Markus Schläpfer

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Markus Schläpfer is a scholar working on Transportation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Schläpfer has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Transportation, 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Markus Schläpfer's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (7 papers). Markus Schläpfer is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (7 papers). Markus Schläpfer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Singapore. Markus Schläpfer's co-authors include Thomas W. Crowther, Kailiang Yu, Simone Fatichi, Paolo Burlando, Naika Meili, Gabriele Manoli, Gabriel G. Katul, Elie Bou‐Zeid, Carlo Ratti and Geoffrey B. West and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Markus Schläpfer

23 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population

2019 832 citations Gabriele Manoli, Simone Fatichi et al. Nature profile →
The universal visitation law of human mobility

2021 276 citations Markus Schläpfer, Lei Dong et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Schläpfer United States	11	738	613	542	416	263	25	1.7k
Guoqiang Shen China	18	307 0.4×	633 1.0×	286 0.5×	202 0.5×	234 0.9×	70	1.3k
Guofeng Cao United States	22	340 0.5×	536 0.9×	278 0.5×	549 1.3×	69 0.3×	57	1.8k
Yuhao Kang United States	26	212 0.3×	625 1.0×	402 0.7×	928 2.2×	332 1.3×	66	2.3k
Fu Ren China	24	135 0.2×	832 1.4×	329 0.6×	740 1.8×	229 0.9×	66	2.1k
Hongchao Fan China	26	696 0.9×	353 0.6×	107 0.2×	526 1.3×	343 1.3×	122	2.3k
George Grekousis China	18	218 0.3×	618 1.0×	534 1.0×	437 1.1×	152 0.6×	43	1.6k
Emanuele Strano United Kingdom	13	129 0.2×	684 1.1×	168 0.3×	667 1.6×	725 2.8×	19	1.6k
Yeran Sun United Kingdom	22	125 0.2×	301 0.5×	212 0.4×	645 1.6×	178 0.7×	59	1.3k
Jinbao Zhang China	21	578 0.8×	1.5k 2.5×	1.4k 2.5×	1.3k 3.0×	390 1.5×	29	3.1k
Donna J. Peuquet United States	22	199 0.3×	225 0.4×	170 0.3×	215 0.5×	264 1.0×	66	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Markus Schläpfer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Markus Schläpfer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Schläpfer

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tan, Zhulin, et al.. (2025). Assessing the space-use efficiency of French cities by coupling city volumes with mobile data traffic. Sustainable Cities and Society. 124. 106292–106292. 2 indexed citations

Dong, Tianyu, et al.. (2024). Estimating Electric Vehicle Charging Demand and its Impact on the Power Grid Using Mobile Phone Data. 3076–3081.

Lee, Bu‐Sung, et al.. (2023). Quantifying the uncertainty of mobility flow predictions using Gaussian processes. Transportation. 51(6). 2301–2322. 2 indexed citations

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 →

Salat, Hadrien, Markus Schläpfer, Zbigniew Smoreda, & Stefania Rubrichi. (2021). Analysing the impact of electrification on rural attractiveness in Senegal with mobile phone data. Royal Society Open Science. 8(10). 201898–201898. 7 indexed citations

Gomes, Eduardo, Arnaud Banos, Patrícia Abrantes, Jorge Rocha, & Markus Schläpfer. (2020). Future land use changes in a peri-urban context: Local stakeholder views. The Science of The Total Environment. 718. 137381–137381. 23 indexed citations

Salat, Hadrien, Zbigniew Smoreda, & Markus Schläpfer. (2020). A method to estimate population densities and electricity consumption from mobile phone data in developing countries. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0235224–e0235224. 13 indexed citations

Manoli, Gabriele, Simone Fatichi, Markus Schläpfer, et al.. (2020). Reply to Martilli et al. (2020): Summer average urban-rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 14 indexed citations

Manoli, Gabriele, Simone Fatichi, Markus Schläpfer, et al.. (2019). Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population. Nature. 573(7772). 55–60. 832 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schläpfer, Markus, et al.. (2018). Urban Electric Load Forecasting with Mobile Phone Location Data. DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University). 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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Zhong, Chen, Markus Schläpfer, Stéfan Müller Arisona, et al.. (2015). Revealing centrality in the spatial structure of cities from human activity patterns. Urban Studies. 54(2). 437–455. 132 indexed citations

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Raschke, Mathias, Markus Schläpfer, & Konstantinos Trantopoulos. (2014). Copula-based modeling of degree-correlated networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2014(2). P02019–P02019. 4 indexed citations

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Schläpfer, Markus & Ľuboš Buzna. (2012). Decelerated spreading in degree-correlated networks. Physical Review E. 85(1). 15101–15101. 13 indexed citations

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Trantopoulos, Konstantinos, Markus Schläpfer, & Dirk Helbing. (2011). Toward Sustainability of Complex Urban Systems through Techno-Social Reality Mining. Environmental Science & Technology. 45(15). 6231–6232. 6 indexed citations

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Schläpfer, Markus & Pierluigi Mancarella. (2011). Probabilistic Modeling and Simulation of Transmission Line Temperatures Under Fluctuating Power Flows. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 26(4). 2235–2243. 37 indexed citations

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Raschke, Mathias, et al.. (2010). Measuring degree-degree association in networks. Physical Review E. 82(3). 37102–37102. 20 indexed citations

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Schläpfer, Markus & Konstantinos Trantopoulos. (2010). Lattice splitting under intermittent flows. Physical Review E. 81(5). 4 indexed citations

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Schläpfer, Markus, et al.. (2008). Stress induced degradation dynamics in complex networks. 6. 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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Eusgeld, Irene, Wolfgang Kröger, Giovanni Sansavini, Markus Schläpfer, & Enrico Zio. (2008). The role of network theory and object-oriented modeling within a framework for the vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructures. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 94(5). 954–963. 92 indexed citations

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Gheorghe, Adrian V. & Markus Schläpfer. (2006). Ubiquity of Digitalization and Risks of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures. 580–584. 9 indexed citations

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