Joshua Blumenstock

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Joshua Blumenstock is a scholar working on Information Systems, Transportation and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Blumenstock has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Information Systems, 21 papers in Transportation and 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Joshua Blumenstock's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (20 papers), ICT in Developing Communities (19 papers) and ICT Impact and Policies (13 papers). Joshua Blumenstock is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (20 papers), ICT in Developing Communities (19 papers) and ICT Impact and Policies (13 papers). Joshua Blumenstock collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Joshua Blumenstock's co-authors include Gabriel Cadamuro, Nathan Eagle, Steven R. Gullans, Roderick V. Jensen, David J. Sugarbaker, William G. Richards, Gavin J. Gordon, Raphael Bueno, Li Li Hsiao and Sridhar Ramaswamy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Blumenstock

63 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joshua Blumenstock United States 24 614 594 525 448 431 72 3.1k
Emma Pierson United States 16 317 0.5× 929 1.6× 290 0.6× 129 0.3× 323 0.7× 41 3.1k
Fabio Pammolli Italy 35 236 0.4× 306 0.5× 344 0.7× 147 0.3× 2.3k 5.3× 118 4.6k
Ying Huang China 33 130 0.2× 107 0.2× 473 0.9× 206 0.5× 584 1.4× 166 3.6k
Richard Sinnott Australia 30 134 0.2× 263 0.4× 1.1k 2.0× 809 1.8× 197 0.5× 350 4.4k
Huimin Zhao United States 28 181 0.3× 78 0.1× 314 0.6× 431 1.0× 170 0.4× 107 2.3k
Richard Klavans United States 28 29 0.0× 490 0.8× 535 1.0× 759 1.7× 492 1.1× 54 4.8k
Giorgio Fagiolo Italy 40 192 0.3× 133 0.2× 681 1.3× 98 0.2× 4.0k 9.3× 121 6.3k
Huina Mao United States 15 214 0.3× 25 0.0× 971 1.8× 577 1.3× 847 2.0× 18 4.5k
Aura Reggiani Italy 32 1.2k 1.9× 105 0.2× 420 0.8× 48 0.1× 1.2k 2.8× 139 3.3k
Duncan Shaw United Kingdom 37 46 0.1× 616 1.0× 790 1.5× 133 0.3× 161 0.4× 146 4.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua Blumenstock

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Blumenstock

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Blumenstock, Joshua, et al.. (2025). Estimating impact with surveys versus digital traces: Evidence from randomized cash transfers in Togo. Journal of Development Economics. 175. 103477–103477.
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Dillon, Brian, Jenny C. Aker, & Joshua Blumenstock. (2025). Yellow Pages: Information, connections and firm performance. The Economic Journal. 135(670). 2067–2082.
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Blumenstock, Joshua, et al.. (2023). Strengthening Fragile States: Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Blumenstock, Joshua, et al.. (2022). Geographic microtargeting of social assistance with high-resolution poverty maps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2120025119–e2120025119. 23 indexed citations
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Karlan, Dean, et al.. (2022). Machine learning and phone data can improve targeting of humanitarian aid. Nature. 603(7903). 864–870. 76 indexed citations
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Annan-Phan, Sébastien, et al.. (2021). Public mobility data enables COVID-19 forecasting and management at local and global scales. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 13531–13531. 80 indexed citations
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Aker, Jenny C., Joshua Blumenstock, & Brian Dillon. (2020). How Important is the Yellow Pages? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Bedoya, Guadalupe, et al.. (2020). Targeting Development Aid with Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data.. 310–311. 1 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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Aulck, Lovenoor, et al.. (2019). Mining University Registrar Records to Predict First-Year Undergraduate Attrition.. Educational Data Mining. 18 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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Perrier, Trevor, et al.. (2018). eKichabi. 1–12. 14 indexed citations
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Blumenstock, Joshua, Michael Callen, & Tarek Ghani. (2016). Mobile-Izing Savings with Automatic Contributions: Experimental Evidence on Present Bias and Default Effects in Afghanistan. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2 indexed citations
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Blumenstock, Joshua, et al.. (2016). Predictors without Borders. 145–154. 7 indexed citations
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Heimerl, Kurtis, et al.. (2013). Expanding rural cellular networks with virtual coverage. Networked Systems Design and Implementation. 283–296. 23 indexed citations
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Blumenstock, Joshua & Nathan Eagle. (2012). Divided We Call: Disparities in Access and Use of Mobile Phones in Rwanda. Information Technologies and International Development. 8(2). 1–16. 58 indexed citations
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Blumenstock, Joshua, Dan Gillick, & Nathan Eagle. (2010). Who’s Calling? Demographics of Mobile Phone Use in Rwanda. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 25 indexed citations
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Fryer, Ryan M., Jeffrey Randall, Takumi Yoshida, et al.. (2002). Global Analysis of Gene Expression: Methods, Interpretation, and Pitfalls. Nephron Experimental Nephrology. 10(2). 64–74. 43 indexed citations

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