Rob Kitchin

27.8k total citations · 15 hit papers
276 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Rob Kitchin is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Kitchin has authored 276 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 58 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 49 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Rob Kitchin's work include Geographic Information Systems Studies (56 papers), Smart Cities and Technologies (46 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (46 papers). Rob Kitchin is often cited by papers focused on Geographic Information Systems Studies (56 papers), Smart Cities and Technologies (46 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (46 papers). Rob Kitchin collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and United States. Rob Kitchin's co-authors include Martin Dodge, Paolo Cardullo, Gavin McArdle, Tracey P. Lauriault, James Ash, Agnieszka Leszczynski, Ruth Sager, Justin Gleeson, Cian O’Callaghan and Noel Castree and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Rob Kitchin

260 papers receiving 14.8k citations

Hit Papers

The real-time city? Big d... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2013 2014 2014 2016 2011 500 1000 1.5k
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 real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism
    2013 1.6k citations Rob Kitchin GeoJournal profile →
  2. Big Data, new epistemologies and paradigm shifts
    2014 1.3k citations Rob Kitchin Big Data & Society profile →
  3. The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures & Their Consequences
    2014 814 citations Rob Kitchin profile →
  4. Thinking critically about and researching algorithms
    2016 607 citations Rob Kitchin profile →
  5. Code/Space
    2011 537 citations Rob Kitchin et al. profile →
  6. Making sense of smart cities: addressing present shortcomings
    2014 537 citations Rob Kitchin profile →
  7. Digital turn, digital geographies?
    2016 472 citations Rob Kitchin et al. profile →
  8. Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city: up and down the scaffold of smart citizen participation in Dublin, Ireland
    2018 434 citations Paolo Cardullo, Rob Kitchin GeoJournal profile →
  9. The Data Revolution : Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences
    2014 395 citations Rob Kitchin profile →
  10. Big data and human geography
    2013 391 citations Rob Kitchin profile →
  11. Knowing and governing cities through urban indicators, city benchmarking and real-time dashboards
    2015 386 citations Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault et al. profile →
  12. Rethinking maps
    2007 374 citations Rob Kitchin et al. profile →
  13. What makes Big Data, Big Data? Exploring the ontological characteristics of 26 datasets
    2016 326 citations Rob Kitchin, Gavin McArdle Big Data & Society profile →
  14. Smart urbanism and smart citizenship: The neoliberal logic of ‘citizen-focused’ smart cities in Europe
    2018 262 citations Paolo Cardullo, Rob Kitchin profile →
  15. The ethics of smart cities and urban science
    2016 250 citations Rob Kitchin profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Rob Kitchin 4.3k 3.6k 3.3k 2.3k 1.6k 276 16.3k
Peter Nijkamp 6.4k 1.5× 2.7k 0.8× 7.8k 2.4× 501 0.2× 2.3k 1.4× 1.6k 30.9k
Manuel Castells 13.1k 3.0× 1.6k 0.4× 772 0.2× 663 0.3× 6.4k 3.9× 312 30.5k
Simon Marvin 2.2k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 1.3k 0.4× 612 0.3× 2.0k 1.2× 162 8.9k
Mark Graham 5.0k 1.1× 708 0.2× 841 0.3× 946 0.4× 556 0.3× 233 13.5k
Michael Batty 1.6k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 7.1k 2.2× 1.3k 0.6× 512 0.3× 381 20.5k
Barry Wellman 12.0k 2.8× 584 0.2× 1.2k 0.4× 255 0.1× 1.4k 0.9× 178 21.3k
Stephen Graham 2.8k 0.7× 838 0.2× 894 0.3× 1.1k 0.5× 2.2k 1.3× 119 7.8k
Susan Leigh Star 7.6k 1.7× 323 0.1× 200 0.1× 1.0k 0.5× 2.3k 1.4× 69 19.5k
Bruno Latour 26.5k 6.1× 540 0.2× 463 0.1× 6.0k 2.6× 6.9k 4.2× 347 67.9k
Wiebe E. Bijker 6.0k 1.4× 383 0.1× 165 0.1× 692 0.3× 1.7k 1.0× 96 15.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Kitchin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Kitchin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rob Kitchin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rob Kitchin 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 Rob Kitchin. Rob Kitchin 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
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Cardullo, Paolo & Rob Kitchin. (2025). Provincialising platform citizenship: Citizen participation in and through civic platforms. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 100123–100123. 4 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob, et al.. (2025). Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data. Mobilities. 20(5). 1002–1020. 3 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob, et al.. (2024). Digital twins and deep maps. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 50(1). 7 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob. (2021). Data Lives. Policy Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob. (2021). Data Lives. Bristol University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob & Alistair Fraser. (2020). Slow Computing. Bristol University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob & Alistair Fraser. (2020). Slow Computing. Bristol University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Cardullo, Paolo & Rob Kitchin. (2018). Being a ‘citizen’ in the smart city: up and down the scaffold of smart citizen participation in Dublin, Ireland. GeoJournal. 84(1). 1–13. 434 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kitchin, Rob, et al.. (2017). Smart cities, epistemic communities, advocacy coalitions and the `last mile' problem. it - Information Technology. 59(6). 275–284. 25 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob & Gavin McArdle. (2016). What makes Big Data, Big Data? Exploring the ontological characteristics of 26 datasets. Big Data & Society. 3(1). 326 indexed citations breakdown →
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McArdle, Gavin & Rob Kitchin. (2016). THE DUBLIN DASHBOARD: DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL-TIMEANALYTICAL URBAN DASHBOARD. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. IV-4/W1. 19–25. 30 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob, et al.. (2014). Towards critical data studies: Charting and unpacking data assemblages and their work. SSRN Electronic Journal. 130 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob & Mark Boyle. (2011). Diaspora Strategies in Transition States: Prospects and Opportunities for Armenia. Neurologia medico-chirurgica. 62(2). 57–64. 4 indexed citations
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Boyle, Mark & Rob Kitchin. (2011). A Diaspora Strategy for Canada?Enriching Debate through Heightening Awareness of International Practice. Project Paper SeriesNo. 11-1. Kardiologia Polska. 20(2). 119–25. 3 indexed citations
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Boyle, Mark, et al.. (2009). The NIRSA Diaspora Strategy Wheel and Ten Principles of Good Practice. Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University). 163(1). 23–7. 3 indexed citations
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Hubbard, Phil, Rob Kitchin, & Gill Valentine. (2008). Key Texts in Human Geography. 76 indexed citations
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Kitchin, Rob. (2003). Disability and Federalism: Comparing Different Approaches to Full Participation. British Journal of Canadian Studies. 16(2). 382. 1 indexed citations
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Anderson, Paul N. & Rob Kitchin. (2000). Disability, space and sexuality: access to family planning services. Social Science & Medicine. 51(8). 1163–1173. 101 indexed citations

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