Chris Webster

13.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
280 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Chris Webster is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Transportation and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Webster has authored 280 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 46 papers in Transportation and 44 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Chris Webster's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (44 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (34 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 papers). Chris Webster is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (44 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (34 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (26 papers). Chris Webster collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, United Kingdom and China. Chris Webster's co-authors include Fulong Wu, Chinmoy Sarkar, John Gallacher, Shenjing He, Weisheng Lu, Yuting Liu, Lawrence Wai‐Chung Lai, Fangzhu Zhang, Georg Glasze and Guibo Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Chris Webster

270 papers receiving 9.3k 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.

Urban villages under China's rapid urbanization: Unregulated assets and transitional neighbourhoods

2009 382 citations Chris Webster et al. profile →
Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area

2012 310 citations Chris Webster et al. profile →
Contrasting inequality in human exposure to greenspace between cities of Global North and Global South

2022 220 citations Chris Webster et al. profile →
Improved human greenspace exposure equality during 21st century urbanization

2023 101 citations Chris Webster et al. profile →
Wildfire risk for global wildland–urban interface areas

2024 44 citations Chris Webster et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Webster Hong Kong	52	2.1k	2.0k	1.7k	1.7k	1.6k	280	9.9k
Yan Song United States	50	1.4k 0.7×	2.6k 1.3×	747 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	3.3k 2.1×	192	7.9k
Tan Yiğitcanlar Australia	66	913 0.4×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	4.0k 2.5×	443	14.6k
Emily Talen United States	43	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.6×	124	6.2k
Frank Witlox Belgium	66	986 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	7.8k 4.9×	501	14.3k
Zhigang Li China	41	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	701 0.4×	284 0.2×	1.3k 0.8×	202	5.9k
Ayyoob Sharifi Japan	55	1.5k 0.7×	3.6k 1.8×	436 0.3×	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	268	11.8k
Martin Dijst Netherlands	52	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	446 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	4.9k 3.1×	164	8.5k
Edwin H.W. Chan Hong Kong	50	735 0.4×	803 0.4×	630 0.4×	3.0k 1.8×	1000 0.6×	236	7.6k
David Banister United Kingdom	59	945 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	543 0.3×	2.3k 1.3×	7.7k 4.8×	212	13.8k
Martin Brockerhoff United States	26	823 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	489 0.3×	538 0.3×	53	7.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Webster

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Webster

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Webster

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

Zhang, Xiaohu, et al.. (2025). Truncation in the scaling of urban pollution control. npj Urban Sustainability. 5(1).

Webster, Chris, David Barker, Rebecca C. Deed, & Lisa I. Pilkington. (2025). Mead production and quality: A review of chemical and sensory mead quality evaluation with a focus on analytical methods. Food Research International. 202. 115655–115655. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaohu, et al.. (2025). Spatio‐temporal impact of land use changes on nitrogen emissions in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 29(2). 458–472.

Jiang, Feifeng, Jun Ma, Chris Webster, Wei Wang, & Jack C.P. Cheng. (2024). Automated site planning using CAIN-GAN model. Automation in Construction. 159. 105286–105286. 20 indexed citations

Jiang, Feifeng, et al.. (2024). Estimating and explaining regional land value distribution using attention-enhanced deep generative models. Computers in Industry. 159-160. 104103–104103. 6 indexed citations

Liang, Yuebing, Zhan Zhao, & Chris Webster. (2024). Generating sparse origin–destination flows on shared mobility networks using probabilistic graph neural networks. Sustainable Cities and Society. 114. 105777–105777. 8 indexed citations

Xie, Jing, et al.. (2024). Effects of land surface temperatures on vegetation phenology along urban–rural local climate zone gradients. Landscape Ecology. 39(3). 8 indexed citations

Tang, Llewellyn, et al.. (2023). An ontology-aided, natural language-based approach for multi-constraint BIM model querying. Journal of Building Engineering. 76. 107066–107066. 17 indexed citations

Xu, Wenyan, Bin Jiang, W. C. Sullivan, et al.. (2023). Racial disparities in environmental exposures and SARS-CoV-2 infection rates: A detailed population-weighted analysis. Sustainable Cities and Society. 101. 105135–105135. 5 indexed citations

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Tang, Llewellyn, et al.. (2023). Two-stage Text-to-BIMQL semantic parsing for building information model extraction using graph neural networks. Automation in Construction. 152. 104902–104902. 11 indexed citations

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Jiang, Feifeng, Jun Ma, Chris Webster, Xiao Li, & Vincent J.L. Gan. (2023). Building layout generation using site-embedded GAN model. Automation in Construction. 151. 104888–104888. 63 indexed citations

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Jiang, Bin, Yuwen Yang, Long Chen, et al.. (2022). Green spaces, especially nearby forest, may reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate: A nationwide study in the United States. Landscape and Urban Planning. 228. 104583–104583. 22 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Chinmoy, et al.. (2022). The association between workplace built environment and metabolic health: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Health & Place. 76. 102829–102829. 6 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Chinmoy, Ka Yan Lai, Michael Y. Ni, et al.. (2021). Liveable residential space, residential density, and hypertension in Hong Kong: A population-based cohort study. PLoS Medicine. 18(11). e1003824–e1003824. 8 indexed citations

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Ho, Hung Chak, Huagui Guo, Ta‐Chien Chan, et al.. (2021). Community planning for a “healthy built environment” via a human-environment nexus? A multifactorial assessment of environmental characteristics and age-specific stroke mortality in Hong Kong. Chemosphere. 287(Pt 3). 132043–132043. 8 indexed citations

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Lai, Ka Yan, Chris Webster, Sarika Kumari, & Chinmoy Sarkar. (2020). The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 46. 27–31. 102 indexed citations

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Webster, Chris. (2007). Property rights, public space and urban design. Town Planning Review. 78(1). 81–101. 93 indexed citations

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Goix, Renaud Le & Chris Webster. (2006). Gated communities, sustainable cities and a tragedy of the urban commons. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 13. 41–64. 12 indexed citations

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Webster, Chris, Susan Ide, Nadine Cohen, et al.. (2005). RETURNING GENETIC RESEARCH RESULTS TO INDIVIDUALS: POINTS‐TO‐CONSIDER. Bioethics. 20(1). 24–36. 69 indexed citations

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Senior, M L, et al.. (2004). Residential preferences versus sustainable cities: Quantitative and qualitative evidence from a survey of relocating owner-occupiers. Town Planning Review. 75(3). 337–357. 29 indexed citations

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