Tom Sanchez

Ranking North American Urban Planning Scholars Using Google Scholar Citation Profiles

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Tom Sanchez

Inspired by Isidro Aguillo‘s ranking of scientists in Chile (see: http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/92), I prepared a ranking (by Hirsch Index) of urban planning faculty from schools in the U.S. and Canada. The list is based on the schools from my 2015 citation analysis and ranking (see: Planning Citation Analysis Update). Keep in mind this includes only planning faculty with Google Scholar Citation (GSC) profiles, where my 2015, 2014, and 2013 analyses included all planning faculty. Of the 1,000+ faculty, just over 400 had GSC profiles (as of November 30, 2016).

See Aguillo’s description of the Google Scholar Citation methodology at: http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/179.

My updated ranking for 2016 will be available during January 2017 on my website along with the searchable database at: http://scholarmetrics.com/. Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

RANK	NAME	INSTITUTION	H-INDEX	CITATIONS
1	Luc Anselin	Arizona State University	79	50,344
2	Robert Cervero	UC Berkeley	68	23,977
3	Michael Storper	UCLA	66	30,850
4	Lawrence D. Frank	University of British Columbia	59	19,902
5	George Galster	Wayne State University	56	11,947
6	Michael K. Lindell	Texas A&M University	52	12,439
7	Alan Murray	Arizona State University	51	8,940
8	John Pomeroy	University of Saskatchewan	50	9,756
9	David Levinson	University of Minnesota	48	7,558
10	Jennifer Wolch	UC Berkeley	46	8,314
10	Neil Brenner	Harvard University	46	20,449
12	Reid Ewing	University of Utah	45	15,454
13	AnnaLee Saxenian	UC Berkeley	44	23,044
13	Arthur C. Nelson	University of Arizona	44	5,979
15	Yan Song	UNC	43	8,797
16	Nik Theodore	University of Illinois, Chicago	42	10,645
16	Robert D. Bullard	Texas Southern University	42	11,435
18	Paul Waddell	UC Berkeley	41	5,595
18	Robert B. Noland	Rutgers University	41	7,760
20	Daniel Rodriguez	UNC	40	6,284
21	Lawrence Susskind	MIT	39	7,987
21	Marlon Boarnet	USC	39	7,483
21	Susanna B. Hecht	UCLA	39	7,558
24	Emily Talen	Arizona State University	37	5,439
25	Ann Forsyth	Harvard University	36	4,440
25	Martha Feldman	UC Irvine	36	15,359
25	Patricia Gober	Arizona State University	36	3,926
28	Alan A. Lew	Northern Arizona University	35	6,078
29	Chris Tilly	UCLA	34	7,073
29	Dowell Myers	USC	34	3,860
29	Mildred Warner	Cornell University	34	4,516
29	Richard G. Lathrop	Rutgers University, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences	34	4,123
29	Richard Shearmur	McGill University	34	3,882
29	Yichun Xie	Eastern Michigan University	34	5,476
35	David Geltner	MIT	33	4,963
35	Paul Ong	UCLA	33	3,959
35	Samuel D. Brody	Texas A&M University	33	4,046
35	Timothy Beatley	University of Virginia	33	6,280
39	Julian Agyeman	Tufts University	32	7,528
39	Manuel J. Rodriguez	Universite Laval	32	4,662
39	Sheldon Krimsky	Tufts University	32	6,469
39	Timothy McDaniels	University of British Columbia	32	3,380
39	William Rohe	UNC	32	4,570
44	Ahmed El-Geneidy	McGill University	31	3,100
44	Claude Lavoie	Universite Laval	31	2,622
44	Isabelle Thomas	Universite de Montreal	31	3,298
44	Louise K. Comfort	University of Pittsburgh	31	4,500
44	Sergio Rey	Arizona State University	31	6,097
49	Brian Taylor	UCLA	29	2,899
49	Marina Alberti	University of Washington	29	6,940
49	Ralph Buehler	Virginia Tech	29	4,144
49	Susan M. Christopherson	Cornell University	29	4,917
53	Gerrit J. Knaap	University of Maryland	28	3,633
53	Lawrence W. Martz	University of Saskatchewan	28	3,553
53	Weiping Wu	Tufts University	28	3,016
56	Edward Feser	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	27	4,025
56	Michael Kuby	Arizona State University	27	2,505
56	Richard K. Green	USC	27	3,870
56	Roberto G. Quercia	UNC	27	2,688
60	Teresa Caldeira	UC Berkeley	26	7,362
60	Xinyu Cao	University of Minnesota	26	4,077
62	Austin Troy	University of Colorado, Denver	25	3,686
62	Jennifer Dill	Portland State University	25	3,557
62	Maurie Cohen	New Jersey Institute of Technology	25	1,983
