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 1,059 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 figures as of 2026-09-29.

1,059
faculty
120
programs
29 September 2026
Google Scholar refreshed
9 October 2026
OpenAlex refreshed

808 from Google Scholar · 206 from OpenAlex · 45 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 professors1412826487
Associate professors3031,0872,28814
Full professors3642,9146,04724

Among faculty with a Google Scholar profile, as of 29 September 2026. Half of all assistant professors here have fewer than 282 citations; a number is only meaningful next to its rank.

New to the record

What the September update changed. Everything here comes from a person's own public Scholar profile.

Scholar profiles found 26

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 11

Promotions recorded 136

83 of these were read from program websites during the September roster review, which mostly brought records up to date rather than marking promotions this term; 53 were read from changes on Google Scholar profiles. Neither tells us when a promotion actually happened.

18 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 Diego61,901109
2Carlo RattiMIT52,753117
3Reid EwingUniversity of Utah51,77783
4Nik TheodoreUniversity of Illinois, Chicago35,80158
5Robert BullardTexas Southern University32,30064
6Julian AgyemanTufts University31,81750
7Marta GonzalezUC Berkeley29,85966
8Ananya RoyUCLA27,01350
9Marina AlbertiUniversity of Washington25,71556
10Yan SongUNC23,93375

Full faculty rankings →

Programs by median citations
SchoolFacultyMedianMean
1MIT324,0446,575
2UCLA233,7285,562
3UC Berkeley133,6908,580
4New York University73,5884,483
5University of Colorado, Denver63,5224,171
6McGill University73,4776,752
7USC133,3215,877
8UNC182,8985,917
9Tufts University82,7866,518
10The New School42,6753,028

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.