2026 Kimberly E. Baugh: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	45	6229	5979	2244	2080	72	16598

Overview

Kimberly E. Baugh is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, as well as environmental science.

Their work is closely related to the following main topics:

Impact of Light on Environment and Health
Infrared Target Detection Methodologies
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
Urban Transport and Accessibility
Energy and Environment Impacts

Baugh's subfields of study include:

Global and Planetary Change
Pollution
Molecular Biology
Aerospace Engineering
Biotechnology

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers covering diverse areas of research. These include:

Therapeutic Options for Metallo-β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacterales, 2021, published in Infection and Drug Resistance
Extending the DMSP Nighttime Lights Time Series beyond 2013, 2021, published in Remote Sensing
Estimating global economic well-being with unlit settlements, 2022, published in Nature Communications
Fifty years of nightly global low-light imaging satellite observations, 2022, published in Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Lost in the dark: A survey of energy poverty from space, 2024, published in Joule

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

Infection and Drug Resistance
Remote Sensing
Nature Communications
Joule
Frontiers in Remote Sensing

Collaborations form an important part of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

Eric Wenzler
Zackery P. Bulman
Christopher D. Elvidge
Xing Tan
Hwan Seung Kim

Best Publications

The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness.

Fabio Falchi;Pierantonio Cinzano;Dan Duriscoe;Christopher C. M. Kyba

1654
Citations
Relation between satellite observed visible-near infrared emissions, population, economic activity and electric power consumption

C. D. Elvidge;K. E. Baugh;E. A. Kihn;H. W. Kroehl

1158
Citations
A Fifteen Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data

Christopher D. Elvidge;Daniel Ziskin;Kimberly E. Baugh;Benjamin T. Tuttle

1102
Citations
Mapping City Lights With Nighttime Data from the DMSP Operational Linescan System

Christopher D. Elvidge;Kimberly E. Baugh;Eric A. Kihn;Herbert W. Kroehl

938
Citations
VIIRS night-time lights

Christopher D Elvidge;Kimberly Baugh;Mikhail Zhizhin;Feng Chi Hsu

925
Citations
Artificially lit surface of Earth at night increasing in radiance and extent

Christopher C. M. Kyba;Christopher C. M. Kyba;Theres Kuester;Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel;Alejandro Sánchez de Miguel;Kimberly Baugh

910
Citations
Why VIIRS data are superior to DMSP for mapping nighttime lights

Christopher D. Elvidge;Kimberly E. Baugh;Mikhail Zhizhin;Feng-Chi Hsu

771
Citations
Radiance Calibration of DMSP-OLS Low-Light Imaging Data of Human Settlements

Christopher D Elvidge;Kimberly E Baugh;John B Dietz;Theodore Bland

649
Citations
Night-time lights of the world: 1994–1995

Christopher D Elvidge;Marc L Imhoff;Kimberly E Baugh;Vinita Ruth Hobson

621
Citations
A global poverty map derived from satellite data

Christopher D. Elvidge;Paul C. Sutton;Tilottama Ghosh;Benjamin T. Tuttle

610
Citations
Census from Heaven: An estimate of the global human population using night-time satellite imagery

P. Sutton;D. Roberts;C. Elvidge;K. Baugh

579
Citations
Global Distribution and Density of Constructed Impervious Surfaces

Christopher D. Elvidge;Benjamin T. Tuttle;Paul S. Sutton;Kimberly E. Baugh

544
Citations
Methods for Global Survey of Natural Gas Flaring from Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Data

Christopher D. Elvidge;Mikhail Zhizhin;Kimberly Baugh;Feng-Chi Hsu

442
Citations
Shedding Light on the Global Distribution of Economic Activity

Tilottama Ghosh;Rebecca L. Powell;Christopher D. Elvidge;Kimberly E. Baugh

441
Citations
Validation of urban boundaries derived from global night-time satellite imagery

M. Henderson;E. T. Yeh;P. Gong;C. Elvidge

431
Citations
Spectral Identification of Lighting Type and Character

Christopher D. Elvidge;David M. Keith;Benjamin T. Tuttle;Kimberly E. Baugh

382
Citations
VIIRS Nightfire: Satellite Pyrometry at Night

Christopher D. Elvidge;Mikhail N. Zhizhin;Feng-Chi Hsu;Kimberly E. Baugh

346
Citations
The artificial night sky brightness mapped from DMSP satellite Operational Linescan System measurements

P. Cinzano;F. Falchi;C. D. Elvidge;K. E. Baugh

328
Citations
The Night Light Development Index (NLDI): a spatially explicit measure of human development from satellite data

C. D. Elvidge;K. E. Baugh;S. J. Anderson;S. J. Anderson;P. C. Sutton

321
Citations
DMSP-OLS Radiance Calibrated Nighttime Lights Time Series with Intercalibration

Feng-Chi Hsu;Kimberly E. Baugh;Tilottama Ghosh;Mikhail N. Zhizhin

251
Citations
Urban Observing Sensors

Q. Weng;P. Gamba;G. Mountrakis;M. Pesaresi

66
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. Elvidge Colorado School of Mines

Paul C. Sutton University of Denver

Jacob N. Shapiro Princeton University

Morgan Bazilian Colorado School of Mines

Peng Gong University of Hong Kong

Shamil Maksyutov National Institute for Environmental Studies

Robert J. Andres Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Miguel O. Román Goddard Space Flight Center

Ramakrishna R. Nemani Ames Research Center

Luis Guanter Universitat Politècnica de València

External Links

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