Amos Rapoport

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Amos Rapoport is a scholar working on Archeology, Building and Construction and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Amos Rapoport has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Archeology, 8 papers in Building and Construction and 4 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Amos Rapoport's work include Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (8 papers), Architecture and Cultural Influences (6 papers) and Latin American Urban Studies (2 papers). Amos Rapoport is often cited by papers focused on Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (8 papers), Architecture and Cultural Influences (6 papers) and Latin American Urban Studies (2 papers). Amos Rapoport collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Amos Rapoport's co-authors include Richard Francaviglia, Charles Gordon, Joachim F. Wohlwill, Irwin M. Altman, Anthony King, Robert Kantor, Besim S. Hakim, Setha Low, Leona Chandra Kruse and Gerald D. Weisman and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Journal of Social Issues and Environment and Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Amos Rapoport

65 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.

House Form and Culture

1969 587 citations Amos Rapoport et al. profile →
The Meaning of the Built Environment: A Nonverbal Communication Approach

1982 492 citations Amos Rapoport profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amos Rapoport United States	24	1.1k	613	574	508	363	68	3.2k
Edward Relph Canada	12	1.8k 1.7×	279 0.5×	219 0.4×	680 1.3×	390 1.1×	24	3.4k
Setha Low United States	33	3.0k 2.8×	305 0.5×	274 0.5×	1.4k 2.7×	665 1.8×	101	5.8k
Christian Norberg-Schulz	14	461 0.4×	338 0.6×	304 0.5×	312 0.6×	176 0.5×	44	1.8k
Roger M. Downs United States	18	1.4k 1.3×	144 0.2×	216 0.4×	276 0.5×	263 0.7×	46	3.9k
N. N. Patricios United States	10	878 0.8×	162 0.3×	142 0.2×	276 0.5×	180 0.5×	25	2.3k
Julienne Hanson United Kingdom	12	582 0.5×	278 0.5×	1.9k 3.3×	325 0.6×	534 1.5×	28	3.2k
Lewis Mumford United States	24	1.2k 1.1×	188 0.3×	338 0.6×	834 1.6×	176 0.5×	99	4.3k
Kenneth R. Olwig Sweden	20	675 0.6×	181 0.3×	414 0.7×	347 0.7×	494 1.4×	71	2.4k
Charles E. Grantham United States	11	1.2k 1.1×	154 0.3×	90 0.2×	248 0.5×	257 0.7×	21	2.6k
Denis Cosgrove United Kingdom	29	1.3k 1.2×	576 0.9×	81 0.1×	517 1.0×	169 0.5×	71	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amos Rapoport

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amos Rapoport. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amos Rapoport 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 Amos Rapoport. Amos Rapoport 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

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Rapoport, Amos. (2008). SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS ON CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT. International Journal of Architectural Research: Archnet-IJAR. 2(1). 16–39. 20 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (2008). Mind, Land and Society Relationships in an Environment-Behavior Perspective. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 33–61. 2 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (2006). Local environments in a global context. 73. 122–131. 3 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (2003). Cultura, arquitectura y diseño. QRU Quaderns de Recerca en Urbanisme. 9 indexed citations

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Weisman, Gerald D., Amos Rapoport, Leona Chandra Kruse, et al.. (1998). Professional Environmental Assessment Protocol. 19 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1993). Domestic Architecture, Ethnicity and Complementarity in the South-Central Andes. Mark S. Aldenderfer. Journal of Anthropological Research. 49(4). 409–412. 2 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1990). The Meaning Of The Built Environment. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens Kew). 32 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1990). Solutions in Search of a Problem. Places Journal. 6(2). 5 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos & Anthony King. (1985). The Bungalow: The Production of a Global Culture.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 14(4). 463–463. 104 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1985). Living cities: A case for urbanism and guidelines for re-urbanization. Urban Ecology. 9(1). 81–83. 3 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1983). Environmental quality, metropolitan areas and traditional settlements. Habitat International. 7(3-4). 37–63. 24 indexed citations

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Gibson, J. E., et al.. (1982). Human and energy factors in urban planning : a systems approach : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Factors Influencing Urban Design", Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 2-13, 1979. 2 indexed citations

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Lane, Edward William & Amos Rapoport. (1982). Нравы и обычаи Египтян в первой половине XIX в.. 1 indexed citations

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Altman, Irwin M., Amos Rapoport, & Joachim F. Wohlwill. (1980). Environment and Culture. 163 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1979). Geography and urban environment. Urban Ecology. 4(3). 245–247. 110 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1976). The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment. 75 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1975). Toward a Redefinition of Density. Environment and Behavior. 7(2). 133–158. 179 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1969). House form and culture / Amos Rapoport. 1969(1969). 1–99. 1 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos & Robert Kantor. (1967). Complexity and Ambiguity in Environmental Design. Journal of the American Institute of Planners. 33(4). 210–221. 55 indexed citations

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Rapoport, Amos. (1966). A taxonomy of 2x2 games. 11. 203–214. 119 indexed citations

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