Nicholas Clinton

12.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
64 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Clinton is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Clinton has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Ecology, 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Clinton's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (26 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (10 papers). Nicholas Clinton is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (26 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (10 papers). Nicholas Clinton collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. Nicholas Clinton's co-authors include Peng Gong, Michael DeWitt, Le Yu, Jie Wang, Nicholas Murray, Stuart Phinn, Renata Ferrari, Richard A. Fuller, Mitchell Lyons and David Thau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Clinton

61 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats

2018 711 citations Nicholas Murray, Stuart Phinn et al. Nature profile →
MODIS detected surface urban heat islands and sinks: Global locations and controls

2013 417 citations Nicholas Clinton, Peng Gong Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Mapping major land cover dynamics in Beijing using all Landsat images in Google Earth Engine

2017 357 citations Huabing Huang, Nicholas Clinton et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
A mangrove forest map of China in 2015: Analysis of time series Landsat 7/8 and Sentinel-1A imagery in Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform

2017 344 citations Nicholas Clinton et al. profile →
Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015

2020 265 citations Han Liu, Peng Gong et al. Earth system science data profile →
Globally consistent assessment of coastal eutrophication

2021 137 citations Joji Ishizaka, Nicholas Clinton et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Clinton

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring 2025 ·Scientific Data ·Maxim Neumann, (unknown), (unknown), Mickael Rey, (unknown), Michelle Sims, Sarah Carter, (unknown), Keith Anderson, (unknown), (unknown), Myroslava Lesiv, Steffen Fritz, Nicholas Clinton, Charlotte Stanton, Dan Morris, Drew W. Purves	1
2	EEAGER: A Neural Network Model for Finding Beaver Complexes in Satellite and Aerial Imagery 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Eric Y. Zhu, Nicholas Clinton, (unknown), (unknown), William W. Macfarlane, Joseph M. Wheaton, (unknown), (unknown)	7
3	Europe-wide air pollution modeling from 2000 to 2019 using geographically weighted regression 2022 ·Environment International ·(unknown), Kees de Hoogh, Oliver Schmitz, Nicholas Clinton, (unknown), Jørgen Brandt, Jesper Heile Christensen, Lise Marie Frohn, Camilla Geels, Derek Karssenberg, Roel Vermeulen, Gerard Hoek	54
4	Flood Extent Mapping During Hurricane Florence With Repeat‐Pass L‐Band UAVSAR Images 2022 ·Water Resources Research ·Chao Wang, Tamlin M. Pavelsky, Fangfang Yao, Xiao Yang, Shuai Zhang, Bruce Chapman, Conghe Song, Antonia Sebastian, Brian G. Frizzelle, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Nicholas Clinton	8
5	High-resolution global maps of tidal flat ecosystems from 1984 to 2019 2022 ·Scientific Data ·Nicholas Murray, Stuart Phinn, Richard A. Fuller, Michael DeWitt, Renata Ferrari, (unknown), Nicholas Clinton, Mitchell Lyons	25
6	How close are urban scale building simulations to measured data? Examining bias derived from building metadata in urban building energy modeling 2022 ·Applied Energy ·(unknown), Joshua New, Nicholas Clinton, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	18
7	Are global cities homogenizing? An assessment of urban form and heat island implications 2022 ·Cities ·Michelle Stuhlmacher, Matei Georgescu, B. L. Turner, Yi’na Hu, Ran Goldblatt, (unknown), Amy E. Frazier, Yushim Kim, Robert C. Balling, Nicholas Clinton	43
8	Globally consistent assessment of coastal eutrophication breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Joji Ishizaka, Nicholas Clinton, Michael DeWitt	137
9	Annual dynamics of global land cover and its long-term changes from 1982 to 2015 breakdown → 2020 ·Earth system science data ·Han Liu, Peng Gong, Jie Wang, Nicholas Clinton, Yuqi Bai, Shunlin Liang	265
10	Multispectral high resolution sensor fusion for smoothing and gap-filling in the cloud 2020 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Álvaro Moreno‐Martínez, Emma Izquierdo‐Verdiguier, Marco Maneta, Gustau Camps‐Valls, Nathaniel Robinson, Jordi Muñoz-Marı́, Fernando Sedano, Nicholas Clinton, Steven W. Running	99
11	Integrating LiDAR data and multi-temporal aerial imagery to map wetland inundation dynamics using Google Earth Engine 2019 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Qiusheng Wu, Charles R. Lane, Xuecao Li, Kaiguang Zhao, Yuyu Zhou, Nicholas Clinton, Ben DeVries, Heather E. Golden, Megan Lang	128
12	Extensive vegetation browning and drying in forests of India’s Tiger Reserves 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Nicholas Clinton, Krithi K. Karanth	9
13	The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats breakdown → 2018 ·Nature ·Nicholas Murray, Stuart Phinn, Michael DeWitt, Renata Ferrari, (unknown), Mitchell Lyons, Nicholas Clinton, David Thau, Richard A. Fuller	711
14	Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine 2018 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), (unknown), David A. Kroodsma, Matthew F. Wasson, Matthew Ross, Nicholas Clinton, David J. Campagna, (unknown), Emily S. Bernhardt, John F. Amos	90
15	A Circa 2010 Thirty Meter Resolution Forest Map for China 2014 ·Remote Sensing ·Congcong Li, Jie Wang, Luanyun Hu, Le Yu, Nicholas Clinton, Huabing Huang, Jun Yang, Peng Gong	48
16	MODIS detected surface urban heat islands and sinks: Global locations and controls breakdown → 2013 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Nicholas Clinton, Peng Gong	417
17	Landscape analysis of wetland plant functional types: The effects of image segmentation scale, vegetation classes and classification methods 2012 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Iryna Dronova, Peng Gong, Nicholas Clinton, Lin Wang, Wei Fu, Shuhua Qi, Ying Liu	137
18	Image-based 3D corn reconstruction for retrieval of geometrical structural parameters 2009 ·International Journal of Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Wuming Zhang, Guoqing Zhou, Guangjian Yan, Nicholas Clinton	22
19	Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands 2007 ·Forest Ecology and Management ·Scott L. Stephens, Robert E. Martin, Nicholas Clinton	174
20	Evaluation of Wildfire Mapping with NOAA/AVHRR Data by Land Cover Types and Eco-Regions in California 2004 ·Annals of GIS ·Nicholas Clinton, Peng Gong, Ruiliang Pu	2

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