ArticleJournal of geographical systems2022
The propagation effect of commuting to work in the spatial transmission of COVID-19.
Article in Journal of geographical systems, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Spatio-Temporal COVID-19 Modeling: A Global Systematic Review of Data Integration, Equity, and Lessons for Pandemic Preparedness.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Pooled it
- Revealing spatiotemporal variations in areas potentially linked to COVID-19 spread using fine-grained population data.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A Bayesian mixture model for Poisson network autoregression.Social network analysis and mining · 2025Article
- COVID-19-related hospital admission in spouses of partners in at-risk occupations.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2023Article
- A Model for Highly Fluctuating Spatio-Temporal Infection Data, with Applications to the COVID Epidemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution: An ecological study of its effect on COVID-19 cases and fatality in Germany.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Factors that most expose countries to COVID-19: a composite indicators-based approach.GeoJournal · 2022Article
- A spatio-temporal autoregressive model for monitoring and predicting COVID infection rates.Journal of geographical systems · 2022Article
- Clustering Accelerometer Activity Patterns from the UK Biobank Cohort.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- The Covid-19 containment effects of public health measures: A spatial difference-in-differences approach.Journal of regional science · 2021Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This work is concerned with the spatiotemporal dynamics of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Germany. Our goal is twofold: first, we propose a novel spatial econometric model of the epidemic spread across NUTS-3 regions to identify the role played by commuting-to-work patterns for spatial disease transmission. Second, we explore if the imposed containment (lockdown) measures during the first pandemic wave in spring 2020 have affected the strength of this transmission channel. Our results from a spatial panel error correction model indicate that, without containment measures in place, commuting-to-work patterns were the first factor to significantly determine the spatial dynamics of daily COVID-19 cases in Germany. This indicates that job commuting, particularly during the initial phase of a pandemic wave, should be regarded and accordingly monitored as a relevant spatial transmission channel of COVID-19 in a system of economically interconnected regions. Our estimation results also provide evidence for the triggering role of local hot spots in disease transmission and point to the effectiveness of containment measures in mitigating the spread of the virus across German regions through reduced job commuting and other forms of mobility. Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10109-021-00349-3.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.