Pål Sundsøy

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 863 citations indexed

About

Pål Sundsøy is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Transportation and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Pål Sundsøy has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 863 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Transportation and 4 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Pål Sundsøy's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 papers), Social Media and Politics (4 papers) and ICT in Developing Communities (4 papers). Pål Sundsøy is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 papers), Social Media and Politics (4 papers) and ICT in Developing Communities (4 papers). Pål Sundsøy collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United Kingdom and Denmark. Pål Sundsøy's co-authors include Kenth Engø‐Monsen, Taimur Qureshi, Michael A. Johansson, Maciej F. Boni, Amy Wesolowski, Syed Basit Rasheed, Caroline O. Buckee, Linus Bengtsson, Andrew J. Tatem and Xin Lü and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Pål Sundsøy

15 papers receiving 812 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.

Impact of human mobility on the emergence of dengue epidemics in Pakistan

2015 326 citations Amy Wesolowski, Taimur Qureshi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pål Sundsøy Norway	9	258	246	183	177	162	15	863
Nishant Kishore United States	12	225 0.9×	278 1.1×	285 1.6×	111 0.6×	48 0.3×	25	1.1k
Taimur Qureshi Norway	6	185 0.7×	141 0.6×	214 1.2×	80 0.5×	180 1.1×	9	600
Erik Wetter Sweden	14	686 2.7×	259 1.1×	284 1.6×	293 1.7×	73 0.5×	17	1.4k
Irene Casas United States	20	573 2.2×	185 0.8×	264 1.4×	106 0.6×	417 2.6×	52	1.5k
Richard Garfield United States	14	231 0.9×	253 1.0×	59 0.3×	53 0.3×	71 0.4×	46	1.1k
Ana Lucía Schmidt Italy	10	203 0.8×	572 2.3×	391 2.1×	131 0.7×	39 0.2×	17	1.4k
Giovanni Bonaccorsi Italy	9	213 0.8×	156 0.6×	433 2.4×	140 0.8×	40 0.2×	14	911
Elisabeth zu Erbach-Schoenberg United Kingdom	12	334 1.3×	86 0.3×	219 1.2×	175 1.0×	132 0.8×	16	725
Serina Chang United States	7	291 1.1×	135 0.5×	625 3.4×	106 0.6×	44 0.3×	16	1.1k
Jayson S. Jia Hong Kong	8	189 0.7×	149 0.6×	413 2.3×	103 0.6×	33 0.2×	12	807

Countries citing papers authored by Pål Sundsøy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pål Sundsøy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pål Sundsøy

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15 of 15 papers shown

Reme, Bjørn‐Atle, Andreas Kotsadam, Johannes Bjelland, Pål Sundsøy, & Jo Thori Lind. (2022). Quantifying social segregation in large-scale networks. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 6474–6474. 4 indexed citations

Steele, Jessica, Carla Pezzulo, Maximilian Albert, et al.. (2021). Mobility and phone call behavior explain patterns in poverty at high-resolution across multiple settings. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 8(1). 7 indexed citations

Riedl, Christoph, Johannes Bjelland, Geoffrey Canright, et al.. (2018). Product diffusion through on-demand information-seeking behaviour. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 15(139). 20170751–20170751. 8 indexed citations

Steele, Jessica, Pål Sundsøy, Carla Pezzulo, et al.. (2017). Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 14(127). 20160690–20160690. 212 indexed citations

Jahani, Eaman, Pål Sundsøy, Johannes Bjelland, et al.. (2017). Improving official statistics in emerging markets using machine learning and mobile phone data. EPJ Data Science. 6(1). 24 indexed citations

Lü, Xin, David Wrathall, Pål Sundsøy, et al.. (2016). Detecting climate adaptation with mobile network data in Bangladesh: anomalies in communication, mobility and consumption patterns during cyclone Mahasen. Climatic Change. 138(3-4). 505–519. 47 indexed citations

Lü, Xin, David Wrathall, Pål Sundsøy, et al.. (2016). Unveiling hidden migration and mobility patterns in climate stressed regions: A longitudinal study of six million anonymous mobile phone users in Bangladesh. Global Environmental Change. 38. 1–7. 126 indexed citations

Wesolowski, Amy, Taimur Qureshi, Maciej F. Boni, et al.. (2015). Impact of human mobility on the emergence of dengue epidemics in Pakistan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(38). 11887–11892. 326 indexed citations breakdown →

Ling, Rich, Johannes Bjelland, Pål Sundsøy, & Scott W. Campbell. (2014). Small Circles: Mobile Telephony and the Cultivation of the Private Sphere. The Information Society. 30(4). 282–291. 20 indexed citations

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Bjelland, Johannes, et al.. (2014). A Handset-centric View of Smartphone Application Use. Procedia Computer Science. 34. 368–375. 1 indexed citations

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Ling, Rich, et al.. (2012). Small and Even Smaller Circles: The Size of Mobile Phone-Based Core Social Networks in Scandinavia and South Asia. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research. 41(3). 320–339. 6 indexed citations

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Bjelland, Johannes, Geoffrey Canright, Kenth Engø‐Monsen, Pål Sundsøy, & Rich Ling. (2012). A Social Network Study of the Apple vs. Android Smartphone Battle. 983–987. 4 indexed citations

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Sundsøy, Pål, Johannes Bjelland, Geoffrey Canright, Kenth Engø‐Monsen, & Richard Ling. (2012). The Activation of Core Social Networks in the Wake of the 22 July Oslo Bombing. 586–590. 8 indexed citations

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Ling, Rich, et al.. (2011). The socio-demographics of texting: An analysis of traffic data. New Media & Society. 14(2). 281–298. 63 indexed citations

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Sundsøy, Pål, Johannes Bjelland, Geoffrey Canright, Kenth Engø‐Monsen, & Rich Ling. (2010). Product Adoption Networks and Their Growth in a Large Mobile Phone Network. 208–216. 7 indexed citations

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