Guanghua Chi

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 937 citations indexed

About

Guanghua Chi is a scholar working on Transportation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Guanghua Chi has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 937 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Transportation, 6 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Guanghua Chi's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (9 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (4 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (3 papers). Guanghua Chi is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (9 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (4 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (3 papers). Guanghua Chi collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Guanghua Chi's co-authors include Li Shi, Yu Liu, Xi Liu, Gong Li, Song Gao, Chaogui Kang, Zhi Ye, Joshua Blumenstock, Sourav Chatterjee and Han Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and The Review of Economic Studies.

In The Last Decade

Guanghua Chi

13 papers receiving 910 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.

Social Sensing: A New Approach to Understanding Our Socioeconomic Environments

2015 641 citations Yu Liu, Xi Liu et al. Annals of the Association of American Geographers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guanghua Chi United States	8	616	387	150	92	81	13	937
Li Shi China	13	637 1.0×	355 0.9×	75 0.5×	109 1.2×	97 1.2×	22	969
Yihong Yuan United States	13	625 1.0×	197 0.5×	95 0.6×	68 0.7×	88 1.1×	33	811
Wei Zhai United States	15	300 0.5×	232 0.6×	205 1.4×	68 0.7×	48 0.6×	44	764
Margus Tiru Estonia	10	779 1.3×	206 0.5×	306 2.0×	66 0.7×	50 0.6×	14	989
Leticia Serrano-Estrada Spain	12	287 0.5×	164 0.4×	174 1.2×	102 1.1×	55 0.7×	40	644
Bartosz Hawelka Austria	8	582 0.9×	124 0.3×	195 1.3×	46 0.5×	83 1.0×	8	754
Junghwan Kim United States	17	371 0.6×	124 0.3×	154 1.0×	83 0.9×	24 0.3×	61	910
Zhewei Liu Hong Kong	16	226 0.4×	152 0.4×	161 1.1×	55 0.6×	22 0.3×	42	649
Zhongliang Cai China	19	512 0.8×	393 1.0×	173 1.2×	92 1.0×	25 0.3×	50	1.1k
Zhengwei Sui China	6	425 0.7×	126 0.3×	60 0.4×	72 0.8×	39 0.5×	18	564

Countries citing papers authored by Guanghua Chi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Guanghua Chi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guanghua Chi

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Chi, Guanghua, et al.. (2025). Measuring global migration flows using online data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(18). e2409418122–e2409418122. 1 indexed citations

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Blumenstock, Joshua, Guanghua Chi, & Xu Tan. (2023). Migration and the Value of Social Networks. The Review of Economic Studies. 92(1). 97–128. 25 indexed citations

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Chi, Guanghua, Han Fang, Sourav Chatterjee, & Joshua Blumenstock. (2022). Microestimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(3). 122 indexed citations

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Lunga, Dalton, et al.. (2022). Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking. Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 4872–4873. 1 indexed citations

5.

Chi, Guanghua. (2020). Migration and Social Networks: New Insights from Novel Data. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 5 indexed citations

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Chi, Guanghua, et al.. (2020). A general approach to detecting migration events in digital trace data. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0239408–e0239408. 23 indexed citations

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Blumenstock, Joshua, Guanghua Chi, & Xu Tan. (2019). Migration and the Value of Social Networks. SSRN Electronic Journal. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Xinxiang, Guanghua Chi, & Guangqing Chi. (2017). Do Airports Boost Economic Development by Attracting Talent? An Empirical Investigation at the Subcounty Level. Social Science Quarterly. 99(1). 313–329. 4 indexed citations

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Chi, Guanghua, Jean‐Claude Thill, Daoqin Tong, Li Shi, & Yu Liu. (2016). Uncovering regional characteristics from mobile phone data: A network science approach. Papers of the Regional Science Association. 95(3). 613–632. 24 indexed citations

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Chi, Guanghua, et al.. (2016). Understanding the effects of administrative boundary in sampling spatially embedded networks. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 466. 616–625. 2 indexed citations

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Shi, Li, Lun Wu, Guanghua Chi, & Yu Liu. (2016). Geographical impacts on social networks from perspectives of space and place: an empirical study using mobile phone data. Journal of Geographical Systems. 18(4). 359–376. 25 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, Xi Liu, Song Gao, et al.. (2015). Social Sensing: A New Approach to Understanding Our Socioeconomic Environments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(3). 512–530. 641 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shi, Li, Guanghua Chi, Xi Liu, & Yu Liu. (2015). Human mobility patterns in different communities: a mobile phone data-based social network approach. Annals of GIS. 21(1). 15–26. 47 indexed citations

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