Michael Batty

36.5k citations
568 papers · 28.4k · 20 hit papers · h-index 86

Impact in

  • Transportation top 0.02%
    • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
    • Urban Transport and Accessibility
    • Transportation Planning and Optimization
    • Urban Design and Spatial Analysis

Papers in

Michael Batty

533 papers receiving 26.2k citations

Michael Batty's Hit Papers

Defining a city — delineating urban areas using cell-phone data 2024 · 53 citations
530+5+10Years since publication5001k1.5k

Peers

Michael Batty
Comparison fields: 5 of 196
  • Transportation 4.2k
  • Building and Construction 7.4k
  • Media Technology 3.5k
  • Urban Studies 2.3k
  • Geography, Planning and Development 2k
Replace Peter J. Nijkamp with:
Peter J. Nijkamp Netherlands
Carlo Ratti United States
Thomas L. Saaty United States
Michael Frank Goodchild United States
Anthony G.O. Yeh Hong Kong
Tan Yiğitcanlar Australia
Paul Longley United Kingdom
Karen C. Seto United States
Luc Anselin United States
Luís M. A. Bettencourt United States
Michael Batty relative to Peter J. Nijkamp Netherlands Peter J. Nijkamp's profile →
Citations per field
00.5×2×4×5.3×
Peter J. Nijkamp · 1×
Citations per year

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Batty

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Michael Batty's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Michael Batty with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Michael Batty more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Batty

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Michael Batty. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Michael Batty. The network helps show where Michael Batty may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Michael Batty, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Michael Batty Line = papers co-authored together Michael Batty links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown

Showing the 20 most-cited of 568 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.

#Work
1
Smart cities of the future
Hit paper breakdown →
20121669
2
The New Science of Cities
Hit paper breakdown →
20131134
3
The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities
Hit paper breakdown →
20081073
4
Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function
Hit paper breakdown →
1994917
5
Big data, smart cities and city planning
Hit paper breakdown →
2013805
6
Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals
Hit paper breakdown →
2007571
7
Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems
Hit paper breakdown →
2011533
8
Modeling urban dynamics through GIS-based cellular automata
Hit paper breakdown →
1999524
9
From Cells to Cities
Hit paper breakdown →
1994488
10
Spatial analysis: Modelling in a GIS environment
1996446
11
Detecting the dynamics of urban structure through spatial network analysis
Hit paper breakdown →
2014412
12
Structure of Urban Movements: Polycentric Activity and Entangled Hierarchical Flows
Hit paper breakdown →
2011394
13 2008330
14
Digital twins
Hit paper breakdown →
2018316
15
Mining bicycle sharing data for generating insights into sustainable transport systems
Hit paper breakdown →
2013303
16 2008301
17
Constructing cities, deconstructing scaling laws
Hit paper breakdown →
2014297
18 2001292
19
Environment and Planning B
1982282
20
GIS, spatial analysis, and modeling
2005230

About Michael Batty

Michael Batty is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Urban Studies, Geography, Planning and Development, Media Technology and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 568 papers that have together received 28.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (204 papers), Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (105 papers), Smart Cities and Technologies (86 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (84 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (58 papers), 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications (40 papers), Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (39 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (29 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Transportation (4.2k citations), Building and Construction (7.4k citations), Media Technology (3.5k citations), Urban Studies (2.3k citations) and Geography, Planning and Development (2k citations). Michael Batty has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Paul Longley, Yichun Xie, Andrew Crooks, Chen Zhong, A. Paolo Masucci, Fosca Giannotti, Georgios K. Ouzounis, Kay Werner Axhausen, Mónica Wachowicz and Alexei Pozdnoukhov. Their work appears in journals such as Environment and Planning B Planning and Design, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, Computers Environment and Urban Systems and Urban Studies.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact