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Business and Management

D-Index
120
Citations
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World Ranking
14
National Ranking
1

Economics and Finance

D-Index
118
Citations
65454
World Ranking
41
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1996 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
  • 1987 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Peter Nijkamp is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with notable contributions to the fields of economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, transportation, marketing, and political science and international relations.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
  • Regional resilience and development
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

Recent papers authored by or involving Peter Nijkamp include:

  • "A New Livelihood Sustainability Index for Rural Revitalization Assessment-A Modelling Study on Smart Tourism Specialization in China" (2020), published in Sustainability
  • "Natural disasters as a development opportunity: a spatial economic resilience interpretation" (2020), published in Review of Regional Research
  • "Spatial Filtering and Eigenvector Stability: Space-Time Models for German Unemployment Data" (2021), published in Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
  • "How to make cities the home of people - a 'soul and body' analysis of urban attractiveness" (2020), published in Land Use Policy
  • "India's Urban System: Sustainability and Imbalanced Growth of Cities" (2020), published in Sustainability

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Karima Kourtit
  • Umut Türk
  • John Östh
  • Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
  • Soushi Suzuki

Peter Nijkamp has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Sustainability
  • Regional Science Policy & Practice
  • The Annals of Regional Science
  • Land Use Policy
  • Journal of Urban Management

Regarding book publications, they have contributed to works published by Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature, and World Scientific, including titles such as:

  • "The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration" (2020)
  • "Pandemic and the City" (2023)
  • "Tourism and Regional Science" (2021)
  • "Theory and History in Regional Perspective" (2022)
  • "The Creative Class Revisited" (2022)

Peter Nijkamp's career includes recognitions such as membership in the Academia Europaea since 2008, the Spinoza Prize awarded by the Dutch Research Council in 1996, and membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1987.

Best Publications

  • Smart cities in Europe

    Andrea Antonio Caragliu;C. Del Bo;P. Nijkamp

  • Multicriteria evaluation in physical planning

    Peter Nijkamp;Piet Rietveld;Henk Voogd

  • Price and Income Elasticities of Residential Water Demand: A Meta-Analysis

    Jasper M. Dalhuisen;Raymond J.G.M. Florax;Henri L.F.M. de Groot;Peter Nijkamp

  • A systemic framework for sustainability assessment

    Serenella Sala;Biagio Ciuffo;Peter Nijkamp

  • The attractiveness and competitiveness of tourist destinations: A study of Southern Italian regions

    Maria Francesca Cracolici;Maria Francesca Cracolici;Peter Nijkamp

  • Second-Best Congestion Pricing: The Case of an Untolled Alternative

    Erik Verhoef;Peter Nijkamp;Piet Rietveld

  • Accessibility of Cities in the Digital Economy

    Emmanouil Tranos;Aura Reggiani;Peter Nijkamp

  • Entrepreneurship in a Modern Network Economy

    Peter Nijkamp

  • A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

    Simonetta Longhi;Peter Nijkamp;Jacques Poot

  • Price elasticities of demand for passenger air travel: a meta-analysis

    Martijn Brons;Eric Pels;Peter Nijkamp;Piet Rietveld

  • A meta-analysis of the price elasticity of gasoline demand. A SUR approach

    Martijn Brons;Martijn Brons;Peter Nijkamp;Peter Nijkamp;Peter Nijkamp;Eric Pels;Piet Rietveld;Piet Rietveld

  • Towards sustainable city policy: an economy-environment technology nexus

    Roberto Camagni;Roberta Capello;Peter Nijkamp

  • European Transport Policy and Sustainable Mobility

    D. Banister;D. Stead;P. Steen;P. Nijkamp

  • Multi-Criteria Analysis and Regional Decision-Making

    Ad van Delft;Peter Nijkamp

  • Energy saving by firms: decision making, barriers and policies

    Henri L.F.M. de Groot;Erik T. Verhoef;Peter Nijkamp

  • Meta-analysis of the impact of fiscal policies on long-run growth

    Peter Nijkamp;Jacques Poot

  • Le valutazioni per lo sviluppo sostenibile della città e del territorio

    L. Fusco Girard;P. Nijkamp

  • Smart cities in Europe

    Andrea Caragliu;Chiara Del Bo;Peter Nijkamp

  • Qualitative multicriteria evaluation for environmental management

    G. Munda;P. Nijkamp;P. Rietveld

  • Sustainable Cities in Europe

    Peter Nijkamp;Adriaan Perrels

  • Price and income elasticities of residential water demand: A meta-analysis

    J.M. Dalhuisen;R.J.G.M. Florax;H.L.F. de Groot;P. Nijkamp

  • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

    Peter Nijkamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Piet Rietveld
Piet Rietveld Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Piet Rietveld
Piet Rietveld Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Erik T. Verhoef
Erik T. Verhoef Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Roberta Capello
Roberta Capello Polytechnic University of Milan
Jacques Poot
Jacques Poot University of Waikato
Kenneth Button
Kenneth Button George Mason University
Manfred M. Fischer
Manfred M. Fischer Vienna University of Economics and Business
Henri L.F. de Groot
Henri L.F. de Groot Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
David Banister
David Banister University of Oxford
J.C.J.M. van den Bergh
J.C.J.M. van den Bergh Autonomous University of Barcelona

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