Sam Heft‐Neal

4.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
43 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Sam Heft‐Neal is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Heft‐Neal has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 11 papers in Pollution and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Sam Heft‐Neal's work include Air Quality and Health Impacts (19 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (16 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (11 papers). Sam Heft‐Neal is often cited by papers focused on Air Quality and Health Impacts (19 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (16 papers) and Energy and Environment Impacts (11 papers). Sam Heft‐Neal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Sam Heft‐Neal's co-authors include Marshall Burke, Jennifer Burney, Eran Bendavid, Anne Driscoll, Michael W. Wara, Jiani Xue, Patrick Baylis, Carlos Gould, Ceren Baysan and Solomon Hsiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Sam Heft‐Neal

37 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States

2021 385 citations Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico

2018 341 citations Marshall Burke, Patrick Baylis et al. Nature Climate Change profile →
The effects of armed conflict on the health of women and children

2021 225 citations Eran Bendavid, Ties Boerma et al. The Lancet profile →
The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA

2023 145 citations Marshall Burke, Marissa L. Childs et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Heft‐Neal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Heft‐Neal

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Spatial Patterns of Historical Changes in Human Heat Stress Disagree Across Metrics 2025 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Qinqin Kong, (unknown), Colin Raymond, Cascade Tuholske, Sam Heft‐Neal, Zachary Wagner, (unknown), Andrew Zimmer, Matthew Huber, Eran Bendavid	0
2	Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur 2025 ·Nature Climate Change ·Christopher W. Callahan, (unknown), (unknown), Carlos Gould, Sam Heft‐Neal, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke	0
3	Temperature extremes impact mortality and morbidity differently 2025 ·Science Advances ·Carlos Gould, Sam Heft‐Neal, Alexandra K. Heaney, Eran Bendavid, Christopher W. Callahan, Mathew V. Kiang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Marshall Burke	1
4	Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the USA under climate change 2025 ·Nature ·Minghao Qiu, (unknown), Carlos Gould, (unknown), Makoto Kelp, Marissa L. Childs, Jeff Wen, Yuanyu Xie, Meiyun Lin, Mathew V. Kiang, Sam Heft‐Neal, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke	2
5	Mortality Burden from Wildfire Smoke Under Climate Change 2024 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Minghao Qiu, Jessica Li, Carlos Gould, (unknown), Makoto Kelp, Marissa L. Childs, Mathew V. Kiang, Sam Heft‐Neal, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke	3
6	Disparities in air pollution attributable mortality in the US population by race/ethnicity and sociodemographic factors 2024 ·Nature Medicine ·Pascal Geldsetzer, (unknown), Mathew V. Kiang, Eran Bendavid, Sam Heft‐Neal, Marshall Burke, Alexander Thieme, (unknown)	19
7	Evaluating Chemical Transport and Machine Learning Models for Wildfire Smoke PM_2.5: Implications for Assessment of Health Impacts 2024 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Minghao Qiu, Makoto Kelp, Sam Heft‐Neal, Xiaomeng Jin, Carlos Gould, Daniel Tong, Marshall Burke	6
8	Temperature Extremes Impact Mortality and Morbidity Differently 2024 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Carlos Gould, Sam Heft‐Neal, Alexandra K. Heaney, Eran Bendavid, Christopher M. Callahan, Mathew V. Kiang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Marshall Burke	0
9	Quantifying fire-specific smoke exposure and health impacts 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jeff Wen, Sam Heft‐Neal, Patrick Baylis, Judson Boomhower, Marshall Burke	15
10	The contribution of wildfire to PM2.5 trends in the USA breakdown → 2023 ·Nature ·Marshall Burke, Marissa L. Childs, Brandon De La Cuesta, Minghao Qiu, (unknown), Carlos Gould, Sam Heft‐Neal, Michael W. Wara	145
11	Global biomass fires and infant mortality 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Sam Heft‐Neal, (unknown), Marshall Burke	25
12	Reply to Giglio and Roy: Aggregate infant mortality estimates robust to choice of burned area product 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Sam Heft‐Neal, (unknown), Marshall Burke	0
13	Game, Sweat, Match: Temperature and Elite Worker Productivity 2023 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Marshall Burke, (unknown), Sam Heft‐Neal, Miyuki Hino, David B. Lobell	1
14	Emergency department visits respond nonlinearly to wildfire smoke 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sam Heft‐Neal, Carlos Gould, Marissa L. Childs, Mathew V. Kiang, Kari C. Nadeau, Mark Duggan, Eran Bendavid, Marshall Burke	24
15	Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke 2022 ·Nature Human Behaviour ·Marshall Burke, Sam Heft‐Neal, (unknown), Anne Driscoll, Patrick Baylis, Matthieu Stigler, Joakim Weill, Jennifer Burney, Jeff Wen, Marissa L. Childs, Carlos Gould	107
16	Daily Local-Level Estimates of Ambient Wildfire Smoke PM_2.5 for the Contiguous US 2022 ·Environmental Science & Technology ·Marissa L. Childs, (unknown), Jeff Wen, Sam Heft‐Neal, Anne Driscoll, Sherrie Wang, Carlos Gould, Minghao Qiu, Jennifer Burney, Marshall Burke	119
17	Associations between wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth in California 2021 ·Environmental Research ·Sam Heft‐Neal, Anne Driscoll, Wei Yang, Gary M. Shaw, Marshall Burke	99
18	Testing the socioeconomic and environmental determinants of better child-health outcomes in Africa: a cross-sectional study among nations 2019 ·BMJ Open ·Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Sarah P. Otto, (unknown), Sam Heft‐Neal, Zachary Wagner, Peter N. Le Souëf	12
19	Women and children living in areas of armed conflict in Africa: a geospatial analysis of mortality and orphanhood 2019 ·The Lancet Global Health ·Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft‐Neal, Paul H. Wise, Robert E. Black, Marshall Burke, Ties Boerma, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Eran Bendavid	60
20	Armed conflict and child mortality in Africa: a geospatial analysis 2018 ·The Lancet ·Zachary Wagner, Sam Heft‐Neal, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Robert E. Black, Marshall Burke, Eran Bendavid	110

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