| Carbon lock-in: types, causes, and policy implications KC Seto, SJ Davis, RB Mitchell, EC Stokes, G Unruh, D Ürge-Vorsatz Annual review of environment and resources 41 (1), 425-452, 2016 | 1137 | 2016 |
| NASA's Black Marble nighttime lights product suite MO Román, Z Wang, Q Sun, V Kalb, SD Miller, A Molthan, L Schultz, ... Remote Sensing of Environment 210, 113-143, 2018 | 477 | 2018 |
| Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing Z Zhu, Y Zhou, KC Seto, EC Stokes, C Deng, STA Pickett, H Taubenböck Remote Sensing of Environment 228, 164-182, 2019 | 353 | 2019 |
| Satellite-based assessment of electricity restoration efforts in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria MO Román, EC Stokes, R Shrestha, Z Wang, L Schultz, EAS Carlo, Q Sun, ... PloS one 14 (6), e0218883, 2019 | 234 | 2019 |
| Holidays in lights: Tracking cultural patterns in demand for energy services MO Román, EC Stokes Earth's future 3 (6), 182-205, 2015 | 154 | 2015 |
| Characterizing urban infrastructural transitions for the Sustainable Development Goals using multi-temporal land, population, and nighttime light data EC Stokes, KC Seto Remote Sensing of Environment 234, 111430, 2019 | 117 | 2019 |
| Associations between greenness, impervious surface area, and nighttime lights on biomarkers of vascular aging in Chennai, India KJ Lane, EC Stokes, KC Seto, S Thanikachalam, M Thanikachalam, ... Environmental health perspectives 125 (8), 087003, 2017 | 83 | 2017 |
| A critical knowledge pathway to low‐carbon, sustainable futures: Integrated understanding of urbanization, urban areas, and carbon P Romero‐Lankao, KR Gurney, KC Seto, M Chester, RM Duren, ... Earth's Future 2 (10), 515-532, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
| Characterizing and measuring urban landscapes for sustainability EC Stokes, KC Seto Environmental Research Letters 14 (4), 045002, 2019 | 79 | 2019 |
| Carbon analytics for net-zero emissions sustainable cities A Ramaswami, K Tong, JG Canadell, RB Jackson, E Stokes, S Dhakal, ... Nature Sustainability 4 (6), 460-463, 2021 | 77 | 2021 |
| Urban science: Integrated theory from the first cities to sustainable metropolises J Lobo, M Alberti, M Allen-Dumas, E Arcaute, M Barthelemy, ... | 66 | 2020 |
| Positioning infrastructure and technologies for low‐carbon urbanization MV Chester, J Sperling, E Stokes, B Allenby, K Kockelman, C Kennedy, ... Earth's Future 2 (10), 533-547, 2014 | 56 | 2014 |
| Tradeoffs in environmental and equity gains from job accessibility EC Stokes, KC Seto Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (42), E9773-E9781, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| Artificial light at night: an underappreciated effect on phenology of deciduous woody plants L Meng, Y Zhou, MO Román, EC Stokes, Z Wang, GR Asrar, J Mao, ... PNAS nexus 1 (2), pgac046, 2022 | 41 | 2022 |
| Using digital imaging to assess spectral solar-optical properties of complex fenestration materials: A new approach in video–goniophotometry M Andersen, E Stokes, N Gayeski, C Browne Solar Energy 84 (4), 549-562, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
| Tracking COVID-19 urban activity changes in the Middle East from nighttime lights EC Stokes, MO Román Scientific reports 12 (1), 8096, 2022 | 28 | 2022 |
| Climate change and urban land systems: bridging the gaps between urbanism and land science EC Stokes, KC Seto Journal of Land Use Science 11 (6), 698-708, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Emergencies do not stop at night: Advanced analysis of displacement based on satellite-derived nighttime light observations M Enenkel, RM Shrestha, E Stokes, M Román, Z Wang, MTM Espinosa, ... IBM Journal of Research and Development 64 (1/2), 8: 1-8: 12, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Retired satellites: A chance to shed light EC Stokes, MO Román, Z Wang, CCM Kyba, SD Miller, T Storch, ... Science 373 (6562), 1451-1452, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Large-scale urban building function mapping by integrating multi-source web-based geospatial data W Chen, Y Zhou, EC Stokes, X Zhang Geo-spatial Information Science 27 (6), 1785-1799, 2024 | 13 | 2024 |