62	Pierre Filion	University of Waterloo, Ontario	25	1,957
62	Thomas W. Sanchez	Virginia Tech	25	1,781
62	Walter G. Peacock	Texas A&M University	25	2,951
68	Bram Noble	University of Saskatchewan	24	2,057
68	Daniel Immergluck	Georgia Tech	24	2,724
68	Randall Crane	UCLA	24	3,635
71	Clinton J. Andrews	Rutgers University	23	1,817
71	David W. Marcouiller	University of Wisconsin, Madison	23	2,785
71	Evelyn Blumenberg	UCLA	23	1,714
71	Jill Grant	Dalhousie University	23	2,143
71	Karl Kim	University of Hawaii	23	1,631
71	Kristof Van Assche	University of Alberta	23	1,599
71	Lance Freeman	Columbia University	23	2,750
78	Kelli Larson	Arizona State University	22	1,668
78	Mark Purcell	University of Washington	22	4,051
78	Sun Sheng Han	University of Melbourne	22	1,196
81	Daniel Schneider	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	21	1,488
81	Elliott Sclar	Columbia University	21	2,596
81	Steven P. French	Georgia Tech	21	2,112
84	Casey J. Dawkins	University of Maryland	20	1,579
84	Chanam Lee	Texas A&M University	20	2,785
84	Elizabeth Wentz	Arizona State University	20	1,218
84	Eugenie L. Birch	University of Pennsylvania	20	1,356
84	June Manning Thomas	University of Michigan	20	1,823
84	Noreen McDonald	UNC	20	1,920
84	Paul Lewis	Universite de Montreal	20	1,324
84	Robert A. Simons	Cleveland State University	20	1,263
92	Deepak Rajagopal	UCLA	19	1,590
92	Faranak Miraftab	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	19	1,659
92	Jason Corburn	UC Berkeley	19	2,238
92	Richard Tomlinson	University of Melbourne	19	1,171
92	Robert Olshansky	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	19	1,884
92	Subhrajit Guhathakurta	Georgia Tech	19	1,136
98	Albert Saiz	MIT	18	4,900
98	Ambe J. Njoh	University of South Florida	18	1,050
98	John Carruthers	George Washington University	18	1,620
98	Lilian Alessa	University of Idaho	18	1,545
98	Rodolfo D. Torres	UC Irvine	18	2,498
98	Sonia Hirt	Virginia Tech	18	893
98	Walter Nicholls	UC Irvine	18	1,120
98	William Bowen	Cleveland State University	18	1,511
106	Alex Schwartz	The New School for Social Research	17	1,600
106	Betsy Donald	Queens University	17	826
106	Daniel B. Hess	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	17	1,187
106	George O. Rogers	Texas A&M University	17	832
106	Harvey M. Jacobs	University of Wisconsin, Madison	17	1,057
106	Jonathan Levine	University of Michigan	17	1,582
106	Robert W. Lake	Rutgers University	17	1,664
106	Scott Spak	University of Iowa	17	908
114	Alec Aitken	University of Saskatchewan	16	663
114	Andre Sorensen	University of Toronto	16	1,178
114	Elizabeth Currid-Halkett	USC	16	1,330
114	Eran Ben-Joseph	MIT	16	1,606
114	Jean Marie Hartman	Rutgers University, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences	16	941
114	Jeffrey R. Brown	Florida State University	16	1,304
114	Jennifer Evans-Cowley	Ohio State University	16	845
114	Joseph Ferreira	MIT	16	1,041
114	Juliet Musso	USC	16	1,487
114	Lucie Laurian	University of Iowa	16	1,042
114	Meenu Tewari	UNC	16	872
114	Paul Smoke	New York University	16	1,657
114	Todd BenDor	UNC	16	793
127	Carl Grodach	Queensland University of Technology	15	736
127	Darrick Hamilton	The New School for Social Research	15	787
127	David C. Sloane	USC	15	1,392
127	Hiroyuki Iseki	University of Maryland	15	1,130
127	Kathe Newman	Rutgers University	15	1,208
127	Lisa Schweitzer	USC	15	901
127	Michael Leaf	University of British Columbia	15	837
127	Paul Hess	University of Toronto	15	1,742
127	Paul J. Nelson	University of Pittsburgh	15	1,188
127	Richard W. Willson	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	15	912
127	Robert Fishman	University of Michigan	15	3,249
138	Aaron Golub	Portland State University	14	718
138	Alfonso Morales	University of Wisconsin, Madison	14	638
138	Brian Deal	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	14	1,045
138	Cherie Westbrook	University of Saskatchewan	14	723
138	Christopher A. De Sousa	Ryerson University	14	1,091
138	Clara Irazabal	Columbia University	14	633
138	David Tulloch	Rutgers University, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences	14	838
138	Emil Malizia	UNC	14	1,187
138	Gary Pivo	University of Arizona	14	1,951
