Molly Reif

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Molly Reif is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Molly Reif has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Ecology, 14 papers in Oceanography and 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Molly Reif's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (10 papers), Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis (10 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers). Molly Reif is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (10 papers), Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis (10 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (9 papers). Molly Reif collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Molly Reif's co-authors include Charles R. Lane, Robert C. Frohn, Jennifer M. Wozencraft, Debra Simecek-Beatty, Scott Matheson, Eliza S. Bradley, Jan Svejkovsky, Cathleen E. Jones, Benjamin Holt and Dar A. Roberts and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Scientific Reports and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Molly Reif

36 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remote sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Molly Reif United States	15	421	371	346	339	199	37	1.1k
Víctor Martínez-Vicente United Kingdom	21	392 0.9×	278 0.7×	397 1.1×	1.1k 3.3×	260 1.3×	47	1.6k
Robyn N. Conmy United States	23	248 0.6×	492 1.3×	264 0.8×	701 2.1×	239 1.2×	56	1.5k
Mohammad Haji Gholizadeh United States	10	206 0.5×	156 0.4×	223 0.6×	305 0.9×	845 4.2×	16	1.4k
Els Knaeps Belgium	17	400 1.0×	176 0.5×	438 1.3×	746 2.2×	413 2.1×	37	1.4k
Eurico J. D’Sa United States	26	537 1.3×	186 0.5×	633 1.8×	1.7k 4.9×	280 1.4×	86	2.1k
Lixin Dong China	14	355 0.8×	195 0.5×	157 0.5×	158 0.5×	167 0.8×	48	954
Padmanava Dash United States	16	193 0.5×	76 0.2×	215 0.6×	254 0.7×	245 1.2×	49	767
Yuanzhi Yao China	19	387 0.9×	85 0.2×	196 0.6×	278 0.8×	206 1.0×	54	927
Paolo Rossini Italy	15	263 0.6×	244 0.7×	306 0.9×	255 0.8×	75 0.4×	22	1.1k
Susanne Kratzer Sweden	28	542 1.3×	87 0.2×	431 1.2×	1.5k 4.5×	468 2.4×	49	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Molly Reif

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

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Kerfoot, W. Charles, et al.. (2025). Coastal Environments: LiDAR Mapping of Copper Tailings Impacts, Particle Retention of Copper, Leaching, and Toxicity. Remote Sensing. 17(5). 922–922. 1 indexed citations

Johansen, Richard, et al.. (2024). A Broadscale Assessment of Sentinel-2 Imagery and the Google Earth Engine for the Nationwide Mapping of Chlorophyll a. Sustainability. 16(5). 2090–2090. 3 indexed citations

Reif, Molly, et al.. (2023). Multi-Temporal Trend Analysis of Coastal Vegetation Using Metrics Derived from Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data. Remote Sensing. 15(8). 2098–2098. 3 indexed citations

Pokrzywinski, Kaytee, et al.. (2022). Remote sensing of the cyanobacteria life cycle: A mesocosm temporal assessment of a Microcystis sp. bloom using coincident unmanned aircraft system (UAS) hyperspectral imagery and ground sampling efforts. Harmful Algae. 117. 102268–102268. 15 indexed citations

Reif, Molly, et al.. (2022). Remote sensing-based structural and functional assessments of Phragmites australis diebacks in the Mississippi River Delta. Ecological Indicators. 135. 108549–108549. 7 indexed citations

Kerfoot, W. Charles, et al.. (2021). Coastal Remote Sensing: Merging Physical, Chemical, and Biological Data as Tailings Drift onto Buffalo Reef, Lake Superior. Remote Sensing. 13(13). 2434–2434. 8 indexed citations

Rowland, Michael A., Todd M. Swannack, Michael L. Mayo, et al.. (2021). COVID-19 infection data encode a dynamic reproduction number in response to policy decisions with secondary wave implications. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 10875–10875. 4 indexed citations

Xu, Min, Hongxing Liu, Richard Beck, et al.. (2021). Implementation Strategy and Spatiotemporal Extensibility of Multipredictor Ensemble Model for Water Quality Parameter Retrieval With Multispectral Remote Sensing Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–16. 10 indexed citations

Reif, Molly, et al.. (2021). Nearshore Benthic Mapping in the Great Lakes: A Multi-Agency Data Integration Approach in Southwest Lake Michigan. Remote Sensing. 13(15). 3026–3026. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Min, Hongxing Liu, Richard Beck, et al.. (2019). Regionally and Locally Adaptive Models for Retrieving Chlorophyll-a Concentration in Inland Waters From Remotely Sensed Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(7). 4758–4774. 37 indexed citations

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McKay, S. Kyle, et al.. (2019). Unpacking the Black Box: Demystifying Ecological Models Through Interactive Workshops and Hands-On Learning. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 7. 9 indexed citations

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Johansen, Richard, Richard Beck, Jakub Nowosad, et al.. (2018). Evaluating the portability of satellite derived chlorophyll-a algorithms for temperate inland lakes using airborne hyperspectral imagery and dense surface observations. Harmful Algae. 76. 35–46. 23 indexed citations

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Reif, Molly, et al.. (2016). Remote sensing for restoration ecology: Application for restoring degraded, damaged, transformed, or destroyed ecosystems. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 13(4). 614–630. 36 indexed citations

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Reif, Molly, et al.. (2016). A Spatially Explicit, Multi-Criteria Decision Support Model for Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat Suitability: A Remote Sensing-Based Approach. Remote Sensing. 8(7). 573–573. 14 indexed citations

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Reif, Molly, et al.. (2015). Conceptual Model Development for Sea Turtle Nesting Habitat: Support for USACE Navigation Projects. US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core). 1 indexed citations

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Reif, Molly & Todd M. Swannack. (2014). Development of landscape metrics to support process-driven ecological modeling. US Army Corps of Engineers: Engineer Research and Development Center (Knowledge Core).

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Reif, Molly, et al.. (2014). An Enhanced Three-Step Oxidation Process to Improve Oxide Adhesion on Zirconium Alloys. Oxidation of Metals. 82(1-2). 99–112. 8 indexed citations

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Fritz, Ken M., E. D’Amico, Molly Reif, et al.. (2013). Comparing the Extent and Permanence of Headwater Streams From Two Field Surveys to Values From Hydrographic Databases and Maps. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 49(4). 867–882. 86 indexed citations

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Frohn, Robert C., et al.. (2011). Segmentation and object-oriented classification of wetlands in a karst Florida landscape using multi-season Landsat-7 ETM+ imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 32(5). 1471–1489. 80 indexed citations

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Frohn, Robert C., et al.. (2009). Satellite remote sensing of isolated wetlands using object-oriented classification of Landsat-7 data. Wetlands. 29(3). 931–941. 84 indexed citations

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