2. Urban land teleconnections and sustainability
    2012 611 citations Karen C. Seto, Christopher G. Boone et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Quantifying Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urban Land-use Change in Four Cities of China with Time Series Landscape Metrics
    2005 580 citations Karen C. Seto, Michail Fragkias profile →
  4. The New Geography of Contemporary Urbanization and the Environment
    2010 492 citations Karen C. Seto, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez et al. Annual Review of Environment and Resources profile →
  5. Trees Grow on Money: Urban Tree Canopy Cover and Environmental Justice
    2015 478 citations Kirsten Schwarz, Michail Fragkias et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  6. Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050
    2017 347 citations Burak Güneralp, Yuyu Zhou et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  7. Urban land expansion: the role of population and economic growth for 300+ cities
    2022 228 citations Michail Fragkias, Burak Güneralp et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michail Fragkias United States 19 3.5k 1.5k 1.3k 821 694 28 5.4k
Zhifeng Liu China 36 4.3k 1.2× 1.2k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 697 1.0× 111 7.0k
Qingxu Huang China 37 4.3k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 929 1.1× 764 1.1× 94 6.0k
William Solecki United States 33 3.1k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 1.3k 1.1× 462 0.6× 299 0.4× 114 6.4k
Nancy E. Golubiewski New Zealand 12 4.0k 1.1× 2.2k 1.4× 2.1k 1.7× 1.4k 1.8× 344 0.5× 21 6.6k
Nina Schwarz Germany 27 2.7k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 1.3k 1.0× 302 0.4× 334 0.5× 66 4.8k
Wenze Yue China 40 3.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.2× 1.8k 1.4× 434 0.5× 1.4k 2.0× 129 5.5k
Jürgen P. Kropp Germany 39 2.2k 0.6× 903 0.6× 1.8k 1.4× 668 0.8× 257 0.4× 128 6.2k
Shiliang Su China 48 3.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 562 0.4× 693 0.8× 1.8k 2.6× 95 6.0k
Austin Troy United States 31 3.2k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 286 0.4× 60 5.2k
Jasper van Vliet Netherlands 37 3.6k 1.0× 637 0.4× 797 0.6× 808 1.0× 249 0.4× 84 4.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michail Fragkias

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fragkias, Michail, et al.. (2018). Correction to: A comparative study of urban fragmentation patterns in small and mid-sized cities of Idaho. Urban Ecosystems. 21(6). 1229–1229. 1 indexed citations
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Liao, Felix Haifeng, Kathleen A. Lohse, Danelle M. Larson, et al.. (2018). Land conservation can mitigate freshwater ecosystem services degradation due to climate change in a semiarid catchment: The case of the Portneuf River catchment, Idaho, USA. The Science of The Total Environment. 651(Pt 2). 1796–1809. 25 indexed citations
3.
Mason, Susan G. & Michail Fragkias. (2018). Metropolitan planning organizations and climate change action. Urban Climate. 25. 37–50. 11 indexed citations
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Güneralp, Burak, Yuyu Zhou, Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, et al.. (2017). Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(34). 8945–8950. 347 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fragkias, Michail, et al.. (2017). Modeling teleconnected urban social–ecological systems: opportunities and challenges for resilience research. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 9(2). 207–225. 11 indexed citations
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Fragkias, Michail, José Lobo, & Karen C. Seto. (2016). A comparison of nighttime lights data for urban energy research: Insights from scaling analysis in the US system of cities. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 44(6). 1077–1096. 15 indexed citations
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Schwarz, Kirsten, Michail Fragkias, Christopher G. Boone, et al.. (2015). Trees Grow on Money: Urban Tree Canopy Cover and Environmental Justice. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0122051–e0122051. 478 indexed citations breakdown →
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Solecki, William, Karen C. Seto, Deborah Balk, et al.. (2015). A conceptual framework for an urban areas typology to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation. Urban Climate. 14. 116–137. 61 indexed citations
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Fragkias, Michail. (2015). Urbanization, economic growth and sustainability. 4 indexed citations
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Wentz, Elizabeth A., Sharolyn Anderson, Michail Fragkias, et al.. (2014). Supporting Global Environmental Change Research: A Review of Trends and Knowledge Gaps in Urban Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 6(5). 3879–3905. 98 indexed citations
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Fragkias, Michail, José Lobo, Deborah Strumsky, & Karen C. Seto. (2013). Does Size Matter? Scaling of CO2 Emissions and U.S. Urban Areas. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e64727–e64727. 228 indexed citations
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Heinrichs, Dirk, Kerstin Krellenberg, & Michail Fragkias. (2013). Urban Responses to Climate Change: Theories and Governance Practice in Cities of the Global South. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 37(6). 1865–1878. 48 indexed citations
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Boone, Christopher G., Michail Fragkias, Geoffrey L. Buckley, & J. Morgan Grove. (2013). A long view of polluting industry and environmental justice in Baltimore. Cities. 36. 41–49. 38 indexed citations
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Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar, et al.. (2012). Human well-being for a planet under pressure: Transition to social sustainability. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1 indexed citations
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Boone, Christopher G. & Michail Fragkias. (2012). Urbanization and Sustainability. Scholar Works (Boise State University). 48 indexed citations
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Seto, Karen C., Michail Fragkias, Burak Güneralp, & Michael Reilly. (2011). A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion. PLoS ONE. 6(8). e23777–e23777. 1641 indexed citations breakdown →
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Seto, Karen C., Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, & Michail Fragkias. (2010). The New Geography of Contemporary Urbanization and the Environment. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 35(1). 167–194. 492 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fragkias, Michail & Jacqueline Geoghegan. (2009). Commercial and industrial land use change, job decentralization and growth controls: a spatially explicit analysis. Journal of Land Use Science. 5(1). 45–66. 16 indexed citations
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Fragkias, Michail & Karen C. Seto. (2008). Evolving rank-size distributions of intra-metropolitan urban clusters in South China. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 33(3). 189–199. 90 indexed citations
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Fragkias, Michail & Karen C. Seto. (2007). Modeling Urban Growth in Data-Sparse Environments: A New Approach. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 34(5). 858–883. 29 indexed citations

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