Rein Ahas

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Rein Ahas is a scholar working on Transportation, Sociology and Political Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Rein Ahas has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Transportation, 19 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Rein Ahas's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (31 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (28 papers) and Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (11 papers). Rein Ahas is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (31 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (28 papers) and Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (11 papers). Rein Ahas collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Belgium and Russia. Rein Ahas's co-authors include Anto Aasa, Siiri Silm, Mark D. Schwartz, Margus Tiru, Olle Järv, Frank Witlox, Noam Shoval, Helfried Scheifinger, Annette Menzel and Erki Saluveer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Rein Ahas

69 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Onset of spring starting earlier across the Northern Hemisphere

2006 828 citations Mark D. Schwartz, Rein Ahas et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rein Ahas Estonia	34	2.2k	1.7k	1.0k	816	607	71	5.0k
Timon McPhearson United States	54	843 0.4×	6.5k 3.9×	1.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.4×	387 0.6×	141	10.5k
Anto Aasa Estonia	16	718 0.3×	970 0.6×	258 0.3×	627 0.8×	397 0.7×	28	2.3k
Forrest R. Stevens United States	28	1.5k 0.7×	2.6k 1.6×	440 0.4×	676 0.8×	340 0.6×	65	4.4k
Burak Güneralp United States	29	808 0.4×	6.7k 4.0×	418 0.4×	1.8k 2.2×	1.1k 1.8×	67	9.9k
Tuuli Toivonen Finland	39	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	953 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	44 0.1×	113	5.3k
Elena G. Irwin United States	29	511 0.2×	2.8k 1.7×	535 0.5×	543 0.7×	204 0.3×	82	5.3k
Steffen Fritz Austria	56	371 0.2×	4.4k 2.7×	476 0.5×	3.8k 4.7×	903 1.5×	188	10.3k
Adrienne Grêt‐Regamey Switzerland	44	219 0.1×	4.4k 2.6×	717 0.7×	927 1.1×	419 0.7×	219	6.7k
Michail Fragkias United States	19	694 0.3×	3.5k 2.1×	350 0.3×	821 1.0×	595 1.0×	28	5.4k
Peter Deadman Canada	18	251 0.1×	3.2k 1.9×	663 0.6×	890 1.1×	227 0.4×	32	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rein Ahas

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Järv, Olle, Anu Masso, Siiri Silm, & Rein Ahas. (2020). The Link Between Ethnic Segregation and Socio‐Economic Status: An Activity Space Approach. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 112(3). 319–335. 27 indexed citations

Masso, Anu, Siiri Silm, & Rein Ahas. (2018). Generational differences in spatial mobility: A study with mobile phone data. Population Space and Place. 25(2). e2210–e2210. 28 indexed citations

Järv, Olle, Henrikki Tenkanen, Maria Salonen, Rein Ahas, & Tuuli Toivonen. (2018). Dynamic cities: Location-based accessibility modelling as a function of time. Applied Geography. 95. 101–110. 123 indexed citations

Silm, Siiri, et al.. (2017). The Relationship between Social Networks and Spatial Mobility: A Mobile-Phone-Based Study in Estonia. Journal of Urban Technology. 25(2). 7–25. 18 indexed citations

Shoval, Noam & Rein Ahas. (2016). The use of tracking technologies in tourism research: the first decade. Tourism Geographies. 18(5). 587–606. 193 indexed citations

Raun, Janika, Rein Ahas, & Margus Tiru. (2016). Measuring tourism destinations using mobile tracking data. Tourism Management. 57. 202–212. 188 indexed citations

Silm, Siiri & Rein Ahas. (2014). The temporal variation of ethnic segregation in a city: Evidence from a mobile phone use dataset. Social Science Research. 47. 30–43. 80 indexed citations

Järv, Olle, et al.. (2014). Ethnic differences in activity spaces as a characteristic of segregation: A study based on mobile phone usage in Tallinn, Estonia. Urban Studies. 52(14). 2680–2698. 112 indexed citations

Silm, Siiri, et al.. (2013). Gender Differences in Space—Time Mobility Patterns in a Postcommunist City: A Case Study Based on Mobile Positioning in the Suburbs of Tallinn. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 40(5). 814–828. 20 indexed citations

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Tiru, Margus, et al.. (2011). Innovation in destination marketing. Baltic Journal of Management. 6(3). 378–399. 33 indexed citations

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Tiru, Margus, et al.. (2010). LBS in marketing and tourism management: measuring destination loyalty with mobile positioning data. Journal of Location Based Services. 4(2). 120–140. 35 indexed citations

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Uusküla, Anneli, James M. McMahon, Mait Raag, et al.. (2010). Emergent properties of HIV risk among injection drug users in Tallinn, Estonia: synthesis of individual and neighbourhood-level factors. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 86(Suppl 3). iii79–iii84. 13 indexed citations

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Tammaru, Tiit, Kadri Leetmaa, Siiri Silm, & Rein Ahas. (2009). Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of the New Residential Areas around Tallinn. European Planning Studies. 17(3). 423–439. 72 indexed citations

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Siljamo, Pilvi, Mikhail Sofiev, Hanna Ranta, et al.. (2008). Representativeness of point‐wise phenological Betula data collected in different parts of Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 17(4). 489–502. 32 indexed citations

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Morin, Xavier, Thierry Améglio, Rein Ahas, et al.. (2007). Variation in cold hardiness and carbohydrate concentration from dormancy induction to bud burst among provenances of three European oak species. Tree Physiology. 27(6). 817–825. 188 indexed citations

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Ahas, Rein & Anto Aasa. (2006). The effects of climate change on the phenology of selected Estonian plant, bird and fish populations. International Journal of Biometeorology. 51(1). 17–26. 73 indexed citations

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Pae, Taavi, et al.. (2006). The Formation and Location Features of Estonian Cemeteries. Journal of Baltic Studies. 37(3). 277–297. 1 indexed citations

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Schwartz, Mark D., Rein Ahas, & Anto Aasa. (2006). Onset of spring starting earlier across the Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biology. 12(2). 343–351. 828 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahas, Rein. (2004). Attribution of Estonian phyto-, ornitho- and ichtyophenological trends with parameters of changing climate. 1 indexed citations

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Ahas, Rein, Anto Aasa, Annette Menzel, Violetta Fedotova, & Helfried Scheifinger. (2002). Changes in European spring phenology. International Journal of Climatology. 22(14). 1727–1738. 216 indexed citations

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