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Place Attachment and Urban Studies

Place Attachment and Urban Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 8k research works in it since 1951. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of place attachment, sense of place, and community satisfaction, focusing on the human connection to specific locations. It delves into the factors influencing individuals' emotional and psychological bonds with their living environments, and examines the implications for environmental behavior, urban planning, and social well-being.

  • Place Attachment
  • Sense of Place
  • Community Satisfaction
  • Environmental Behavior
  • Neighborhood Identity
  • Residential Satisfaction
  • Urbanization
  • Social Cohesion
  • Local History
  • Cultural Ecosystem Services
Research works
8k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
829
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+64%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Place Attachment and Urban Studies

Which countries lead Place Attachment and Urban Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (546 and 418 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 546 works
  2. 2 United States 418 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 264 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 174 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 160 works
  6. 6 Iran 146 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 131 works
  8. 8 India 123 works
  9. 9 Japan 103 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 97 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 25.3%United States: 19.4%Indonesia: 12.2%Türkiye: 8.1%6 others listed: 35.1%25%largest
China546 · 25.3%United States418 · 19.4%Indonesia264 · 12.2%Türkiye174 · 8.1%6 others listed759 · 35.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Place Attachment and Urban Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Place Attachment and Urban Studies research, followed by Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi MARA.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 61 works
  2. 2 Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 22 works
  3. 3 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 19 works
  4. 4 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 15 works
  5. 5 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 14 works
  6. 6 Sepuluh Nopember Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 13 works
  7. 7 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 13 works
  8. 8 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 13 works
  9. 9 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 12 works
  10. 10 University of BrawijayaIndonesia 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Place Attachment and Urban Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Place Attachment and Urban Studies include Michael D Brauer, Hung Chak Ho and James F. Sallis.

  1. 1 Michael D Brauer Canada 187k citations
  2. 2 Hung Chak Ho China 180k citations
  3. 3 James F. Sallis United States 169k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Place Attachment and Urban Studies?

The most cited paper in Place Attachment and Urban Studies is "New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale" (Riley E. Dunlap, Kent D. Van Liere, Angela G. Mertig et al., 2000), with 5,678 citations. Next come "Place-identity: Physical world socialization of the self" (3,111) and "Defining place attachment: A tripartite organizing framework" (2,795).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale Riley E. Dunlap, Kent D. Van Liere, Angela G. Mertig et al. · Journal of Social Issues 2000 5,678
2 Place-identity: Physical world socialization of the self Harold M. Proshansky, Abbe K. Fabian, Robert Kaminoff · Journal of Environmental Psychology Mar 1983 3,111
3 Defining place attachment: A tripartite organizing framework Leila Scannell, Robert Gifford · Journal of Environmental Psychology 23 Sep 2009 2,795
4 Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years? Maria Lewicka · Journal of Environmental Psychology 21 Oct 2010 2,734
5 Distinctions between social support concepts, measures, and models Manuel Barrera · American Journal of Community Psychology Aug 1986 2,581
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Where is Place Attachment and Urban Studies research done?

The largest centres of Place Attachment and Urban Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran), Guangzhou (China) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in George Town and Shah Alam.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 74 works
  2. 2 TehranIran 61 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 48 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 45 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 41 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 34 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 33 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 33 works
  9. 9 JakartaIndonesia 33 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. George TownMY · 20.6 works10×
  2. Shah AlamMY · 20.7 works7.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Place Attachment and Urban Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Place Attachment and Urban Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The University of Queensland and National University of Singapore score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 63.424.6%3.6×9 +62.2%
2The University of QueenslandAustralia 61.630.3%3.5×10 +57.8%
3National University of SingaporeSingapore 54.621.6%2.9×10 +164.9%
4Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 54.11.6%12.3×61 +53.4%
5Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 53.311.3%11.2×22 +105.3%
6Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 52.524.8%1.3×8 +161.9%
7South China University of TechnologyChina 50.123.6%3.0×10 +396.2%
8Southeast UniversityChina 49.124.5%2.1×9 +149.7%
9Tongji UniversityChina 48.026.8%1.9×9 +95.0%
10Sapienza University of RomeItaly 46.815.4%3.7×13 +441.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Place Attachment and Urban Studies, country by country

Is Place Attachment and Urban Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 64% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Place Attachment and Urban Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Place Attachment and Urban Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Place Attachment and Urban Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Place Attachment and Urban Studies10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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