138	Glenn S. Johnson	Texas Southern University	14	1,703
138	Himanshu Grover	University of Washington	14	1,277
138	Justin Hollander	Tufts University	14	941
138	Larissa Larsen	University of Michigan	14	1,735
138	Marc Schlossberg	University of Oregon	14	1,400
138	Michael Duncan	Florida State University	14	1,785
138	Nancey Green Leigh	Georgia Tech	14	2,457
138	Rachel G. Kleit	Ohio State University	14	947
138	Robert M. Silverman	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	14	573
138	Shannon Van Zandt	Texas A&M University	14	860
138	Yingling Fan	University of Minnesota	14	651
158	Daniel G. Chatman	UC Berkeley	13	761
158	Ian Hartley	University of Northern British Columbia	13	543
158	Karen Umemoto	University of Hawaii	13	419
158	Keith Bartholomew	University of Utah	13	1,151
158	Liming Wang	Portland State University	13	712
158	Madhav Badami	McGill University	13	412
158	Michael Manville	Cornell University	13	868
158	Ming-Han Li	Texas A&M University	13	504
158	Paavo Monkkonen	UCLA	13	400
158	Sungyop Kim	University of Missouri-Kansas	13	979
168	Anne Whiston Spirn	MIT	12	2,177
168	Asha Weinstein Agrawal	San Jose State University	12	577
168	Bruce Stiftel	Georgia Tech	12	758
168	Elizabeth Macdonald	UC Berkeley	12	881
168	Elizabeth Mack	Arizona State University	12	524
168	Eric Dumbaugh	Florida Atlantic University	12	766
168	Hilary Nixon	San Jose State University	12	687
168	Jeremy G. Weber	University of Pittsburgh	12	696
168	Jeremy Nemeth	University of Colorado, Denver	12	513
168	Mai Nguyen	UNC	12	1,023
168	Markus Moos	University of Waterloo, Ontario	12	509
168	Martin Bunch	York University	12	602
168	Martin H. Krieger	USC	12	762
168	Ming Zhang	University of Texas, Austin	12	837
168	Peilei Fan	Michigan State University	12	702
168	Samina Raja	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	12	1,085
168	Sanda Kaufman	Cleveland State University	12	535
168	T.William Lester	UNC	12	1,003
186	Andrea Sarzynski	University of Delaware	11	648
186	Bernadette Hanlon	Ohio State University	11	552
186	Carissa Schively Slotterback	University of Minnesota	11	691
186	David Miller	University of Pittsburgh	11	660
186	Jean Dubé	Universite Laval	11	394
186	Mukesh Kumar	Jackson State University	11	568
186	Raktim Mitra	Ryerson University	11	567
186	Stacey S. White	University of Kansas	11	276
194	Andres Sevtsuk	Harvard University	10	740
194	Bumsoo Lee	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	10	427
194	Carolina K. Reid	UC Berkeley	10	462
194	Carrie Mitchell	University of Waterloo, Ontario	10	502
194	Christopher Coutts	Florida State University	10	285
194	David M. Simpson	University of Louisville	10	444
194	Georges A. Tanguay	Universite de Quebec a Montreal	10	557
194	James A. Lagro	University of Wisconsin, Madison	10	597
194	Jan Marie Fritz	University of Cincinnati	10	302
194	Jinhua Zhao	MIT	10	372
194	Jordi Honey-Rosés	University of British Columbia	10	317
194	Kirk McClure	University of Kansas	10	539
194	Laura Lawson	Rutgers University, School of Environmental & Biological Sciences	10	756
194	Lisa K. Bates	Portland State University	10	331
194	Michael Drescher	University of Waterloo, Ontario	10	502
194	Michael Frisch	University of Missouri-Kansas	10	340
194	Michael Smart	Rutgers University	10	259
194	Nikhil Kaza	UNC	10	379
194	Nina-Marie Lister	Ryerson University	10	396
194	Petra Doan	Florida State University	10	517
194	Qisheng Pan	Texas Southern University	10	364
194	Ralph P. Hall	Virginia Tech	10	322
194	Sandeep Kumar Agrawal	University of Alberta	10	366
194	Scott D. Campbell	University of Michigan	10	2,339
194	Sébastien Lord	Universite de Montreal	10	235
219	Brian A. Mikelbank	Cleveland State University	9	435
219	David Wachsmuth	McGill University	9	431
219	Emma Aguila	USC	9	253
219	James H. Spencer	Clemson University	9	254
219	Maria Manta Conroy	Ohio State University	9	1,097
219	Mariana Arcaya	MIT	9	210
219	Mary M. Edwards	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	9	326
219	Owen Waygood	Universite Laval	9	274
219	Patricia Collins	Queens University	9	456
219	Paul Galpern	University of Calgary	9	522
219	Shanti Gamper-Rabindran	University of Pittsburgh	9	531
