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Researcher · National University of Ireland, Maynooth · Ireland

Rob Kitchin

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

ORCID 0000-0003-4458-7299 OpenAlex
World rank
#16,286
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Ireland
#23
of 21,376
Works
565
Citations
29k
Citations per work
51.8
h-index
69
i10-index 215Top 0.1% in Geography, Planning and Development
Rob Kitchin

What does Rob Kitchin research?

Rob Kitchin's work is mostly in Social Sciences (34%), Engineering (8%), Decision Sciences (3%).

Everything else: 313 works · 55.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 210 works · 37.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 192 works · 34.0% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 81 works · 14.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 57 works · 10.1% of their workTransportation: 34 works · 6.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 20 works · 3.5% of their workDecision Sciences: 18 works · 3.1% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 18 works · 3.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 42 works · 7.5% of their workEngineering: 42 works · 7.5% of their workMedia Technology: 42 works · 7.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRob Kitchin565works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences37%

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. Everything else31355.4%
    1. Social Sciences19234.0%
    2. Decision Sciences183.1%
    1. Engineering427.5%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development14% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Media Technology8% of their works
  4. 4Transportation6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rob Kitchin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Geospatial Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographic Information, Smart Cities, Urban Innovation, GPS Data and Human Mobility.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Artificial Intelligence1182 topics
  2. Big Data1182 topics
  3. Geospatial Crowdsourcing961 topic
  4. Volunteered Geographic Information961 topic
  5. Smart Cities851 topic
  6. Urban Innovation851 topic
  7. GPS Data671 topic
  8. Human Mobility671 topic
  9. Geography341 topic
  10. Public Policy341 topic
  11. Data Analytics331 topic
  12. Information Technology331 topic
  13. Geography Education271 topic
  14. Spatial Thinking271 topic
  15. STEM Education251 topic
  16. Spatial Ability251 topic
  17. Design Research211 topic
  18. User Experience211 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?

OpenAlex counts 565 works and 29,268 citations for Rob Kitchin, an h-index of 69, ranking #16,286 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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