Andrew Crooks

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
129 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Andrew Crooks is a scholar working on Transportation, Sociology and Political Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Crooks has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Transportation, 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Andrew Crooks's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (46 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (19 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers). Andrew Crooks is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (46 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (19 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (16 papers). Andrew Crooks collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Austria. Andrew Crooks's co-authors include Anthony Stefanidis, Arie Croitoru, Jacek Radzikowski, Michael Batty, Peggy Agouris, Ron Mahabir, Christian J. E. Castle, Sarah Wise, Andrew Hudson‐Smith and Richard Milton and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Crooks

123 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds

2011 395 citations Anthony Stefanidis, Andrew Crooks et al. profile →
#Earthquake: Twitter as a Distributed Sensor System

2012 339 citations Andrew Crooks, Arie Croitoru et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Crooks United States	34	1.2k	1.1k	838	766	392	129	4.0k
Anthony Stefanidis United States	29	738 0.6×	595 0.6×	529 0.6×	640 0.8×	301 0.8×	97	2.9k
Daniel Z. Sui United States	33	1.6k 1.3×	725 0.7×	860 1.0×	1.4k 1.9×	345 0.9×	110	4.9k
Arie Croitoru United States	24	583 0.5×	504 0.5×	414 0.5×	423 0.6×	248 0.6×	57	2.2k
Sarah Elwood United States	40	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	725 0.9×	2.6k 3.4×	373 1.0×	68	5.5k
Bernd Resch Austria	29	883 0.7×	531 0.5×	471 0.6×	441 0.6×	308 0.8×	151	3.1k
João Porto de Albuquerque Brazil	25	483 0.4×	600 0.6×	718 0.9×	480 0.6×	182 0.5×	123	2.6k
Muki Haklay United Kingdom	42	2.0k 1.7×	895 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	2.8k 3.6×	387 1.0×	154	8.4k
Linna Li China	26	733 0.6×	315 0.3×	418 0.5×	596 0.8×	410 1.0×	105	2.9k
Alex Singleton United Kingdom	30	1.0k 0.8×	482 0.5×	439 0.5×	571 0.7×	204 0.5×	108	2.7k
David W. S. Wong United States	36	1.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.7×	1.1k 1.4×	256 0.3×	243 0.6×	121	6.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Crooks

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew Crooks

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Crooks

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

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Meng, Xiaoliang, et al.. (2025). Examining spatial expansion and stemming strategies of urban shrinkage: evidence from Detroit, USA. npj Urban Sustainability. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

Chen, Qingqing, et al.. (2025). From print to perspective: A mixed-method analysis of the convergence and divergence of COVID-19 topics in newspapers and interviews. PLOS Digital Health. 4(2). e0000736–e0000736. 1 indexed citations

Crooks, Andrew. (2025). Cities and disasters: What can urban analytics do?. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 52(3). 523–526.

See, Linda, Qingqing Chen, Andrew Crooks, et al.. (2025). New directions in mapping the Earth’s surface with citizen science and generative AI. iScience. 28(3). 111919–111919.

Chen, Qingqing, et al.. (2024). Community resilience to wildfires: A network analysis approach by utilizing human mobility data. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 110. 102110–102110. 4 indexed citations

Bard, Jonathan, et al.. (2024). Genomic profiling and spatial SEIR modeling of COVID-19 transmission in Western New York. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1416580–1416580. 1 indexed citations

Crooks, Andrew, et al.. (2024). Agent-based modeling of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in New York State: Information diffusion in hybrid spaces. 11–20.

Crooks, Andrew, et al.. (2024). A Large-Scale Geographically Explicit Synthetic Population with Social Networks for the United States. Scientific Data. 11(1). 1204–1204. 2 indexed citations

Mahabir, Ron, et al.. (2024). Understanding the determinants of vaccine hesitancy in the United States: A comparison of social surveys and social media. PLoS ONE. 19(6). e0301488–e0301488. 2 indexed citations

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Ferreira, Celso M., et al.. (2023). A Coupled Hydrodynamic and Agent Based Model for Flood and Wind Adaptation Policy Analysis: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Case Study. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Crooks, Andrew, et al.. (2022). Information propagation on cyber, relational and physical spaces about covid-19 vaccine: Using social media and splatial framework. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 98. 101887–101887. 7 indexed citations

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Züfle, Andreas, Carola Wenk, Dieter Pfoser, et al.. (2021). Urban life: a model of people and places. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. 29(1). 20–51. 21 indexed citations

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Mahmoud, Hussam, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the complexity of human behavior and urbanization on community vulnerability to floods. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 20085–20085. 30 indexed citations

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Croitoru, Arie, Ron Mahabir, Jacek Radzikowski, et al.. (2020). Responses to mass shooting events. Criminology & Public Policy. 19(1). 335–360. 16 indexed citations

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Mahabir, Ron, Arie Croitoru, Andrew Crooks, Peggy Agouris, & Anthony Stefanidis. (2018). News coverage, digital activism, and geographical saliency: A case study of refugee camps and volunteered geographical information. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206825–e0206825. 19 indexed citations

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Radzikowski, Jacek, Anthony Stefanidis, Kathryn H. Jacobsen, et al.. (2016). The Measles Vaccination Narrative in Twitter: A Quantitative Analysis. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2(1). e1–e1. 108 indexed citations

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Jenkins, Andrew, Arie Croitoru, Andrew Crooks, & Anthony Stefanidis. (2016). Crowdsourcing a Collective Sense of Place. PLoS ONE. 11(4). e0152932–e0152932. 72 indexed citations

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Stefanidis, Anthony, et al.. (2013). Demarcating new boundaries: mapping virtual polycentric communities through social media content. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 40(2). 116–129. 36 indexed citations

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Crooks, Andrew. (2012). Modeling and Simulating Urban Processes by Andreas Koch and Peter Mandl (eds.) .. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 15. 1 indexed citations

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Marceau, Danielle J., Itzhak Benenson, Ian D. Bishop, et al.. (2011). Advanced Geosimulation Models. 62(2). 525–535. 2 indexed citations

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