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The scales of human mobility.
Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Recent advances in urban system science: Models and data.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
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- One rule does not fit all: Deviations from universality in human mobility modeling.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Structural inequality shapes the daily rhythm of stationarity and mobility.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Emergence of power laws in hierarchical dynamics on multi-level graphs.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Human mobility in the metaverse mirrors patterns in the physical world.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Mobility-driven estimate reveals elevated air pollution exposure and socioeconomic disparities beyond residence-based approaches in Boston.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- What is emergence, after all?PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Distance-amplified power-law distributions better characterize human long-distance travel.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Disentangling the impacts of collective mobility of residents and non-residents on burglary levels.Computational urban science · 2026Article
- Spatial and temporal associations between physical establishment density and hearing difficulty across US counties.PloS one · 2026Article
- Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Anonymised human location data in England for urban mobility research.Scientific data · 2025Article
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- Exploring the interplay between population profile and optimal routes in U.S. cities.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Investigating the central place theory using trajectory big data.Fundamental research · 2025Article
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- The spatiotemporal scaling laws of urban population dynamics.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
There is a contradiction at the heart of our current understanding of individual and collective mobility patterns. On the one hand, a highly influential body of literature on human mobility driven by analyses of massive empirical datasets finds that human movements show no evidence of characteristic spatial scales. There, human mobility is described as scale free
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