Researchers have contributed significantly to the development of the subject of urban green and
open spaces (UGOS) in both practical and fundamental aspects. As the number of citations
indicates a paper and author’s competency, the online web of science (ISI) was browsed to
identify the 100 most cited papers in the field of UGOS from 1980 to 2013. Papers were
analyzed for authorship, journal sources, publishers, institutions, countries, year of publication,
categories, and author keywords. The total number of citations was compared to the average
number of citations per year. From 1105 UGOS papers returned, the maximum number of
citations was 212. The top 100 most cited were published from 1988 to 2011, with the majority
in 2007. A remarkable distinction was found in the comparison of total citations and average
citations per year. As total linear trend indicates a significant growth in influential articles, urban
green and open spaces are a developing subject in landscape and urban planning. This study
gives an insight into the readership of UGOS by highlighting key papers.
Nader
Ale Ebrahim holds a PhD degree in Technology Management from the Department of
Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of
Malaya. He holds a Master of Science in the Mechanical Engineering from the
University of Tehran with distinguished honors. He also has over 19 years of
experience in the establishment of the R&D departments in different
companies, heading projects as the project director and project coordinator and
implementing knowledge based system in the R&D department. His current
research interest focuses on E-skills, Research Tools, Bibliometrics and
managing virtual NPD teams in SMEs’ R&D centers. His papers/articles have
published and presented in the several journals and conferences.
