Patrícia C. Melo

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Patrícia C. Melo is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Transportation and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrícia C. Melo has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 21 papers in Transportation and 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Patrícia C. Melo's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (17 papers), Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (15 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (13 papers). Patrícia C. Melo is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (17 papers), Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (15 papers) and Transportation Planning and Optimization (13 papers). Patrícia C. Melo collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Portugal and United States. Patrícia C. Melo's co-authors include Daniel J. Graham, Robert B. Noland, João de Abreu e Silva, R. J. Anderson, Gibran Vita, Richard Wood, Edgar G. Hertwich, Diana Ivanova, Kjartan Steen‐Olsen and Konstantin Stadler and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecological Economics, European Journal of Pharmacology and Environmental Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Patrícia C. Melo

47 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

A meta-analysis of estimates of urban agglomeration economies

2008 556 citations Patrícia C. Melo, Daniel J. Graham et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrícia C. Melo United Kingdom	22	1.3k	824	317	276	210	49	2.2k
Zhihua Tian China	14	1.1k 0.9×	341 0.4×	301 0.9×	94 0.3×	89 0.4×	21	1.7k
Somik V. Lall United States	28	1.5k 1.2×	322 0.4×	513 1.6×	465 1.7×	86 0.4×	109	2.6k
Giulio Mattioli United Kingdom	25	343 0.3×	1.1k 1.3×	104 0.3×	596 2.2×	232 1.1×	63	2.6k
Jan Rouwendal Netherlands	25	1.1k 0.9×	814 1.0×	57 0.2×	410 1.5×	203 1.0×	153	2.1k
Jon P. Nelson United States	27	1.6k 1.3×	130 0.2×	175 0.6×	254 0.9×	90 0.4×	84	2.8k
Vivien Foster United States	30	1.1k 0.9×	109 0.1×	181 0.6×	278 1.0×	74 0.4×	134	2.8k
José Baños-Pino Spain	20	481 0.4×	255 0.3×	195 0.6×	283 1.0×	115 0.5×	66	1.2k
Shihe Fu China	15	739 0.6×	218 0.3×	80 0.3×	140 0.5×	25 0.1×	41	1.3k
Milena Büchs United Kingdom	25	388 0.3×	155 0.2×	59 0.2×	483 1.8×	83 0.4×	58	1.8k
Renuka Mahadevan Australia	23	1.4k 1.1×	134 0.2×	362 1.1×	623 2.3×	21 0.1×	114	2.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Melo, Patrícia C., et al.. (2025). Will Telework Reduce Travel? An Evaluation of Empirical Evidence with Meta-Analysis. Urban Science. 9(6). 199–199. 1 indexed citations

Melo, Patrícia C., et al.. (2025). Market Potential, Road Accessibility, and Firm Births: Evidence From 20 Years of Road Investment. Journal of Regional Science. 65(4). 984–1016. 2 indexed citations

Afonso, Nuno, et al.. (2025). Going Big in a Small Country: Fifty Years of Motorways in Portugal. RPER. 7–26. 1 indexed citations

Melo, Patrícia C., et al.. (2023). The local impacts of building a large motorway network: Urban growth, suburbanisation, and agglomeration. Economics of Transportation. 34. 100302–100302. 5 indexed citations

Melo, Patrícia C., et al.. (2023). Motorways, local economic activity and commuting. Regional Studies. 58(1). 164–177. 5 indexed citations

Melo, Patrícia C.. (2022). Will COVID‐19 hinder or aid the transition to sustainable urban mobility? Spotlight on Portugal’s largest urban agglomeration. Regional Science Policy & Practice. 14. 80–107. 13 indexed citations

Melo, Patrícia C., et al.. (2021). Does road accessibility to cities support rural population growth? Evidence for Portugal between 1991 and 2011. Journal of Regional Science. 62(2). 443–470. 7 indexed citations

Silva, João de Abreu e & Patrícia C. Melo. (2018). The Effects of Home-Based Telework on Household Total Travel of One and Two Worker British Households. Transportation Research Board 97th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 2 indexed citations

Graham, Daniel J., et al.. (2018). Evaluating the causal economic impacts of transport investments: evidence from the Madrid–Barcelona high speed rail corridor. Journal of Applied Statistics. 46(9). 1714–1723. 25 indexed citations

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Colen, Liesbeth, Patrícia C. Melo, Yakubu Abdul‐Salam, et al.. (2018). Income elasticities for food, calories and nutrients across Africa: A meta-analysis. Food Policy. 77. 116–132. 97 indexed citations

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Copus, Andrew, et al.. (2015). Regional poverty mapping in Europe – Challenges, advances, benefits and limitations. Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit. 30(7). 742–764. 25 indexed citations

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Melo, Patrícia C., Andrew Copus, & Mike Coombes. (2014). Modelling Small Area at-Risk-of-Poverty Rates for the UK Using the World Bank Methodology and the EU-SILC. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 9(1). 97–117. 3 indexed citations

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Melo, Patrícia C. & Daniel J. Graham. (2014). Testing for labour pooling as a source of agglomeration economies: Evidence for labour markets in England and Wales. Papers of the Regional Science Association. 93(1). 31–53. 21 indexed citations

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Anderson, R. J., et al.. (2013). Air Quality Regulation in Metropolitan Railways: A Benchmarking Approach. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 2 indexed citations

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Melo, Patrícia C., et al.. (2013). A Practical Framework for Metro Maintenance Management. Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations

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Marcato, Priscyla D., et al.. (2013). Development of a Sustained-release System for Nitric Oxide Delivery using Alginate/Chitosan Nanoparticles. Current Nanoscience. 9(1). 1–7. 12 indexed citations

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Molloy, Jarlath, Patrícia C. Melo, Daniel J. Graham, Arnab Majumdar, & Washington Y. Ochieng. (2012). Role of Air Travel Demand Elasticities in Reducing Aviation's Carbon Dioxide Emissions. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2300(1). 31–41. 5 indexed citations

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Graham, Daniel J. & Patrícia C. Melo. (2011). Assessment of Wider Economic Impacts of High-Speed Rail for Great Britain. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2261(1). 15–24. 42 indexed citations

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Melo, Patrícia C., Daniel J. Graham, & Robert B. Noland. (2011). The effect of labour market spatial structure on commuting in England and Wales ‡. Journal of Economic Geography. 12(3). 717–737. 23 indexed citations

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Melo, Patrícia C., Daniel J. Graham, & Robert B. Noland. (2008). Firm Formation and Transport Infrastructure: A Study of Portugal. Transportation Research Board 87th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations

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