Alan Wilson

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
163 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Alan Wilson is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Building and Construction and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Wilson has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 35 papers in Building and Construction and 30 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Alan Wilson's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers), Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (22 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (21 papers). Alan Wilson is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers), Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (22 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (21 papers). Alan Wilson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Alan Wilson's co-authors include B Harris, Michael Clarke, M L Senior, W M Edmondstone, Andrew Bevan, Mark Birkin, Philip Rees, Hannah Fry, M. J. Kirkby and T. Davies and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alan Wilson

157 papers receiving 4.0k citations

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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.

A statistical theory of spatial distribution models

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Wilson United Kingdom	33	1.7k	1.4k	939	694	456	163	4.5k
Fahui Wang United States	48	4.7k 2.8×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	1.4k 2.0×	873 1.9×	179	8.9k
Manfréd M. Fischer Austria	46	598 0.3×	3.3k 2.3×	230 0.2×	647 0.9×	473 1.0×	369	8.6k
Aura Reggiani Italy	32	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	432 0.5×	308 0.4×	420 0.9×	139	3.3k
Xingjian Liu China	37	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	614 0.7×	1.7k 2.5×	366 0.8×	149	5.0k
Tony Smith United States	31	1.0k 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	335 0.4×	215 0.3×	675 1.5×	205	3.8k
John Rice Australia	40	542 0.3×	612 0.4×	728 0.8×	196 0.3×	401 0.9×	176	6.2k
Jean‐Claude Thill United States	36	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	799 0.9×	731 1.1×	396 0.9×	183	4.3k
Song Gao United States	43	3.9k 2.3×	541 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	1.9k 2.7×	537 1.2×	189	7.1k
Chris Webster Hong Kong	52	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.8×	2.0k 2.8×	1.3k 2.9×	280	9.9k
Peter A. Rogerson United States	37	708 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	238 0.3×	510 0.7×	1.2k 2.6×	146	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Wilson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Wilson

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wilson, Alan, et al.. (2024). The Interpretable Artificial Neural Network in Vehicle Insurance Claim Fraud Detection Based on Shapley Additive Explanations. 1–12.

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Colavizza, Giovanni, et al.. (2019). . Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan. (2002). Barriers to developing the nurse practitioner role in primary care--the GP perspective. Family Practice. 19(6). 641–646. 84 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan. (1998). Land-use/transport interaction models: Past and future. UCL Discovery (University College London). 59 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan, et al.. (1996). Ultrasound features of folded lung. Clinical Radiology. 51(6). 433–437. 17 indexed citations

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Gawne‐Cain, M. L., et al.. (1995). Case report: Intravenous leiomyomatosis, an unusual cause of intracardiac filling defect. Clinical Radiology. 50(2). 123–125. 12 indexed citations

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George, Christopher D., et al.. (1994). The radiological features of adult T-cell leukaemia/lymphoma. Clinical Radiology. 49(2). 83–88. 4 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan, et al.. (1991). Models of cities and regions : theoretical and empirical developments. 8 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan, Finbarr E. Cotter, David Lowe, A G Stansfeld, & John D. Kirby. (1991). Mycosis fungoides in childhood: An unusual presentation. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 25(2). 370–372. 17 indexed citations

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Wansbrough‐Jones, Mark, Audrey Nelson, L. New, et al.. (1991). Bronchoalveolar lavage in the prediction of post-thoracotomy chest infection. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 5(8). 433–435. 10 indexed citations

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Halpin, S. F. S., et al.. (1989). The posteroanterior chest radiograph in depressed sternum. Clinical Radiology. 40(2). 139–143. 4 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan. (1984). Making Urban Models More Realistic: Some Strategies for Future Research. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 16(11). 1419–1432. 15 indexed citations

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Kato, Nobuyuki, Alan Wilson, Feroz Ahmed, et al.. (1978). Election of Officers of the Union and Chairmen of Commissions. Acta Crystallographica Section A. 34(6). 1047–1047. 1 indexed citations

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Hughes, J. M. B., H. A. Jones, & Alan Wilson. (1975). Bronchial hysteresis in excised lungs.. The Journal of Physiology. 249(3). 435–443. 5 indexed citations

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Rees, Philip & Alan Wilson. (1973). Accounts and models for spatial demographic analysis .1. aggregate population. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan. (1973). Travel demand forecasting: achievements and problems. UCL Discovery (University College London). 10 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan. (1970). On some problems in urban and regional modelling. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan. (1969). Use of entropy maximizing models in theory of trip distribution, mode split and route split. UCL Discovery (University College London). 69 indexed citations

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Hyman, G & Alan Wilson. (1969). THE EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN TRAVEL COSTS ON TRIP DISTRIBUTION AND MODAL SPLIT. 8 indexed citations

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Wilson, Alan. (1969). Research for regional planning. Regional Studies. 3(1). 3–14. 7 indexed citations

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