Thomas Louail

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Thomas Louail is a scholar working on Transportation, Economics and Econometrics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Louail has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Transportation, 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Thomas Louail's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (7 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (4 papers) and Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (3 papers). Thomas Louail is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (7 papers), Urban Transport and Accessibility (4 papers) and Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (3 papers). Thomas Louail collaborates with scholars based in France, Spain and United Kingdom. Thomas Louail's co-authors include José J. Ramasco, Maxime Lenormand, Marc Barthélemy, Miguel Picornell, Moisés Frı́as, Ricardo Herranz, Charlotte James, Marcello Tomasini, Filippo Simini and Gourab Ghoshal and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Louail

12 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Human mobility: Models and applications 2014 2026 2018 2022 2018 2014 200 400 600
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. Human mobility: Models and applications
    2018 647 citations Hugo Barbosa, Marc Barthélemy et al. Physics Reports profile →
  2. From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities
    2014 303 citations Thomas Louail, Maxime Lenormand et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Louail France 7 1.0k 270 197 166 132 15 1.3k
Hugo Barbosa United Kingdom 10 719 0.7× 169 0.6× 194 1.0× 103 0.6× 125 0.9× 24 1.1k
Lei Dong China 17 588 0.6× 282 1.0× 147 0.7× 86 0.5× 73 0.6× 36 1.1k
Ricardo Herranz Spain 9 638 0.6× 191 0.7× 125 0.6× 93 0.6× 58 0.4× 17 761
Marcello Tomasini United States 6 540 0.5× 96 0.4× 104 0.5× 81 0.5× 82 0.6× 10 709
Jameson L. Toole United States 10 623 0.6× 159 0.6× 149 0.8× 101 0.6× 96 0.7× 13 965
Gautier Krings Belgium 9 560 0.5× 116 0.4× 71 0.4× 103 0.6× 267 2.0× 13 878
Junjun Yin United States 12 457 0.4× 166 0.6× 113 0.6× 67 0.4× 75 0.6× 34 765
Xiao-Yong Yan China 17 624 0.6× 85 0.3× 232 1.2× 45 0.3× 169 1.3× 53 1.1k
Adeline Decuyper Belgium 3 484 0.5× 93 0.3× 43 0.2× 166 1.0× 120 0.9× 5 701
Andres Sevtsuk United States 17 970 0.9× 412 1.5× 456 2.3× 59 0.4× 48 0.4× 34 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Louail

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Louail

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Louail

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Martínez, Johann H., et al.. (2025). Exploring the spatial segmentation of housing markets from online listings. EPJ Data Science. 14(1).
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Louail, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Do Recommender Systems Promote Local Music? A Reproducibility Study Using Music Streaming Data. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 148–157.
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Beuscart, Jean-Samuel, et al.. (2022). Uplifting Interviews in Social Science with Individual Data Visualization: the case of Music Listening. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. 1–9. 3 indexed citations
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Louail, Thomas, et al.. (2022). “It’s a three-way ring”: E-hailing platforms, drivers and riders reshaping Accra’s mobility landscape. Case Studies on Transport Policy. 10(3). 1743–1753. 5 indexed citations
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Louail, Thomas & Marc Barthélemy. (2022). A dominance tree approach to systems of cities. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 97. 101856–101856. 3 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, Marc Barthélemy, Gourab Ghoshal, et al.. (2018). Human mobility: Models and applications. Physics Reports. 734. 1–74. 647 indexed citations breakdown →
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Louail, Thomas, Maxime Lenormand, Juan Murillo Arias, & José J. Ramasco. (2017). Crowdsourcing the Robin Hood effect in cities. Applied Network Science. 2(1). 11–11. 7 indexed citations
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Louail, Thomas & Marc Barthélemy. (2017). Headphones on the wire Statistical patterns of music listening practices. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository.
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Louail, Thomas, Maxime Lenormand, Miguel Picornell, et al.. (2015). Uncovering the spatial structure of mobility networks. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6007–6007. 128 indexed citations
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Lenormand, Maxime, Miguel Picornell, Thomas Louail, et al.. (2015). Comparing and modelling land use organization in cities. Royal Society Open Science. 2(12). 150449–150449. 65 indexed citations
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Gaudou, Benoît, Christophe Sibertin‐Blanc, Olivier Thérond, et al.. (2014). The MAELIA Multi-Agent Platform for Integrated Analysis of Interactions Between Agricultural Land-Use and Low-Water Management Strategies. Lecture notes in computer science. 85–100. 6 indexed citations
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Lenormand, Maxime, Miguel Picornell, Thomas Louail, et al.. (2014). Cross-Checking Different Sources of Mobility Information. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e105184–e105184. 112 indexed citations
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Louail, Thomas, Maxime Lenormand, Oliva G. Cantú Ros, et al.. (2014). From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 5276–5276. 303 indexed citations breakdown →
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Louail, Thomas, et al.. (2010). Accroche-toi au niveau, j'enlève l'échelle. Eléments d'analyse des aspects multiniveaux dans la simulation à base d'agents. Revue d intelligence artificielle. 24(5). 625–648. 1 indexed citations
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