Tilottama Ghosh

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
46 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Tilottama Ghosh is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Tilottama Ghosh has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Tilottama Ghosh's work include Impact of Light on Environment and Health (34 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers) and Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues (7 papers). Tilottama Ghosh is often cited by papers focused on Impact of Light on Environment and Health (34 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (8 papers) and Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues (7 papers). Tilottama Ghosh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Australia. Tilottama Ghosh's co-authors include Christopher D. Elvidge, Kimberly Baugh, Mikhail Zhizhin, Feng-Chi Hsu, Paul C. Sutton, Benjamin T. Tuttle, Daniel Ziskin, Sharolyn Anderson, Edward H. Erwin and Dee William Pack and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and International Journal of Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Tilottama Ghosh

44 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

A Fifteen Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data

2009 751 citations Christopher D. Elvidge, Daniel Ziskin et al. profile →
VIIRS night-time lights

2017 684 citations Christopher D. Elvidge, Kimberly Baugh et al. International Journal of Remote Sensing profile →
Annual Time Series of Global VIIRS Nighttime Lights Derived from Monthly Averages: 2012 to 2019

2021 376 citations Christopher D. Elvidge, Mikhail Zhizhin et al. Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tilottama Ghosh United States	26	3.8k	1.2k	761	594	527	46	4.8k
Mikhail Zhizhin United States	23	3.3k 0.9×	791 0.6×	688 0.9×	633 1.1×	465 0.9×	71	4.2k
Feng-Chi Hsu United States	26	2.8k 0.7×	704 0.6×	630 0.8×	569 1.0×	392 0.7×	49	3.5k
Benjamin T. Tuttle United States	21	2.8k 0.7×	667 0.5×	786 1.0×	770 1.3×	526 1.0×	29	3.8k
Zuoqi Chen China	42	4.1k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	1.6k 2.1×	1.1k 1.8×	1.0k 2.0×	104	6.3k
Ting Ma China	30	2.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	810 1.1×	376 0.6×	617 1.2×	94	4.1k
Kaifang Shi China	34	3.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.8×	563 0.9×	1.0k 2.0×	107	4.7k
Qingxu Huang China	37	4.3k 1.1×	764 0.6×	1.2k 1.5×	929 1.6×	1.4k 2.7×	94	6.0k
Jianghao Wang China	36	913 0.2×	622 0.5×	640 0.8×	301 0.5×	520 1.0×	105	3.2k
Siao Sun China	29	1.7k 0.4×	311 0.3×	1.0k 1.3×	374 0.6×	671 1.3×	85	4.2k

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Zhizhin, Mikhail, et al.. (2026). VIIRS Nightfire Super-Resolution Method for Multiyear Cataloging of Natural Gas Flaring Sites: 2012-2025. Remote Sensing. 18(2). 314–314.

Elvidge, Christopher D., et al.. (2025). A comprehensive global mapping of offshore lighting. Earth system science data. 17(2). 579–594.

Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Tamara L. Sparks, et al.. (2023). Global Satellite Monitoring of Exothermic Industrial Activity via Infrared Emissions. Remote Sensing. 15(19). 4760–4760. 5 indexed citations

Elvidge, Christopher D., et al.. (2023). Statistical moments of VIIRS night-time lights. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 45(21). 7778–7802. 8 indexed citations

Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, David M. Keith, et al.. (2022). The VIIRS Day/Night Band: A Flicker Meter in Space?. Remote Sensing. 14(6). 1316–1316. 13 indexed citations

Elvidge, Christopher D., Tilottama Ghosh, Feng-Chi Hsu, & Mikhail Zhizhin. (2022). VIIRS Monitoring and Reporting on Lit Fishing Vessel Detections in Southeast Asia. IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium. 4779–4782. 4 indexed citations

Zhizhin, Mikhail, et al.. (2021). Cross-Sensor Nighttime Lights Image Calibration for DMSP/OLS and SNPP/VIIRS with Residual U-Net. Remote Sensing. 13(24). 5026–5026. 32 indexed citations

Zhizhin, Mikhail, et al.. (2021). Measuring Gas Flaring in Russia with Multispectral VIIRS Nightfire. Remote Sensing. 13(16). 3078–3078. 20 indexed citations

Ghosh, Tilottama, et al.. (2021). Extending the DMSP Nighttime Lights Time Series beyond 2013. Remote Sensing. 13(24). 5004–5004. 35 indexed citations

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Hsu, Feng-Chi, Mikhail Zhizhin, Tilottama Ghosh, Christopher D. Elvidge, & Jay Taneja. (2021). The Annual Cycling of Nighttime Lights in India. Remote Sensing. 13(6). 1199–1199. 12 indexed citations

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Elvidge, Christopher D., et al.. (2021). Subpixel Analysis of Primary and Secondary Infrared Emitters with Nighttime VIIRS Data. Fire. 4(4). 83–83. 5 indexed citations

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Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Tilottama Ghosh, Feng-Chi Hsu, & Jay Taneja. (2021). Annual Time Series of Global VIIRS Nighttime Lights Derived from Monthly Averages: 2012 to 2019. Remote Sensing. 13(5). 922–922. 376 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghosh, Tilottama, Christopher D. Elvidge, Feng-Chi Hsu, Mikhail Zhizhin, & Morgan Bazilian. (2020). The Dimming of Lights in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Remote Sensing. 12(20). 3289–3289. 30 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Tilottama, Luca Coscieme, Sharolyn Anderson, & Paul C. Sutton. (2020). Building Volume Per Capita (BVPC): A Spatially Explicit Measure of Inequality Relevant to the SDGs. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 2. 11 indexed citations

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Elvidge, Christopher D., Mikhail Zhizhin, Kimberly Baugh, Feng-Chi Hsu, & Tilottama Ghosh. (2019). Extending Nighttime Combustion Source Detection Limits with Short Wavelength VIIRS Data. Remote Sensing. 11(4). 395–395. 37 indexed citations

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Hsu, Feng-Chi, Kimberly Baugh, Tilottama Ghosh, Mikhail Zhizhin, & Christopher D. Elvidge. (2015). DMSP-OLS Radiance Calibrated Nighttime Lights Time Series with Intercalibration. Remote Sensing. 7(2). 1855–1876. 191 indexed citations

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Elvidge, Christopher D., Paul C. Sutton, K. Baugh, et al.. (2011). National Trends in Satellite Observed Lighting: 1992-2009. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 20 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Tilottama, Rebecca Powell, Sharolyn Anderson, Paul C. Sutton, & Christopher D. Elvidge. (2010). Informal Economy and Remittance Estimates of India Using Nighttime Imagery. International journal of ecological economics and statistics. 17. 16–50. 18 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Tilottama, Rebecca Powell, Christopher D. Elvidge, et al.. (2010). Shedding Light on the Global Distribution of Economic Activity. 3(1). 184 indexed citations

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Sutton, Paul C., Christopher D. Elvidge, & Tilottama Ghosh. (2007). Estimation of Gross Domestic Product at Sub-National Scales using Nighttime Satellite Imagery. International journal of ecological economics and statistics. 8. 5–21. 254 indexed citations

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