Walter Musakwa

1.6k total citations
75 papers, 961 citations indexed

About

Walter Musakwa is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Musakwa has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 961 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Transportation and 13 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Walter Musakwa's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (25 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (15 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (11 papers). Walter Musakwa is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (25 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (15 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (11 papers). Walter Musakwa collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, China and France. Walter Musakwa's co-authors include Adriaan van Niekerk, Nelson Chanza, Fanan Ujoh, Neema Simon Sumari, Zhenfeng Shao, Huaping Sun, Yong Geng, Lu Sun, Shuai Wang and Trynos Gumbo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Sustainability.

In The Last Decade

Walter Musakwa

67 papers receiving 929 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Walter Musakwa South Africa 17 401 173 166 153 132 75 961
Yishao Shi China 16 514 1.3× 204 1.2× 111 0.7× 103 0.7× 69 0.5× 68 925
Gianluca Egidi Italy 18 478 1.2× 79 0.5× 145 0.9× 116 0.8× 92 0.7× 52 1.1k
Imam Buchori Indonesia 17 374 0.9× 77 0.4× 215 1.3× 91 0.6× 219 1.7× 132 1.1k
Xiaoshi Xing China 13 606 1.5× 93 0.5× 139 0.8× 179 1.2× 124 0.9× 21 1.2k
Salvador García-Ayllón Spain 18 295 0.7× 94 0.5× 140 0.8× 61 0.4× 115 0.9× 44 723
Dimitrios Gounaridis United States 18 521 1.3× 71 0.4× 103 0.6× 209 1.4× 95 0.7× 29 1.0k
Zhifang Wang China 18 705 1.8× 95 0.5× 92 0.6× 95 0.6× 145 1.1× 57 1.3k
Brian Blankespoor United States 16 542 1.4× 217 1.3× 96 0.6× 240 1.6× 283 2.1× 61 1.2k
Luís Loures Portugal 23 522 1.3× 151 0.9× 222 1.3× 164 1.1× 260 2.0× 89 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Walter Musakwa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walter Musakwa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Musakwa

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Musavengane, Regis & Walter Musakwa. (2025). Climate change and climate smart conservation in protected areas. Geography and sustainability. 6(3). 100301–100301. 2 indexed citations
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Chanza, Nelson, et al.. (2024). Transmission of indigenous knowledge systems under changing landscapes within the vhavenda community, South Africa. Environmental Science & Policy. 161. 103861–103861. 11 indexed citations
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Musakwa, Walter, et al.. (2024). Household food security contextualised: A comparison of Ambros and Maramanzhi villages, South Africa. Heliyon. 10(21). e39971–e39971. 1 indexed citations
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Chanza, Nelson & Walter Musakwa. (2022). Indigenous local observations and experiences can give useful indicators of climate change in data-deficient regions. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 12(3). 534–546. 8 indexed citations
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Shao, Zhenfeng, et al.. (2020). Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data. Geo-spatial Information Science. 24(2). 241–255. 196 indexed citations
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Musakwa, Walter, Shuai Wang, Fangli Wei, et al.. (2020). Survey of Community Livelihoods and Landscape Change along the Nzhelele and Levuvhu River Catchments in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Land. 9(3). 91–91. 13 indexed citations
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Zhao, Wenwu, et al.. (2020). LAND USE LAND COVER CHANGES AND THEIR IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN THE NZHELELE RIVER CATCHMENT, SOUTH AFRICA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. V-3-2020. 809–816. 2 indexed citations
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Musakwa, Walter, et al.. (2020). MODELLING OF NATURAL FIRE OCCURRENCES: A CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. XLIII-B3-2020. 1477–1482. 1 indexed citations
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Geng, Yong, et al.. (2020). Past, current, and future perspectives on eco-tourism: a bibliometric review between 2001 and 2018. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(19). 23514–23528. 90 indexed citations
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Zeng, Hongwei, Bingfang Wu, Ning Zhang, et al.. (2019). Spatiotemporal Analysis of Precipitation in the Sparsely Gauged Zambezi River Basin Using Remote Sensing and Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 11(24). 2977–2977. 20 indexed citations
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Sumari, Neema Simon, et al.. (2019). Status of geoinformatics education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa: initiatives taken and challenges. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 43(2). 224–243. 4 indexed citations
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Musakwa, Walter, et al.. (2018). Mobile GIS occupancy audit of Ulana informal settlement in Ekurhuleni municipality, South Africa. Geo-spatial Information Science. 21(4). 322–330. 6 indexed citations
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Musakwa, Walter, et al.. (2017). An Investigation of Information Communication and Dissemination Needs: Case of GautrainOperations. 2 indexed citations
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Musakwa, Walter, et al.. (2016). . ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences. III-2. 143–150. 1 indexed citations
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Musakwa, Walter. (2014). The use of social media in public transit systems: The case of the Gautrain, Gauteng Province, South Africa: Analysis and lessons learnt. 4 indexed citations

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