Carlo Ratti

31.2k total citations · 15 hit papers
360 papers, 19.7k citations indexed

About

Carlo Ratti is a scholar working on Transportation, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Carlo Ratti has authored 360 papers receiving a total of 19.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Transportation, 71 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 51 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Carlo Ratti's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (127 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (76 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (46 papers). Carlo Ratti is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (127 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (76 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (46 papers). Carlo Ratti collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and China. Carlo Ratti's co-authors include Francesco Calabrese, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Paolo Santi, Fábio Duarte, Daniela Rus, Tixiao Shan, Brendan Englot, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Koen Steemers and Wei Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Carlo Ratti

341 papers receiving 18.8k citations

Hit Papers

LIO-SAM: Tightly-coupled ... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2020 2006 2018 2014 2014 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. LIO-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping
    2020 1.2k citations Tixiao Shan, Brendan Englot et al. profile →
  2. Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis
    2006 578 citations Carlo Ratti et al. profile →
  3. Measuring human perceptions of a large-scale urban region using machine learning
    2018 514 citations Fan Zhang, Carlo Ratti et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →
  4. Geo-located Twitter as proxy for global mobility patterns
    2014 502 citations Carlo Ratti et al. profile →
  5. Quantifying the benefits of vehicle pooling with shareability networks
    2014 491 citations Paolo Santi, Giovanni Resta et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Real-Time Urban Monitoring Using Cell Phones: A Case Study in Rome
    2010 459 citations Carlo Ratti et al. profile →
  7. Understanding individual mobility patterns from urban sensing data: A mobile phone trace example
    2012 442 citations Carlo Ratti et al. profile →
  8. End-user perspective of low-cost sensors for outdoor air pollution monitoring
    2017 379 citations Francesco Pilla, Carlo Ratti et al. profile →
  9. A new insight into land use classification based on aggregated mobile phone data
    2014 319 citations Carlo Ratti et al. profile →
  10. LVI-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar-Visual-Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping
    2021 314 citations Tixiao Shan, Brendan Englot et al. profile →
  11. The future of waste management in smart and sustainable cities: A review and concept paper
    2018 313 citations Fábio Duarte, Carlo Ratti et al. profile →
  12. The universal visitation law of human mobility
    2021 276 citations Paolo Santi, Carlo Ratti et al. Nature profile →
  13. Urban visual intelligence: Uncovering hidden city profiles with street view images
    2023 91 citations Zhuangyuan Fan, Fan Zhang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  14. The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data
    2024 53 citations Paolo Santi, Carlo Ratti et al. profile →
  15. Urban Visual Intelligence: Studying Cities with Artificial Intelligence and Street-Level Imagery
    2024 47 citations Fan Zhang, Fábio Duarte et al. Annals of the American Association of Geographers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Carlo Ratti United States 74 9.2k 3.9k 3.7k 2.9k 2.7k 360 19.7k
Yu Zheng China 72 15.3k 1.7× 1.2k 0.3× 9.4k 2.5× 1.7k 0.6× 2.9k 1.1× 232 26.0k
Yu Liu China 49 6.2k 0.7× 2.4k 0.6× 2.8k 0.8× 917 0.3× 743 0.3× 370 12.2k
Alan T. Murray United States 62 3.0k 0.3× 3.2k 0.8× 1.6k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 687 0.3× 284 11.3k
Mei‐Po Kwan Hong Kong 74 9.8k 1.1× 3.4k 0.9× 2.2k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 439 20.2k
Tan Yiğitcanlar Australia 66 4.0k 0.4× 1.7k 0.4× 2.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.4× 1.3k 0.5× 443 14.6k
Michael F. Goodchild United States 70 4.4k 0.5× 4.2k 1.1× 1.9k 0.5× 2.0k 0.7× 374 0.1× 261 19.9k
Michael Batty United Kingdom 74 7.1k 0.8× 8.4k 2.2× 6.1k 1.6× 1.2k 0.4× 684 0.3× 381 20.5k
Bo Huang China 66 1.8k 0.2× 5.0k 1.3× 901 0.2× 3.3k 1.1× 285 0.1× 433 15.1k
Hong Chen China 63 1.0k 0.1× 649 0.2× 991 0.3× 2.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.4× 697 16.2k
Zhong‐Ren Peng United States 45 2.1k 0.2× 1.1k 0.3× 886 0.2× 1.7k 0.6× 2.0k 0.8× 252 6.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carlo Ratti

