Timon McPhearson

19.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
141 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Timon McPhearson is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Timon McPhearson has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 76 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 33 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Timon McPhearson's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (77 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (66 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers). Timon McPhearson is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (77 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (66 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers). Timon McPhearson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Germany. Timon McPhearson's co-authors include Peleg Kremer, Erik Andersson, Niki Frantzeskaki, Zoé A. Hamstead, Thomas Elmqvist, Dagmar Haase, Owen L. Petchey, Peter J. Morin, Timothy M. Casey and Rositsa T. Ilieva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Timon McPhearson

133 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

Sustainability and re... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2019 1999 2013 2016 2019 200 400 600
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.

  1. Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century
    2019 700 citations Thomas Elmqvist, Erik Andersson et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  2. Environmental warming alters food-web structure and ecosystem function
    1999 629 citations Timon McPhearson et al. profile →
  3. A blueprint for mapping and modelling ecosystem services
    2013 566 citations Timon McPhearson et al. profile →
  4. Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities
    2016 438 citations Timon McPhearson, Steward T. A. Pickett et al. BioScience profile →
  5. Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature
    2019 365 citations Bonnie Keeler, Perrine Hamel et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
  6. Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Linking Science, Policy, and Practice Communities for Evidence-Based Decision-Making
    2019 328 citations Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson et al. BioScience profile →
  7. Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability
    2021 221 citations Timon McPhearson et al. profile →
  8. Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities
    2021 163 citations Heejun Chang, Jason Sauer et al. profile →
  9. Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene
    2021 163 citations Timon McPhearson, Christopher M. Raymond et al. npj Urban Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Timon McPhearson United States 54 6.5k 4.2k 2.1k 1.4k 1.2k 141 10.5k
Nadja Kabisch Germany 39 5.7k 0.9× 5.2k 1.2× 2.2k 1.1× 890 0.6× 1.4k 1.2× 72 8.7k
Niki Frantzeskaki Netherlands 58 7.2k 1.1× 3.2k 0.8× 2.0k 1.0× 2.4k 1.7× 1.2k 1.0× 151 13.3k
Marina Alberti United States 36 5.9k 0.9× 2.2k 0.5× 1.9k 0.9× 957 0.7× 705 0.6× 72 10.1k
J. Morgan Grove United States 51 8.3k 1.3× 5.6k 1.3× 2.9k 1.4× 1.5k 1.1× 2.0k 1.6× 124 14.3k
Burak Güneralp United States 29 6.7k 1.0× 2.6k 0.6× 2.0k 0.9× 418 0.3× 865 0.7× 67 9.9k
Cecil C. Konijnendijk Canada 42 4.5k 0.7× 5.0k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 791 0.6× 1.8k 1.5× 124 7.5k
Davide Geneletti Italy 56 6.8k 1.1× 2.5k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 577 0.5× 200 10.6k
Stephan Pauleit Germany 52 7.2k 1.1× 6.0k 1.4× 4.6k 2.2× 644 0.5× 1.7k 1.4× 186 11.4k
Raffaele Lafortezza Italy 45 4.3k 0.7× 3.8k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 646 0.5× 1.2k 1.0× 151 7.4k
Joshua Newell United States 31 4.0k 0.6× 3.5k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 1.8k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 69 8.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Timon McPhearson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Timon McPhearson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timon McPhearson

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

All Works

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Wijsman, Katinka, et al.. (2025). Senses of justice after managed retreat in New York city. Frontiers in Climate. 6.
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Cook, Elizabeth M., Yeowon Kim, Nancy B. Grimm, et al.. (2025). Nature-based solutions for urban sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(29). e2315909122–e2315909122. 1 indexed citations
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Chester, Mikhail, Ahmed Mustafà, Nathan G. Johnson, et al.. (2025). Cascading Failure Propagation and Perfect Storms in Interdependent Infrastructures. 3(1). 3 indexed citations
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Branny, Artur, Erik Andersson, & Timon McPhearson. (2024). Micro-climate of nature-based solutions in stockholm royal seaport. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100206–100206. 1 indexed citations
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Herreros‐Cantis, Pablo, Timon McPhearson, Ahmed Mustafà, et al.. (2024). New York City 2100: Environmental justice implications of future scenarios for addressing extreme heat. Landscape and Urban Planning. 254. 105249–105249. 4 indexed citations
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Muñoz‐Erickson, Tischa A., Kristin Baja, Mikhail Chester, et al.. (2024). Co-producing new knowledge systems for resilient and just coastal cities: A social-ecological-technological systems framework for data visualization. Cities. 156. 105513–105513. 4 indexed citations
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Bader, Daniel, Naresh Devineni, Philip Orton, et al.. (2024). NPCC4: New York City climate risk information 2022—observations and projections. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1539(1). 13–48. 10 indexed citations
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Pickett, Steward T. A., AbdouMaliq Simone, Pippin Anderson, et al.. (2024). The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures. AMBIO. 53(6). 845–870. 7 indexed citations
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Sauer, Jason, Nancy B. Grimm, Olga Barbosa, et al.. (2024). Estimating Combined Effects of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Water Regulation Services of Urban Wetlands in Valdivia, Chile. Earth s Future. 12(5). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Jing, Timon McPhearson, Weiqi Zhou, et al.. (2023). Comparing relationships between urban heat exposure, ecological structure, and socio-economic patterns in Beijing and New York City. Landscape and Urban Planning. 235. 104750–104750. 39 indexed citations
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Chester, Mikhail, Thaddeus R. Miller, Tischa A. Muñoz‐Erickson, et al.. (2023). Sensemaking for entangled urban social, ecological, and technological systems in the Anthropocene. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 25 indexed citations
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Grabowski, Zbigniew R., Timon McPhearson, & Steward T. A. Pickett. (2022). Transforming US urban green infrastructure planning to address equity. Landscape and Urban Planning. 229. 104591–104591. 93 indexed citations
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McPhearson, Timon, Christopher M. Raymond, Natalie Marie Gulsrud, et al.. (2021). Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(1). 163 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grêt‐Regamey, Adrienne, Nora Fagerholm, Silviya Korpilo, et al.. (2021). Harnessing sensing systems towards urban sustainability transformation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 19 indexed citations
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Frantzeskaki, Niki & Timon McPhearson. (2021). Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience. BioScience. 72(2). 113–115. 28 indexed citations
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Keeler, Bonnie, Perrine Hamel, Timon McPhearson, et al.. (2019). Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature. Nature Sustainability. 2(1). 29–38. 365 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rosenzweig, B., Benjamin L. Ruddell, Lauren McPhillips, et al.. (2019). Developing knowledge systems for urban resilience to cloudburst rain events. Environmental Science & Policy. 99. 150–159. 62 indexed citations
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McPhillips, Lauren, Heejun Chang, Mikhail Chester, et al.. (2018). Defining Extreme Events: A Cross‐Disciplinary Review. Earth s Future. 6(3). 441–455. 200 indexed citations
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Elmqvist, Thomas, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, et al.. (2018). The Urban Planet: Knowledge toward sustainable cities. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1 indexed citations

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