Patrick Adler

985 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 577 citations indexed

About

Patrick Adler is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Adler has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 577 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 6 papers in Urban Studies and 6 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Patrick Adler's work include Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (7 papers), Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (6 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 papers). Patrick Adler is often cited by papers focused on Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (7 papers), Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (6 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (5 papers). Patrick Adler collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Hong Kong and United States. Patrick Adler's co-authors include Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander, Karen King, Maxwell Hartt, Daniel Silver, Mark S. Fox, Mark D. Fox, Chris Tilly and Özge Öner and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Regional Studies.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Adler

20 papers receiving 548 citations

Hit Papers

The city as innovation machine 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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.

  1. The city as innovation machine
    2016 311 citations Richard Florida, Patrick Adler et al. Regional Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Adler Canada 9 332 150 127 111 90 22 577
Julie Tian Miao Australia 13 197 0.6× 227 1.5× 39 0.3× 142 1.3× 61 0.7× 47 662
Weiping Wu United States 11 257 0.8× 134 0.9× 160 1.3× 87 0.8× 180 2.0× 15 612
Miguel Manjón‐Antolín Spain 15 540 1.6× 34 0.2× 109 0.9× 66 0.6× 182 2.0× 37 810
Cassandra C. Wang China 11 250 0.8× 33 0.2× 57 0.4× 54 0.5× 206 2.3× 22 509
Josephine V. Rekers Sweden 11 162 0.5× 118 0.8× 87 0.7× 146 1.3× 54 0.6× 20 447
Breandán Ó hUallacháin United States 19 646 1.9× 126 0.8× 38 0.3× 118 1.1× 219 2.4× 49 905
Heather Shearer Australia 9 98 0.3× 72 0.5× 36 0.3× 68 0.6× 47 0.5× 17 484
Edward J. Feser United States 11 732 2.2× 105 0.7× 113 0.9× 101 0.9× 254 2.8× 22 1.0k
David Cuberes United States 10 342 1.0× 19 0.1× 49 0.4× 129 1.2× 74 0.8× 31 617
David Emanuel Andersson Taiwan 13 337 1.0× 68 0.5× 26 0.2× 88 0.8× 57 0.6× 42 627

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Adler

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Patrick Adler's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Patrick Adler with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Patrick Adler more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Adler

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Adler

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Adler, Patrick & Richard Florida. (2025). The city as campus: regional organization of research universities. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 69(2-3). 78–93.
2.
Adler, Patrick. (2024). Brand on the run: place brands as judgement devices and sources of local advantage in the music industry. Regional Studies. 58(10). 1904–1920. 1 indexed citations
3.
Silver, Daniel, Mark S. Fox, & Patrick Adler. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part III: Rules of Evolution. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(4). 89–89. 3 indexed citations
4.
Fox, Mark S., Daniel Silver, & Patrick Adler. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution: Part II: Formal Model. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(4). 88–88. 3 indexed citations
5.
Florida, Richard & Patrick Adler. (2022). Locational strategy: Understanding location in economic geography and corporate strategy. Global Strategy Journal. 12(3). 472–487. 8 indexed citations
6.
Silver, Daniel, Patrick Adler, & Mark S. Fox. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part I: Context. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(4). 87–87. 5 indexed citations
7.
Silver, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Venues and segregation: A revised Schelling model. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0242611–e0242611. 8 indexed citations
8.
Adler, Patrick & Richard Florida. (2021). The rise of urban tech: how innovations for cities come from cities. Regional Studies. 55(10-11). 1787–1800. 29 indexed citations
9.
Adler, Patrick. (2021). The Curating City: A Functional Account of the Agglomeration of Creative Industries. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 3 indexed citations
10.
Silver, Daniel, Mark D. Fox, & Patrick Adler. (2020). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution Part III: Variation, Selection, Retention. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
11.
Silver, Daniel, Mark D. Fox, & Patrick Adler. (2020). Towards a model of urban evolution I: context. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
12.
Adler, Patrick, Richard Florida, & Maxwell Hartt. (2020). Mega Regions and Pandemics. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 111(3). 465–481. 22 indexed citations
13.
Fox, Mark S., Daniel Silver, & Patrick Adler. (2020). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution II: Formal Model. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1 indexed citations
14.
Adler, Patrick, Richard Florida, Karen King, & Charlotta Mellander. (2019). The city and high-tech startups: The spatial organization of Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. Cities. 87. 121–130. 105 indexed citations
15.
Florida, Richard & Patrick Adler. (2017). The patchwork metropolis: The morphology of the divided postindustrial city. Journal of Urban Affairs. 40(5). 609–624. 26 indexed citations
16.
Florida, Richard, Patrick Adler, & Charlotta Mellander. (2016). The city as innovation machine. Regional Studies. 51(1). 86–96. 311 indexed citations breakdown →
17.
Adler, Patrick & Chris Tilly. (2014). THE STATE OF THE UNIONS IN 2014 A PROFILE OF UNION MEMBERSHIP IN GREATER LOS ANGELES, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, AND THE NATION. 2 indexed citations
18.
Florida, Richard, Charlotta Mellander, & Patrick Adler. (2013). Creativity in the City. Oxford University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations
19.
Adler, Patrick & Özge Öner. (2013). Occupational Class and the Marriage Premium: Exploring Treatment Mechanisms. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations
20.
Florida, Richard, Charlotta Mellander, & Patrick Adler. (2011). Handbook of Creative Cities. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 28 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Julie Tian Miao Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Weiping Wu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Miguel Manjón‐Antolín Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Cassandra C. Wang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Josephine V. Rekers Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Breandán Ó hUallacháin Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Heather Shearer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Edward J. Feser Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by David Cuberes Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by David Emanuel Andersson
Rankless by CCL
2026