Alex Singleton

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
108 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Alex Singleton is a scholar working on Transportation, Geography, Planning and Development and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Singleton has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Transportation, 28 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Alex Singleton's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (30 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (26 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (22 papers). Alex Singleton is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (30 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (26 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (22 papers). Alex Singleton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Alex Singleton's co-authors include Paul Longley, Chris Parker, Muki Haklay, Daniel Arribas‐Bel, Seth Spielman, Les Dolega, Chris Brunsdon, Alessia Calafiore, Yunzhe Liu and Meixu Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Landscape and Urban Planning.

In The Last Decade

Alex Singleton

104 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Singleton United Kingdom	30	1.0k	571	482	447	439	108	2.7k
Daniel Z. Sui United States	33	1.6k 1.6×	1.4k 2.5×	725 1.5×	504 1.1×	860 2.0×	110	4.9k
Robert J. Stimson Australia	28	1.0k 1.0×	305 0.5×	1.1k 2.3×	673 1.5×	336 0.8×	153	3.4k
Paul A. Zandbergen United States	29	572 0.6×	245 0.4×	573 1.2×	279 0.6×	426 1.0×	54	3.4k
Andrew Crooks United States	34	1.2k 1.2×	766 1.3×	1.1k 2.2×	224 0.5×	838 1.9×	129	4.0k
Jean‐Claude Thill United States	36	2.0k 2.0×	274 0.5×	396 0.8×	1.1k 2.4×	731 1.7×	183	4.3k
Christopher Pettit Australia	32	916 0.9×	509 0.9×	225 0.5×	338 0.8×	854 1.9×	188	3.0k
Torsten Hägerstrand Sweden	21	916 0.9×	456 0.8×	772 1.6×	751 1.7×	339 0.8×	37	3.5k
Tijs Neutens Belgium	34	2.7k 2.6×	172 0.3×	782 1.6×	289 0.6×	553 1.3×	73	3.9k
João Porto de Albuquerque Brazil	25	483 0.5×	480 0.8×	600 1.2×	107 0.2×	718 1.6×	123	2.6k
Robert McMaster United Kingdom	27	137 0.1×	723 1.3×	623 1.3×	666 1.5×	258 0.6×	123	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Singleton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Singleton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Singleton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Singleton based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex Singleton. Alex Singleton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Singleton, Alex, et al.. (2025). Tracking spatio-temporal energy vulnerability: A composite indicator for England and Wales. Regional Studies Regional Science. 12(1). 319–337. 1 indexed citations

Singleton, Alex, et al.. (2025). Leveraging Advanced Technologies for (Smart) Transportation Planning: A Systematic Review. Sustainability. 17(5). 2245–2245. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Meixu, Caitlin Robinson, & Alex Singleton. (2025). Mapping multidimensional energy deprivation: Socio-spatial inequalities and policy implications in Great Britain. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 121. 102324–102324.

Rowe, Francisco, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the Brexit–COVID-19 nexus: assessing the decline of EU student applications into UK universities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 1 indexed citations

Singleton, Alex, et al.. (2024). Mapping Great Britain's semantic footprints through a large language model analysis of Reddit comments. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 110. 102121–102121.

Longley, Paul, James Cheshire, & Alex Singleton. (2024). ‘Research ready’ geographically enabled smart data. Annals of GIS. 30(3). 267–273. 3 indexed citations

Rowe, Francisco, et al.. (2024). Nonlinear relationships between human development and international student mobility: The prominent role of employment prospects and cultural and linguistic ties. Population Space and Place. 30(5). 1 indexed citations

Gibbs, Hamish, et al.. (2023). Harnessing mobility data to capture changing work from home behaviours between censuses. Geographical Journal. 190(2). 6 indexed citations

Green, Mark, et al.. (2023). Local Data Spaces: Leveraging trusted research environments for secure location-based policy research in the age of coronavirus disease-2019. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 5 indexed citations

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Longley, Paul, et al.. (2023). A neighbourhood Output Area Classification from the 2021 and 2022 UK censuses. Geographical Journal. 190(2). 11 indexed citations

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Dolega, Les, et al.. (2022). An open source delineation and hierarchical classification of UK retail agglomerations. Scientific Data. 9(1). 541–541. 10 indexed citations

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Singleton, Alex, et al.. (2022). Using unstable data from mobile phone applications to examine recent trajectories of retail centre recovery. PubMed. 1(1). 21–21. 10 indexed citations

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Singleton, Alex, et al.. (2021). A regional exploration of retail visits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regional Studies Regional Science. 8(1). 366–370. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Yao, Alex Singleton, Pingjun Sun, & Guanpeng Dong. (2021). The Evolution Characteristics and Influence Mechanism of Chinese Venture Capital Spatial Agglomeration. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(6). 2974–2974. 3 indexed citations

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Daras, Konstantinos, Mark Green, A.M. Davies, Ben Barr, & Alex Singleton. (2019). Open data on health-related neighbourhood features in Great Britain. Scientific Data. 6(1). 107–107. 16 indexed citations

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Green, Mark, Konstantinos Daras, A.M. Davies, Ben Barr, & Alex Singleton. (2018). Developing an openly accessible multi-dimensional small area index of ‘Access to Healthy Assets and Hazards’ for Great Britain, 2016. Health & Place. 54. 11–19. 52 indexed citations

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Davies, A.M., Mark Green, & Alex Singleton. (2018). Using machine learning to investigate self-medication purchasing in England via high street retailer loyalty card data. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0207523–e0207523. 14 indexed citations

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Singleton, Alex & Paul Longley. (2015). The internal structure of Greater London: a comparison of national and regional geodemographic models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 69–87. 29 indexed citations

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Longley, Paul, Alex Singleton, Keiji Yano, & Tomoki Nakaya. (2010). Lost in Translation: Cross-Cultural Experiences in Teaching Geo-Genealogy. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 34(1). 21–38. 1 indexed citations

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Singleton, Alex. (2010). Neogeography: Engaging People for Common Good. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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