Sarah Williams

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah Williams is a scholar working on Transportation, Sociology and Political Science and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Williams has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Transportation, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Sarah Williams's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 papers) and ICT in Developing Communities (3 papers). Sarah Williams is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 papers) and ICT in Developing Communities (3 papers). Sarah Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Italy. Sarah Williams's co-authors include Carlo Ratti, Riccardo Maria Pulselli, Dennis Frenchman, Elizabeth Currid, Jacqueline M. Klopp, Elizabeth Currid‐Halkett, Changping Chen, Shin Bin Tan, Wenfei Xu and Luc Anselin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Urban Studies.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Williams

24 papers receiving 989 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.

Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis

2006 578 citations Carlo Ratti, Dennis Frenchman et al. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Williams United States	13	682	295	133	126	123	26	1.1k
Jonathan Reades United Kingdom	14	877 1.3×	308 1.0×	160 1.2×	129 1.0×	76 0.6×	37	1.4k
Siiri Silm Estonia	20	1.2k 1.8×	296 1.0×	96 0.7×	590 4.7×	142 1.2×	35	1.6k
Ate Poorthuis United States	16	631 0.9×	235 0.8×	115 0.9×	292 2.3×	143 1.2×	59	1.3k
Clio Andris United States	15	694 1.0×	167 0.6×	153 1.2×	198 1.6×	21 0.2×	52	1.2k
Margus Tiru Estonia	10	779 1.1×	206 0.7×	66 0.5×	306 2.4×	23 0.2×	14	989
Emmanouil Tranos United Kingdom	19	456 0.7×	204 0.7×	89 0.7×	194 1.5×	86 0.7×	62	1.4k
Taylor Shelton United States	16	643 0.9×	194 0.7×	84 0.6×	408 3.2×	98 0.8×	35	1.6k
Rob Claxton United Kingdom	6	476 0.7×	151 0.5×	72 0.5×	238 1.9×	17 0.1×	7	1.1k
Borja Moya‐Gómez Spain	16	657 1.0×	140 0.5×	144 1.1×	284 2.3×	23 0.2×	27	970
Gautier Krings Belgium	9	560 0.8×	116 0.4×	71 0.5×	109 0.9×	11 0.1×	13	878

Countries citing papers authored by Sarah Williams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Williams

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Williams, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Exclusionary tales in Beirut’s spaces of craftsmanship: Using historic cartography, archival ethnography, and oral history to map the enduring vulnerability of craftspeople. Abstracts of the ICA. 6. 1–2.

Li, Y., et al.. (2023). Using call detail records to determine mobility patterns of different socio-demographic groups in the western area of Sierra Leone during early COVID-19 crisis. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 50(5). 1298–1312. 1 indexed citations

Williams, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Tourism Morphometrics in Venice: Constructing a Tourism Services Index (TSI) to unmask the spatial interplay between tourism and urban form. Cities. 140. 104369–104369. 12 indexed citations

Marty, Robert, et al.. (2021). Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0244317–e0244317. 40 indexed citations

Marty, Robert, et al.. (2020). Applying Machine Learning and Geolocation Techniques to Social Media Data (Twitter) to Develop a Resource for Urban Planning. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 2 indexed citations

Lalley-Chareczko, Linden, et al.. (2019). Why do HIV PrEP Patients Become Lost-to-Care and How Can We Improve PrEP Retention?. 6(1). 10–21. 2 indexed citations

Williams, Sarah, et al.. (2019). Commuting for women in Saudi Arabia: Metro to driving - Options to support women employment. Journal of Transport Geography. 77. 126–138. 23 indexed citations

Williams, Sarah, et al.. (2019). Evaluating sensors for the measurement of public life: A future in image processing. Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science. 46(8). 1534–1548. 14 indexed citations

Anselin, Luc & Sarah Williams. (2015). Digital neighborhoods. Journal of Urbanism International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 9(4). 305–328. 24 indexed citations

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Williams, Sarah, et al.. (2015). The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system. Journal of Transport Geography. 49. 39–51. 69 indexed citations

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Klopp, Jacqueline M., et al.. (2014). Towards a Standard for Paratransit Data: Lessons from Developing GTFS Data for Nairobi's Matatu System. Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 4 indexed citations

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Williams, Sarah & Elizabeth Currid‐Halkett. (2014). Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City. PLoS ONE. 9(2). e86165–e86165. 11 indexed citations

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Williams, Sarah & Elizabeth Currid‐Halkett. (2011). The Emergence of Los Angeles as a Fashion Hub. Urban Studies. 48(14). 3043–3066. 27 indexed citations

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Currid, Elizabeth & Sarah Williams. (2010). The Geography of Buzz: Art, Culture and the Social Milieu in Los Angeles and New York. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations

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Currid, Elizabeth & Sarah Williams. (2010). Two Cities, Five Industries: Similarities and Differences within and between Cultural Industries in New York and Los Angeles. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 29(3). 322–335. 51 indexed citations

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Ratti, Carlo, Dennis Frenchman, Riccardo Maria Pulselli, & Sarah Williams. (2006). Mobile Landscapes: Using Location Data from Cell Phones for Urban Analysis. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 33(5). 727–748. 578 indexed citations breakdown →

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Williams, Sarah, et al.. (2006). Pasadena: A new editing system for the Oxford English Dictionary. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 257–264. 2 indexed citations

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Williams, Sarah. (1993). To See that the Empress has No Clothes: Feminist Approaches to the Visualization of Culture. Visual Anthropology Review. 9(1). 2–4. 1 indexed citations

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Williams, Sarah. (1990). Twin Quasars Found. Science. 247(4947). 1179–1179. 22 indexed citations

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Williams, Sarah. (1990). Identifying Fossils by Computer. Science. 248(4959). 1080–1080. 1 indexed citations

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