Waldo Tobler

16.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Waldo Tobler is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Economics and Econometrics and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Waldo Tobler has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 22 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 9 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Waldo Tobler's work include Geographic Information Systems Studies (25 papers), Historical Geography and Cartography (20 papers) and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (13 papers). Waldo Tobler is often cited by papers focused on Geographic Information Systems Studies (25 papers), Historical Geography and Cartography (20 papers) and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis (13 papers). Waldo Tobler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovakia and Republic of the Congo. Waldo Tobler's co-authors include Nathan Gale, R. G. Golledge, Helen Couclelis, Uwe Deichmann, Leon Glass, Sam Wineburg, Susan Kennedy, Richard G. Weleber, Howard W. Mielke and Eun‐Hye Yoo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Waldo Tobler

98 papers receiving 9.5k citations

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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.

A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region

1970 6.4k citations Waldo Tobler Economic Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Waldo Tobler United States	33	2.8k	2.3k	1.9k	1.4k	1.2k	100	10.4k
Paul Longley United Kingdom	42	1.8k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	918 0.7×	669 0.5×	175	10.6k
Xinyue Ye United States	54	2.1k 0.8×	3.2k 1.4×	2.5k 1.3×	423 0.3×	1.4k 1.1×	398	10.0k
Arthur Getis United States	41	4.9k 1.7×	3.4k 1.5×	1.8k 0.9×	322 0.2×	1.3k 1.1×	90	14.1k
Alan T. Murray United States	62	1.2k 0.4×	3.2k 1.3×	3.0k 1.6×	323 0.2×	1.5k 1.2×	284	11.3k
Martin Charlton United Kingdom	38	5.7k 2.0×	4.2k 1.8×	2.5k 1.3×	420 0.3×	2.3k 1.8×	119	14.5k
Chris Brunsdon United Kingdom	44	5.9k 2.1×	4.9k 2.1×	3.0k 1.6×	502 0.4×	2.4k 1.9×	153	16.0k
Stan Openshaw United Kingdom	29	1.2k 0.4×	864 0.4×	924 0.5×	707 0.5×	472 0.4×	108	4.4k
J. Keith Ord United States	39	4.4k 1.6×	1.9k 0.8×	813 0.4×	173 0.1×	895 0.7×	101	12.6k
A. Stewart Fotheringham United States	54	8.3k 2.9×	5.5k 2.3×	5.1k 2.6×	595 0.4×	2.5k 2.0×	163	19.8k
Michael Batty United Kingdom	74	3.5k 1.2×	8.4k 3.6×	7.1k 3.7×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	381	20.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Waldo Tobler

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Fields of papers citing papers by Waldo Tobler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Waldo Tobler

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

All Works

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Tobler, Waldo, et al.. (1997). World population in a grid of spherical quadrilaterals. International Journal of Population Geography. 3(3). 203–225. 120 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1995). MIGRATION: RAVENSTEIN, THORNTHWAITE, AND BEYOND. Urban Geography. 16(4). 327–343. 72 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo, et al.. (1995). The Global Demography Project (95-6). eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1993). Three Presentations on Geographical Analysis and Modeling: Non- Isotropic Geographic Modeling; Speculations on the Geometry of Geography; and Global Spatial Analysis (93-1). eScholarship (California Digital Library). 117 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1992). Preliminary representation of world population by spherical harmonics.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 89(14). 6262–6264. 8 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1989). Spherical Quadrilateral to Map Scale Conversion. The American Cartographer. 16(1). 54–54. 1 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1986). Pseudo-Cartograms. The American Cartographer. 13(1). 43–50. 26 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1979). Estimation of Attractivities from Interactions. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 11(2). 121–127. 23 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1979). Smooth Pycnophylactic Interpolation for Geographical Regions: Rejoinder. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 74(367). 535–535. 4 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1978). A Mathematical Theory of Migration. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 10(11). 1223–1239. 46 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1978). Comparison of Plane Forms. Geographical Analysis. 10(2). 154–162. 38 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1978). Comparing figures by regression. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics. 12(3). 193–195. 5 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1976). Spatial Interaction Patterns. Journal of Environmental Systems. 6(4). 271–301. 85 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1974). Local Map Projections. The American Cartographer. 1(1). 51–62. 11 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1973). The hyperelliptical and other new pseudo cylindrical equal area map projections. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 78(11). 1753–1759. 15 indexed citations

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Glass, Leon & Waldo Tobler. (1971). General: Uniform Distribution of Objects in a Homogeneous Field: Cities on a Plain. Nature. 233(5314). 67–68. 61 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo & Sam Wineburg. (1971). A Cappadocian Speculation. Nature. 231(5297). 39–41. 51 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1970). A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region. Economic Geography. 46. 234–234. 6360 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tobler, Waldo & Charles M. Davis. (1968). A DIGITAL TERRAIN LIBRARY.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations

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Tobler, Waldo. (1963). Geographic Area and Map Projections. Geographical Review. 53(1). 59–59. 87 indexed citations

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