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Urban Areas in front of Neighborhoods. Analysis of urban characteristics in the face of the challenge of the post-COVID 19 city: the case of Madrid

Publicated to: CIUDAD Y TERRITORIO ESTUDIOS TERRITORIALES CyTET. 52 (205): 665-684 - 2020-09-01 52(205), DOI: 10.37230/CyTET.2020.205.13.2

Authors:

Cordoba-Hernandez, Rafael; Fernandez-Ramirez, Cristina; Hernandez-Aja, Agustin; Sanchez-Toscano Salgado, Gonzalo; Manuel Gomez-Gimenez, Jose
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Affiliations

ONU Habitat Planners Climate Act P4CA, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Escuela Tecn Super Arquitectura, Dept Urbanist & Ordenac Terr, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Conditions imposed by COVID19 pandemic have revealed the weakness of a urban space of Madrid, that is optimized for the private motor traffic. It is analyzed the capacity of the urban framework to provide citizen needs on the closest scale, known as 15-Minute City. The virus incidence data, mobility patterns, population density have been territorialized, including an analysis of the nearby space, surface of sidewalks and roads, per inhabitant. It shows a risk of the increase in previous inequalities, in an urban and territorial context segregated by income and functions. The results on the nearest scale allow us to observe the major role of the street and sidewalk space, which, along with public transport, will have to be redesigned to facilitate its use in safe conditions.
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Keywords

Crono-urbanismMobilityNeighbourhoodPost-covid19 cityUrban space

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal CIUDAD Y TERRITORIO ESTUDIOS TERRITORIALES CyTET, Q3 Agency Scopus (SJR), its regional focus and specialization in Urban Studies, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.23. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.16 (source consulted: FECYT Mar 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2026-04-26, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 10
  • Scopus: 22
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-26:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 41.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 77 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/64311/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 905
  • Downloads: 418
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (CORDOBA HERNANDEZ, RAFAEL) and Last Author (GOMEZ GIMENEZ, JOSE MANUEL).

the authors responsible for correspondence tasks have been CORDOBA HERNANDEZ, RAFAEL, SÁNCHEZ-TOSCANO SALGADO, GONZALO and GOMEZ GIMENEZ, JOSE MANUEL.

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