William B. Meyer

4.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

William B. Meyer is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William B. Meyer has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in William B. Meyer's work include American Environmental and Regional History (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (5 papers). William B. Meyer is often cited by papers focused on American Environmental and Regional History (5 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (5 papers). William B. Meyer collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. William B. Meyer's co-authors include B. L. Turner, Jonathan A. Newman, Robert W. Kates, W. C. Clark, David L. Skole, Andrew Goudie, William E. Riebsame, Samuel J. Ratick, Kirstin Dow and Roger E. Kasperson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Ecology, Global Environmental Change and Climatic Change.

In The Last Decade

William B. Meyer

45 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Human Population Growth and Global Land-Use/Cover Change 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 1993 1995 100 200 300 400 500
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. Human Population Growth and Global Land-Use/Cover Change
    1992 594 citations William B. Meyer, B. L. Turner profile →
  2. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action. Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years
    1993 581 citations B. L. Turner, William B. Meyer et al. profile →
  3. Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective.
    1995 491 citations William B. Meyer, B. L. Turner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William B. Meyer United States 19 2.0k 780 549 496 470 49 3.4k
Anna M. Hersperger Switzerland 34 2.9k 1.5× 766 1.0× 715 1.3× 414 0.8× 253 0.5× 95 4.2k
Darla K. Munroe United States 29 2.2k 1.1× 548 0.7× 394 0.7× 276 0.6× 279 0.6× 61 3.2k
Jacqueline McGlade United Kingdom 26 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 1.7× 512 0.9× 426 0.9× 287 0.6× 60 4.0k
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele de Strihou Belgium 21 1.9k 1.0× 568 0.7× 321 0.6× 551 1.1× 1.1k 2.4× 57 4.3k
Ian Douglas United Kingdom 32 1.4k 0.7× 1.0k 1.3× 394 0.7× 444 0.9× 481 1.0× 141 4.0k
Ranjeet John United States 30 2.0k 1.0× 991 1.3× 506 0.9× 213 0.4× 648 1.4× 67 3.6k
Peter N. Duinker Canada 35 1.7k 0.9× 563 0.7× 840 1.5× 397 0.8× 223 0.5× 130 3.5k
Jane Southworth United States 37 3.0k 1.5× 1.7k 2.2× 526 1.0× 360 0.7× 382 0.8× 115 4.9k
Roger Jones Australia 26 1.9k 1.0× 443 0.6× 197 0.4× 348 0.7× 633 1.3× 96 3.2k
R. Edward Grumbine China 21 1.7k 0.9× 1.0k 1.3× 679 1.2× 490 1.0× 335 0.7× 39 3.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Meyer, William B.. (2023). The best answer? Justice Nelson’s concurrence in Dred Scott v. Sandford. American Journal of Legal History. 63(1). 1–18.
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Meyer, William B.. (2013). The Environmental Advantages of Cities. The MIT Press eBooks. 18 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B.. (2006). Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 96(3). 674–675. 62 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B.. (2005). The Poor on the Hilltops? The Vertical Fringe of a Late Nineteenth-Century American City. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 95(4). 773–788. 11 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B.. (2000). THE OTHER BURGESS MODEL. Urban Geography. 21(3). 261–270. 13 indexed citations
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Clark, George E., Susanne C. Moser, Samuel J. Ratick, et al.. (1998). Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 3(1). 59–82. 300 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B.. (1996). Human Impact on the Earth. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 40 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B. & B. L. Turner. (1996). Land-use/land-cover change: challenges for geographers. GeoJournal. 39(3). 237–240. 57 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B., David S.G. Thomas, & Nick Middleton. (1996). Desertification: Exploding the Myth. Geographical Review. 86(1). 124–124.
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Turner, B. L., William B. Meyer, & David L. Skole. (1994). Global land-use/land-cover change: towards an integrated study. 91–95. 302 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B. & B. L. Turner. (1994). Changes in Land Use and Land Cover. 549. 18 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B.. (1994). BRINGING HYPSOGRAPHY BACK IN: ALTITUDE AND RESIDENCE IN AMERICAN CITIES. Urban Geography. 15(6). 505–513. 16 indexed citations
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Turner, B. L. & William B. Meyer. (1991). Land use and land cover in global environmental change: considerations for study. International Social Science Journal. 43(130). 669–679. 86 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B. & B. L. Turner. (1990). The “Earth Transformed” program. GeoJournal. 20(2). 95–99. 3 indexed citations
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Turner, B. L., Roger E. Kasperson, William B. Meyer, et al.. (1990). Two types of global environmental change. Global Environmental Change. 1(1). 14–22. 189 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B. & Michael Brown. (1989). Locational conflict in a nineteenth-century city. Political Geography Quarterly. 8(2). 107–122. 20 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B.. (1988). 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). 8 indexed citations
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Meyer, William B.. (1987). Venacular American Theories of Earth Science. Journal of Geological Education. 35(4). 193–196. 21 indexed citations
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Turner, B. L. & William B. Meyer. (1987). Response To Trimble. The Professional Geographer. 39(2). 203–204. 4 indexed citations

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