Robert D. Brown

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
246 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Robert D. Brown is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert D. Brown has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 77 papers in Environmental Engineering and 42 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Robert D. Brown's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (75 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (66 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (37 papers). Robert D. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (75 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (66 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (37 papers). Robert D. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Robert D. Brown's co-authors include Se Woong Kim, Natasha Kenny, Terry J. Gillespie, Sanda Lenzholzer, Jennifer Vanos, Robert C. Corry, Richard J. Goss, John FitzGibbon, Vagn Flyger and Dongying Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Robert D. Brown

224 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Urban heat island (UHI) intensity and magnitude estimations: A systematic literature review

2021 278 citations Robert D. Brown et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert D. Brown	2.8k	2.6k	1.6k	1.2k	928	246	6.4k
Teri Knight	1.9k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	2.7k 1.7×	410 0.3×	1.4k 1.6×	42	7.4k
Cristina Linares	972 0.4×	4.4k 1.7×	2.9k 1.8×	163 0.1×	2.9k 3.1×	270	8.9k
Zander S. Venter	1.2k 0.4×	1.9k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	156 0.1×	623 0.7×	49	3.9k
Decheng Zhou	3.3k 1.2×	2.1k 0.8×	3.4k 2.1×	377 0.3×	857 0.9×	58	6.1k
Brian Finlayson	2.6k 0.9×	862 0.3×	4.7k 2.9×	1.1k 1.0×	3.9k 4.2×	131	16.1k
Boris A. Portnov	515 0.2×	1.1k 0.4×	2.7k 1.7×	408 0.3×	526 0.6×	146	4.9k
Roberto Zecchin	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.4×	5.6k 3.5×	764 0.6×	2.1k 2.2×	28	13.4k
Shuqing Zhao	3.3k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	5.9k 3.6×	430 0.4×	2.0k 2.1×	113	10.0k
Marc L. Imhoff	4.5k 1.6×	1.8k 0.7×	5.2k 3.2×	350 0.3×	2.1k 2.3×	78	8.7k
Jarlath O’Neil‐Dunne	1.5k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	77 0.1×	682 0.7×	70	4.1k

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Kim, YouJoung & Robert D. Brown. (2025). Climate-sensitive street design: Evaluating summer pedestrian activity and behavioral thermal adaptation on the high line, NYC. Building and Environment. 281. 113203–113203. 2 indexed citations

Li, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2025). A novel thermal comfort model for older adults – development and validation of the COMFA-OA model. Building and Environment. 287(Pt A). 113758–113758.

Liu, Shuang, et al.. (2025). A diagnostic equation for understanding courtyard thermal radiation environments: Evidence from courtyards in central Guangdong, China. Building and Environment. 278. 112970–112970. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Lihua, et al.. (2025). Summer shading strategies for urban sidewalks: Shade-layout control metrics oriented to pedestrian whole-trip thermal comfort. Sustainable Cities and Society. 136. 107019–107019.

Clayton, Mark J., et al.. (2024). From BIM to thermal comfort: Leveraging BIM for rapid outdoor comfort assessments. Energy and Buildings. 321. 114664–114664. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Lihua, et al.. (2024). The impact of dynamic thermal experiences on pedestrian thermal comfort: A whole-trip perspective from laboratory studies. Building and Environment. 258. 111599–111599. 20 indexed citations

Kim, YouJoung, Dongying Li, Yangyang Xu, et al.. (2023). Heat vulnerability and street-level outdoor thermal comfort in the city of Houston: Application of google street view image derived SVFs. Urban Climate. 51. 101617–101617. 22 indexed citations

Brown, Robert D., et al.. (2023). Establishing a link between complex courtyard spaces and thermal comfort: A major advancement in evidence-based design. Building and Environment. 245. 110852–110852. 7 indexed citations

Brown, Robert D., et al.. (2023). The COMFA model for assessing courtyard thermal comfort in hot and humid regions: A comparative study with existing models. Building and Environment. 234. 110150–110150. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yufeng, et al.. (2023). The effect of solar radiation on pedestrian thermal comfort: A climate chamber experiment. Building and Environment. 245. 110869–110869. 19 indexed citations

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Liu, Shuang, et al.. (2023). A workflow for rapid assessment of complex courtyard wind environment based on parallel lattice Boltzmann method. Building and Environment. 233. 110112–110112. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Dongying, et al.. (2022). Microclimatic Landscape Architecture: From Theory to Application. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 9–9. 4 indexed citations

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Lee, Dong‐Kun, et al.. (2022). The effect of extremely low sky view factor on land surface temperatures in urban residential areas. Sustainable Cities and Society. 80. 103799–103799. 75 indexed citations

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Majji, Manoranjan, et al.. (2021). Long-Term Space Nutrition: A Scoping Review. Nutrients. 14(1). 194–194. 56 indexed citations

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Vecellio, Daniel J., et al.. (2021). The role of outdoor microclimatic features at long-term care facilities in advancing the health of its residents: An integrative review and future strategies. Environmental Research. 201. 111583–111583. 18 indexed citations

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Brown, Robert D., et al.. (2021). Integrating Microclimate into Landscape Architecture for Outdoor Thermal Comfort: A Systematic Review. Land. 10(2). 196–196. 28 indexed citations

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McWilliam, Wendy, et al.. (2020). Reducing the Incidence of Skin Cancer through Landscape Architecture Design Education. Sustainability. 12(22). 9402–9402. 6 indexed citations

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Brown, Robert D., et al.. (2020). Assessing U.S. Landscape Architecture Faculty Research Contribution. Land. 9(3). 64–64.

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Liu, Binyi, Zefeng Lian, & Robert D. Brown. (2019). Effect of Landscape Microclimates on Thermal Comfort and Physiological Wellbeing. Sustainability. 11(19). 5387–5387. 36 indexed citations

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Iida, Akiko, et al.. (2018). Microclimate Variation and Estimated Heat Stress of Runners in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Marathon. Atmosphere. 9(5). 192–192. 36 indexed citations

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