Souleymane Fall

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Souleymane Fall is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Souleymane Fall has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Souleymane Fall's work include Climate variability and models (13 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (6 papers). Souleymane Fall is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (13 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (8 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (6 papers). Souleymane Fall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Souleymane Fall's co-authors include Dev Niyogi, Roger A. Pielke, Rezaul Mahmood, Clive McAlpine, U. S. Nair, Markus Reichstein, Nathalie de Noblet, A. J. Pitman, Kees Klein Goldewijk and Richard Betts and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

Souleymane Fall

30 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

2011 664 citations Roger A. Pielke, Dev Niyogi et al. profile →
Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate

2013 552 citations Rezaul Mahmood, Roger A. Pielke et al. International Journal of Climatology profile →

Peers

Souleymane Fall

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Jimmy Adegoke United States

Rafiq Hamdi Belgium

Safa Motesharrei United States

Jatin Kala Australia

Lara Prihodko United States

Sebastian Sippel Switzerland

Christian Häberli Switzerland

Xuefeng Cui China

Roger F. Auch United States

Jimmy Adegoke United States

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1.5k ×0.9

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841 ×1.1

550 ×0.9

304 ×0.9

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163 ×1.0

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Citations per year, relative to Souleymane Fall Souleymane Fall (= 1×) peers Jimmy Adegoke

Countries citing papers authored by Souleymane Fall

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Fields of papers citing papers by Souleymane Fall

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Souleymane Fall. 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 Souleymane Fall. The network helps show where Souleymane Fall may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Souleymane Fall

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the Performance of the National Water Model: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Streamflow Forecasting. Water. 17(20). 2950–2950. 1 indexed citations

Mortley, Desmond G., et al.. (2025). Temperature and Cultivar Influence on Enzyme Activity and Composition of the Microbial Community in the Rhizosphere of Sweet Potato during Early Growth Stage. International Journal of Environment and Climate Change. 15(2). 326–342.

Afandi, Gamal El, et al.. (2024). A Hybrid Modeling Approach for Estimating the Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticide Drift in Sangamon County, Illinois. Sustainability. 16(7). 2908–2908. 3 indexed citations

Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2023). Differential Urban Heat Vulnerability: The Tale of Three Alabama Cities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(4). 121–121. 3 indexed citations

Afandi, Gamal El, et al.. (2023). Application of OpenAir and AgDRIFT Models to Estimate Organophosphate Pesticide Spray Drift: A Case Study in Macon County, Alabama. Agriculture. 13(9). 1763–1763. 4 indexed citations

Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2022). County-Level Assessment of Vulnerability to COVID-19 in Alabama. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 11(5). 320–320. 6 indexed citations

Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2021). Observed Daily Temperature Variability and Extremes over Southeastern USA (1978–2017). Climate. 9(7). 110–110. 6 indexed citations

Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2021). Assessing Future Impacts of Climate Change on Streamflow within the Alabama River Basin. Climate. 9(4). 55–55. 24 indexed citations

Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2020). Racial differences in 5-year relative survival rates of cervical cancer by stage at diagnosis, between African American (black) and white women, living in the state of Alabama, USA. BMC Cancer. 20(1). 830–830. 16 indexed citations

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Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2015). Community food environment measures in the Alabama Black Belt: Implications for cancer risk reduction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 689–698. 8 indexed citations

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Mahmood, Rezaul, Roger A. Pielke, Kenneth G. Hubbard, et al.. (2013). Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate. International Journal of Climatology. 34(4). 929–953. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2011). Analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(D14). 86 indexed citations

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Fall, Souleymane, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Dev Niyogi, Roger A. Pielke, & Gilbert L. Rochon. (2010). Temperature and equivalent temperature over the United States (1979–2005). International Journal of Climatology. 30(13). 2045–2054. 49 indexed citations

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Fall, Souleymane, et al.. (2010). Distribution of Landscape Types in the Global Historical Climatology Network. Earth Interactions. 15(6). 1–24. 14 indexed citations

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Rochon, Gilbert L., et al.. (2009). Best management practices for corporate, academic and governmental transfer of sustainable technologies to developing countries. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. 12(1). 19–30. 14 indexed citations

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Pielke, Roger A., Dev Niyogi, Souleymane Fall, et al.. (2007). Unresolved issues with the assessment of multidecadal global land surface temperature trends. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 112(D24). 157 indexed citations

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Fall, Souleymane, Dev Niyogi, U. C. Mohanty, & Anil Kumar. (2006). Application of weather prediction models for hazard mitigation planning: a case study of heavy off-season rains in Senegal. Natural Hazards. 41(1). 227–243. 9 indexed citations

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Fall, Souleymane. (2005). Spatiotemporal Climate Variability Over Senegal And Its Relationships With Global Climate. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries).

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DeLong, S. Craig, Souleymane Fall, & Glenn D. Sutherland. (2004). Estimating the impacts of harvest distribution on road-building and snag abundance. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34(2). 323–331. 13 indexed citations

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Sutherland, Glenn D., Marvin H. Eng, & Souleymane Fall. (2004). Effects of uncertainties about stand-replacing natural disturbances on forest-management projections. Journal of Ecosystems and Management. 3 indexed citations

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