Ranjay Shrestha

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ranjay Shrestha is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ranjay Shrestha has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Environmental Engineering and 16 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Ranjay Shrestha's work include Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (8 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (8 papers). Ranjay Shrestha is often cited by papers focused on Remote Sensing in Agriculture (13 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (8 papers) and Flood Risk Assessment and Management (8 papers). Ranjay Shrestha collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Sudan. Ranjay Shrestha's co-authors include Miguel O. Román, Zhuosen Wang, Liping Di, Genong Yu, Steven D. Miller, Andrew Molthan, Lingjun Kang, Andreas Jechow, Xi Li and Christopher C. M. Kyba and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Remote Sensing of Environment and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Ranjay Shrestha

36 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

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

2019 604 citations Miguel O. Román, Andrew Molthan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ranjay Shrestha United States	16	1.0k	380	342	249	199	38	1.4k
Qiming Zheng China	23	1.1k 1.1×	289 0.8×	368 1.1×	142 0.6×	262 1.3×	49	1.5k
Julian Zeidler Germany	15	632 0.6×	348 0.9×	440 1.3×	218 0.9×	144 0.7×	39	1.2k
Wieke Heldens Germany	16	720 0.7×	282 0.7×	474 1.4×	350 1.4×	160 0.8×	46	1.5k
Yuehong Chen China	24	456 0.4×	437 1.1×	324 0.9×	313 1.3×	209 1.1×	74	1.5k
Christopher D. Lippitt United States	19	1.1k 1.0×	476 1.3×	376 1.1×	228 0.9×	64 0.3×	56	1.8k
Yanhua Xie United States	20	936 0.9×	419 1.1×	483 1.4×	270 1.1×	178 0.9×	43	1.4k
Md. Shahinoor Rahman United States	22	1.1k 1.1×	394 1.0×	792 2.3×	449 1.8×	51 0.3×	51	1.8k
Qiangzi Li China	24	690 0.7×	905 2.4×	404 1.2×	425 1.7×	115 0.6×	97	1.6k
Cláudia Maria de Almeida Brazil	17	885 0.8×	625 1.6×	454 1.3×	251 1.0×	67 0.3×	87	1.6k
Hasi Bagan Japan	16	633 0.6×	292 0.8×	280 0.8×	274 1.1×	97 0.5×	51	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ranjay Shrestha

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ranjay Shrestha

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Slayback, D. A., Sadashiva Devadiga, Albert J. Kettner, Ranjay Shrestha, & D. K. Davies. (2023). NASA's Updated Near Real-Time Global Flood Product. 1432–1435. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhuosen, Ranjay Shrestha, Miguel O. Román, & Virginia Kalb. (2022). NASA’s Black Marble Multiangle Nighttime Lights Temporal Composites. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 29 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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Wang, Zhuosen, Miguel O. Román, Virginia Kalb, Ranjay Shrestha, & Eleanor C. Stokes. (2019). Evaluation of Lunar BRDF Correction for the Retrieval of Daily Viirs Black Marble Nighttime Lights. 8519–8521.

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Shrestha, Ranjay, et al.. (2017). Regression model to estimate flood impact on corn yield using MODIS NDVI and USDA cropland data layer. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 16(2). 398–407. 96 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Ranjay, Liping Di, Genong Yu, et al.. (2017). Crop Fraction Layer (CFL) datasets derived through MODIS and LandSat for the continental US from year 2000–2016. 1–7. 5 indexed citations

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Di, Liping, Genong Yu, Lingjun Kang, Ranjay Shrestha, & Yuqi Bai. (2017). RF-CLASS: A remote-sensing-based flood crop loss assessment cyber-service system for supporting crop statistics and insurance decision-making. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 16(2). 408–423. 41 indexed citations

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Kang, Lingjun, Liping Di, Genong Yu, et al.. (2016). Study of the vegetation index-meteorological factor correlation adjusted by accumulated growing degree days. 19. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Ranjay, Liping Di, Genong Yu, et al.. (2016). Regression based corn yield assessment using MODIS based daily NDVI in Iowa state. 1–5. 20 indexed citations

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Lin, Li, Liping Di, Genong Yu, et al.. (2016). A review of remote sensing in flood assessment. 1–4. 57 indexed citations

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Yu, Genong, Liping Di, Lingjun Kang, et al.. (2016). Online parameterization for WOFOST for United States using open geospatial standards. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhengwei, Lei Hu, Genong Yu, et al.. (2016). Web service-based SMAP soil moisture data visualization, dissemination and analytics based on vegscape framwork. 3624–3627. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Zhe, et al.. (2015). Land cover classification and change detection analysis using LandSat series and geospatial datasets in Nepal from 1980 to 2010. IFPRI E-brary (International Food Policy Research Institute). 414–418. 8 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Ranjay & Liping Di. (2013). Land/water detection and delineation with Landsat data using Matlab/ENVI. 211–214. 6 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Ranjay, et al.. (2013). Detection of flood and its impact on crops using NDVI - Corn case. 200–204. 28 indexed citations

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Yu, Genong, Liping Di, Bei Zhang, et al.. (2013). Remote-sensing-based flood damage estimation using crop condition profiles. 205–210. 17 indexed citations

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Kang, Lingjun, et al.. (2013). Study of the NDVI-precipitation correlation stratified by crop type and soil permeability. 194–199. 8 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Ranjay, Ron Mahabir, & Liping Di. (2013). Healthy food accessibility and obesity: Case study of Pennsylvania, USA. i and ii. 329–333. 4 indexed citations

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Bai, Yuqi, Liping Di, Aijun Chen, et al.. (2012). GEOSS Component and Service Registry: Design, Implementation and Lessons Learned. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 5(6). 1678–1686. 16 indexed citations

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Di, Luigi, et al.. (2011). The GEOSS Component and Service Registry. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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