W. C. Sullivan

12.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
80 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

W. C. Sullivan is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, W. C. Sullivan has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 20 papers in Environmental Engineering and 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in W. C. Sullivan's work include Urban Green Space and Health (55 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (20 papers) and Noise Effects and Management (18 papers). W. C. Sullivan is often cited by papers focused on Urban Green Space and Health (55 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (20 papers) and Noise Effects and Management (18 papers). W. C. Sullivan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Hong Kong. W. C. Sullivan's co-authors include Frances E. Kuo, Andrea Faber Taylor, Dongying Li, Bin Jiang, Rebekah Levine Coley, Chun–Yen Chang, Angela Wiley, Sarah Taylor Lovell, Linda Larsen and Liesette Brunson and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

W. C. Sullivan

77 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Environment and Crime in the Inner City

2001 716 citations Frances E. Kuo, W. C. Sullivan Environment and Behavior profile →
Environment and Crime in the Inner City: Does Vegetation Reduce Crime?

2001 532 citations W. C. Sullivan et al. Environment and Behavior profile →
Aggression and Violence in the Inner City

2001 519 citations Frances E. Kuo, W. C. Sullivan Environment and Behavior profile →
Impact of views to school landscapes on recovery from stress and mental fatigue

2016 505 citations Dongying Li, W. C. Sullivan Landscape and Urban Planning profile →
Coping with add

2001 502 citations Frances E. Kuo, W. C. Sullivan et al. Environment and Behavior profile →
A dose of nature: Tree cover, stress reduction, and gender differences

2014 424 citations Bin Jiang, Chun–Yen Chang et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
W. C. Sullivan	6.5k	2.5k	1.8k	1.7k	1.6k	80	8.7k
Kalevi Korpela	6.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.0×	86	9.4k
Benedict W. Wheeler	5.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	100	8.3k
S. de Vries	9.0k 1.4×	3.2k 1.3×	2.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.8×	3.0k 1.9×	86	10.3k
Rachel Kaplan	8.1k 1.2×	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.1×	82	11.7k
Jason Byrne	5.9k 0.9×	4.2k 1.7×	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.0×	814 0.5×	100	9.4k
Roger S. Ulrich	10.1k 1.5×	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	2.8k 1.8×	66	14.0k
Liisa Tyrväinen	4.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.2×	867 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	834 0.5×	113	7.3k
Frances E. Kuo	4.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	849 0.5×	27	5.8k
Jennifer Wolch	5.0k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	2.7k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	121	11.0k
A.E. van den Berg	4.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	907 0.5×	957 0.6×	54	5.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. C. Sullivan

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Chang, Chun–Yen, et al.. (2025). Unraveling urban plant diversity: The independent effects of plant species richness and greenness on health. Urban forestry & urban greening. 113. 129028–129028.

Wei, Xin, et al.. (2024). Effects of virtual exposure to urban greenways on mental health. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 15. 1256897–1256897. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Wenyan, Bin Jiang, W. C. Sullivan, et al.. (2023). Racial disparities in environmental exposures and SARS-CoV-2 infection rates: A detailed population-weighted analysis. Sustainable Cities and Society. 101. 105135–105135. 5 indexed citations

Xu, Wenyan, et al.. (2023). Impacts of sights and sounds on anxiety relief in the high-density city. Landscape and Urban Planning. 241. 104927–104927. 31 indexed citations

Hu, Yifan, et al.. (2023). Impacts of urban green infrastructure on attentional functioning: insights from an fMRI study. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1047993–1047993. 9 indexed citations

Jiang, Bin, Yuwen Yang, Long Chen, et al.. (2022). Green spaces, especially nearby forest, may reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate: A nationwide study in the United States. Landscape and Urban Planning. 228. 104583–104583. 22 indexed citations

Yeh, Yu‐Chen, et al.. (2022). An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2 indexed citations

Yeh, Yu‐Chen, et al.. (2022). An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

Hung, Shih-Han, et al.. (2021). What part of the brain is involved in graphic design thinking in landscape architecture?. PLoS ONE. 16(12). e0258413–e0258413. 8 indexed citations

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Jiang, Bin, et al.. (2021). A natural experiment reveals impacts of built environment on suicide rate: Developing an environmental theory of suicide. The Science of The Total Environment. 776. 145750–145750. 24 indexed citations

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Lü, Yi, Long Chen, Xueming Liu, et al.. (2021). Green spaces mitigate racial disparity of health: A higher ratio of green spaces indicates a lower racial disparity in SARS-CoV-2 infection rates in the USA. Environment International. 152. 106465–106465. 73 indexed citations

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Li, Dongying, Linda Larsen, Yan Yang, et al.. (2018). Exposure to nature for children with autism spectrum disorder: Benefits, caveats, and barriers. Health & Place. 55. 71–79. 44 indexed citations

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Jiang, Bin, Chun–Yen Chang, & W. C. Sullivan. (2014). A dose of nature: Tree cover, stress reduction, and gender differences. Landscape and Urban Planning. 132. 26–36. 424 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Ying‐Hsuan, et al.. (2014). Does awareness affect the restorative function and perception of street trees?. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 906–906. 70 indexed citations

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Sullivan, W. C., et al.. (2014). Social Life Under Cover. Environment and Behavior. 47(5). 502–525. 137 indexed citations

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Scott, Robert A. & W. C. Sullivan. (2008). Ecology of fermented foods. 15(1). 25–31. 23 indexed citations

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Freyfogle, Eric T., et al.. (2006). Land, ecology, and democracy. Politics and the Life Sciences. 25(1 & 2). 42–56. 5 indexed citations

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Sullivan, W. C., et al.. (2005). Nature, culture, and civil society. Journal of Civil Society. 1(3). 195–209. 4 indexed citations

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Brunson, Liesette, Frances E. Kuo, & W. C. Sullivan. (2001). Resident Appropriation of Defensible Space in Public Housing. Environment and Behavior. 33(5). 626–652. 62 indexed citations

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Kuo, Frances E., W. C. Sullivan, Rebekah Levine Coley, & Liesette Brunson. (1998). Fertile Ground for Community: Inner‐City Neighborhood Common Spaces. American Journal of Community Psychology. 26(6). 823–851. 472 indexed citations

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