219	Stacy Harwood	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	9	300
219	Thaddeus Miller	Portland State University	9	717
219	Tim Frazier	Binghamton University	9	294
219	Ward Lyles	University of Kansas	9	224
219	Wendy A. Kellogg	Cleveland State University	9	257
235	Brent D. Ryan	MIT	8	254
235	Deirdre Pfeiffer	Arizona State University	8	147
235	Do-Hyung Kim	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	8	420
235	Erick Guerra	University of Pennsylvania	8	233
235	Eva Kassens-Noor	Michigan State University	8	304
235	Frank Goetzke	University of Louisville	8	417
235	Greg Schrock	Portland State University	8	781
235	Gulsah Akar	Ohio State University	8	375
235	Haifeng Qian	University of Iowa	8	340
235	Joshua Drucker	University of Illinois, Chicago	8	710
235	Lan Deng	University of Michigan	8	244
235	Mahyar Arefi	University of Cincinnati	8	411
235	Nebiyou Tilahun	University of Illinois, Chicago	8	537
235	Philip Ashton	University of Illinois, Chicago	8	352
235	Rachel Meltzer	The New School for Social Research	8	263
235	Richard K. Norton	University of Michigan	8	336
235	Sabina E. Deitrick	University of Pittsburgh	8	720
235	Shalini Misra	Virginia Tech	8	569
235	Shima Hamidi	University of Texas, Arlington	8	271
235	Steve C. Hankey	Virginia Tech	8	252
235	Zenia Z. Kotval	Michigan State University	8	282
256	Alex Karner	Georgia Tech	7	383
256	David A. King	Columbia University	7	206
256	Eric A. Morris	Clemson University	7	214
256	Forster Ndubisi	Texas A&M University	7	374
256	Harry Cummings	University of Guelph	7	294
256	Junfeng Jiao	University of Texas, Austin	7	279
256	Justin Steil	MIT	7	230
256	Lynn Mandarano	Temple University	7	334
256	Megan Ryerson	University of Pennsylvania	7	194
256	Meghan Gough	Virginia Commonwealth University	7	172
256	Michael Boswell	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	7	244
256	Nisha Botchwey	Georgia Tech	7	259
256	Raymond Asomani-Boateng	Minnesota State University, Mankato	7	220
256	Robin Ersing	University of South Florida	7	128
256	Sarah Dooling	University of Texas, Austin	7	298
256	Vikas Mehta	University of Cincinnati	7	336
256	William Riggs	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	7	141
256	Yu Xiao	Texas A&M University	7	159
274	Amanda Johnson Ashley	Boise State University	6	235
274	Amelie Y. Davis	Miami University	6	217
274	Andrew Mondschein	University of Virginia	6	141
274	Bumjoon Kang	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	6	153
274	Carolyn McAndrews	University of Colorado, Denver	6	85
274	Charles Hostovsky	The Catholic University of America	6	128
274	Damian Pitt	Virginia Commonwealth University	6	158
274	Danilo Palazzo	University of Cincinnati	6	159
274	Dawne Mouzon	Rutgers University	6	406
274	Deden Rukmana	Savannah State University	6	209
274	Hyeon-Shic Shin	Morgan State University	6	112
274	Jacob Wagner	University of Missouri-Kansas	6	97
274	Jeffrey Lowe	Texas Southern University	6	90
274	John Felkner	Florida State University	6	156
274	Lorie Higgins	University of Idaho	6	237
274	Maged Senbel	University of British Columbia	6	221
274	Marc Doussard	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	6	222
274	Michael Lens	UCLA	6	110
274	Mintesnot Woldeamanuel	California State University, Northridge	6	122
274	Monica A. Haddad	Iowa State University	6	144
274	Pham Thi Thanh Hien	Universite de Quebec a Montreal	6	177
274	Robert S. Bristow	Westfield State University	6	122
274	Ugo Lachapelle	Universite de Quebec a Montreal	6	248
297	Andrew Rumbach	University of Colorado, Denver	5	54
297	Anuradha Mukherji	East Carolina University	5	56
297	Arlie Adkins	University of Arizona	5	84
297	Bev Wilson	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	5	78
297	Bhuiyan Alam	University of Toledo	5	113
297	Bonnie Johnson	University of Kansas	5	90
297	Carrie Makarewicz	University of Colorado, Denver	5	113
297	David Bieri	Virginia Tech	5	122
297	Dick Winchell	Eastern Washington	5	77
297	Guoping Huang	University of Virginia	5	115
297	Hugh Semple	Eastern Michigan University	5	128
297	Ilia Murtazashvili	University of Pittsburgh	5	63
297	Jacob Sowers	Minot State University	5	195
