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D-Index
55
Citations
20703
World Ranking
1965
National Ranking
350

Simon Marvin 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 Simon Marvin sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 337 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Marvin 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 Simon Marvin sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

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

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

Overview

Simon Marvin is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Engineering, with a strong focus on media technology and urban-related topics.

The scientist's work encompasses key subfields including Media Technology, Transportation, Political Science and International Relations, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Global and Planetary Change.

Main topics of Simon Marvin's research include:

  • Smart Cities and Technologies
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations

The scientist has published works in several academic venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Urban Geography
  • Urban Studies
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Journal of Urban Technology
  • Dialogues in Human Geography

Simon Marvin has contributed to recent papers such as:

  • "Containing COVID-19 in China: AI and the robotic restructuring of future cities" (2020) in Dialogues in Human Geography
  • "The rise of AI urbanism in post-smart cities: A critical commentary on urban artificial intelligence" (2023) in Urban Studies
  • "Verifying an ENVI-met simulation of the thermal environment of Yanzhong Square Park in Shanghai" (2021) in Urban forestry & urban greening
  • "Urban robotic experimentation: San Francisco, Tokyo and Dubai" (2020) in Urban Studies
  • "Splintering Urbanism at 20 and the "Infrastructural Turn"" (2022) in Journal of Urban Technology

They have frequently collaborated with co-authors including Jonathan Rutherford, Aidan While, Mateja Kovačić, Andy Lockhart, and Pauline Mc̱Guirk, reflecting a network of researchers focused on urban and geographical studies.

In addition to journal articles, Simon Marvin has published books, notably through The MIT Press. One such publication is "Urban Operating Systems" (2020), which has attracted citations in the field.

Best Publications

  • Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition

    Stephen Graham;Simon Marvin

  • Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places

    Stephen Graham;Simon Marvin

  • Can cities shape socio-technical transitions and how would we know if they were?

    Michael Hodson;Simon Marvin

  • Urban ecological security : a new urban paradigm?

    Michael Hodson;Simon Marvin

  • Urban living labs: Governing urban sustainability transitions

    Harriet Bulkeley;Lars Coenen;Niki Frantzeskaki;Christian Hartmann

  • Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanism

    Andrés Luque-Ayala;Simon Marvin

  • Urbanism in the anthropocene: Ecological urbanism or premium ecological enclaves?

    Michael Hodson;Simon Marvin

  • Cities mediating technological transitions : understanding visions, intermediation and consequences

    Michael Hodson;Simon Marvin

  • Air pollution dispersal in high density urban areas: Research on the triadic relation of wind, air pollution, and urban form

    Junyan Yang;Beixiang Shi;Yi Shi;Simon Marvin

  • Smart urbanism : utopian vision or false dawn?

    Simon Marvin;Andrés Luque-Ayala;Colin McFarlane

  • Urban Living Laboratories: Conducting the Experimental City?

    Harriet Bulkeley;Simon Marvin;Yuliya Voytenko Palgan;Kes McCormick

  • Mediating Low-Carbon Urban Transitions? Forms of Organization, Knowledge and Action

    Michael Hodson;Simon Marvin

  • Urban Infrastructure in Transition: Networks, Buildings and Plans

    Simon Guy;Simon Marvin;Timothy Moss

  • The Intermediary Organisation of Low Carbon Cities: A Comparative Analysis of Transitions in Greater London and Greater Manchester

    Michael Hodson;Simon Marvin;Harriet Bulkeley

  • World Cities And Climate Change: Producing Urban Ecological Security

    Mike Hodson;Simon Marvin

  • The maintenance of urban circulation: An operational logic of infrastructural control:

    Andrés Luque-Ayala;Simon Marvin

  • Planning cybercities? Integrating telecommunications into urban planning

    Stephen Graham;Simon Marvin

  • Negotiating contested visions and place-specific expectations of the hydrogen economy

    Malcolm Eames;William Mcdowall;Mike Hodson;Simon Marvin

  • Reshaping urban infrastructure: Material flow analysis and transitions analysis in an urban context

    Michael Hodson;Simon Marvin;Blake Robinson;Mark Swilling

  • Constructing Myths Rather than Sustainability: The Transition Fallacies of the New Localism

    Simon Marvin;Simon Guy

  • Robotics and automation in the city: a research agenda

    Rachel Macrorie;Simon Marvin;Aidan While

  • City-level decoupling: urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions

    Mark Swilling;Blake Robinson;Simon Marvin;Mike Hodson

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham Newcastle University
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Rob Raven
Rob Raven Monash University
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Niki Frantzeskaki
Niki Frantzeskaki Utrecht University
Lars Coenen
Lars Coenen University of Melbourne
Diana Mitlin
Diana Mitlin University of Manchester
David Banister
David Banister University of Oxford
Bert van Wee
Bert van Wee Delft University of Technology
Will McDowall
Will McDowall University College London

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