Regina Below

464 total citations · 2 hit papers
4 papers, 172 citations indexed

About

Regina Below is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Infectious Diseases and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Regina Below has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 172 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 1 paper in Infectious Diseases and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Regina Below's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (1 paper), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (1 paper) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (1 paper). Regina Below is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (1 paper), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (1 paper) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (1 paper). Regina Below collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Germany. Regina Below's co-authors include Henk‐Jan Joosten, Friederike Wagner‐Cremer, Pim de Klerk, Henk Visscher, David L. Dilcher, Wolfram M. Kürschner, Damien Delforge, Niko Speybroeck, Camila I. Donatti and Paula Moraga and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, BMC Public Health and International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

In The Last Decade

Regina Below

4 papers receiving 167 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.

Global hotspots of climate-related disasters

2024 41 citations Camila I. Donatti, Giacomo Fedele et al. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction profile →
EM-DAT: the Emergency Events Database

2025 25 citations Damien Delforge, Regina Below et al. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Regina Below Belgium	4	77	76	48	32	19	4	172
Lajos Rácz Hungary	7	150 1.9×	123 1.6×	15 0.3×	7 0.2×	14 0.7×	12	206
Elżbieta Szychowska‐Kra̧piec Poland	8	200 2.6×	80 1.1×	92 1.9×	30 0.9×	32 1.7×	31	227
Fanjiang Zeng China	8	76 1.0×	38 0.5×	119 2.5×	18 0.6×	4 0.2×	31	247
Harumi Warner Switzerland	6	49 0.6×	69 0.9×	18 0.4×	15 0.5×	4 0.2×	7	159
Javier Ruiz-Pérez Spain	7	36 0.5×	24 0.3×	60 1.3×	20 0.6×	118 6.2×	15	268
Olga Diane Yongo Central African Republic	6	62 0.8×	55 0.7×	19 0.4×	26 0.8×	18 0.9×	13	134
Kathleen Pribyl United Kingdom	10	152 2.0×	147 1.9×	7 0.1×	43 1.3×	15 0.8×	16	237
Chantal Camenisch Switzerland	8	128 1.7×	116 1.5×	6 0.1×	7 0.2×	13 0.7×	15	174
Moisés Rojas-Badilla Chile	5	75 1.0×	103 1.4×	15 0.3×	21 0.7×	1 0.1×	13	170
Felicia S. Whyte Jamaica	3	212 2.8×	246 3.2×	7 0.1×	37 1.2×	3 0.2×	3	312

Countries citing papers authored by Regina Below

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Fields of papers citing papers by Regina Below

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Regina Below. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Regina Below. The network helps show where Regina Below may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Regina Below

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

All Works

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Delforge, Damien, et al.. (2025). EM-DAT: the Emergency Events Database. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 124. 105509–105509. 25 indexed citations breakdown →

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Delforge, Damien, et al.. (2025). What makes an epidemic a disaster: the future of epidemics within the EM-DAT International Disaster Database. BMC Public Health. 25(1). 21–21. 5 indexed citations

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Donatti, Camila I., Giacomo Fedele, Damien Delforge, et al.. (2024). Global hotspots of climate-related disasters. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 108. 104488–104488. 41 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wagner‐Cremer, Friederike, Regina Below, Pim de Klerk, et al.. (1996). A natural experiment on plant acclimation: lifetime stomatal frequency response of an individual tree to annual atmospheric CO2 increase.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 93(21). 11705–11708. 101 indexed citations

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