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Peter Nelson

Peter Nelson publishes mostly in Transportation, Economics and Econometrics and Automotive Engineering, on topics such as Transportation Planning and Optimization, Economic and Environmental Valuation and Urban Transport and Accessibility.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,527,785
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#477,781
of 1,627,098
Works
17
Citations
499
Citations per work
29.4
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 28% in Transportation
Peter Nelson

What does Peter Nelson research?

Peter Nelson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (39%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (26%), Engineering (13%).

Social Sciences: 11 works · 65.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 39.1% of their workTransportation: 7 works · 39.1% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 works · 26.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 4 works · 26.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 21.7% of their workEngineering: 2 works · 13.0% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 1 works · 8.7% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 works · 4.3% of their workEnergy: 1 works · 6.5% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 works · 6.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 0 works · 2.2% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 works · 2.2% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 13.1% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter Nelson17works
Physical Sciences22%Social Sciences65%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences739.1%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance426.1%
    1. Engineering213.0%
    2. Energy16.5%
    3. Environmental Science02.2%
  3. Everything else213.1%
  1. 1Transportation39% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics26% of their works
  3. 3Automotive Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment6% of their works
  5. 5Control and Systems Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Nelson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Public Transport, Travel Behavior, Active Travel, Built Environment, Conjoint Analysis, Discrete Choice Models, Ridesharing and Shared Autonomous Vehicles.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Public Transport111 topic
  2. Travel Behavior111 topic
  3. Active Travel61 topic
  4. Built Environment61 topic
  5. Conjoint Analysis61 topic
  6. Discrete Choice Models61 topic
  7. Ridesharing41 topic
  8. Shared Autonomous Vehicles41 topic
  9. Energy Efficiency31 topic
  10. Infrastructure31 topic
  11. Rebound Effect31 topic
  12. Taxation31 topic
  13. Microscopic Simulation21 topic
  14. Traffic Flow21 topic
  15. Food Safety11 topic
  16. Hygiene Practices11 topic

Where does Peter Nelson work?

Peter Nelson's main affiliation in the publication record is Resources For The Future, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter Nelson have?

OpenAlex counts 17 works and 499 citations for Peter Nelson, an h-index of 7, ranking #1,527,785 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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