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Karen C. Seto

Active 2001–2026

76
Papers
34,652
Citations
65
h-index
69
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Citations

Citations per year for Karen C. Seto2001: 3 citations2002: 4 citations2003: 17 citations2004: 8 citations2005: 22 citations2006: 21 citations2007: 26 citations2008: 37 citations2009: 29 citations2010: 46 citations2011: 48 citations2012: 69 citations2013: 106 citations2014: 192 citations2015: 231 citations2016: 262 citations2017: 325 citations2018: 320 citations2019: 527 citations2020: 531 citations2021: 527 citations2022: 435 citations2023: 335 citations2024: 398 citations2025: 269 citations2026: 35 citations

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorChina: 1,453 citing papers, 22.4% of this breakdownUnited States: 1,113 citing papers, 17.2% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 419 citing papers, 6.4% of this breakdownGermany: 350 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownAustralia: 254 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownCanada: 187 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownNetherlands: 174 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownItaly: 162 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownSpain: 157 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownSweden: 128 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownFrance: 117 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownIndia: 117 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
0%22.4%Other 28.6%

Institutions

Fields

  • Environmental Science66.5%
  • Engineering9.7%
  • Social Sciences5%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences4%
  • Computer Science3%
  • Medicine2.1%
  • Other9.7%

Topics

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services13%
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health6.5%
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation5.6%
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture5.5%
  • Urban Green Space and Health5%
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use3.7%
  • Other60.7%

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  1. Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

    Authors: Karen C. Seto, Burak Güneralp, Lucy R. Hutyra - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 4,796

  2. Nighttime light remote sensing for urban applications: Progress, challenges, and prospects

    Authors: Qiming Zheng, Karen C. Seto, Yuyu Zhou, Shixue You, Qihao Weng - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2023 cited by 252

  3. NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite

    Authors: Miguel O. Román, Zhuosen Wang, Qingsong Sun, Virginia Kalb, Steven D. Miller, Andrew Molthan, Lori A. Schultz, Jordan R. Bell, Eleanor C. Stokes, Bhartendu Pandey, Karen C. Seto, Dorothy K. Hall, Tomohiro Oda, Robert E. Wolfe, Gary Lin, N. Golpayegani, Sadashiva Devadiga, Carol Davidson, Sudipta Sarkar, C. Praderas, Jeffrey E. Schmaltz, R. A. Boller, Joshua Stevens, Olga González, E. Padilla, José Francisco Martín Alonso, Y. Detrés, Roy A. Armstrong, Ismael Miranda, Yasmín Conte, Nitza Marrero, Kytt MacManus, Thomas Esch, Edward J. Masuoka - Remote Sensing of Environment 2018 cited by 577

  4. Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing

    Authors: Zhe Zhu, Yuyu Zhou, Karen C. Seto, Eleanor C. Stokes, Chengbin Deng, Steward T. A. Pickett, Hannes Taubenböck - Remote Sensing of Environment 2019 cited by 394

  5. Mapping urbanization dynamics at regional and global scales using multi-temporal DMSP/OLS nighttime light data

    Authors: Qingling Zhang, Karen C. Seto - Remote Sensing of Environment 2011 cited by 715

  6. A systematic review and assessment of algorithms to detect, characterize, and monitor urban land change

    Authors: Meredith Reba, Karen C. Seto - Remote Sensing of Environment 2020 cited by 221

  7. Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

    Authors: Christopher Bren d’Amour, Femke Reitsma, Giovanni Baiocchi, Stephan Barthel, Burak Güneralp, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl, Felix Creutzig, Karen C. Seto - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 cited by 1,341

  8. Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050

    Authors: Kangning Huang, Xia Li, Xiaoping Liu, Karen C. Seto - Environmental Research Letters 2019 cited by 411

  9. A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion

    Authors: Karen C. Seto, Michail Fragkias, Burak Güneralp, Michael Reilly - PLoS ONE 2011 cited by 2,292