297	Jan Whittington	University of Washington	5	141
297	Jeff Birchall	University of Alberta	5	200
297	Jennifer Dean	University of Waterloo, Ontario	5	356
297	Jesse Saginor	Florida Atlantic University	5	131
297	Karen J. Gibson	Portland State University	5	185
297	Kenneth Joh	Texas A&M University	5	171
297	Laura E. Taylor	York University	5	193
297	Manish Shirgaokar	University of Alberta	5	72
297	Marisa Zapata	Portland State University	5	135
297	Matthias Sweet	Ryerson University	5	91
297	Philip Stoker	University of Arizona	5	59
297	Rafael Pizarro	Technical University of Berlin	5	119
297	Rebecca Retzlaff	Auburn University	5	263
297	Robert Goodspeed	University of Michigan	5	118
297	Ron Malega	Missouri State University	5	152
297	Rosie Tighe	Cleveland State University	5	186
297	Sarah Hinners	University of Utah	5	46
297	Steven Spears	University of Iowa	5	117
297	Timothy F. Welch	Georgia Tech	5	140
297	Todd Schenk	Virginia Tech	5	199
297	Wei Li	Texas A&M University	5	104
297	Yekang Ko	University of Texas, Arlington	5	73
297	Yiping Fang	Portland State University	5	299
297	Zeenat Kotval-Karamchandani	Michigan State University	5	47
334	Andrew Greenlee	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	4	35
334	Andrew Whittemore	UNC	4	50
334	Aslıgül Göçmen	University of Wisconsin, Madison	4	84
334	Carlton Basmajian	Iowa State University	4	76
334	Carolyn G. Loh	Wayne State University	4	66
334	Daniel Campo	Morgan State University	4	120
334	David Hsu	MIT	4	56
334	David J. Edelman	University of Cincinnati	4	48
334	Dawn Jourdan	University of Oklahoma	4	61
334	Divya Chandrasekhar	University of Utah	4	41
334	Earthea Nance	Texas Southern University	4	126
334	Elsie Harper-Anderson	Virginia Commonwealth University	4	93
334	Genevieve Cloutier	Universite Laval	4	55
334	Greg Newmark	Kansas State University	4	55
334	Jaap Vos	University of Idaho	4	38
334	Jake Wegmann	University of Texas, Austin	4	56
334	Joanna Ganning	University of Utah	4	48
334	Lesli Hoey	University of Michigan	4	132
334	Luna Khirfan	University of Waterloo, Ontario	4	60
334	Margaret Cowell	Virginia Tech	4	429
334	Maria Rendon	UC Irvine	4	133
334	Matin Katirai	West Chester University	4	79
334	Paula Negron	Universite de Montreal	4	57
334	Veronica Elias	Eastern Washington	4	37
358	Alessandro Rigolon	California State University, Northridge	3	38
358	Bumseok Chun	Texas Southern University	3	150
358	Charisma Acey	UC Berkeley	3	36
358	George W. Dougherty	University of Pittsburgh	3	54
358	Jaclene Begley	Ryerson University	3	23
358	Jay Mittal	Auburn University	3	18
358	Jesus J. Lara	Ohio State University	3	19
358	Kathryn Frank	University of Florida	3	179
358	Kelcie Ralph	Rutgers University	3	49
358	Leith Deacon	University of Alberta	3	99
358	Luis E. Santiago	University of Puerto Rico	3	22
358	Misun Hur	East Carolina University	3	246
358	Orly Linovski	University of Manitoba	3	35
358	Roxane Lavoie	Universite Laval	3	19
358	Willow Lung-Amam	University of Maryland	3	15
373	Alvaro Huerta	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona	2	20
373	Ana Paula Pimentel Walker	University of Michigan	2	6
373	Bryce Lowery	University of Oklahoma	2	28
373	Evangeline Linkous	University of South Florida	2	6
373	Kimberley Kinder	University of Michigan	2	15
373	Marcela González Rivas	University of Pittsburgh	2	67
373	Mi Shih	Rutgers University	2	28
373	Moises Gonzales	University of New Mexico	2	13
373	Shomon Shamsuddin	Tufts University	2	11
373	Suzanne Lanyi Charles	Cornell University	2	23
373	Thomas Wuerzer	Boise State University	2	9
384	Ashima Krishna	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	1	3
384	Gary Austin	University of Idaho	1	2
384	Laura Harjo	University of New Mexico	1	66
384	Mattijs van Maasakkers	Ohio State University	1	8
384	Meagan Ehlenz	Arizona State University	1	2
384	Stephanie Frank	University of Missouri-Kansas	1	2
384	Suwan Shen	University of Hawaii	1	4
384	Zhan Guo	New York University	1	3
392	Darrel Ramsey-Musolf	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	0	0
392	Ivis Garcia Zambrana	University of Utah	0	0
392	Maria Arquero de Alarcon	University of Michigan	0	0

