Lei Dong

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Lei Dong is a scholar working on Transportation, Global and Planetary Change and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Dong has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Transportation, 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Lei Dong's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (16 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (15 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 papers). Lei Dong is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (16 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (15 papers) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (4 papers). Lei Dong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Lei Dong's co-authors include Carlo Ratti, Siqi Zheng, Paolo Santi, Ruiqi Li, Zengru Di, Geoffrey B. West, Jiang Zhang, Yu Liu, Hadrien Salat and Markus Schläpfer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lei Dong

33 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

The universal visitation law of human mobility 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200 250
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. The universal visitation law of human mobility
    2021 276 citations Markus Schläpfer, Lei Dong et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Lei Dong
Thomas Louail France
Yeran Sun United Kingdom
Hugo Barbosa United Kingdom
Jizhe Xia China
Ricardo Herranz Spain
Junghwan Kim United States
Junjun Yin United States
Jameson L. Toole United States
Yang Xu Hong Kong
Grant McKenzie United States
Thomas Louail France
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Citations per year, relative to Lei Dong Lei Dong (= 1×) peers Thomas Louail

Countries citing papers authored by Lei Dong

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Dong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lei Dong. 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 Lei Dong. The network helps show where Lei Dong may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Dong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lei Dong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lei Dong 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 Lei Dong. Lei Dong 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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Dong, Lei, et al.. (2025). Universal expansion of human mobility across urban scales. Nature Cities. 2(7). 603–607. 2 indexed citations
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Dong, Lei, Fábio Duarte, Gilles Duranton, et al.. (2024). Defining a city — delineating urban areas using cell-phone data. Nature Cities. 1(2). 117–125. 34 indexed citations
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Dong, Lei, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the spatial spillover effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on pandemic risk. International Journal of Health Geographics. 22(1). 13–13. 3 indexed citations
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Dong, Lei, et al.. (2022). Constructing multi-level urban clusters based on population distributions and interactions. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 99. 101897–101897. 18 indexed citations
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Dong, Lei, Rui Du, & Yu Liu. (2022). Mapping Evolving Population Geography in China: Spatial Redistribution, Regional Disparity, and Urban Sprawl. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Dong, Lei, Rui Du, Matthew E. Kahn, Carlo Ratti, & Siqi Zheng. (2021). “Ghost Cities” versus Boom Towns: Do China’s HSR New Towns Thrive?. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 89. 3 indexed citations
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Schläpfer, Markus, Lei Dong, Kevin O’Keeffe, et al.. (2021). The universal visitation law of human mobility. Nature. 593(7860). 522–527. 276 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Jiang, et al.. (2020). ネットワーク化メタ個体群モデルを用いたCOVID-19の広がりの制御における時間,強度,および測定期間の調査【JST・京大機械翻訳】. Nonlinear Dynamics. 101(3). 1789–1800. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiang, Lei Dong, Yanbo Zhang, et al.. (2020). Investigating time, strength, and duration of measures in controlling the spread of COVID-19 using a networked meta-population model. Nonlinear Dynamics. 101(3). 1789–1800. 22 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jiang, Lei Dong, Yanbo Zhang, et al.. (2020). Predicting the Spread of the COVID-19 Across Cities in China with Population Migration and Policy Intervention. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Zheng, Siqi, Jianghao Wang, & Lei Dong. (2020). Urban network and vibrancy. Habitat International. 106. 102290–102290.
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Wang, Yuxia, et al.. (2019). Migration patterns in China extracted from mobile positioning data. Habitat International. 86. 71–80. 42 indexed citations
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Li, Ruiqi, Lei Dong, Jiang Zhang, et al.. (2017). Simple spatial scaling rules behind complex cities. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1841–1841. 166 indexed citations
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Dong, Lei, Ang Li, Meili Duan, et al.. (2015). Paeonol improves lipopolysaccharide-induced microcirculatory disturbance in rat mesentery. World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 1(1). 37–44. 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Chunxiang, Qiao Wang, Yu Chen, et al.. (2010). The novel H1N1 Influenza A global airline transmission and early warning without travel containments. Chinese Science Bulletin. 55(26). 3030–3036. 18 indexed citations
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Dong, Lei, et al.. (1999). Total colorings of equibipartite graphs. Discrete Mathematics. 194(1-3). 59–65. 1 indexed citations

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