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Benjamin Bechtel

Benjamin Bechtel

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
11902
World Ranking
5434
National Ranking
364

Benjamin Bechtel publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin Bechtel sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 195 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Benjamin Bechtel D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin Bechtel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Best Publications

  • System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) v. 2.1.4

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  • System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) v. 2.1.4

    O. Conrad;Benjamin Bechtel;M. Bock;H. Dietrich

  • Mapping local climate zones for a worldwide database of the form and function of cities

    Benjamin Bechtel;Paul John Alexander;Jürgen Böhner;Jason Ching

  • WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene

    J. Ching;G. Mills;Benjamin Bechtel;L. See

  • A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science

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  • SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities

    Benjamin Bechtel;Matthias Demuzere;Matthias Demuzere;Gerald Mills;Wenfeng Zhan

  • WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid

    Oscar Brousse;Alberto Martilli;Michael Foley;Gerald Mills

  • Classification of Local Climate Zones Based on Multiple Earth Observation Data

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  • LCZ Generator: A Web Application to Create Local Climate Zone Maps

    Matthias Demuzere;Jonas Kittner;Benjamin Bechtel

  • Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation

    Benjamin Bechtel;Paul J. Alexander;Christoph Beck;Jürgen Böhner

  • Mapping Europe into local climate zones.

    Matthias Demuzere;Matthias Demuzere;Benjamin Bechtel;Benjamin Bechtel;Ariane Middel;Gerald Mills

  • Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life

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  • Comparison between convolutional neural networks and random forest for local climate zone classification in mega urban areas using Landsat images

    Cheolhee Yoo;Daehyeon Han;Jungho Im;Benjamin Bechtel

  • Surface warming in global cities is substantially more rapid than in rural background areas

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  • Intra and inter ‘local climate zone’ variability of air temperature as observed by crowdsourced citizen weather stations in Berlin, Germany

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  • Downscaling Land Surface Temperature in an Urban Area: A Case Study for Hamburg, Germany

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  • Mapping local climate zones for cities: A large review

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  • Detecting multi-temporal land cover change and land surface temperature in Pearl River Delta by adopting local climate zone

    Ran Wang;Meng Cai;Chao Ren;Chao Ren;Benjamin Bechtel

  • Open Data for Global Multimodal Land Use Classification: Outcome of the 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

    Naoto Yokoya;Pedram Ghamisi;Junshi Xia;Sergey Sukhanov

  • Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US.

    Matthias Demuzere;Steve Hankey;Gerald Mills;Wenwen Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Böhner
Jürgen Böhner Universität Hamburg
Linda See
Linda See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Matthias Demuzere
Matthias Demuzere Ruhr University Bochum
Chao Ren
Chao Ren University of Hong Kong
Ariane Middel
Ariane Middel Arizona State University
Alberto Martilli
Alberto Martilli Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas
Johannes J. Feddema
Johannes J. Feddema University of Victoria
Chris T. Kiranoudis
Chris T. Kiranoudis National Technical University of Athens
Valéry Masson
Valéry Masson Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
James A. Voogt
James A. Voogt University of Western Ontario

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