Deborah Balk

16.9k citations
80 papers · 11.2k · 5 hit papers · h-index 29

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    • Land Use and Ecosystem Services 20
    • Impact of Light on Environment and Health 16
    • Urban Transport and Accessibility 12
    • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis 8

Deborah Balk

78 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Deborah Balk's Hit Papers

The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use 2019 · 258 citations
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Deborah Balk
Comparison fields: 5 of 193
  • Modeling and Simulation 626
  • Infectious Diseases 2.2k
  • Global and Planetary Change 2.5k
  • Agronomy and Crop Science 1.1k
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2.7k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Deborah Balk, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1
Global trends in emerging infectious diseases
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20085475
2
The rising tide: assessing the risks of climate change and human settlements in low elevation coastal zones
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20071708
3
Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability
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2011554
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Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure
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2014504
5 2006397
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The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use
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2019258
7 1994195
8 2010186
9 2021144
10 2004102
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The Distribution of People and the Dimension of Place: Methodologies to Improve the Global Estimation of Urban Extents
200496
12 201293
13 202186
14 201785
15 200182
16 199781
17 200564
18 200563
19 201562
20 202160

About Deborah Balk

Deborah Balk is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Transportation, Sociology and Political Science, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, having authored 80 papers that have together received 11.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers), Impact of Light on Environment and Health (16 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (12 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (10 papers), Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (8 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (8 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (8 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Modeling and Simulation (626 citations), Infectious Diseases (2.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.5k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (1.1k citations) and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (2.7k citations). Deborah Balk has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Adam Storeygard, Marc A. Levy, Nikkita Patel, Kate E. Jones, John L. Gittleman, Peter Daszak, Gordon McGranahan, Mark R. Montgomery, Robert I. McDonald and Pamela Green. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Population Space and Place, PLoS ONE, Earth system science data and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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