Miguel O. Román

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Miguel O. Román is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Miguel O. Román has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 34 papers in Atmospheric Science and 26 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Miguel O. Román's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (22 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (21 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers). Miguel O. Román is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (22 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (21 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (17 papers). Miguel O. Román collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and China. Miguel O. Román's co-authors include Crystal Schaaf, Zhuosen Wang, Alan H. Strahler, Yanmin Shuai, Curtis E. Woodcock, Qingsong Sun, Eleanor C. Stokes, Andrew Molthan, Ranjay Shrestha and Dorothy K. Hall and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Miguel O. Román

72 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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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.

Remote sensing of night lights: A review and an outlook for the future

2019 604 citations Miguel O. Román, Andrew Molthan et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miguel O. Román United States	36	3.2k	1.8k	1.7k	1.6k	374	74	4.6k
Zhuosen Wang United States	39	2.8k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	309 0.8×	93	4.6k
Cuizhen Wang United States	33	1.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	792 0.5×	314 0.8×	116	3.1k
Hongxing Liu United States	36	1.4k 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	137 0.4×	105	3.9k
Yaozhong Pan China	34	3.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	964 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	118 0.3×	128	4.8k
Sebastian van der Linden Germany	34	2.2k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	870 0.5×	96 0.3×	85	4.2k
Huabing Huang China	28	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	769 0.5×	98 0.3×	95	3.2k
Xingfa Gu China	35	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	492 1.3×	259	4.7k
Nektarios Chrysoulakis Greece	33	1.7k 0.6×	1000 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	838 0.5×	160 0.4×	164	3.9k
Xuehong Chen China	32	2.5k 0.8×	2.8k 1.6×	1.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	118 0.3×	115	5.6k
Douglas A. Stow United States	34	2.1k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	929 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	86 0.2×	169	4.0k

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Zhang, Jianglong, Jeffrey S. Reid, Miguel O. Román, et al.. (2025). Towards gridded nighttime aerosol optical thickness retrievals using VIIRS day–night band observations over regions with artificial light sources. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(8). 1787–1810. 1 indexed citations

Oehri, Jacqueline, et al.. (2024). Artificial light at night reveals hotspots and rapid development of industrial activity in the Arctic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(44). e2322269121–e2322269121. 2 indexed citations

Shah, Deep, Shuai Zhang, Sudipta Sarkar, et al.. (2024). Transitioning from MODIS to VIIRS Global Water Reservoir Product. Scientific Data. 11(1). 209–209. 9 indexed citations

Li, Ruohan, Dongdong Wang, Sadashiva Devadiga, Sudipta Sarkar, & Miguel O. Román. (2024). MCD18 V6.2: A New Version of MODIS Downward Shortwave Radiation and Photosynthetically Active Radiation Products. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Meng, Jun Wang, Lorena Castro García, et al.. (2023). Enhancement of Nighttime Fire Detection and Combustion Efficiency Characterization Using Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS Instruments. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–20. 3 indexed citations

Oda, Tomohiro, et al.. (2023). Potentially underestimated gas flaring activities—a new approach to detect combustion using machine learning and NASA’s Black Marble product suite. Environmental Research Letters. 18(3). 35001–35001. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Jianglong, Jeffrey S. Reid, Steven D. Miller, et al.. (2023). Sensitivity studies of nighttime top-of-atmosphere radiances from artificial light sources using a 3-D radiative transfer model for nighttime aerosol retrievals. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(10). 2531–2546. 3 indexed citations

Potter, Stefano, Kylen Solvik, Angela Erb, et al.. (2019). Climate change decreases the cooling effect from postfire albedo in boreal North America. Global Change Biology. 26(3). 1592–1607. 36 indexed citations

Hall, Dorothy K., George A. Riggs, Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, & Miguel O. Román. (2019). MODIS Cloud-Gap Filled Snow-Cover Products: Advantages and Uncertainties. 15 indexed citations

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Román, Miguel O., Eleanor C. Stokes, Ranjay Shrestha, et al.. (2019). Satellite-based assessment of electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. PLoS ONE. 14(6). e0218883–e0218883. 159 indexed citations

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Hall, Dorothy K., George A. Riggs, Nicolo E. DiGirolamo, & Miguel O. Román. (2019). Evaluation of MODIS and VIIRS cloud-gap-filled snow-cover products for production of an Earth science data record. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(12). 5227–5241. 59 indexed citations

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Armston, John, Jaime Nickeson, Laura Duncanson, et al.. (2018). Overview and Status of the CEOS Land Product Validation Subgroup. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 13297. 1 indexed citations

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Jiao, Ziti, Xiaoning Zhang, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2018). The influence of spatial resolution on the angular variation patterns of optical reflectance as retrieved from MODIS and POLDER measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment. 215. 371–385. 30 indexed citations

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Oda, Tomohiro, Shamil Maksyutov, Lesley Ott, et al.. (2018). The ODIAC - Space-based Mapping of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Support of Carbon Cycle Sciences and Climate Mitigation. EGUGA. 5552. 1 indexed citations

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Riggs, George A., Dorothy K. Hall, & Miguel O. Román. (2017). Overview of NASA's MODIS and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) snow-cover Earth System Data Records. Earth system science data. 9(2). 765–777. 102 indexed citations

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Riggs, George A., Dorothy K. Hall, & Miguel O. Román. (2017). Overview of NASA's MODIS and VIIRS Snow-Cover Earth SystemData Records. 3 indexed citations

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Guillevic, Pierre, et al.. (2016). Global Land Product Validation Protocols: An Initiative of the CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation to Evaluate Satellite-derived Essential Climate Variables. AGUFM. 2016. 2 indexed citations

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Román, Miguel O., et al.. (2016). MALIBU: A High Spatial Resolution Multi-Angle Imaging Unmanned Airborne System to Validate Satellite-derived BRDF/Albedo Products. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Stokes, Eleanor C., et al.. (2014). The Urban Social and Energy Use Data Embedded in Suomi-NPP VIIRS Nighttime Lights: Algorithm Overview and Status. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 4 indexed citations

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Guillevic, Pierre, Glynn Hulley, J. L. Privette, et al.. (2014). Validation of Land Surface Temperature products derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) using ground-based and heritage satellite measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment. 154. 19–37. 135 indexed citations

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