Diego Rybski

7.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Diego Rybski is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego Rybski has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Diego Rybski's work include Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (16 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers) and Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (11 papers). Diego Rybski is often cited by papers focused on Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (16 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (15 papers) and Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (11 papers). Diego Rybski collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Diego Rybski's co-authors include Jürgen P. Kropp, Prajal Pradhan, Luís Costa, Bin Zhou, Wolfgang Lucht, Armin Bunde, Hernán A. Makse, Hernán D. Rozenfeld, Yunfei Li and Sebastian Schubert and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Diego Rybski

67 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

A Systematic Study of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Interactions

2017 1.0k citations Prajal Pradhan, Luís Costa et al. profile →
The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island

2017 392 citations Bin Zhou, Diego Rybski et al. Scientific Reports profile →
On the influence of density and morphology on the Urban Heat Island intensity

2020 390 citations Yunfei Li, Jürgen P. Kropp et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego Rybski Germany	31	2.0k	1.4k	1.4k	775	669	70	4.9k
Jürgen P. Kropp Germany	39	2.2k 1.1×	996 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	903 1.2×	647 1.0×	128	6.2k
Nina Schwarz Germany	27	2.7k 1.4×	616 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 2.0×	400 0.6×	66	4.8k
Tao Pei China	40	2.3k 1.2×	505 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	701 0.9×	493 0.7×	236	6.5k
Brian D. Fath United States	50	3.2k 1.6×	806 0.6×	4.2k 3.0×	327 0.4×	331 0.5×	187	8.3k
Xingjian Liu China	37	1.7k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	354 0.3×	625 0.8×	216 0.3×	149	5.0k
Matthias Rüth United States	34	1.1k 0.5×	913 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	292 0.4×	237 0.4×	128	4.2k
Richard Dawson United Kingdom	49	3.8k 1.9×	485 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.8×	190	8.2k
Yaolin Liu China	61	4.3k 2.2×	1.1k 0.8×	2.5k 1.8×	1.1k 1.4×	1.0k 1.5×	357	11.1k
Zhihui Li China	32	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	698 0.5×	406 0.5×	311 0.5×	134	3.9k
Jianhua Xu China	34	1.8k 0.9×	572 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	291	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Diego Rybski

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Fields of papers citing papers by Diego Rybski

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diego Rybski

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

All Works

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Ribeiro, Fabiano L., et al.. (2025). How buildings change the fundamental allometry. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 52(9). 2301–2315.

Li, Yunfei, Fabiano L. Ribeiro, Bin Zhou, & Diego Rybski. (2024). Pairwise‐Interaction Model Unifies Different Asymptotic Shapes of UHI Intensity. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(16). 1 indexed citations

Rybski, Diego & Antonio Ciccone. (2023). Auerbach, Lotka, and Zipf: pioneers of power-law city-size distributions. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 77(6). 601–613. 2 indexed citations

Helbling, Marc, Diego Rybski, Jacob Schewe, et al.. (2023). Measuring the effect of climate change on migration flows: Limitations of existing data and analytical frameworks. PLOS Climate. 2(1). e0000078–e0000078. 7 indexed citations

Ribeiro, Fabiano L. & Diego Rybski. (2021). Mathematical models to explain the origin of urban scaling laws: a\n synthetic review. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Rybski, Diego, Prajal Pradhan, Shade T. Shutters, Van Butsic, & Jürgen P. Kropp. (2021). Characterizing the sectoral development of cities. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0254601–e0254601. 3 indexed citations

Ribeiro, Haroldo V., et al.. (2021). Association between population distribution and urban GDP scaling. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0245771–e0245771. 27 indexed citations

Costa, Luís, et al.. (2018). Damage and protection cost curves for coastal floods within the 600 largest European cities. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180034–180034. 53 indexed citations

Rybski, Diego, et al.. (2017). Costs of sea dikes – regressions and uncertainty estimates. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 17(5). 765–779. 24 indexed citations

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Zhou, Bin, Diego Rybski, & Jürgen P. Kropp. (2017). The role of city size and urban form in the surface urban heat island. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4791–4791. 392 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rybski, Diego, et al.. (2016). Quantifying the effect of sea level rise and flood defence – a point process perspective on coastal flood damage. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 16(2). 559–576. 22 indexed citations

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Rybski, Diego, et al.. (2015). Comparison of storm damage functions and their performance. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 15(4). 769–788. 35 indexed citations

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Amancio, Diego R., Eduardo G. Altmann, Diego Rybski, Osvaldo N. Oliveira, & Luciano da Fontoura Costa. (2013). Probing the Statistical Properties of Unknown Texts: Application to the Voynich Manuscript. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e67310–e67310. 37 indexed citations

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Rybski, Diego, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, Fredrik Liljeros, & Hernán A. Makse. (2012). Communication activity in a social network: relation between long-term correlations and inter-event clustering. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 15938–15938. 64 indexed citations

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Rybski, Diego, et al.. (2011). Correlations between Human Development and CO2 emissions: projections and implications. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Hennemann, Stefan, Diego Rybski, & Ingo Liefner. (2011). The Myth of Global Science. Econstor (Econstor). 1 indexed citations

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Costa, Luís, Diego Rybski, & Jürgen P. Kropp. (2011). A Human Development Framework for CO2 Reductions. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e29262–e29262. 77 indexed citations

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Rybski, Diego, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, & Fredrik Liljeros. (2010). Communication activity: temporal correlations, clustering, and growth. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Rybski, Diego & Jörg Neumann. (2010). A Review on the Pettitt Test. 202–213. 32 indexed citations

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Rybski, Diego, Shlomo Havlin, & Armin Bunde. (2002). Phase Synchronization in Temperature and Precipitation Records. 42 indexed citations

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