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Margareta Friman

Margareta Friman

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
11801
World Ranking
2158
National Ranking
24

Margareta Friman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Margareta Friman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 234 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Margareta Friman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Margareta Friman sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Margareta Friman is affiliated with Karlstad University in Sweden and is an active researcher in the social sciences, with a strong emphasis on transportation-related fields. Their research spans social sciences broadly, with particular focus on transportation, automotive engineering, applied psychology, sociology and political science, and social psychology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Margareta Friman has published extensively in various scholarly venues, primarily focusing on transport and sustainability. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Transport & Health
  • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice

Recent publications by Margareta Friman include:

  • Public Transport Quality, Safety, and Perceived Accessibility, 2020, Sustainability

Other relevant recent publications related to transport and consumer services co-authored with frequent collaborators include:

  • Unlocking potential: An integrated approach using PLS-SEM, NCA, and fsQCA for informed decision making, 2023, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
  • Assessing travel satisfaction in public transport: A configurational approach, 2021, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Necessary and sufficient conditions for attractive public Transport: Combined use of PLS-SEM and NCA, 2022, Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Therapeutic servicescapes: Restorative and relational resources in service settings, 2020, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services

Margareta Friman regularly collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Lars E. Olsson
  • Katrin Lättman
  • Satoshi Fujii
  • Alexandre Sukhov
  • Yuichiro Kawabata

Their work integrates multidisciplinary perspectives within the social sciences to examine transportation systems and their impacts on urban environments, mobility behavior, and public health. This includes examining travel satisfaction, accessibility, safety, and optimization strategies to understand and improve public transport systems.

The span of fields and topics connected to Margareta Friman's research illustrates a focus on addressing complex social and behavioral aspects of transportation and mobility within urban and policy contexts.

Best Publications

  • Quality attributes of public transport that attract car users : A research review

    Lauren Redman;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Terry Hartig

  • Happiness and Satisfaction with work commute

    Lars E. Olsson;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Dick Ettema;Margareta Friman

  • Out-of-home activities, daily travel, and subjective well-being

    Dick Ettema;Tommy Gärling;Lars E. Olsson;Margareta Friman

  • Behaviour Theory and Soft Transport Policy Measures

    Sebastian Bamberg;Satoshi Fujii;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling

  • Satisfaction with travel and subjective well-being: Development and test of a measurement tool

    Dick Ettema;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Lars Eriksson;Margareta Friman

  • An analysis of international business-to-business relationships based on the Commitment–Trust theory

    Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Bruce Millett;Jan Mattsson

  • How in-vehicle activities affect work commuters’ satisfaction with public transport

    Dick Ettema;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Lars E. Olsson

  • Fresh perspectives on customer experience

    Janet R. McColl-Kennedy;Anders Gustafsson;Elina Jaakkola;Phil Klaus

  • Subjective well-being related to satisfaction with daily travel

    Cecilia Jakobsson Bergstad;Amelie Gamble;Tommy Gärling;Olle Hagman

  • Perceived Satisfaction with Public Transport Service in Nine European Cities

    Markus Fellesson;Margareta Friman

  • Frequency of negative critical incidents and satisfaction with public transport services. II

    Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling

  • Psychometric analysis of the satisfaction with travel scale

    Margareta Friman;Satoshi Fujii;Dick Ettema;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling

  • Service Supply and Customer Satisfaction in Public Transportation: The Quality Paradox

    Margareta Friman;Markus Fellesson

  • How does travel affect emotional well-being and life satisfaction?

    Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Tommy Gärling;Dick Ettema;Lars E. Olsson

  • The measurement of core affect: a Swedish self-report measure derived from the affect circumplex.

    Daniel Västfjäll;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling;Mendel Kleiner

  • A new approach to accessibility – Examining perceived accessibility in contrast to objectively measured accessibility in daily travel

    Katrin Lättman;Lars E. Olsson;Margareta Friman

  • Perceived Accessibility of Public Transport as a Potential Indicator of Social Inclusion

    Katrin Lättman;Margareta Friman;Lars E. Olsson

  • IMPLEMENTING QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS IN PUBLIC TRANSPORT

    Margareta Friman

  • Transport and child well-being: An integrative review

    Edward Owen Douglas Waygood;Margareta Friman;Lars E. Olsson;Ayako Taniguchi

  • Public Transport Quality, Safety, and Perceived Accessibility

    Margareta Friman;Katrin Lättman;Lars E. Olsson

  • Soft Transport Policy Measures: Gaps in Knowledge

    Jochen Richter;Margareta Friman;Tommy Gärling

  • FREQUENCY OF NEGATIVE CRITICAL INCIDENTS AND SATISFACTION WITH PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES

    M Friman;T Gaerling

Frequent Co-Authors

Tommy Gärling
Tommy Gärling University of Gothenburg
Dick Ettema
Dick Ettema Utrecht University
Satoshi Fujii
Satoshi Fujii Kyoto University
Bo Edvardsson
Bo Edvardsson Karlstad University
Sebastian Bamberg
Sebastian Bamberg Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Daniel Västfjäll
Daniel Västfjäll Linköping University
Per Skålén
Per Skålén Karlstad University
Elina Jaakkola
Elina Jaakkola University of Turku
Anders Gustafsson
Anders Gustafsson BI Norwegian Business School

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