Ronald C. Estoque

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Ronald C. Estoque is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald C. Estoque has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 22 papers in Environmental Engineering and 17 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Ronald C. Estoque's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (53 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (18 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers). Ronald C. Estoque is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (53 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (18 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (16 papers). Ronald C. Estoque collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and Sri Lanka. Ronald C. Estoque's co-authors include Yuji Murayama, Soe W. Myint, Manjula Ranagalage, Xinmin Zhang, Makoto Ooba, Yasuaki Hijioka, Takuya Togawa, Hao Hou, Shogo Nakamura and Rajarshi Dasgupta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ronald C. Estoque

66 papers receiving 4.6k citations

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Effects of landscape composition and pattern on land surface temperature: An urban heat island study in the megacities of Southeast Asia

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald C. Estoque Japan	35	3.1k	2.4k	1.9k	858	700	67	4.8k
Zutao Ouyang China	43	3.2k 1.0×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	1.4k 2.1×	140	6.1k
Salman Qureshi Germany	34	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	548 0.6×	400 0.6×	97	3.9k
Wenze Yue China	40	3.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 1.0×	731 0.9×	434 0.6×	129	5.5k
Weifeng Li China	30	2.1k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	2.3k 1.2×	811 0.9×	504 0.7×	92	4.4k
Zander S. Venter Norway	24	1.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	321 0.4×	623 0.9×	49	3.9k
Xiaolu Zhou China	38	2.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	954 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	142	5.4k
Francisco J. Escobedo United States	42	3.9k 1.3×	1.8k 0.7×	3.4k 1.8×	323 0.4×	980 1.4×	164	6.9k
Abdulla ‐ Al Kafy Bangladesh	32	2.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	848 0.4×	712 0.8×	558 0.8×	109	3.2k
Michail Fragkias United States	19	3.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	595 0.7×	821 1.2×	28	5.4k
Wenhui Kuang China	35	5.0k 1.6×	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.7×	1.6k 2.2×	102	6.5k

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Zhang, Xinmin, Wenqiang Wan, & Ronald C. Estoque. (2025). Impacts of urban and cropland expansions on natural habitats in Southeast Asia. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8479–8479. 2 indexed citations

Shimizu, Katsuto, et al.. (2023). Mapping Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Forest Disturbances in Vietnam Using a Landsat Temporal Segmentation Algorithm. Remote Sensing. 15(3). 851–851. 19 indexed citations

Gao, Yan, Jonathan V. Solórzano, Ronald C. Estoque, & Shiro Tsuyuzaki. (2023). Tropical Dry Forest Dynamics Explained by Topographic and Anthropogenic Factors: A Case Study in Mexico. Remote Sensing. 15(5). 1471–1471. 1 indexed citations

Estoque, Ronald C.. (2023). Assessing Sustainability over Space and Time: The Emerging Roles of GIScience and Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 15(11). 2764–2764.

Dasgupta, Rajarshi, et al.. (2022). Ecosystem services of ‘Trees Outside Forests (TOF)’ and their contribution to the contemporary sustainability agenda: a systematic review. Environmental Research Communications. 4(11). 112002–112002. 6 indexed citations

Estoque, Ronald C., et al.. (2022). Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?. AMBIO. 52(2). 376–389. 50 indexed citations

Hou, Hao, Ronald C. Estoque, Yaoyao Zheng, et al.. (2022). Seasonal effects of urban morphology on land surface temperature in a three-dimensional perspective: A case study in Hangzhou, China. Building and Environment. 228. 109913–109913. 56 indexed citations

Shoyama, Kikuko, Rajarshi Dasgupta, & Ronald C. Estoque. (2022). Ecosystem Service and Land-Use Changes in Asia: Implications for Regional Sustainability. Sustainability. 14(21). 14263–14263. 2 indexed citations

Estoque, Ronald C., Brian Alan Johnson, Rajarshi Dasgupta, et al.. (2022). Rethinking forest monitoring for more meaningful global forest landscape change assessments. Journal of Environmental Management. 317. 115478–115478. 7 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C., Rajarshi Dasgupta, Karina Winkler, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal pattern of global forest change over the past 60 years and the forest transition theory. Environmental Research Letters. 17(8). 84022–84022. 47 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C., et al.. (2021). Ecosystem Services Monitoring in the Muthurajawela Marsh and Negombo Lagoon, Sri Lanka, for Sustainable Landscape Planning. Sustainability. 13(20). 11463–11463. 10 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C., et al.. (2021). Impacts of Urbanization on the Muthurajawela Marsh and Negombo Lagoon, Sri Lanka: Implications for Landscape Planning towards a Sustainable Urban Wetland Ecosystem. Remote Sensing. 13(2). 316–316. 52 indexed citations

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Dasgupta, Rajarshi, Mrittika Basu, Shizuka Hashimoto, et al.. (2021). Residents’ place attachment to urban green spaces in Greater Tokyo region: An empirical assessment of dimensionality and influencing socio-demographic factors. Urban forestry & urban greening. 67. 127438–127438. 42 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C.. (2020). A Review of the Sustainability Concept and the State of SDG Monitoring Using Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 12(11). 1770–1770. 109 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C., Makoto Ooba, Xerxes Seposo, et al.. (2020). Heat health risk assessment in Philippine cities using remotely sensed data and social-ecological indicators. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1581–1581. 233 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C.. (2020). Erratum: Estoque, R. C. A Review of the Sustainability Concept and the State of SDG Monitoring Using Remote Sensing. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 1770. Remote Sensing. 12(16). 2512–2512. 1 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C., Yuji Murayama, Rodel D. Lasco, et al.. (2018). Changes in the landscape pattern of the La Mesa Watershed – The last ecological frontier of Metro Manila, Philippines. Forest Ecology and Management. 430. 280–290. 21 indexed citations

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Ranagalage, Manjula, Ronald C. Estoque, Xinmin Zhang, & Yuji Murayama. (2018). Spatial Changes of Urban Heat Island Formation in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka: Implications for Sustainability Planning. Sustainability. 10(5). 1367–1367. 74 indexed citations

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Ranagalage, Manjula, Ronald C. Estoque, Hepi Hapsari Handayani, et al.. (2018). Relation between Urban Volume and Land Surface Temperature: A Comparative Study of Planned and Traditional Cities in Japan. Sustainability. 10(7). 2366–2366. 56 indexed citations

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Estoque, Ronald C., Soe W. Myint, Chuyuan Wang, et al.. (2018). Assessing environmental impacts and change in Myanmar's mangrove ecosystem service value due to deforestation (2000–2014). Global Change Biology. 24(11). 5391–5410. 90 indexed citations

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