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Rob Kitchin

Rob Kitchin publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Media Technology and Transportation, on topics such as Smart Cities and Technologies, Geographic Information Systems Studies and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis.

World rank
#6,436
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Ireland
#8
of 4,477
Works
124
Citations
974
Citations per work
7.9

What does Rob Kitchin research?

Geography, Planning and Development: 12.4%Media Technology: 10.9%Transportation: 9.3%Sociology and Political Science: 8.5%other fields: 58.9%12%top field
Geography, Planning and Development12.4%Media Technology10.9%Transportation9.3%Sociology and Political Science8.5%other fields58.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development12% of their works
  2. 2Media Technology11% of their works
  3. 3Transportation9% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Demography5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rob Kitchin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Urban Development, Smart Cities, Urban Innovation, Geospatial Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographic Information, GPS Data, Human Mobility and E-Government.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Urban Development172 topics
  2. Smart Cities141 topic
  3. Urban Innovation141 topic
  4. Geospatial Crowdsourcing131 topic
  5. Volunteered Geographic Information131 topic
  6. GPS Data121 topic
  7. Human Mobility121 topic
  8. E-Government41 topic
  9. Open Innovation41 topic
  10. Transparency41 topic
  11. User-Centric Design41 topic
  12. BIM-GIS Integration31 topic
  13. CityGML31 topic
  14. Conflict31 topic
  15. Financialization31 topic
  16. Northern Ireland31 topic
  17. Shareholder Value31 topic

Where does Rob Kitchin work?

Rob Kitchin's main affiliation in the publication record is National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

How many publications and citations does Rob Kitchin have?

Science Explorer counts 124 works and 974 citations for Rob Kitchin, ranking #6,436 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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