Kafui Attoh

769 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 521 citations indexed

About

Kafui Attoh is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Kafui Attoh has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 521 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Urban Studies and 3 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Kafui Attoh's work include Urban Planning and Governance (6 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers) and Transportation and Mobility Innovations (2 papers). Kafui Attoh is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (6 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 papers) and Transportation and Mobility Innovations (2 papers). Kafui Attoh collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Kafui Attoh's co-authors include Lynn A. Staeheli, Don Mitchell, Don Mitchell, Sheila Hones, David Butz, Julie Cidell, Nicholas J. Klein, Craig M. Dalton, James Ash and John Pickles and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Kafui Attoh

19 papers receiving 464 citations

Hit Papers

What kind of right is the right to the city? 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. What kind of right is the right to the city?
    2011 206 citations Kafui Attoh Progress in Human Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kafui Attoh United States 9 259 176 100 92 74 21 521
Romola Sanyal United Kingdom 12 483 1.9× 160 0.9× 196 2.0× 162 1.8× 68 0.9× 26 747
Mara Ferreri United Kingdom 12 206 0.8× 253 1.4× 61 0.6× 186 2.0× 90 1.2× 38 599
Liisa Horelli Finland 16 247 1.0× 149 0.8× 65 0.7× 21 0.2× 57 0.8× 57 664
Lela Rekhviashvili Germany 10 250 1.0× 80 0.5× 145 1.4× 28 0.3× 24 0.3× 21 582
Johannes Novy United Kingdom 8 264 1.0× 223 1.3× 58 0.6× 58 0.6× 13 0.2× 21 514
Sven Kesselring Germany 11 245 0.9× 68 0.4× 40 0.4× 35 0.4× 45 0.6× 33 561
Rianne van Melik Netherlands 14 355 1.4× 183 1.0× 27 0.3× 233 2.5× 41 0.6× 35 697
Ibán Dí­az Parra Spain 10 363 1.4× 210 1.2× 44 0.4× 128 1.4× 19 0.3× 59 653
Paul J. Maginn Australia 12 176 0.7× 193 1.1× 55 0.6× 20 0.2× 51 0.7× 49 488
Jorge Sequera Spain 13 447 1.7× 455 2.6× 42 0.4× 283 3.1× 36 0.5× 36 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Kafui Attoh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kafui Attoh

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kafui Attoh. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kafui Attoh. The network helps show where Kafui Attoh may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kafui Attoh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kafui Attoh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kafui Attoh 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 Kafui Attoh. Kafui Attoh 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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Attoh, Kafui, et al.. (2024). “Fixing” Mobility Platform Research?. Transfers. 14(3). 81–91.
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Attoh, Kafui. (2023). The triumph of David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City. Scottish Geographical Journal. 139(3-4). 384–389. 1 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui, et al.. (2023). Disrupting D.C.. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui, et al.. (2023). Disrupting D.C.. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui, et al.. (2021). Between ‘automated geography’ and ‘geographies of automation’: three parables for thinking dialectically. Space and Polity. 25(2). 167–183. 4 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui. (2021). Leaders, Laggards, or Labor: A Defense of “Scooby-Doo Marxism”. The Professional Geographer. 74(1). 127–128. 1 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui, et al.. (2020). “Just-in-Place” labor: Driver organizing in the Uber workplace. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 53(2). 315–331. 85 indexed citations
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Cidell, Julie, et al.. (2020). Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California's East Bay. The AAG Review of Books. 8(1). 54–62. 8 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui. (2020). Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development. Economic Geography. 96(3). 289–290. 3 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui, et al.. (2019). “We’re building their data”: Labor, alienation, and idiocy in the smart city. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 37(6). 1007–1024. 68 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui, Don Mitchell, & Lynn A. Staeheli. (2017). The University in the City: The Campus as a Space of Dependence and Engagement in the Age of Austerity. 28. 1 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui. (2016). Public transportation and the idiocy of urban life. Urban Studies. 54(1). 196–213. 21 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui. (2014). What Type of Public Transit for What Type of Public?. New Labor Forum. 23(2). 58–66. 1 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Don, Kafui Attoh, & Lynn A. Staeheli. (2014). Whose city? What politics? Contentious and non-contentious spaces on Colorado’s Front Range. Urban Studies. 52(14). 2633–2648. 47 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui. (2014). Imagining a “cultural turn” in transportation geography. Journal of Cultural Geography. 31(2). 141–151. 4 indexed citations
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Staeheli, Lynn A., Kafui Attoh, & Don Mitchell. (2013). Contested Engagements: Youth and the Politics of Citizenship. Space and Polity. 17(1). 88–105. 45 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui. (2012). The Transportation Disadvantaged and the Right to the City in Syracuse, New York. DigitalCommons - Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw State University). 53(1). 1. 7 indexed citations
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Attoh, Kafui. (2011). What kind of right is the right to the city?. Progress in Human Geography. 35(5). 669–685. 206 indexed citations breakdown →
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Butz, David, Kafui Attoh, & Sheila Hones. (2011). The Bus Hub. 10(2). 278–292. 8 indexed citations

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