Ramón A. Alvarez

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Ramón A. Alvarez is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ramón A. Alvarez has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ramón A. Alvarez's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (10 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (9 papers). Ramón A. Alvarez is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (10 papers) and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting (9 papers). Ramón A. Alvarez collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Ramón A. Alvarez's co-authors include Steven P. Hamburg, Stephen W. Pacala, James J. Winebrake, W. L. Chameides, David Lyon, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, Anthony J. Marchese, Robert C. Harriss, Daniel Zimmerle and Xin Lan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Ramón A. Alvarez

23 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Greater focus needed on methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure

2012 516 citations Ramón A. Alvarez, Stephen W. Pacala et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space

2020 225 citations Yuzhong Zhang, Ritesh Gautam et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers

Ramón A. Alvarez

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David Lyon United States

Timothy Vaughn United States

Maria Obiminda Cambaliza United States

Daniel Cusworth United States

Matthew Harrison United States

Mark Omara United States

Renee Santoro United States

Pankaj Sadavarte India

Shaojie Song China

Seongeun Jeong United States

David Lyon United States

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2.1k ×1.6

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934 ×1.5

655 ×1.2

378 ×1.0

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561 ×1.6

Citations per year, relative to Ramón A. Alvarez Ramón A. Alvarez (= 1×) peers David Lyon

Countries citing papers authored by Ramón A. Alvarez

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ramón A. Alvarez

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ramón A. Alvarez

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Esquivel‐Elizondo, Sofia, et al.. (2025). Ensuring the Climate and Environmental Integrity of Alternative Fuels. Environmental Science & Technology. 60(7). 5219–5230. 1 indexed citations

Peters, Daniel R., et al.. (2024). Ambient Measurements of Hazardous Air Pollutants in the United States Routinely Exceed Predictions from Screening-Level Exposure Models. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 12(1). 57–63.

Wilde, Shona E., Naomi J. Farren, Ramón A. Alvarez, et al.. (2024). Mobile monitoring reveals congestion penalty for vehicle emissions in London. Atmospheric Environment X. 21. 100241–100241. 2 indexed citations

Lin, John C., Benjamin Fasoli, L. Mitchell, et al.. (2023). Towards hyperlocal source identification of pollutants in cities by combining mobile measurements with atmospheric modeling. Atmospheric Environment. 311. 119995–119995. 6 indexed citations

Gohlke, Julia M., Maria H. Harris, Ananya Roy, et al.. (2023). State-of-the-Science Data and Methods Need to Guide Place-Based Efforts to Reduce Air Pollution Inequity. Environmental Health Perspectives. 131(12). 125003–125003. 4 indexed citations

Peters, Daniel R., Olalekan Popoola, R. L. Jones, et al.. (2022). Evaluating uncertainty in sensor networks for urban air pollution insights. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(2). 321–334. 16 indexed citations

Shah, Rishabh U., Daniel R. Peters, Olalekan Popoola, et al.. (2022). Identifying Patterns and Sources of Fine and Ultrafine Particulate Matter in London Using Mobile Measurements of Lung-Deposited Surface Area. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(1). 96–108. 14 indexed citations

Peters, Daniel R., Olalekan Popoola, David Carruthers, et al.. (2021). New methods to derive street-scale spatial patterns of air pollution from mobile monitoring. Atmospheric Environment. 270. 118851–118851. 24 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuzhong, Ritesh Gautam, Sudhanshu Pandey, et al.. (2020). Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space. Science Advances. 6(17). eaaz5120–eaaz5120. 225 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chambliss, Sarah, Chelsea V. Preble, Kyle P. Messier, et al.. (2020). Comparison of Mobile and Fixed-Site Black Carbon Measurements for High-Resolution Urban Pollution Mapping. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(13). 7848–7857. 39 indexed citations

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Gautam, Rahul, Pankaj Sadavarte, Mark Omara, et al.. (2019). Quantifying Methane Emissions from the Largest Oil producing basin in the US from Space. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 2 indexed citations

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Messier, Kyle P., Sarah Chambliss, Shahzad Gani, et al.. (2018). Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(21). 12563–12572. 127 indexed citations

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Zavala‐Araiza, Daniel, Ramón A. Alvarez, David Lyon, et al.. (2017). Super-emitters in natural gas infrastructure are caused by abnormal process conditions. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14012–14012. 136 indexed citations

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Lyon, David, Ramón A. Alvarez, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, et al.. (2016). Aerial Surveys of Elevated Hydrocarbon Emissions from Oil and Gas Production Sites. Environmental Science & Technology. 50(9). 4877–4886. 98 indexed citations

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Kleinman, Michael T., et al.. (2016). Emissions from oil and gas operations in the United States and their air quality implications. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 66(12). 1165–1170. 4 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Ramón A., et al.. (2015). Influence of Methane Emissions and Vehicle Efficiency on the Climate Implications of Heavy-Duty Natural Gas Trucks. Environmental Science & Technology. 49(11). 6402–6410. 50 indexed citations

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Lyon, David, Daniel Zavala‐Araiza, Ramón A. Alvarez, et al.. (2015). Constructing a Spatially Resolved Methane Emission Inventory for the Barnett Shale Region. Environmental Science & Technology. 49(13). 8147–8157. 118 indexed citations

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Zavala‐Araiza, Daniel, David Lyon, Ramón A. Alvarez, et al.. (2015). Toward a Functional Definition of Methane Super-Emitters: Application to Natural Gas Production Sites. Environmental Science & Technology. 49(13). 8167–8174. 111 indexed citations

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Zavala‐Araiza, Daniel, David Lyon, Ramón A. Alvarez, et al.. (2015). Reconciling divergent estimates of oil and gas methane emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(51). 15597–15602. 209 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Ramón A., Stephen W. Pacala, James J. Winebrake, W. L. Chameides, & Steven P. Hamburg. (2012). Greater focus needed on methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(17). 6435–6440. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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