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Planning Citation Analysis Update

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Tom Sanchez

The database of Planning faculty was recently updated from planning department websites. This means that faculty rosters are more current than those used in the 2015 Citation Analysis, which was derived from the 2014 ACSP Guide to Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning. In addition, the database now includes all ACSP and Association of Canadian University Planning Programs (ACUPP). Check out the new searchable database at: http://scholarmetrics.com/metrics.html. As you will see, the program rankings have changed significantly. A complete update will be available in January 2017.

Ranking of Planning Schools based on the median number of Google Scholar citations

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Five Academic Planners You Should Know

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Tom Sanchez

In his “Research You Can Use” column in Planning magazine, Reid Ewing at the University of Utah, discusses some findings from my 2015 citation analysis of urban planning scholars. You can read the column here and search the data at: http://scholarmetrics.com/metrics.html.

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Where Do the Top Planning Scholars Come From?

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Tom Sanchez

My recent analyses of the 2015 citation data considered the school where urban planning faculty are currently teaching. In a 2013 Planetizen article, I looked at where planning faculty received their degrees, which showed many of these schools did not have urban planning programs. The following looks at citation activity by degree granting school and current rank. For 2015, Texas A&M, UIUC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and UCSB have the highest median citation rates for Assistant, Associate, Full, and all professors, respectively. To be included schools needed to have a minimum of five faculty in a category. See Tables 1 through 4 below for the results.

Table 1. Assistant Professors

Table 2. Associate Professors

Table 3. Full Professors

Table 4. All Professors

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Another Way to Slice the Data: Performance by Rank

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Tom Sanchez

To control for departments with more senior faculty that have higher citation rates, I used the median number of citations for ranking purposes (see 2015 rankings). As might be expected, there is significant skewness in the data, attributable to a small number of highly cited faculty. Another way to compare planning departments is to show rankings by position (Assistant, Associate, and Full Professors). Because planning faculties are relatively small, I excluded schools with less than three faculty at any particular rank, and I also used the mean instead of the median to show central tendency. The three tables below show these results.

Table 1. Assistant Professors

Table 2. Associate Professors

Table 3. Full Professors

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2015 Urban Planning Citation Analysis

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Tom Sanchez

The following is a summary of the 2015 citation analysis results for Urban Planning faculty in North America (mostly U.S.). The lists of urban planning departments and faculty were based on the 20^th Edition (2014-2015 academic year) Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Guide to Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning. Results for 2013 and 2014 describe the methodology (click years to see previous analyses). A recent article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) provides in-depth background on the objectives and overall approach (go to article).

