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Researcher · University of California, Santa Barbara · United States

Waldo Tobler

Waldo Tobler publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Economics and Econometrics and Building and Construction, on topics such as Geographic Information Systems Studies, Historical Geography and Cartography and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0002-0049-8502 OpenAlex
World rank
#38,969
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,918
of 1,627,098
Works
130
Citations
17k
Citations per work
127.8
h-index
42
i10-index 69Top 0.6% in Geography, Planning and Development
Waldo Tobler

What does Waldo Tobler research?

Waldo Tobler's work is mostly in Social Sciences (29%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (17%), Environmental Science (7%).

Social Sciences: 60 works · 46.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 29.3% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 30 works · 22.9% of their workTransportation: 8 works · 6.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 22 works · 17.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 22 works · 17.1% of their workEverything else: 53 works · 40.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 17 works · 13.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 6.8% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 works · 3.6% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 works · 3.2% of their workEngineering: 8 works · 6.4% of their workBuilding and Construction: 8 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWaldo Tobler130works
Physical Sciences13%Social Sciences46%

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 Sciences3829.3%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2217.1%
  2. Everything else5340.4%
    1. Environmental Science96.8%
    2. Engineering86.4%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development23% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics17% of their works
  3. 3Building and Construction6% of their works
  4. 4Transportation6% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Waldo Tobler's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geospatial Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographic Information, Geodesy, Map Projections, Spatial Econometrics, Transportation, Panel Data Models and Spatial Autocorrelation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Geospatial Crowdsourcing321 topic
  2. Volunteered Geographic Information321 topic
  3. Geodesy291 topic
  4. Map Projections291 topic
  5. Spatial Econometrics252 topics
  6. Transportation232 topics
  7. Panel Data Models161 topic
  8. Spatial Autocorrelation161 topic
  9. Agglomeration Economies141 topic
  10. Urbanization141 topic
  11. BIM-GIS Integration121 topic
  12. CityGML121 topic
  13. Digital Soil Mapping101 topic
  14. Geostatistics101 topic
  15. Active Travel91 topic
  16. Built Environment91 topic
  17. Economic Development91 topic
  18. Spatial Shift-Share Analysis91 topic

Where does Waldo Tobler work?

Waldo Tobler's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.

How many publications and citations does Waldo Tobler have?

OpenAlex counts 130 works and 16,619 citations for Waldo Tobler, an h-index of 42, ranking #38,969 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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