  10. Urban land expansion: the role of population and economic growth for 300+ cities

    Authors: Richa Mahtta, Michail Fragkias, Burak Güneralp, Anjali Mahendra, Meredith Reba, Elizabeth A. Wentz, Karen C. Seto - npj Urban Sustainability 2022 cited by 376

  11. Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

    Authors: Carl Folke, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Victor Galaz, Frances Westley, Michèle Lamont, Marten Scheffer, Henrik Österblom, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin, Karen C. Seto, Elke U. Weber, Beatrice Crona, Gretchen C. Daily, Partha Dasgupta, Owen Gaffney, Line Gordon, Holger Hoff, Simon A. Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Will Steffen, Brian Walker - AMBIO 2021 cited by 673

  12. Systems integration for global sustainability

    Authors: Jianguo Liu, Harold A. Mooney, Vanessa Hull, Steven J. Davis, Joanne Catherine Gaskell, Thomas W. Hertel, Jane Lubchenco, Karen C. Seto, Peter H. Gleick, Claire Kremen, Shuxin Li - Science 2015 cited by 1,302

  13. Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050

    Authors: Rohan Simkin, Karen C. Seto, Robert I. McDonald, Walter Jetz - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022 cited by 779

  14. The New Geography of Contemporary Urbanization and the Environment

    Authors: Karen C. Seto, Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez, Michail Fragkias - Annual Review of Environment and Resources 2010 cited by 679

  15. Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis

    Authors: Burak Güneralp, Meredith Reba, Billy Hales, Elizabeth A. Wentz, Karen C. Seto - Environmental Research Letters 2020 cited by 460

  16. Satellite-based assessment of electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

    Authors: Miguel O. Román, Eleanor C. Stokes, Ranjay Shrestha, Zhuosen Wang, Lori A. Schultz, Edil A. Sepúlveda Carlo, Qingsong Sun, Jordan R. Bell, Andrew Molthan, Virginia Kalb, Chuanyi Ji, Karen C. Seto, Shanna N. McClain, Markus Enenkel - PLoS ONE 2019 cited by 233

  17. Classification and Change Detection Using Landsat TM Data

    Authors: Conghe Song, Curtis E. Woodcock, Karen C. Seto, Mary Pax Lenney, Scott Macomber - Remote Sensing of Environment 2001 cited by 1,668

  18. The Vegetation Adjusted NTL Urban Index: A new approach to reduce saturation and increase variation in nighttime luminosity

    Authors: Qingling Zhang, Crystal Schaaf, Karen C. Seto - Remote Sensing of Environment 2012 cited by 371

  19. Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

    Authors: Thomas Elmqvist, Cathy Wilkinson, Karen C. Seto - 2013 cited by 1,320

  20. Sustainability in an urbanizing planet

    Authors: Karen C. Seto, Jay S. Golden, Marina Alberti, B. L. Turner - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017 cited by 341

  21. Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050

    Authors: Burak Güneralp, Yuyu Zhou, Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, Mukesh Gupta, Sha Yu, Pralit Patel, Michail Fragkias, Xiaoma Li, Karen C. Seto - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017 cited by 531

  22. Building a global urban science

    Authors: Michele Acuto, Susan Parnell, Karen C. Seto - Nature Sustainability 2018 cited by 421

  23. From Low- to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda

    Authors: Karen C. Seto, Galina Churkina, Angel Hsu, Meredith Keller, Peter Newman, Bo Qin, Anu Ramaswami - Annual Review of Environment and Resources 2021 cited by 235

  24. Research gaps in knowledge of the impact of urban growth on biodiversity

    Authors: Robert I. McDonald, Andressa V. Mansur, Fernando Ascensão, M’Lisa Colbert, Katie Crossman, Thomas Elmqvist, Andrew Gonzalez, Burak Güneralp, Dagmar Haase, Maike Hamann, Oliver Hillel, Kangning Huang, Belinda Kahnt, David Maddox, Andrea Pacheco, Henrique M. Pereira, Karen C. Seto, Rohan Simkin, Brenna Walsh, Aleksandra Werner, Carly D. Ziter - Nature Sustainability 2019 cited by 582