Troy Sternberg

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Troy Sternberg is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Troy Sternberg has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Troy Sternberg's work include Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (26 papers), Transboundary Water Resource Management (17 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers). Troy Sternberg is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (26 papers), Transboundary Water Resource Management (17 papers) and Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers). Troy Sternberg collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Portugal. Troy Sternberg's co-authors include Bin Zou, Nick Middleton, Neng Wan, Heather Viles, David S.G. Thomas, Xin Fang, Xiaoping Liu, Liang Zhai, Tsolmon Renchin and Remus Prăvălie and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Troy Sternberg

61 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.

A three-step floating catchment area method for analyzing spatial access to health services

2012 340 citations Neng Wan, Bin Zou et al. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Troy Sternberg United Kingdom	26	629	510	480	457	415	65	2.3k
Ruishan Chen China	31	1.3k 2.0×	365 0.7×	311 0.6×	507 1.1×	372 0.9×	115	2.8k
Gordon McGranahan United Kingdom	24	1.3k 2.0×	379 0.7×	425 0.9×	336 0.7×	569 1.4×	76	4.5k
Peter J. Marcotullio United States	25	1.0k 1.6×	503 1.0×	140 0.3×	507 1.1×	154 0.4×	62	2.1k
Jiangfeng Li China	28	1.9k 3.0×	412 0.8×	347 0.7×	265 0.6×	234 0.6×	86	2.9k
Leiwen Jiang United States	23	850 1.4×	610 1.2×	212 0.4×	611 1.3×	221 0.5×	51	3.4k
Timothy Beatley United States	28	1.2k 1.9×	788 1.5×	465 1.0×	313 0.7×	117 0.3×	74	2.9k
Minghong Tan China	34	1.8k 2.9×	454 0.9×	316 0.7×	476 1.0×	454 1.1×	86	3.0k
Paul Watkiss United Kingdom	21	1.2k 1.9×	284 0.6×	198 0.4×	299 0.7×	323 0.8×	52	2.5k
E. Koomen Netherlands	29	2.1k 3.3×	461 0.9×	349 0.7×	378 0.8×	300 0.7×	116	3.1k
Sérgio Freire Italy	31	1.6k 2.6×	284 0.6×	143 0.3×	410 0.9×	342 0.8×	90	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Troy Sternberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Troy Sternberg

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Troy Sternberg

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lewin, Amir, Gopal Murali, Uri Roll, Troy Sternberg, & Shimon Rachmilevitch. (2025). Rethinking desert definitions: Bridging the gap between science, policy, and conservation. AMBIO. 55(4). 743–754.

Phillips, Simon E. V., et al.. (2025). Can artificial intelligence support Bactrian camel conservation? Testing machine learning on aerial imagery in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Environmental Conservation. 52(3). 149–156.

Sternberg, Troy, et al.. (2024). Seasonal Dynamics of the Land-Surface Characteristics in Arid Regions Retrieved by Optical and Microwave Satellite Data. Remote Sensing. 16(17). 3143–3143. 1 indexed citations

Sternberg, Troy, et al.. (2024). Evaluating machine learning-based elephant recognition in complex African landscapes using drone imagery. Environmental Research Communications. 6(11). 115035–115035. 2 indexed citations

Thomas, David, Sallie L. Burrough, Nicholas Drake, Marc De Meyer, & Troy Sternberg. (2024). The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands. Princeton University Press eBooks.

Sternberg, Troy, et al.. (2023). The role of mining in Kyrgyzstan's social acceptance of protest. Resources Policy. 85. 103794–103794. 2 indexed citations

Sternberg, Troy, et al.. (2023). Does Environmental Aid Make a Difference? Analyzing Its Impact in Developing Countries. Land. 12(10). 1953–1953. 2 indexed citations

Sternberg, Troy, et al.. (2022). Preserving the Gobi: Identifying potential UNESCO world heritage in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity. 15(4). 500–517. 4 indexed citations

Sternberg, Troy, et al.. (2021). The Impact of Mining Lifecycles in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan. 9 indexed citations

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Foggin, J. Marc, et al.. (2021). Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological challenges from large‐scale infrastructure in a global biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Letters. 14(6). 13 indexed citations

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Teo, Hoong Chen, Alex M. Lechner, Grant W. Walton, et al.. (2019). Environmental Impacts of Infrastructure Development under the Belt and Road Initiative. Environments. 6(6). 72–72. 130 indexed citations

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Sternberg, Troy, et al.. (2016). A GIS based approach to Holocene hydrology and social connectivity in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. Archaeological Research in Asia. 15. 137–145. 15 indexed citations

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Chatty, Dawn & Troy Sternberg. (2015). Climate effects on nomadic pastoralist societies. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations

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Zou, Bin, et al.. (2015). Performance comparison of LUR and OK in PM2.5 concentration mapping: a multidimensional perspective. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8698–8698. 70 indexed citations

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Sternberg, Troy & Dawn Chatty. (2013). Modern pastoralism and conservation: old problems, new challenges. 210. 3 indexed citations

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Wan, Neng, Bin Zou, & Troy Sternberg. (2012). A three-step floating catchment area method for analyzing spatial access to health services. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 26(6). 1073–1089. 340 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sternberg, Troy. (2012). Chinese drought, bread and the Arab Spring. Applied Geography. 34. 519–524. 95 indexed citations

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Sternberg, Troy. (2012). Piospheres and Pastoralists: Vegetation and Degradation in Steppe Grasslands. Human Ecology. 40(6). 811–820. 27 indexed citations

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Sternberg, Troy. (2010). Unravelling Mongolia's Extreme Winter Disaster of 2010. Nomadic Peoples. 14(1). 72–86. 76 indexed citations

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Sternberg, Troy, et al.. (2010). Dust particulate absorption by ivy (Hedera helix L) on historic walls in urban environments. The Science of The Total Environment. 409(1). 162–168. 108 indexed citations

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