Ming Kuo

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ming Kuo is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Kuo has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 4 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ming Kuo's work include Urban Green Space and Health (11 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (5 papers) and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (4 papers). Ming Kuo is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (11 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (5 papers) and Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (4 papers). Ming Kuo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Australia. Ming Kuo's co-authors include Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Michael R. Barnes, Catherine Jordan, Lynne M. Westphal, Sonya Sachdeva, Kangjae Lee, Erica N. Spotswood, Megan M. Wheeler, Robert I. McDonald and Timon McPhearson and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment International, Landscape and Urban Planning and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Ming Kuo

17 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

How might contact with nature promote human health? Promising mechanisms and a possible central pathway

2015 517 citations Ming Kuo Frontiers in Psychology profile →
Do Experiences With Nature Promote Learning? Converging Evidence of a Cause-and-Effect Relationship

2019 250 citations Ming Kuo, Michael R. Barnes et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ming Kuo United States	11	959	278	235	235	219	18	1.3k
Ke-Tsung Han Taiwan	15	812 0.8×	251 0.9×	174 0.7×	213 0.9×	250 1.1×	25	1.0k
Anne Cleary Australia	17	631 0.7×	322 1.2×	212 0.9×	142 0.6×	138 0.6×	53	1.5k
Tytti Pasanen Finland	17	772 0.8×	234 0.8×	166 0.7×	217 0.9×	196 0.9×	34	1.1k
Kerryn Husk United Kingdom	17	665 0.7×	171 0.6×	153 0.7×	178 0.8×	144 0.7×	50	1.5k
Olivia McAnirlin United States	13	989 1.0×	338 1.2×	253 1.1×	321 1.4×	245 1.1×	29	1.8k
Märit Jansson Sweden	16	815 0.8×	127 0.5×	383 1.6×	108 0.5×	159 0.7×	37	1.1k
Julie Dean Australia	13	795 0.8×	179 0.6×	246 1.0×	208 0.9×	154 0.7×	29	1.2k
Matilda Annerstedt Sweden	10	788 0.8×	224 0.8×	226 1.0×	255 1.1×	161 0.7×	13	1.2k
Jo Peacock United Kingdom	4	922 1.0×	343 1.2×	171 0.7×	221 0.9×	132 0.6×	6	1.2k
Helen Woolley United Kingdom	18	732 0.8×	196 0.7×	296 1.3×	83 0.4×	101 0.5×	40	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ming Kuo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ming Kuo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ming Kuo

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

All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

Spotswood, Erica N., Myla F. J. Aronson, Erin E. Beller, et al.. (2025). Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening. People and Nature. 7(11). 2622–2658. 1 indexed citations

Browning, Matthew H.E.M., Jun Shan, Stacey Alexeeff, et al.. (2025). Moving to greener neighborhoods and healthcare costs in Northern California. Environmental Epidemiology. 9(3). e392–e392. 1 indexed citations

Eeden, Stephen K. Van Den, Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Douglas A. Becker, et al.. (2022). Association between residential green cover and direct healthcare costs in Northern California: An individual level analysis of 5 million persons. Environment International. 163. 107174–107174. 21 indexed citations

Spotswood, Erica N., Megan M. Wheeler, Erin E. Beller, et al.. (2021). Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States. Nature Sustainability. 4(12). 1092–1098. 131 indexed citations

Kuo, Ming, et al.. (2020). Greening for academic achievement: Prioritizing what to plant and where. Landscape and Urban Planning. 206. 103962–103962. 36 indexed citations

Kuo, Ming, Michael R. Barnes, & Catherine Jordan. (2019). Do Experiences With Nature Promote Learning? Converging Evidence of a Cause-and-Effect Relationship. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 305–305. 250 indexed citations breakdown →

Becker, Douglas A., Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Ming Kuo, & Stephen K. Van Den Eeden. (2019). Is green land cover associated with less health care spending? Promising findings from county-level Medicare spending in the continental United States. Urban forestry & urban greening. 41. 39–47. 47 indexed citations

Kuo, Ming, Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Sonya Sachdeva, Kangjae Lee, & Lynne M. Westphal. (2018). Might School Performance Grow on Trees? Examining the Link Between “Greenness” and Academic Achievement in Urban, High-Poverty Schools. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1669–1669. 90 indexed citations

Browning, Matthew H.E.M., Ming Kuo, Sonya Sachdeva, Kangjae Lee, & Lynne M. Westphal. (2018). Greenness and school-wide test scores are not always positively associated – A replication of “linking student performance in Massachusetts elementary schools with the ‘greenness’ of school surroundings using remote sensing”. Landscape and Urban Planning. 178. 69–72. 48 indexed citations

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Kuo, Ming, et al.. (2018). Do Lessons in Nature Boost Subsequent Classroom Engagement? Refueling Students in Flight. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 110 indexed citations

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Chang, Polun, et al.. (2017). Design of an Intelligent Nursing Clinical Pathway and Nursing Order Support System for Traditional Chinese Medicine.. PubMed. 245. 1014–1018. 1 indexed citations

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Kuo, Ming, et al.. (2016). An Efficient User Interface Design for Nursing Information System Based on Integrated Patient Order Information.. PubMed. 225. 911–2.

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Kuo, Ming. (2015). How might contact with nature promote human health? Promising mechanisms and a possible central pathway. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 1093–1093. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Chieh‐Yu, et al.. (2015). A study on the acceptance by postpartum women of the RFID system applied during rooming-in care. 11(1). 74–83. 1 indexed citations

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Kuo, Ming, et al.. (2014). The Relationship of Learning Motivation, Achievement and Satisfaction for Nurses Learning Simple Excel VBA Information Systems Programming. Studies in health technology and informatics. 201. 364–70. 2 indexed citations

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Kuo, Ming, et al.. (2012). A Newborn Baby Care Support App and System for mHealth.. PubMed. 2012. 228–228. 10 indexed citations

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Kuo, Ming. (2011). Parks and Other Green Environments: 'Essential Components of a Healthy Human Habitat'. 14(1). 28 indexed citations

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Kuo, Ming & Polun Chang. (2009). Developing a Visualized Patient-centered, Flow-based and Objective-oriented Care Path of Cardiac Catheterization Examination. Studies in health technology and informatics. 146. 879–80. 2 indexed citations

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