Constantine E. Kontokosta

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Constantine E. Kontokosta is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Transportation and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Constantine E. Kontokosta has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Building and Construction, 18 papers in Transportation and 16 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Constantine E. Kontokosta's work include Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (21 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (20 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (15 papers). Constantine E. Kontokosta is often cited by papers focused on Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (21 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (20 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (15 papers). Constantine E. Kontokosta collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Constantine E. Kontokosta's co-authors include Sokratis Papadopoulos, Bartosz Bończak, Boyeong Hong, Nicholas Johnson, Yuan Lai, Elie Azar, Rishee K. Jain, Arpit Gupta, Vincent Reina and Daniel E. Marasco and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Constantine E. Kontokosta

64 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

Measuring inequality in community resilience to natural disasters using large-scale mobility data

2021 150 citations Boyeong Hong, Bartosz Bończak et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Constantine E. Kontokosta United States	32	1.2k	514	461	446	352	66	2.6k
Dezhi Li China	31	695 0.6×	650 1.3×	437 0.9×	413 0.9×	507 1.4×	112	2.8k
Sybil Derrible United States	36	1.1k 0.9×	377 0.7×	414 0.9×	1.4k 3.0×	309 0.9×	127	4.3k
Subhrajit Guhathakurta United States	28	928 0.8×	1.0k 2.0×	559 1.2×	1.0k 2.3×	166 0.5×	79	3.0k
Jan K. Kazak Poland	27	428 0.4×	489 1.0×	584 1.3×	267 0.6×	256 0.7×	132	2.4k
Kun Wang China	42	320 0.3×	711 1.4×	547 1.2×	1.2k 2.8×	188 0.5×	221	4.9k
Syed Masiur Rahman Saudi Arabia	26	331 0.3×	270 0.5×	142 0.3×	266 0.6×	148 0.4×	121	2.3k
Rozann W. Saaty United States	4	329 0.3×	373 0.7×	511 1.1×	139 0.3×	248 0.7×	13	3.4k
Marta Bottero Italy	31	739 0.6×	158 0.3×	534 1.2×	140 0.3×	292 0.8×	152	2.6k
Phil Jones United Kingdom	30	1.5k 1.3×	1.3k 2.5×	386 0.8×	121 0.3×	113 0.3×	146	3.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hong, Boyeong, et al.. (2025). Estimating reporting bias in 311 complaint data. The Annals of Applied Statistics. 19(2).

Kontokosta, Constantine E., Boyeong Hong, & Bartosz Bończak. (2024). Socio-spatial inequality and the effects of density on COVID-19 transmission in US cities. Nature Cities. 1(1). 83–93. 8 indexed citations

Kontokosta, Constantine E., Boyeong Hong, & Bartosz Bończak. (2022). Measuring sensitivity to social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 16350–16350. 6 indexed citations

Hong, Boyeong, Bartosz Bończak, Arpit Gupta, & Constantine E. Kontokosta. (2021). Measuring inequality in community resilience to natural disasters using large-scale mobility data. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1870–1870. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

Lai, Yuan, Sokratis Papadopoulos, Franz Fuerst, et al.. (2021). Building retrofit hurdle rates and risk aversion in energy efficiency investments. Applied Energy. 306. 118048–118048. 29 indexed citations

Kontokosta, Constantine E., et al.. (2020). Mandatory building energy audits alone are insufficient to meet climate goals. Nature Energy. 5(4). 282–283. 3 indexed citations

Lai, Yuan & Constantine E. Kontokosta. (2019). The impact of urban street tree species on air quality and respiratory illness: A spatial analysis of large-scale, high-resolution urban data. Health & Place. 56. 80–87. 42 indexed citations

Johnson, Nicholas, et al.. (2019). Validating the Use of Wi-Fi Signals to Estimate Hyperlocal Urban Populations. 1650–1655. 2 indexed citations

Papadopoulos, Sokratis & Constantine E. Kontokosta. (2018). Grading buildings on energy performance using city benchmarking data. Applied Energy. 233-234. 244–253. 130 indexed citations

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Qian, Cheng, et al.. (2017). Structure of 311 service requests as a signature of urban location. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0186314–e0186314. 37 indexed citations

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Papadopoulos, Sokratis, Bartosz Bończak, & Constantine E. Kontokosta. (2017). Spatial and Geographic Patterns of Building Energy Performance: A Cross-City Comparative Analysis of Large-Scale Data. 336–348. 6 indexed citations

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Kontokosta, Constantine E., et al.. (2017). Measuring Building Risk and Resilience: A Big Data Approach to Risk Analytics for Infrastructure. 1 indexed citations

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Kontokosta, Constantine E., et al.. (2017). The Resilience to Emergencies and Disasters Index: Applying big data to benchmark and validate neighborhood resilience capacity. Sustainable Cities and Society. 36. 272–285. 161 indexed citations

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Marasco, Daniel E. & Constantine E. Kontokosta. (2016). Applications of machine learning methods to identifying and predicting building retrofit opportunities. Energy and Buildings. 128. 431–441. 70 indexed citations

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Kontokosta, Constantine E.. (2015). Do inclusionary zoning policies equitably disperse affordable housing? A comparative spatial analysis. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 30(4). 569–590. 18 indexed citations

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Kontokosta, Constantine E.. (2014). A Market-Specific Methodology for a Commercial Building Energy Performance Index. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. 51(2). 288–316. 46 indexed citations

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Kontokosta, Constantine E.. (2013). Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhood Integration: Evidence from Inclusionary Zoning Programs. Journal of Urban Affairs. 36(4). 716–741. 35 indexed citations

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Kontokosta, Constantine E.. (2013). Energy disclosure, market behavior, and the building data ecosystem. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1295(1). 34–43. 42 indexed citations

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Kontokosta, Constantine E.. (2012). Predicting Building Energy Efficiency Using New York City Benchmarking Data. 16 indexed citations

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Kontokosta, Constantine E.. (2011). Greening the Regulatory Landscape: The Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of Green Building Policies in U.S. Cities. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3(1). 68–90. 41 indexed citations

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