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Documents in top citation percentiles
Documents in top citation percentiles
(Percent of documents in the top 25% most cited documents worldwide)
86%
86%
Documents in top 25% journals by CiteScore percentile
Documents in top 25% journals by CiteScore percentile
(Percent of documents in the top 25% journals by CiteScore)
90%
90%
Coauthors
Coauthors
David Banister (University of Oxford)
Stephen Marshall (University College London)
Chris Rogers (University of Birmingham)
Frank van Oort (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
Roger White (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
from scopus 19 August 2025:
Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI)
Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) measures how a research output's citations compare to the global average for similar publications in the same field, type, and year. An FWCI of 1 means average impact, above 1 means higher impact, and below 1 means lower impact.
3.24 FWCI (First author: 11.733 FWCI)
Single Author:85% First Author:15% International collaborations:15.4% Academic-Corporate collaboration:7.7%
BOOKS:
2026
2024
2019
BOOK's Endorsements/Reviews
URBAN LIVING: ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONARY URBANISM (forthcoming - early 2026)
... a compelling synthesis ...
Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim and Professor at Heidelberg University; author of Nature and Science studies. Editor-in-Chief of Neuroscience Applied, laureate of the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award, Prix Roger de Spoelberch, and Robert Sommer Medal, and among the planet’s most Highly Cited Researchers.
... pathbreaking book...
Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor at Princeton University, former President of the American Sociological Association, and 2025 Princess of Asturias Laureate for Social Sciences. Author of Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World
... fascinating book...
Martin Brüne, Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatric Preventive Medicine at the LWL University-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum. Author of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine (Oxford University Press), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine.
... novelty, breadth and depth of thinking.
David Banister, Professor Emeritus at School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, former Director of the Environmental Change Institute, and of the Transport Studies Unit
... ambituous...
Peter H. Kahn, Professor of Psychology, Director of the Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab at the University of Washington. Editor-in-Chief of Ecopsychology. Author of Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life.
...more coming
URBAN SCALING (2024):
Richard Florida: … Must reading for all interested in this growing crucial field.
Roger W. White: …an essential resource for anyone interested in this increasingly important subject.
David Banister: …an authoritative contribution to our understanding of cities.
Christopher D.F. Rogers: …a profound contribution to the literature and a foundation on which all urban professionals can build.
Michael Batty: What we need is a theory or theories that tie all these different scaling relations together. [...] Glimpses of this theory are contained in the pages of this book and collectively they point to a greater understanding of how scaling can be used to define ways in which we can develop more sustainable and robust approaches to the design of better cities (from his introductory chapter)
THE MATHEMATICS OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY (2019):
Michael Batty: ...This book provides a useful perspective on the state of the art... There is much to absorb in the pages that follow... Much food for thought. Read on, digest, enjoy.
[from his foreword]
Meta Berghauser Pont: D’Acci has with this book provided a useful overview... fills an apparent gap in the literature... It is to be hoped that this can be the start of a long series of books and papers where this ‘new’ direction in urban morphology can flourish... something that becomes apparent when reading this book is the richness that the methods provide to conduct serious comparative research
[Berghauser Pont, M. (2019). Book review "The mathematics of urban morphology". Urban Morphology, 23(2):182-183]
Cui Liu: ... Luca D'Acci provides a comprehensive review of the latest research... provide a new opportunity to conceive cities between hard and soft sciences, between the scientific and humanistic views of world. As Luca D’Acci explains in the introduction, ‘this new science based on complexity paradigms, is a science that induces art, identified as personal uniqueness’. In that sense, this book is a valuable attempt to promote human-based dialogue between scholars from multiple disciplines and to study urban forms mathematically on a common ground.
[Cui Liu (2020). "Book review: The Mathematics of Urban Morphology," Urban Studies, 57(16):3421-3423]
Yilun Shang: This monograph gives a comprehensive and contemporary overview of many recent advances...
Selected publications:
Selected publications:
D'Acci L.S. (2025). The allometry of housing prices in urban scaling laws and an equalised dwellers’ utility across settlement sizes. Environment and Planning B
D'Acci L.S. (Ed.). (2025). Urban Scaling: Allometry in Urban Studies and Spatial Science. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003288312
D'Acci L.S. (2025). Empirical overview of urban scaling. Urban allometry origins, critics and city performance evaluations.
