Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities LMA Bettencourt, J Lobo, D Helbing, C Kühnert, GB West Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 104 (17), 7301-7306, 2007 | 3068 | 2007 |
The origins of scaling in cities LMA Bettencourt science 340 (6139), 1438-1441, 2013 | 1538 | 2013 |
A unified theory of urban living L Bettencourt, G West Nature 467 (7318), 912-913, 2010 | 1112 | 2010 |
Evolution and structure of sustainability science LMA Bettencourt, J Kaur Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (49), 19540-19545, 2011 | 644 | 2011 |
Urban scaling and its deviations: Revealing the structure of wealth, innovation and crime across cities LMA Bettencourt, J Lobo, D Strumsky, GB West PloS one 5 (11), e13541, 2010 | 634 | 2010 |
The power of a good idea: Quantitative modeling of the spread of ideas from epidemiological models LMA Bettencourt, A Cintrón-Arias, DI Kaiser, C Castillo-Chávez Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 364, 513-536, 2006 | 554 | 2006 |
Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size LMA Bettencourt, J Lobo, D Strumsky Research policy 36 (1), 107-120, 2007 | 472 | 2007 |
Comparative estimation of the reproduction number for pandemic influenza from daily case notification data G Chowell, H Nishiura, LMA Bettencourt Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4 (12), 155-166, 2007 | 411 | 2007 |
Real time bayesian estimation of the epidemic potential of emerging infectious diseases LMA Bettencourt, RM Ribeiro PloS one 3 (5), e2185, 2008 | 361 | 2008 |
The scaling of human interactions with city size M Schläpfer, LMA Bettencourt, S Grauwin, M Raschke, R Claxton, ... Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11 (98), 20130789, 2014 | 344 | 2014 |
Clickstream data yields high-resolution maps of science J Bollen, H Van de Sompel, A Hagberg, L Bettencourt, R Chute, ... PloS one 4 (3), e4803, 2009 | 315 | 2009 |
Mathematical and statistical estimation approaches in epidemiology H Nishiura Springer, 2009 | 295 | 2009 |
Invention as a combinatorial process: evidence from US patents H Youn, D Strumsky, LMA Bettencourt, J Lobo Journal of the Royal Society interface 12 (106), 20150272, 2015 | 285 | 2015 |
The uses of big data in cities LMA Bettencourt Big data 2 (1), 12-22, 2014 | 252 | 2014 |
Functional structure of cortical neuronal networks grown in vitro LMA Bettencourt, GJ Stephens, MI Ham, GW Gross Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 75 (2 …, 2007 | 240 | 2007 |
Scientific discovery and topological transitions in collaboration networks LMA Bettencourt, DI Kaiser, J Kaur Journal of Informetrics 3 (3), 210-221, 2009 | 222 | 2009 |
COVID-19 attack rate increases with city size AJ Stier, MG Berman, L Bettencourt arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.10376, 2020 | 212 | 2020 |
The pre-history of urban scaling SG Ortman, AHF Cabaniss, JO Sturm, LMA Bettencourt PloS one 9 (2), e87902, 2014 | 212 | 2014 |
Urban scaling in Europe LMA Bettencourt, J Lobo Journal of The Royal Society Interface 13 (116), 20160005, 2016 | 210 | 2016 |
The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic in England and Wales: spatial patterns in transmissibility and mortality impact G Chowell, LMA Bettencourt, N Johnson, WJ Alonso, C Viboud Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1634), 501-509, 2008 | 208 | 2008 |