William B. Meyer

4.9k citations

49 papers · 3.4k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 19

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 1%
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 1%
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Papers in

Urban Studies 5
- Urbanization and City Planning 5
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 10
- American Environmental and Regional History 5
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology 3

Co-authors: B. L. Turner Jonathan A. Newman Robert W. Kates W. C. Clark David L. Skole Andrew Goudie William E. Riebsame Jeanne X. Kasperson
Journals: Geographical Review (6 papers)The Professional Geographer (5 papers)Urban Geography (4 papers)GeoJournal (2 papers)American Journal of Legal History (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada

In The Last Decade

William B. Meyer

45 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective. 1995 · 491 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1995 Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
1993 Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
1992 Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

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Citations

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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#	Work
1	The best answer? Justice Nelson’s concurrence in Dred Scott v. Sandford American Journal of Legal History ·William B. Meyer	2023	0
2	First effective settlement: Histories of an idea Journal of Historical Geography ·William B. Meyer	2019	2
3	The Progressive Environmental Prometheans William B. Meyer	2016	7
4	The Making and Unmaking of a Natural Resource: The Salt Industry of Coastal Southeastern Massachusetts William B. Meyer	2013	2
5	The Environmental Advantages of Cities The MIT Press eBooks ·William B. Meyer	2013	18
6	The Poor on the Hilltops? The Vertical Fringe of a Late Nineteenth-Century American City Annals of the Association of American Geographers ·William B. Meyer	2005	11
7	Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change ·George E. Clark, Susanne C. Moser, Samuel J. Ratick, Kirstin Dow, William B. Meyer, Srinivas Emani, Shede Liu, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Harry E. Schwarz	1998	300
8	Land-use/land-cover change: challenges for geographers GeoJournal ·William B. Meyer, B. L. Turner	1996	57
9	Human Impact on the Earth Medical Entomology and Zoology ·William B. Meyer	1996	40
10	Desertification: Exploding the Myth Geographical Review ·William B. Meyer, David S.G. Thomas, Nick Middleton	1996	0
11	Changes in Land Use and Land Cover William B. Meyer, B. L. Turner	1994	18
12	Global land-use/land-cover change: towards an integrated study B. L. Turner, William B. Meyer, David L. Skole	1994	302
13	BRINGING HYPSOGRAPHY BACK IN: ALTITUDE AND RESIDENCE IN AMERICAN CITIES Urban Geography ·William B. Meyer	1994	16
14	Land use and land cover in global environmental change: considerations for study International Social Science Journal ·B. L. Turner, William B. Meyer	1991	86
15	The “Earth Transformed” program GeoJournal ·William B. Meyer, B. L. Turner	1990	3
16	Two types of global environmental change Global Environmental Change ·B. L. Turner, Roger E. Kasperson, William B. Meyer, Kirstin Dow, Dominic Golding, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Robert Cameron Mitchell, Samuel J. Ratick	1990	189
17	Locational conflict in a nineteenth-century city Political Geography Quarterly ·William B. Meyer, Michael Brown	1989	20
18	Beyond the mask: toward a transdisciplinary approach of selected social problems related to the evolution and context of international tourism in Thailand. Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) ·William B. Meyer	1988	8
19	Venacular American Theories of Earth Science Journal of Geological Education ·William B. Meyer	1987	21
20	Response To Trimble The Professional Geographer ·B. L. Turner, William B. Meyer	1987	4

About William B. Meyer

William B. Meyer is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geography, Planning and Development, Global and Planetary Change and Transportation, having authored 49 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include American Environmental and Regional History (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (5 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (3 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (2 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (2.0k citations), Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (549 citations), Ecology (780 citations), Atmospheric Science (470 citations) and Soil Science (230 citations). William B. Meyer has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include B. L. Turner, Jonathan A. Newman, Robert W. Kates, W. C. Clark, David L. Skole, Andrew Goudie, William E. Riebsame, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Kirstin Dow and Roger E. Kasperson. Their work appears in journals such as Geographical Review, The Professional Geographer, Urban Geography, GeoJournal and American Journal of Legal History.

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