Marta C. González

19.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
134 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Marta C. González is a scholar working on Transportation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Marta C. González has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Transportation, 24 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 15 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Marta C. González's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (72 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (37 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (34 papers). Marta C. González is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (72 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (37 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (34 papers). Marta C. González collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Marta C. González's co-authors include Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, César A. Hidalgo, Shan Jiang, Pu Wang, Filippo Simini, Amos Maritan, Serdar Çolak, Joseph Ferreira, Hans J. Herrmann and Jameson L. Toole and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marta C. González

126 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Understanding individual human mobility patterns

2008 4.2k citations Marta C. González, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási et al. profile →
A universal model for mobility and migration patterns

2012 996 citations Marta C. González, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási et al. profile →
Origin–destination trips by purpose and time of day inferred from mobile phone data

2015 446 citations Shan Jiang, Marta C. González et al. profile →
Unravelling daily human mobility motifs

2013 388 citations Marta C. González et al. profile →
Development of origin–destination matrices using mobile phone call data

2014 362 citations Shahadat Iqbal, Charisma F. Choudhury et al. profile →
Understanding the Spreading Patterns of Mobile Phone Viruses

2009 356 citations Pu Wang, Marta C. González et al. profile →
Activity-Based Human Mobility Patterns Inferred from Mobile Phone Data: A Case Study of Singapore

2016 320 citations Shan Jiang, Marta C. González et al. profile →
The path most traveled: Travel demand estimation using big data resources

2015 295 citations Serdar Çolak, Marta C. González et al. profile →
Understanding congested travel in urban areas

2016 275 citations Serdar Çolak, Marta C. González et al. profile →

Peers

Marta C. González

TRANS

SNP

GPC

CNC

Carlo Ratti United States

Marc Barthélemy France

Fosca Giannotti Italy

José J. Ramasco Spain

Nathan Eagle United States

Alan T. Murray United States

Pu Wang China

Dino Pedreschi Italy

Bing-Hong Wang China

Cecilia Mascolo United Kingdom

Carlo Ratti United States

Marta C. González

9.2k ×1.0

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833 ×0.4

SNP

3.9k ×2.2

GPC

3.7k ×2.2

877 ×0.6

CNC

Citations per year, relative to Marta C. González Marta C. González (= 1×) peers Carlo Ratti

Countries citing papers authored by Marta C. González

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marta C. González

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tang, Yuan Yan, et al.. (2025). Designing transit routes based on vehicle routing behavior determined through location-based services data. EPJ Data Science. 14(1). 1 indexed citations

Xu, Fengli, Qi Wang, Esteban Moro, et al.. (2025). Using human mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities. Nature Human Behaviour. 9(4). 654–664. 9 indexed citations

Fitzmaurice, Helen L., et al.. (2025). A mesoscopic model of vehicular emissions informed by direct measurements and mobility science. Sustainable Cities and Society. 129. 106421–106421. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Chenye, et al.. (2024). A cluster-based appliance-level-of-use demand response program design. Applied Energy. 362. 123003–123003. 6 indexed citations

Yabe, Takahiro, Massimiliano Luca, Kota Tsubouchi, et al.. (2024). Enhancing human mobility research with open and standardized datasets. Nature Computational Science. 4(7). 469–472. 11 indexed citations

González, Marta C., et al.. (2023). The truth project- paper two- using staff training and consultation to inculcate a testimonial sensibility in non-specialist staff teams working with survivors of child sexual abuse. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 14. 1177622–1177622.

Pais, Cristóbal, et al.. (2023). Global scale coupling of pyromes and fire regimes. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 8 indexed citations

Xu, Yanyan, et al.. (2022). Deadline Differentiated Dynamic EV Charging Price Menu Design. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 14(1). 502–516. 24 indexed citations

Nicolaides, Christos, Demetris Avraam, Luis Cueto‐Felgueroso, Marta C. González, & Rubén Juanes. (2019). Hand‐Hygiene Mitigation Strategies Against Global Disease Spreading through the Air Transportation Network. Risk Analysis. 40(4). 723–740. 61 indexed citations

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Xu, Yanyan, Shan Jiang, Ruiqi Li, et al.. (2019). Unraveling environmental justice in ambient PM2.5 exposure in Beijing: A big data approach. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 75. 12–21. 53 indexed citations

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Çolak, Serdar, et al.. (2018). Macroscopic dynamics and the collapse of urban traffic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(50). 12654–12661. 43 indexed citations

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Xu, Yanyan, et al.. (2017). Clearer skies in Beijing – revealing the impacts of traffic on the modeling of air quality. Transportation Research Board 96th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 4 indexed citations

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Jiang, Shan, Yingxiang Yang, Siddharth Gupta, et al.. (2016). The TimeGeo modeling framework for urban mobility without travel surveys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(37). E5370–8. 197 indexed citations

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Awwad, Z., et al.. (2016). Demand and Congestion in Multiplex Transportation Networks. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0161738–e0161738. 24 indexed citations

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Widhalm, Peter, Yingxiang Yang, Michael Ulm, Shounak Athavale, & Marta C. González. (2015). Discovering urban activity patterns in cell phone data. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Shahadat, Charisma F. Choudhury, Marta C. González, & Pu Wang. (2014). Development of Origin-Destination Matrices Using Mobile Phone Call Data: A Simulation Based Approach. Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations

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Onnela, Jukka‐Pekka, Samuel Arbesman, Marta C. González, Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási, & Nicholas A. Christakis. (2011). Geographic Constraints on Social Network Groups. PLoS ONE. 6(4). e16939–e16939. 243 indexed citations

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Schwämmle, Veit, Marta C. González, Andrés Moreira, José S. Andrade, & H. J. Herrmann. (2007). The spread of opinions in a model with different topologies. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Lind, Pedro G., Marta C. González, & Hans J. Herrmann. (2005). Cycles and clustering in bipartite networks. Physical Review E. 72(5). 56127–56127. 153 indexed citations

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González, Marta C., et al.. (2003). Los laboratorios de salud pública en el Sistema General de Seguridad Social en Salud, Colombia, 2000. Estudio de caso. Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Salud Pública. 21(1). 2. 1 indexed citations

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