Alan Penn

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
115 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Alan Penn is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Global and Planetary Change and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Penn has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Building and Construction, 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alan Penn's work include Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (55 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (14 papers). Alan Penn is often cited by papers focused on Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (55 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (20 papers) and Spatial Cognition and Navigation (14 papers). Alan Penn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Alan Penn's co-authors include Alasdair Turner, B Hillier, Jianwei Xu, Tadeusz Grajewski, J Hanson, Bill Hillier, David O’Sullivan, D Banister, Laura Vaughan and Matthew S. Goldberg and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Science of The Total Environment and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan Penn

106 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Natural movement: or, configuration and attraction in urban pedestrian movement

1993 1.0k citations B Hillier, Alan Penn et al. profile →
From Isovists to Visibility Graphs: A Methodology for the Analysis of Architectural Space

2001 609 citations Alasdair Turner, Alan Penn et al. profile →

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Countries citing papers authored by Alan Penn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Penn

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Penn

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Designing cities for humans 2019 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Edward Baggs, Anthony Chemero, Alan Penn	1
2	Visibility analysis, spatial experience and EEG recordings in virtual reality environments: The experience of ‘knowing where one is’ and isovist properties as a means to assess the related brain activity 2017 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Sean Hanna, Alan Penn	3
3	Modelling dependency networks to inform data structures in BIM and smart cities 2015 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), (unknown), Alan Penn, Daniel Stephen Vaughan Palmer, Tim Broyd	6
4	An empirical study on applying community detection methods in defining spatial housing submarkets in London 2015 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Stephen Law, Kayvan Karimi, Alan Penn	2
5	Space syntax angular betweenness centrality revisited 2013 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Stephen Law, Kayvan Karimi, Bill Hillier, Alan Penn	7
6	Measuring the influence of spatial configuration on the housing market in metropolitan London 2013 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Stephen Law, Kayvan Karimi, Alan Penn, Alain Chiaradia	7
7	Spatial Configuration, Organisational Change and Academic Networks 2012 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Kerstin Sailer, Alan Penn, Alexi Marmot	7
8	Towards an Architectural Theory of Space and Organisations: Cognitive, Affective and Conative Relations in Workplaces 2010 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Kerstin Sailer, Alan Penn	8
9	Mixed Reality Architecture: Concept, Construction, Use, Technical Report 2006 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Holger Schnädelbach, Alan Penn, Steve Benford, Boriana Koleva	1
10	VIRCON: Planning for the Virtual Construction Site 2003 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Nashwan Dawood, Lamine Mahdjoubi, Alan Penn, David Heesom, (unknown), Zaki Mallasi, Steve North, (unknown)	0
11	Vision, configuration and simulation of static interaction for design 2003 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Alan Penn	6
12	Space Syntax Based Agent Simulation 2002 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Alan Penn, (unknown)	37
13	Automated viewshed analysis for configurational analysis of retail facilities 1999 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Daniel Chapman, (unknown), Alan Penn, Alasdair Turner	1
14	In with the right crowd: Crowd movement and space use in Trafalgar Square during the new year's eve celebrations 1999 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Alan Penn, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
15	Making Isovists Syntactic: Isovist Integration Analysis 1999 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Alasdair Turner, Alan Penn	63
16	Pangea V2.1b CD and Pangea User Manual 1996 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Alan Penn, (unknown), B Hillier, (unknown), Ruth Dalton, Nick Dalton, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
17	Intelligent Architecture: Desktop VR for Complex Strategic Design in Architecture and Planning 1995 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Alan Penn, Nick Dalton, Lodewijk V. Dekker, (unknown), (unknown)	1
18	Brindleyplace, Birmingham: the UCL study of the potential of the site and the Farrell masterplan 1991 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·B Hillier, Alan Penn, Tadeusz Grajewski, (unknown)	2
19	The Other Side of the Tracks:the Kings Cross Site in its Urban Context 1988 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·(unknown), Alan Penn, (unknown)	1
20	Creating life: or, does architecture determine anything ? 1986 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·B Hillier, (unknown), John Peponis, Alan Penn	75

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