Sean Sweeney

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Sean Sweeney is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Sweeney has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 4 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sean Sweeney's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). Sean Sweeney is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (6 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (4 papers). Sean Sweeney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Uganda and Canada. Sean Sweeney's co-authors include William J. McConnell, Charles Dietzel, Tran Ngoc Trung, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Peter H. Verburg, Kasper Kok, Christopher D. Lippitt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Zengqiang Duan and Éric Fotsing and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Change Biology, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Sean Sweeney

12 papers receiving 998 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.

Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change

2007 737 citations Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jean‐Christophe Castella et al. The Annals of Regional Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Sweeney United States	10	894	269	196	139	132	12	1.0k
Sushila Rijal Nepal	14	826 0.9×	279 1.0×	159 0.8×	153 1.1×	46 0.3×	21	1.0k
Suman Chakraborti India	16	702 0.8×	228 0.8×	246 1.3×	277 2.0×	49 0.4×	22	994
Jiye Leng China	7	593 0.7×	134 0.5×	158 0.8×	197 1.4×	74 0.6×	11	784
Biswajit Mondal India	11	459 0.5×	166 0.6×	113 0.6×	128 0.9×	80 0.6×	13	621
Maosong Liu China	13	515 0.6×	211 0.8×	138 0.7×	102 0.7×	73 0.6×	37	734
S. P. Timmins United States	4	1.0k 1.1×	630 2.3×	165 0.8×	204 1.5×	34 0.3×	4	1.3k
Courage Kamusoko Japan	11	671 0.8×	240 0.9×	98 0.5×	137 1.0×	106 0.8×	17	803
Amir Reza Shahtahmassebi China	11	464 0.5×	165 0.6×	190 1.0×	217 1.6×	25 0.2×	17	699
Isabel Loupa Ramos Portugal	16	518 0.6×	136 0.5×	183 0.9×	80 0.6×	31 0.2×	33	809
Peng Hou China	16	584 0.7×	252 0.9×	128 0.7×	187 1.3×	22 0.2×	62	872

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Sweeney

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean Sweeney

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Sweeney

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

Watkins, Shannon Lea, Jess Vogt, Sarah K. Mincey, et al.. (2018). Does collaborative tree planting between nonprofits and neighborhood groups improve neighborhood community capacity?. Cities. 74. 83–99. 25 indexed citations

Fisher, Joshua B., Sean Sweeney, Edward Brzostek, et al.. (2016). Tree‐mycorrhizal associations detected remotely from canopy spectral properties. Global Change Biology. 22(7). 2596–2607. 30 indexed citations

Watkins, Shannon Lea, Sarah K. Mincey, Jess Vogt, & Sean Sweeney. (2016). Is Planting Equitable? An Examination of the Spatial Distribution of Nonprofit Urban Tree-Planting Programs by Canopy Cover, Income, Race, and Ethnicity. Environment and Behavior. 49(4). 452–482. 72 indexed citations

Sweeney, Sean, Tatyana B. Ruseva, Lyndon Estes, & Tom Evans. (2015). Mapping Cropland in Smallholder-Dominated Savannas: Integrating Remote Sensing Techniques and Probabilistic Modeling. Remote Sensing. 7(11). 15295–15317. 24 indexed citations

Schmitt-Harsh, Mikaela, Sean Sweeney, & Tom Evans. (2013). Classification of Coffee-Forest Landscapes Using Landsat TM Imagery and Spectral Mixture Analysis. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing. 79(5). 457–468. 12 indexed citations

Sweeney, Sean. (2012). Slash Your Workload. ASHA Leader. 17(6). 26–26. 1 indexed citations

Sweeney, Sean & Tom Evans. (2011). An edge-oriented approach to thematic map error assessment. Geocarto International. 27(1). 31–56. 12 indexed citations

Berrang‐Ford, Lea, Olaf Berke, Sean Sweeney, & Abdelrahman Lubowa. (2010). Sleeping Sickness in Southeastern Uganda: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Disease Risk, 1970–2003. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 10(10). 977–988. 7 indexed citations

Pontius, Robert Gilmore, Jean‐Christophe Castella, Keith Clarke, et al.. (2007). Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change. The Annals of Regional Science. 42(1). 11–37. 737 indexed citations breakdown →

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McConnell, William J. & Sean Sweeney. (2005). Challenges of forest governance in Madagascar. Geographical Journal. 171(3). 223–238. 29 indexed citations

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Vogt, Nathan, et al.. (2005). Integrating remote sensing data and rapid appraisals for land‐cover change analyses in Uganda. Land Degradation and Development. 17(1). 31–43. 20 indexed citations

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McConnell, William J., et al.. (2003). Physical and social access to land: spatio-temporal patterns of agricultural expansion in Madagascar. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 101(2-3). 171–184. 65 indexed citations

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