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Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
17312
World Ranking
1738
National Ranking
834

Overview

Luís M. A. Bettencourt is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the social sciences, with a focus on economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, global and planetary change, transportation, and modeling and simulation.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Luís M. A. Bettencourt include the following:

  • "Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene" (2021), published in npj Urban Sustainability
  • "The interpretation of urban scaling analysis in time" (2020), published in Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • "Urban growth and the emergent statistics of cities" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Evidence and theory for lower rates of depression in larger US urban areas" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Bettencourt include:

  • José Lobo
  • Marc G. Berman
  • Andrew J. Stier
  • Scott G. Ortman
  • Jordan Kemp

The scientist's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • npj Urban Sustainability
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In addition to journal articles, Luís M. A. Bettencourt has authored books, including Introduction to Urban Science (published by The MIT Press in 2021).

Best Publications

  • Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt;José Lobo;Dirk Helbing;Christian Kühnert

  • The Origins of Scaling in Cities

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt

  • A unified theory of urban living

    Luis Bettencourt;Geoffrey West

  • Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime across Cities

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Luís M. A. Bettencourt;José Lobo;Deborah Strumsky;Geoffrey B. West;Geoffrey B. West

  • Evolution and structure of sustainability science

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Jasleen Kaur

  • The power of a good idea: Quantitative modeling of the spread of ideas from epidemiological models

    Luís M.A. Bettencourt;Ariel Cintrón-Arias;Ariel Cintrón-Arias;David I. Kaiser;Carlos Castillo-Chávez;Carlos Castillo-Chávez

  • Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size

    Luis M. A. Bettencourt;Jos ´ e Lobo;Deborah Strumsky

  • Comparative estimation of the reproduction number for pandemic influenza from daily case notification data

    Gerardo Chowell;Hiroshi Nishiura;Luís M.A Bettencourt

  • Real Time Bayesian Estimation of the Epidemic Potential of Emerging Infectious Diseases

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Ruy M. Ribeiro

  • The scaling of human interactions with city size

    Markus Schläpfer;Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Sébastian Grauwin;Mathias Raschke

  • Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science

    Johan Bollen;Herbert Van de Sompel;Aric Hagberg;Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Luís M. A. Bettencourt

  • Invention as a combinatorial process: evidence from US patents

    Hyejin Youn;Hyejin Youn;Deborah Strumsky;Luis M. A. Bettencourt;José Lobo

  • Functional structure of cortical neuronal networks grown in vitro.

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Greg J. Stephens;Michael I. Ham;Guenter W. Gross

  • The Uses of Big Data in Cities.

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt

  • The pre-history of urban scaling.

    Scott G. Ortman;Andrew H. F. Cabaniss;Jennie O. Sturm;Luís M. A. Bettencourt

  • Mathematical and statistical estimation approaches in epidemiology

    Gerardo Chowell;James M. Hyman;Luís M. A. Bettencourt;Carlos Castillo-Chavez

  • Scientific discovery and topological transitions in collaboration networks

    Luís M.A. Bettencourt;Luís M.A. Bettencourt;David I. Kaiser;Jasleen Kaur

  • Urban scaling in Europe

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt;José Lobo

  • Heterogeneity and scale of sustainable development in cities

    Christa Brelsford;José Lobo;Joe Hand;Luís M. A. Bettencourt

  • The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in England and Wales: spatial patterns in transmissibility and mortality impact

    Gerardo Chowell;Luís M.A Bettencourt;Luís M.A Bettencourt;Niall Johnson;Wladimir J Alonso

  • Population modeling of the emergence and development of scientific fields

    Luís M. A. Bettencourt;David I. Kaiser;Jasleen Kaur;Carlos Castillo-Chávez

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Smith
Michael E. Smith Arizona State University
Marc G. Berman
Marc G. Berman University of Chicago
Wojciech H. Zurek
Wojciech H. Zurek Los Alamos National Laboratory
Christof Wetterich
Christof Wetterich Heidelberg University
Erik Andersson
Erik Andersson Karolinska Institute
Alun L. Lloyd
Alun L. Lloyd North Carolina State University
Marina Alberti
Marina Alberti University of Washington
Guenter W. Gross
Guenter W. Gross University of North Texas
Carl M. Bender
Carl M. Bender Washington University in St. Louis
Donald Hedeker
Donald Hedeker University of Chicago

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