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carlo Ratti

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ratti, Carlo, et al.. (2025). Assessing the impact of energy coaching with smart technology interventions to alleviate energy poverty. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 969–969. 5 indexed citations
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Kang, Yuhao, Vânia Ceccato, Per Näsman, et al.. (2025). Crime and Visually Perceived Safety of the Built Environment: A Deep Learning Approach. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 115(7). 1613–1633. 2 indexed citations
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Duarte, Fábio, et al.. (2025). Feeling Nature: Measuring perceptions of biophilia across global biomes using visual AI. npj Urban Sustainability. 5(1). 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shaojun, Paolo Santi, Dingsong Cui, et al.. (2024). Challenges and opportunities in truck electrification revealed by big operational data. Nature Energy. 9(11). 1427–1437. 22 indexed citations
5.
Wali, Behram, Paolo Santi, & Carlo Ratti. (2023). Are californians willing to use shared automated vehicles (SAV) & renounce existing vehicles? An empirical analysis of factors determining SAV use & household vehicle ownership. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 195. 122757–122757. 9 indexed citations
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Kang, Yuhao, Vânia Ceccato, Fábio Duarte, et al.. (2023). Assessing differences in safety perceptions using GeoAI and survey across neighbourhoods in Stockholm, Sweden. Landscape and Urban Planning. 236. 104768–104768. 57 indexed citations
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Wang, An, Simone Mora, Priyanka deSouza, et al.. (2023). Improving NO2 prediction by integrating tree diversity, urban form, and scale sensitivity through mobile monitoring. Applied Geography. 154. 102943–102943. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, An, et al.. (2023). Hyperlocal environmental data with a mobile platform in urban environments. Scientific Data. 10(1). 524–524. 7 indexed citations
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Zhu, Rui, Mei‐Po Kwan, A.T.D. Perera, et al.. (2023). GIScience can facilitate the development of solar cities for energy transition. Advances in Applied Energy. 10. 100129–100129. 31 indexed citations
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Mora, Simone, et al.. (2023). Air Quality Monitoring in Coal-Centric Cities: A Hybrid Approach. Sustainability. 15(16). 12624–12624. 1 indexed citations
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Fan, Zhuangyuan, Fan Zhang, Becky P.Y. Loo, & Carlo Ratti. (2023). Urban visual intelligence: Uncovering hidden city profiles with street view images. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(27). e2220417120–e2220417120. 91 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shan, Tixiao, Brendan Englot, Carlo Ratti, & Daniela Rus. (2021). LVI-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar-Visual-Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping. 5692–5698. 314 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Yang, Paolo Santi, & Carlo Ratti. (2021). Beyond Distance Decay: Discover Homophily in Spatially Embedded Social Networks. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 112(2). 505–521. 24 indexed citations
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Brinton, William F., Bidroha Basu, Fábio Duarte, et al.. (2021). Correlation of WorldView-3 spectral vegetation indices and soil health indicators of individual urban trees with exceptions to topsoil disturbance. City and Environment Interactions. 11. 100068–100068. 9 indexed citations
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Luo, Xiao, Rui Zhu, Paolo Santi, et al.. (2020). Quantifying and analyzing traffic emission reductions from ridesharing: A case study of Shanghai. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment. 89. 102629–102629. 56 indexed citations
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Anjomshoaa, Amin, Paolo Santi, Fábio Duarte, & Carlo Ratti. (2020). Quantifying the Spatio-Temporal Potential of Drive-by Sensing in Smart Cities. Journal of Urban Technology. 28(1-2). 199–216. 10 indexed citations
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Santi, Paolo, et al.. (2018). Addressing the minimum fleet problem in on-demand urban mobility. Nature. 557(7706). 534–538. 252 indexed citations
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Duarte, Fábio, et al.. (2018). Exploring the effect of air pollution on social activity in China using geotagged social media check-in data. Cities. 91. 116–125. 76 indexed citations
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Xavier, Lúcia Helena, et al.. (2014). Environmental Information System for Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Managent: Case Study of Pernambuco (Brazil).. EnviroInfo. 429–436. 2 indexed citations
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Girardin, Fabien, Andrea Vaccari, Alexandre Gerber, Assaf Biderman, & Carlo Ratti. (2009). Quantifying urban attractiveness from the distribution and density of digital footprints. Repositori digital de la UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 4(4). 175–200. 63 indexed citations

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