Alexander Zipf

11.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
217 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Alexander Zipf is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Transportation and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Zipf has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 65 papers in Transportation and 57 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Alexander Zipf's work include Geographic Information Systems Studies (108 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (60 papers) and Data Management and Algorithms (57 papers). Alexander Zipf is often cited by papers focused on Geographic Information Systems Studies (108 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (60 papers) and Data Management and Algorithms (57 papers). Alexander Zipf collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Alexander Zipf's co-authors include Pascal Neis, Dennis Zielstra, João Porto de Albuquerque, Hongchao Fan, Benjamin Herfort, Enrico Steiger, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Sven Lautenbach, Mohamed Bakillah and Marcus Goetz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Zipf

204 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Cross-city matters: A multimodal remote sensing benchmark dataset for cross-city semantic segmentation using high-resolution domain adaptation networks

2023 375 citations Danfeng Hong, Bing Zhang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →
Quality assessment for building footprints data on OpenStreetMap

2014 316 citations Hongchao Fan, Alexander Zipf et al. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems profile →
A geographic approach for combining social media and authoritative data towards identifying useful information for disaster management

2015 288 citations João Porto de Albuquerque, Benjamin Herfort et al. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems profile →
A Comprehensive Framework for Intrinsic OpenStreetMap Quality Analysis

2013 274 citations Alexander Zipf et al. Transactions in GIS profile →
OpenStreetMap in GIScience

2015 190 citations Alexander Zipf et al. profile →
A spatio-temporal analysis investigating completeness and inequalities of global urban building data in OpenStreetMap

2023 123 citations Benjamin Herfort, Sven Lautenbach et al. profile →

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Zipf. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Zipf 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 Alexander Zipf. Alexander Zipf is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	STV AE : Skip connection driven Two-stream property fusion Variational AutoEncoder for cross-region wastewater treatment plant semantic segmentation 2025 ·Information Fusion ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Chunling Yang, Alexander Zipf	1
2	Lessons in traffic: Nairobi's school term congestion and equity challenges 2025 ·Charles Hatfield, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jacqueline M. Klopp, Alexander Zipf, James Rising, (unknown)	0
3	GeoAI for Science and the Science of GeoAI 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Wenwen Li, Samantha T. Arundel, Song Gao, (unknown), Yingjie Hu, Shaowen Wang, Alexander Zipf	13
4	Distortions in Judged Spatial Relations in Large Language Models 2024 ·The Professional Geographer ·(unknown), (unknown), Alexander Zipf	7
5	Cross-city matters: A multimodal remote sensing benchmark dataset for cross-city semantic segmentation using high-resolution domain adaptation networks breakdown → 2023 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Danfeng Hong, Bing Zhang, Hao Li, Yuxuan Li, Jing Yao, Chenyu Li, Martin Werner, Jocelyn Chanussot, Alexander Zipf, Xiao Xiang Zhu	375
6	Private Vehicles Greenhouse Gas Emission Estimation at Street Level for Berlin Based on Open Data 2023 ·ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ·(unknown), (unknown), Michael Schultz, Sanam N. Vardag, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sven Lautenbach, Alexander Zipf	5
7	The association of stress and physical activity: Mind the ecological fallacy 2022 ·German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research ·Markus Reichert, (unknown), Iris Reinhard, Urs Braun, Marco Giurgiu, Andreas Hoell, Alexander Zipf, Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg, Heike Tost, Ulrich Ebner‐Priemer	13
8	Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience 2020 ·International Journal of Geographical Information Systems ·Yingwei Yan, Chen‐Chieh Feng, Wei Huang, Hongchao Fan, Yi‐Chen Wang, Alexander Zipf	77
9	A neural mechanism for affective well-being: Subgenual cingulate cortex mediates real-life effects of nonexercise activity on energy 2020 ·Science Advances ·Markus Reichert, Urs Braun, Gabriela Gan, Iris Reinhard, Marco Giurgiu, Ren Ma, Zhenxiang Zang, (unknown), Elena D. Koch, (unknown), Janina I. Schweiger, Dragoš Inta, Andreas Hoell, Ceren Akdeniz, Alexander Zipf, Ulrich Ebner‐Priemer, Heike Tost, Andreas Meyer‐Lindenberg	21
10	Room semantics inference using random forest and relational graph convolutional networks: A case study of research building 2020 ·Transactions in GIS ·Xuke Hu, Hongchao Fan, (unknown), Zhiyong Wang, Alexander Zipf, Fuqiang Gu, Jianga Shang	14
11	A Multi-Sensor Fusion Framework Based on Coupled Residual Convolutional Neural Networks 2020 ·Remote Sensing ·Hao Li, Pedram Ghamisi, Behnood Rasti, (unknown), (unknown), Michael Schultz, Alexander Zipf	25
12	OSHDB: a framework for spatio-temporal analysis of OpenStreetMap history data 2019 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Michael Auer, (unknown), Sabrina Marx, (unknown), (unknown), Franz‐Benjamin Mocnik, Alexander Zipf	43
13	Efficient Method for POI/ROI Discovery Using Flickr Geotagged Photos 2018 ·ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ·(unknown), Ta‐Chien Chan, (unknown), Alexander Zipf	39
14	Coupling maximum entropy modeling with geotagged social media data to determine the geographic distribution of tourists 2018 ·International Journal of Geographical Information Systems ·Yingwei Yan, (unknown), Chen‐Chieh Feng, Wei Huang, Hongchao Fan, Alexander Zipf	16
15	3D WebGIS: From Visualization to Analysis. An Efficient Browser-Based 3D Line-of-Sight Analysis 2018 ·ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ·Michael Auer, Alexander Zipf	10
16	Towards Using the Potential of OpenStreetMap History for Disaster Activation Monitoring. 2018 ·ISCRAM ·Michael Auer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sabrina Marx, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alexander Zipf	6
17	Ohsome - eine Plattform zur Analyse raumzeitlicher Entwicklungen von OpenStreetMap-Daten für intrinsische QualitätsbewertungenOhsome - An OpenStreetMap History Analytics Platform for Intrinsic Quality Assessments. 2018 ·Michael Auer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sabrina Marx, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alexander Zipf	1
18	Deep Learning From Multiple Crowds: A Case Study of Humanitarian Mapping 2018 ·IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Yan Zhou, Alexander Zipf, Hongchao Fan	26
19	Leveraging OpenStreetMap to support flood risk management in municipalities : a prototype decision support system 2016 ·ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) ·(unknown), João Porto de Albuquerque, Benjamin Herfort, (unknown), Alexander Zipf, (unknown), (unknown)	10
20	Temporal Analysis on Contribution Inequality in OpenStreetMap: A Comparative Study for Four Countries 2016 ·ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ·(unknown), Hongchao Fan, Ning Jing, Yeran Sun, Alexander Zipf	28

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