Table 1 shows the top 25 planning schools based on the median number of Google Scholar citations per faculty member (this includes only departments with a minimum of 5 tenure-track faculty). Also, see the department rankings by faculty tenure here.

Table 1

UCLA, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and NYU retain the top 4 spots, with the University of Minnesota moving up from last year to become the fifth most productive planning faculty. New to the top 25 in 2016 are Virginia Tech (19), the University of Pittsburgh (20), University of South Florida (22), and Cornell University (23). These rankings shift slightly from year to year based on changes in faculty rosters (through retirements, new additions, affiliation changes, etc.) ACSP membership, and data adjustments. Additionally, individual faculty citation counts increase each year at varying rates averaging 20-30 percent for tenured faculty (associate and full professors). The total number of citations for current urban planning faculty increased from just under 800,000 in 2014 to over 1,000,000 at the end of 2015. The top 25 cited urban planning faculty are shown in Table 2. The list contains a few changes, most notably the inclusion of Robert Bullard (14), now at Texas Southern University.

Table 2

The data also point to citation thresholds that emerge for the three ranks (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Full Professor). Figure 1 shows the mean and median values for each rank. The middle range of citations for Assistant Professors is about 70, with nearly 300 for Associate Professors, and just over 900 for Full Professors. This corresponds with median years of experience at 7, 15, and 30 years respectively. There is a significant amount of variation within each rank with years of experience (years since terminal degree was received) explaining only about 6 percent of the variation in individual citation activity. Related to my analysis posted in October 2015, there is no statistical difference in citation activity between female and male urban planning faculty for ACSP member schools.

Figure 1

*Note: A tool to query the data for individual faculty and departments will be available soon.

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Scholarly Citation Differences Between Male and Female Faculty in U.S. Planning Schools

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Tom Sanchez

Among urban planning faculty in the U.S, who is cited more – men or women? My previous analyses compared schools, years of service, and academic rank (see 2014 Urban Planning Citation Analysis), and I thought it would be interesting to look at citation totals by gender. Others have examined these differences noting challenges faced by females due to discrimination and time-off for maternity leave (see for example Leahey, 2006; van Arensbergen, van der Weijden, & Van den Besselaar, 2012). Productivity and citation activity can also be impacted by taking on administrative roles, teaching and advising loads, and other appointments that effect the amount of time available for publishing. Unfortunately data about these activities were not available for individual planning faculty in my sample. The table below shows the median number of citations by rank and gender which includes 291 females and 623 males.

Median Number of Citations by Rank and Gender

Source: Google Scholar

The table shows that there are proportionally larger differences between males and females at the assistant and full professor ranks with slightly less difference for associate professors. However, a statistical test of median values comparing gender and rank suggests there is no significant difference (at 90% confidence level).

So who is cited more? There appears to be no difference.

References

Leahey, E. (2006). Gender differences in productivity research specialization as a missing link. Gender & Society, 20(6), 754-780.

van Arensbergen, P., van der Weijden, I., & Van den Besselaar, P. (2012). Gender differences in scientific productivity: a persisting phenomenon? Scientometrics, 93(3), 857-868.

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Highway Trust Fund Running Out

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Tom Sanchez

WASHINGTON, DC (localmemphis.com)

Authorization for the federal transportation Highway Trust Fund is set to expire July 31st. It’s the 34th time in six years that congress has faced this dilemma. If congress does not act… Federal funds for transportation projects will disappear.

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TechniCity Enrolls Students from Around the World

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Tom Sanchez

TechniCity, the MOOC about cities and technology taught by UAP Professor Tom Sanchez and Ohio State University Professor Jennifer Evans-Cowley, enrolled 9,355 students from 154 countries. Nearly 40% of students enrolled are from emerging economies around the world. The following summarize characteristics of students enrolled in the course.

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Seattle Public Transit Reacts To Income Inequality

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Tom Sanchez

This weekend, the Seattle metro area launched an initiative to address income inequality through public transit. People in low-income households can now ride buses, trains and ferries at reduced fares.

The initiative is among the first of its kind in the U.S., and transit experts across the country are watching closely. Thomas Sanchez, a professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech, discusses the initiative with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson.

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/03/02/seattle-public-transit-low-income

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