top-cited scientists

Top-cited scientists in Urban & Regional Planning

2025 single-year list · 321 listed authors · Built Environment & Design

321 researchers whose main subfield is Urban & Regional Planning, part of Built Environment & Design, are in the 2025 list of top-cited scientists, out of 15,338 Scopus authors in the subfield. Authors qualify by ranking in the top 2% of their main subfield or in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c); 305 of these are in the top 100,000.

Listed authors
321
2.09% of the subfield’s Scopus authors
Scopus authors in the subfield
15,338
Median citations
22
top 1% from 546 · all authors in the subfield
Highest-ranked
#441
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés

Top countries

  1. United States8125%
  2. United Kingdom6420%
  3. Netherlands258%
  4. Australia217%
  5. China144%
  6. Italy134%
  7. Germany124%
  8. Canada103%
  9. Hong Kong93%
  10. Norway72%

Top institutions

  1. University College London72%
  2. Universiteit van Amsterdam72%
  3. Newcastle University62%
  4. University of California, Los Angeles62%
  5. London School of Economics and Political Science52%
  6. University of Melbourne52%
  7. Politecnico di Milano52%
  8. The University of Hong Kong52%
  9. University of California, Berkeley52%
  10. The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment41%

321 listed scientists in Urban & Regional Planning

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