Planning Citation MetricsBeta

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This site is new and under active development. Figures, rosters and rankings will change as our data collection methods improve. Some of what's here today is almost certainly incorrect: appointments are inferred from public profiles, a few people are matched to the wrong record, and anyone who has moved recently may still be listed at their old program.

If you find an error in your own entry or anywhere else, or you would rather not be listed, email Alex Karner at planning-citations@austin.utexas.edu. Corrections are quick to apply and genuinely welcome. Technical problems can also go in the issue tracker.

Citation metrics for urban planning faculty

Total citations and h-indices for 1,058 faculty at 120 planning programs in the United States and Canada. These are refreshed on a regular schedule so should always be reasonably current for those with a Google Scholar or OpenAlex profile.

Press / to jump to search. Google Scholar profiles are re-read on a rolling schedule; the figures shown were read between 12 October 2026 and 15 October 2026.

1,058
faculty
120
programs
15 October 2026
Google Scholar last read
15 October 2026
OpenAlex refreshed

801 from Google Scholar · 230 from OpenAlex · 27 still on Publish or Perish figures from February. A Scholar profile moves a person onto the refreshed series.

Where the field sits

RankFacultyMedian citations75th percentileMedian h-index
Assistant professors1402926507
Associate professors2991,1042,29715
Full professors3622,9346,11624

Among faculty with a Google Scholar profile, read between 12 October 2026 and 15 October 2026. Half of all assistant professors here have fewer than 292 citations; a number is only meaningful next to its rank.

Most cited in the past year

The five people in each rank who received the most citations in the twelve months before their Google Scholar profile was last read, estimated from the profile's own per-year counts. The grey figure is the share of their total citations that arrived in that year.

Assistant professors

Associate professors

Full professors

Scholar reports whole calendar years, so the past year is this year's count so far plus the matching share of last year's. Profiles with fewer than 100 citations in all are left out.

New to the record

What changed in the last three months. Everything here comes from a person's own public Scholar profile or their program's website.

Scholar profiles found 31

People previously shown on OpenAlex or Publish or Perish figures who now have a Scholar profile on record. The daily search adds more as it finds them.

Now at a new program 12

  • Maura AllaireArizona State University → UC Irvine
  • Sharmistha Bagchi-SenArizona State University → University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  • Jesse LeCavalierNew Jersey Institute of Technology → Cornell University
  • Aaron FloresUniversity of Arizona → Arizona State University
  • Renee TappUniversity of Florida → UNC
  • Rolf PendallUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign → University of New Mexico
  • Alan WiigUniversity of Massachusetts-Boston → University of Florida
  • Ryan AllenUniversity of Minnesota → University of Virginia
  • Abigail CochranUniversity of Nebraska → Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
  • Bryce LoweryUniversity of Oklahoma → San Diego State University
  • Lois TakahashiUSC → San Jose State University
  • Rachel WeberUniversity of Illinois, Chicago → Harvard University

20 people left the tracked programs and are no longer listed; their earlier figures remain in the downloadable data.

Leaderboards

These barely move between updates, so they are folded away. The full, sortable versions are on the Rankings and Departments pages.

Most cited faculty
NameSchoolCitationsh-index
1Lawrence FrankUC San Diego62,495110
2Carlo RattiMIT53,498117
3Reid EwingUniversity of Utah52,30184
4Nik TheodoreUniversity of Illinois, Chicago36,04858
5Robert BullardTexas Southern University32,59765
6Julian AgyemanTufts University32,20850
7Marta GonzalezUC Berkeley30,14766
8Ananya RoyUCLA27,37450
9Marina AlbertiUniversity of Washington25,94657
10Ahmed El-GeneidyMcGill University24,03783

Full faculty rankings →

Programs by median citations
SchoolFacultyMedianMean
1MIT323,9706,629
2UCLA233,7885,621
3UC Berkeley133,7228,662
4New York University73,6324,523
5University of Colorado, Denver63,5684,218
6McGill University73,5276,837
7USC133,3355,927
8UNC192,9275,075
9Tufts University82,8826,606
10The New School42,7193,062

Programs with at least three faculty tracked. All programs →

What to know before citing these numbers

Citation counts measure attention, not quality, and they differ enormously by subfield, career stage, and publication venue. A number here is a rough indicator of reach at one moment, nothing more. The methods page explains where each figure comes from and the ways it can be wrong.