Deborah Strumsky

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Deborah Strumsky is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Strumsky has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 8 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 4 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Deborah Strumsky's work include Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (16 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (8 papers) and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (7 papers). Deborah Strumsky is often cited by papers focused on Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (16 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (8 papers) and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (7 papers). Deborah Strumsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and United Kingdom. Deborah Strumsky's co-authors include José Lobo, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Lee Fleming, Matt Marx, Geoffrey B. West, Hyejin Youn, Karen C. Seto, Michail Fragkias, Sander van der Leeuw and Jean‐Claude Thill and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Strumsky

30 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment

2009 452 citations Deborah Strumsky et al. profile →
Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime across Cities

2010 379 citations Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deborah Strumsky United States	16	1.4k	404	361	352	342	30	2.4k
Amnon Frenkel Israel	19	668 0.5×	232 0.6×	363 1.0×	216 0.6×	187 0.5×	49	1.5k
Teemu Makkonen Finland	26	659 0.5×	238 0.6×	286 0.8×	115 0.3×	262 0.8×	101	1.9k
Amy Glasmeier United States	30	1.0k 0.7×	338 0.8×	569 1.6×	156 0.4×	161 0.5×	90	2.6k
Elizabeth A. Mack United States	24	624 0.5×	465 1.2×	275 0.8×	156 0.4×	125 0.4×	100	2.1k
James Simmie United Kingdom	24	1.9k 1.4×	339 0.8×	686 1.9×	190 0.5×	158 0.5×	70	3.2k
Henry G. Overman United Kingdom	29	2.4k 1.7×	92 0.2×	181 0.5×	305 0.9×	444 1.3×	82	3.3k
Chih‐Hai Yang Taiwan	24	1.9k 1.4×	279 0.7×	730 2.0×	60 0.2×	139 0.4×	99	2.9k
Gilles Duranton United Kingdom	38	6.3k 4.5×	248 0.6×	548 1.5×	377 1.1×	961 2.8×	108	7.6k
Peter Tyler United Kingdom	30	2.5k 1.8×	208 0.5×	463 1.3×	135 0.4×	212 0.6×	81	3.7k
Karima Kourtit Netherlands	25	677 0.5×	317 0.8×	104 0.3×	387 1.1×	729 2.1×	194	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Deborah Strumsky

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Strumsky

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Lobo, José, et al.. (2024). Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 51. 100836–100836. 7 indexed citations

Smirnova, Olga, et al.. (2021). Do federal regulations beget innovation? Legislative policy and the role of executive orders. Energy Policy. 158. 112570–112570. 13 indexed citations

Strumsky, Deborah, José Lobo, & Charlotta Mellander. (2019). As different as night and day: Scaling analysis of Swedish urban areas and regional labor markets. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 48(2). 231–247. 6 indexed citations

Lobo, José, Marina Alberti, Melissa Allen‐Dumas, et al.. (2019). Graduate Education for a New Sustainable Urban Systems Science: Designing a New PhD Curriculum Integrating Sustainability Science and Urban Science. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Shutters, Shade T., José Lobo, Rachata Muneepeerakul, et al.. (2018). Urban occupational structures as information networks: The effect on network density of increasing number of occupations. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0196915–e0196915. 19 indexed citations

Youn, Hyejin, Deborah Strumsky, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, & José Lobo. (2015). Invention as a combinatorial process: evidence from US patents. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 12(106). 20150272–20150272. 167 indexed citations

Strumsky, Deborah & José Lobo. (2015). Identifying the sources of technological novelty in the process of invention. Research Policy. 44(8). 1445–1461. 131 indexed citations

Tsvetkova, Alexandra, Jean‐Claude Thill, & Deborah Strumsky. (2014). Metropolitan innovation, firm size, and business survival in a high-tech industry. Small Business Economics. 43(3). 661–676. 40 indexed citations

Fragkias, Michail, José Lobo, Deborah Strumsky, & Karen C. Seto. (2013). Does Size Matter? Scaling of CO2 Emissions and U.S. Urban Areas. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e64727–e64727. 228 indexed citations

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Tsvetkova, Alexandra, Jean‐Claude Thill, & Deborah Strumsky. (2013). Regional Innovative Environment and Business Survival: Non-Parametric Evidence from Two U.S. Sectors. Studies in Regional Science. 43(1). 105–131. 1 indexed citations

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Lobo, José, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Deborah Strumsky, & Geoffrey B. West. (2013). Urban Scaling and the Production Function for Cities. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58407–e58407. 113 indexed citations

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Strumsky, Deborah & Jean‐Claude Thill. (2013). PROFILING U.S. METROPOLITAN REGIONS BY THEIR SOCIAL RESEARCH NETWORKS AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE. Journal of Regional Science. 53(5). 813–833. 26 indexed citations

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Lobo, José, Jonathan Rothwell, & Deborah Strumsky. (2013). Scaling of Patenting with Urban Population Size: Evidence from Global Metropolitan Areas. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Holt, Thomas J., Deborah Strumsky, Olga Smirnova, & Max Kilger. (2012). Examining the social networks of malware writers and hackers. 6(1). 891–903. 77 indexed citations

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Stolarick, Kevin, José Lobo, & Deborah Strumsky. (2011). Are creative metropolitan areas also entrepreneurial?. Regional Science Policy & Practice. 3(3). 271–287. 8 indexed citations

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Strumsky, Deborah, José Lobo, & Sander van der Leeuw. (2011). Using patent technology codes to study technological change. Economics of Innovation and New Technology. 21(3). 267–286. 85 indexed citations

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Strumsky, Deborah, José Lobo, & Sander van der Leeuw. (2011). Measuring the Relative Importance of Reusing, Recombining and Creating Technologies in the Process of Invention. 8 indexed citations

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Bettencourt, Luís M. A., José Lobo, Deborah Strumsky, & Geoffrey B. West. (2010). Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime across Cities. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e13541–e13541. 379 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lobo, José & Deborah Strumsky. (2007). Metropolitan patenting, inventor agglomeration and social networks: A tale of two effects. Journal of Urban Economics. 63(3). 871–884. 115 indexed citations

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Bettencourt, Luís M. A., José Lobo, & Deborah Strumsky. (2006). Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size. Research Policy. 36(1). 107–120. 282 indexed citations

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