Luca Mora

3.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Luca Mora is a scholar working on Media Technology, Management of Technology and Innovation and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Mora has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Media Technology, 27 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 15 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Luca Mora's work include Smart Cities and Technologies (28 papers), Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (22 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers). Luca Mora is often cited by papers focused on Smart Cities and Technologies (28 papers), Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development (22 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers). Luca Mora collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Estonia and Italy. Luca Mora's co-authors include Mark Deakin, Alasdair Reid, Roberto Bolici, Nicos Komninos, Francesco Paolo Appio, Anastasia Panori, Paolo Gerli, Giovanni Esposito, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli and Jessica Clément and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

In The Last Decade

Luca Mora

52 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

The First Two Decades of Smart-City Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

2017 439 citations Luca Mora, Mark Deakin et al. Journal of Urban Technology profile →
Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices

2018 241 citations Luca Mora, Mark Deakin et al. Technological Forecasting and Social Change profile →
Smart city governance from an innovation management perspective: Theoretical framing, review of current practices, and future research agenda

2023 95 citations Luca Mora, Paolo Gerli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Mora United Kingdom	20	1.1k	611	606	300	185	58	1.8k
Nicos Komninos Greece	26	1.5k 1.4×	785 1.3×	852 1.4×	410 1.4×	186 1.0×	54	2.5k
Jamile Sabatini‐Marques Brazil	10	1.0k 1.0×	394 0.6×	607 1.0×	132 0.4×	117 0.6×	21	1.6k
Rudolf Giffinger Austria	9	952 0.9×	405 0.7×	550 0.9×	250 0.8×	156 0.8×	19	1.4k
Margarita Angelidou Greece	13	1.6k 1.5×	719 1.2×	953 1.6×	247 0.8×	151 0.8×	30	2.2k
Λεωνίδας Ανθόπουλος Greece	23	1.2k 1.1×	385 0.6×	590 1.0×	503 1.7×	232 1.3×	79	2.1k
Esteve Almirall Spain	17	884 0.8×	787 1.3×	386 0.6×	248 0.8×	288 1.6×	31	2.3k
Nathalie Crutzen Belgium	20	694 0.7×	350 0.6×	394 0.7×	169 0.6×	135 0.7×	63	1.7k
Chiara Del Bo Italy	17	1.7k 1.6×	688 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	427 1.4×	238 1.3×	46	3.0k
Renata Paola Dameri Italy	14	666 0.6×	320 0.5×	350 0.6×	145 0.5×	88 0.5×	34	1.1k
Patrizia Lombardi Italy	23	683 0.6×	303 0.5×	432 0.7×	167 0.6×	186 1.0×	117	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Mora

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luca Mora

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Mora

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All Works

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Ng, S. Thomas, et al.. (2025). Deciphering how digital functions enable circular economy practices in construction: A critical review of recent progress and future outlook. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 113. 107889–107889. 13 indexed citations

Bertello, Alberto, et al.. (2025). How do boundary objects influence people-centered smart cities? A systematic literature review. Review of Managerial Science. 20(2). 617–648. 1 indexed citations

Argento, Daniela, Dorota Dobija, Giuseppe Grossi, Mauricio Marrone, & Luca Mora. (2025). The unaccounted effects of digital transformation: implications for accounting, auditing and accountability research. Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal. 3 indexed citations

Mora, Luca, et al.. (2025). Responsible AI for Cities: A Case Study of GeoAI in African Informal Settlements. Journal of Urban Technology. 32(3). 111–137. 3 indexed citations

Mora, Luca, et al.. (2025). Data in crisis: Mobility and fitness-for-Use in decentralized ecosystems. Environmental Science & Policy. 174. 104267–104267.

Mora, Luca, et al.. (2025). Collaboration before competition: How smart city entrepreneurs co-create temporary ecosystems to build capacity for learning. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 214. 124046–124046.

Haque, Md. Nazmul, et al.. (2025). A systematic review of research on just, equitable, responsible, and inclusive smart cities. Technology in Society. 83. 103050–103050. 1 indexed citations

Gerli, Paolo, et al.. (2025). Scaling to new heights: methodological insights for uplifting research on grassroots digital innovation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12(1).

Okoye, Ogochukwu, et al.. (2025). Air pollution-associated chronic kidney disease (APA-CKD): evidence from a cross-sectional study of Niger Delta communities. BMJ Open. 15(3). e096336–e096336. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jun, Efpraxia D. Zamani, Paolo Gerli, & Luca Mora. (2024). Co‐constructing cooperative value ecosystems: A critical realist perspective. Information Systems Journal. 35(2). 504–544. 3 indexed citations

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Gerli, Paolo, Luca Mora, Jun Zhang, & Alessandro Sancino. (2024). Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 202. 123342–123342. 5 indexed citations

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Sancino, Alessandro, et al.. (2024). Strategic public value(s) governance: A systematic literature review and framework for analysis. Public Administration Review. 85(3). 885–906. 7 indexed citations

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Appio, Francesco Paolo, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Pfizer's Social Media Engagement During COVID-19. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 71. 9526–9539. 3 indexed citations

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Mora, Luca, et al.. (2023). Smart urbanism in Africa: when theories do not fit with contextual practices. Regional Studies. 58(9). 1767–1777. 11 indexed citations

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Okoye, Ogochukwu, et al.. (2023). “Our bodies are not strong anymore”: a focus group study on health risk perceptions of ambient air pollution near a petrochemical industry. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14(7). 9–9. 2 indexed citations

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Ren, Ming, Ziqi Zhang, Jun Zhang, & Luca Mora. (2022). Understanding the Use of Heterogenous Data in Tackling Urban Flooding: An Integrative Literature Review. Water. 14(14). 2160–2160. 6 indexed citations

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Mora, Luca, Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha, & Giovanni Esposito. (2021). Not everything is as it seems: Digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements. Government Information Quarterly. 38(4). 101599–101599. 45 indexed citations

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Corsini, Filippo, et al.. (2019). The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field. Sustainability. 11(2). 341–341. 70 indexed citations

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Mora, Luca, Mark Deakin, & Alasdair Reid. (2019). Exploring Current Trends in Scientific Research on Smart Specialisation. Research Output (Edinburgh Napier University). 18(3). 397–422. 6 indexed citations

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Komninos, Nicos & Luca Mora. (2018). Exploring the big picture of smart city research. 17(1). 15–38. 74 indexed citations

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