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D-Index
48
Citations
8134
World Ranking
3198
National Ranking
25

Petter Næss 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 Petter Næss sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 224 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Petter Næss 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 Petter Næss sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Petter Næss is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway and has a research portfolio concentrated primarily in the social sciences. Their scholarly output comprises numerous publications addressing topics related to urban and transportation studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Petter Næss are:

  • The urban density in two Nordic capitals - comparing the development of Oslo and Helsinki metropolitan regions, 2020, European Planning Studies
  • Exploring nonlinear built environment effects on driving with a mixed-methods approach, 2022, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • The hidden side of Norwegian cabin fairytale: climate implications of multi-dwelling lifestyle, 2020, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism
  • Are compact cities a threat to public health?, 2020, European Planning Studies
  • Residential Location and Travel in the Reykjavik Capital Region, 2021, Sustainability

Petter Næss has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Harpa Stefánsdóttir
  • Hamza Abid
  • Morten Elle
  • Michał Czepkiewicz
  • Jukka Heinonen

The venues where Petter Næss has most often published include:

  • Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • European Planning Studies
  • Research Portal (King's College London)
  • Aalborg University Library
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their main fields of study situate within social sciences, with subfields covering:

  • Transportation
  • Urban Studies
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Building and Construction
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Key research topics explored by Petter Næss include:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Urbanization and City Planning
  • Impact of Light on Environment and Health
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives

Best Publications

  • Urban Planning and Sustainable Development

    Petter Næss

  • Applying gradient boosting decision trees to examine non-linear effects of the built environment on driving distance in Oslo

    Chuan Ding;Xinyu (Jason) Cao;Xinyu (Jason) Cao;Petter Næss

  • Residential location affects travel behavior: but how and why? the case of Copenhagen metropolitan area

    Petter Næss

  • Urban Structure Matters: Residential Location, Car Dependence and Travel Behaviour

    Petter Naess

  • Urban form and travel behavior: Experience from a Nordic context

    Petter Næss

  • Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change: Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future

    Roy Bhaskar;Cheryl Frank;Karl Georg Hoyer;Petter Naess

  • Residential Self-Selection and Appropriate Control Variables in Land Use: Travel Studies

    Petter Næss

  • Workplace Location, Modal Split and Energy Use for Commuting Trips

    Petter Naess;Synneve Lyssand Sandberg

  • Accessibility, Activity Participation and Location of Activities: Exploring the Links between Residential Location and Travel Behaviour:

    Petter Næss

  • Sustainable urban development and the multi- level transition perspective

    Petter Næss;Nina Vogel

  • Conference Tourism: A Problem for the Environment, as well as for Research?

    Karl Georg Høyer;Petter Næss

  • Urban form, travel behavior, and travel satisfaction

    Kostas Mouratidis;Dick Ettema;Petter Næss

  • Residential location, commuting and non-work travel in two urban areas of different size and with different center structures

    Petter Næss;Arvid Strand;Fitwi Wolday;Harpa Stefansdottir

  • Travelling Distances, Modal Split and Transportation Energy in Thirty Residential Areas in Oslo

    Petter Næss;Per Gunnar Røe;Synnøve Larsen

  • Urban Structures and Travel Behaviour: Experiences from Empirical Research in Norway and Denmark

    Petter Naess

  • Cost-Benefit Analyses of Transportation Investments — Neither critical nor realistic

    Petter Næss

  • ‘New urbanism’ or metropolitan-level centralization? A comparison of the influences of metropolitan-level and neighborhood-level urban form characteristics on travel behavior.

    Petter Naess

  • Tempest in a teapot: The exaggerated problem of transport-related residential self-selection as a source of error in empirical studies

    Petter Naess

  • Prediction, Regressions and Critical Realism

    Petter Næss

  • Oslo's Farewell to Urban Sprawl

    Petter Næss;Teresa Næss;Arvid Strand

  • Urban structure matters, even in a small town

    Petter NÆss;Ole B. Jensen

  • Dictionary of Critical Realism

    Petter Næss

Frequent Co-Authors

Bent Flyvbjerg
Bent Flyvbjerg University of Oxford
Dick Ettema
Dick Ettema Utrecht University
Luca Bertolini
Luca Bertolini University of Amsterdam

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