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Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

2399-8083

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/epb

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 153 44 100 17
Environmental Sciences 437 21 24 12
Engineering and Technology 611 34 87 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 147
Documents by Best Scientists*: 214
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 117
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.073
Impact Factor: 3.1

Top Publications

  • Evaluating and characterizing urban vibrancy using spatial big data: Shanghai as a case study:

    Bo Huang;Yulun Zhou;Zhigang Li;Yimeng Song

    (2020)
    161 Citations
  • Connecting the city: A three-dimensional pedestrian network of Hong Kong

    Guibo Sun;Chris Webster;Xiaohu Zhang

    (2021)
    69 Citations
  • The interplay of spatial spread of COVID-19 and human mobility in the urban system of China during the Chinese New Year

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • When COVID-19 came to town: Measuring the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on footfall on six high streets in England

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • Planning support science: Developments and challenges:

    Stan Geertman;John Stillwell

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • Classifying settlement types from multi-scale spatial patterns of building footprints:

    Warren C Jochem;Douglas R Leasure;Oliver Pannell;Heather R Chamberlain

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • Sidewalk extraction using aerial and street view images

    Huan Ning;Huan Ning;Xinyue Ye;Xinyue Ye;Zhihui Chen;Zhihui Chen;Tao Liu;Tao Liu

    (2021)
    46 Citations
  • The smart city model: A new panacea for urban sustainability or unmanageable complexity?:

    Johan Colding;Magnus Colding;Stephan Barthel

    (2020)
    43 Citations
  • Avoiding the planning support system pitfalls? What smart governance can learn from the planning support system implementation gap:

    Huaxiong Jiang;Stan Geertman;Patrick Witte

    (2020)
    41 Citations

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