2026 Carlo Ratti: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	90	262	249	92	86	480	34542

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award

Overview

Carlo Ratti is primarily affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a diverse research portfolio centered on environmental science, engineering, and social sciences. Their work spans several main fields of study including environmental science (147 publications), engineering (145 publications), and social sciences (141 publications).

Their research extensively covers various subfields such as transportation (116 publications), global and planetary change (51 publications), automotive engineering (41 publications), health, toxicology and mutagenesis (38 publications), and building and construction (37 publications). These areas underline a multidisciplinary approach to understanding complex urban and environmental systems.

Key topics addressed in their work include:

Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Urban Transport and Accessibility
Land Use and Ecosystem Services
Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Impact of Light on Environment and Health
Transportation Planning and Optimization
Urban Green Space and Health

Carlo Ratti has published in a range of scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Scientific Reports
Cities

Their recent papers include notable works such as:

"The universal visitation law of human mobility," 2021, Nature
"Understanding spatio-temporal heterogeneity of bike-sharing and scooter-sharing mobility," 2020, Computers Environment and Urban Systems
"Understanding house price appreciation using multi-source big geo-data and machine learning," 2020, Land Use Policy
""Perception bias": Deciphering a mismatch between urban crime and perception of safety," 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning
"Urban visual intelligence: Uncovering hidden city profiles with street view images," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include Fábio Duarte, Paolo Santi, Simone Mora, Fan Zhang, and Priyanka deSouza, each having co-authored numerous publications alongside Ratti.

Carlo Ratti has also contributed to book publications through reputable publishers, including:

Yale University Press: "Atlas of the Senseable City" (2023)
Inter-American Development Bank eBooks: "Informando lo informal: estrategias para generar información en asentamientos precarios" (2021)

Best Publications

LIO-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping

Tixiao Shan;Brendan Englot;Drew Meyers;Wei Wang

1838
Citations
Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis

Carlo Ratti;Dennis Frenchman;Riccardo Maria Pulselli;Sarah Williams

1156
Citations
Quantifying the benefits of vehicle pooling with shareability networks

Paolo Santi;Giovanni Resta;Michael Szell;Stanislav Sobolevsky

879
Citations
Geo-located Twitter as proxy for global mobility patterns

Bartosz Hawelka;Izabela Sitko;Euro Beinat;Stanislav Sobolevsky

854
Citations
Energy consumption and urban texture

Carlo Ratti;Nick Baker;Koen Steemers

838
Citations
Real-Time Urban Monitoring Using Cell Phones: A Case Study in Rome

F Calabrese;M Colonna;P Lovisolo;D Parata

836
Citations
Space Syntax: Some Inconsistencies

Carlo Ratti

739
Citations
Understanding individual mobility patterns from urban sensing data: A mobile phone trace example

Francesco Calabrese;Francesco Calabrese;Mi Diao;Giusy Di Lorenzo;Giusy Di Lorenzo;Joseph Ferreira

718
Citations
Measuring human perceptions of a large-scale urban region using machine learning

Fan Zhang;Fan Zhang;Fan Zhang;Bolei Zhou;Liu Liu;Yu Liu

708
Citations
Digital Footprinting: Uncovering Tourists with User-Generated Content

F. Girardin;F. Calabrese;F.D. Fiore;C. Ratti

657
Citations
Estimating Origin-Destination Flows Using Mobile Phone Location Data

F. Calabrese;G. Di Lorenzo;Liang Liu;C. Ratti

619
Citations
Estimating Origin-Destination flows using opportunistically collected mobile phone location data from one million users in Boston Metropolitan Area

Francesco Calabrese;Giusy Di Lorenzo;Liang Liu;Carlo Ratti

597
Citations
Illuminating clay: a 3-D tangible interface for landscape analysis

Ben Piper;Carlo Ratti;Hiroshi Ishii

584
Citations
Building form and environmental performance: archetypes, analysis and an arid climate

Carlo Ratti;Dana Raydan;Koen Steemers

582
Citations
Cellular Census: Explorations in Urban Data Collection

J. Reades;F. Calabrese;A. Sevtsuk;C. Ratti

565
Citations
End-user perspective of low-cost sensors for outdoor air pollution monitoring.

Aakash C. Rai;Prashant Kumar;Francesco Pilla;Andreas N. Skouloudis

555
Citations
LVI-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar-Visual-Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping

Tixiao Shan;Brendan Englot;Carlo Ratti;Daniela Rus

496
Citations
Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions

Carlo Ratti;Stanislav Sobolevsky;Francesco Calabrese;Clio Andris

489
Citations
The future of waste management in smart and sustainable cities: A review and concept paper.

Behzad Esmaeilian;Ben Wang;Kemper Lewis;Fabio Duarte;Fabio Duarte

474
Citations
A new insight into land use classification based on aggregated mobile phone data

Tao Pei;Stanislav Sobolevsky;Carlo Ratti;Shih-Lung Shaw

453
Citations
Urban gravity: a model for inter-city telecommunication flows

Gautier Krings;Gautier Krings;Francesco Calabrese;Carlo Ratti;Vincent D Blondel

449
Citations
The geography of taste: analyzing cell-phone mobility and social events

Francesco Calabrese;Francisco C. Pereira;Giusy Di Lorenzo;Liang Liu

402
Citations
Activity-aware map: identifying human daily activity pattern using mobile phone data

Santi Phithakkitnukoon;Teerayut Horanont;Giusy Di Lorenzo;Ryosuke Shibasaki

398
Citations