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Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti

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Engineering and Technology
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
90
Citations
34542
World Ranking
262
National Ranking
92

Carlo Ratti publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carlo Ratti sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 480 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Carlo Ratti D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carlo Ratti sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

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

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

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

  • Quantifying the benefits of vehicle pooling with shareability networks

    Paolo Santi;Giovanni Resta;Michael Szell;Stanislav Sobolevsky

  • Geo-located Twitter as proxy for global mobility patterns

    Bartosz Hawelka;Izabela Sitko;Euro Beinat;Stanislav Sobolevsky

  • Energy consumption and urban texture

    Carlo Ratti;Nick Baker;Koen Steemers

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

    F Calabrese;M Colonna;P Lovisolo;D Parata

  • Space Syntax: Some Inconsistencies

    Carlo Ratti

  • 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

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

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

  • Digital Footprinting: Uncovering Tourists with User-Generated Content

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

  • Estimating Origin-Destination Flows Using Mobile Phone Location Data

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

  • 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

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

    Ben Piper;Carlo Ratti;Hiroshi Ishii

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

    Carlo Ratti;Dana Raydan;Koen Steemers

  • Cellular Census: Explorations in Urban Data Collection

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

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

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

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

    Tixiao Shan;Brendan Englot;Carlo Ratti;Daniela Rus

  • Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions

    Carlo Ratti;Stanislav Sobolevsky;Francesco Calabrese;Clio Andris

  • 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

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

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

  • Urban gravity: a model for inter-city telecommunication flows

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

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

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Zbigniew Smoreda
Zbigniew Smoreda Orange (France)
Vincent D. Blondel
Vincent D. Blondel Université Catholique de Louvain
Steven H. Strogatz
Steven H. Strogatz Cornell University
Fabio Kon
Fabio Kon Universidade de São Paulo
Francisco C. Pereira
Francisco C. Pereira Technical University of Denmark

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