D'Acci L.S. (2025). Planning new cities and Isobenefit Urbanism. in Kälin C.H. (ed.), Global City. Bloomsbury Hart, London.
D'Acci L.S., Banister D., White R. W. (2024). Liveable urban forms: planning, self-organisation, and a third way (isobenefit urbanism). Nature - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11, Article number: 578 . DOI:10.1057/s41599-024-02975-w
Marshall S., Gabrieli T., Simons G., Marin V. D'Acci L. (2024) Simulating future urban growth and accessibility via cellular automata and QGIS. World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research. Under review.
D'Acci L.S. (2023). Is housing price distribution across cities, scale invariant? Fractal distribution of settlements’ house prices as signature of self-organized complexity. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 174:113766.
Heeseo Rain Kwon, Tommaso Gabrieli, Luca S. D'Acci and Stephen Marshall (2023). A morphological cellular automata-agent based model prototype for simulating future isobenefit urbanism growth. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2023, University of Galsgow.
D'Acci L.S., Banister D. (2023). This is your guide to Isobenefit Urbanism — the thinking behind the cities of the future. World Economic Forum.
D'Acci L.S., Voto M. (2023). Morphogenesis of Isobenefit Urbanism: isobenefit-cities simulator. SoftwareX , (23):101408.
D'Acci L.S. (2021). Preferring or Needing Cities? (Evolutionary?) Psychology, Utility and Life Satisfaction of Urban Life. City, Culture and Society, 24:100375
D'Acci L.S., Marshall S., van Oort F., Rogers C.D.F., Gabrieli T., Voto M. (2021). Planning, environmental, economic perspectives of urban isobenefit morphogenesis. Ecocity world summit 2021.
D'Acci L.S., Voto M. (2021). A cellular automata for e-planning sustainable urban forms. SIMAI 2021.
D'Acci L. (2020). Urbanicity mental costs valuation. A review and urban-societal planning consideration. Mind & Society, 19:223–23
D'Acci L. (2019). New type of cities for liveable futures. Isobenefit Urbanism morphogenesis. Journal of Environmental Management, 246:128-140
D’Acci L. (Ed) (2019), The Mathematics of Urban Morphology. Birkhäuser, (Springer Nature), Cham. With Foreword of Michael Batty.
D'Acci L. (2019), On Urban Morphology and Mathematics. In: D’Acci L. (Ed) (2019), The Mathematics of Urban Morphology. Birkhäuser, (Springer Nature), Cham.
D'Acci L. (2019). Orientational versus esthetical parametrization in space syntax. Spatial Cognition & Computation, 19(3):172-189.
D’Acci L. (2019). Aesthetical cognitive perceptions of urban street form. Pedestrian preferences toward straight or curvy route shapes. Journal of Urban Design, 24(6):896-912
D'Acci L. (2019). Quality of urban area, distance from city centre, and housing value. Cities, 91:71-92
D'Acci L. (2015). Mathematize urbes by humanizing them. Cities as Isobenefit Landscapes: Psycho-Economical distances and Personal Isobenefit Lines. Landscape and Urban Planning, 139:63-81.
D'Acci L. (2014). Monetary, Subjective and Quantitative Approaches to Assess Urban Quality of Life and Pleasantness in Cities. Social Indicators Research, 115(2):531-559
D'Acci, L. (2014). Urban DNA for cities evolutions. Computers and Society arXiv:1408.2874
D'Acci L. (2013). Hedonic inertia and underground happiness. Social Indicators Research, 113(3):237-1259
D'Acci L. (2013). Simulating Future Societies in Isobenefit Cities. Futures, 54:3–18.
D'Acci L. (2011). Measuring Well-Being and Progress, Social Indicators Research,104(1):47-65.
in progress:
in progress:
D'Acci L.S., Marshall S. (2025). Toward a parametric urbanism (accepted for ISUF 2025)
D'Acci L.S. (2024). Urban Living: Evolutionary perspectives. Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy book series. Accepted BOOK
D'Acci L.S. (2022). Urban form topological street pattern and housing value. Done but never sent.
D’Acci L.S., Terna P. Citizens as Urban Planners. A Multi-Agent Based model of household location choice. In standby (my fault)
D'Acci L.S., Pojani D. Emergence of Space and Place centralities in spontaneous urban settlements. In standby (my fault)
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