---
title: "SafeGraph: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 14 archived papers mentioned SafeGraph in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (3)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/safegraph
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/safegraph.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 14 archived papers mentioned SafeGraph in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (3). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# SafeGraph

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/6.md)

Phone-based foot traffic and movement data, public transit feeds and trip records of shared mobility.

- data category: Mobility and location data
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: SafeGraph

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Mobility and location data datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mobility-and-location-data.md



## Key findings

- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 14 archived papers mentioned SafeGraph in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jun 2024 (3).
- No paper of the tracked journals mentioned SafeGraph in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), SafeGraph was mentioned in 20 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (11), AI (2) and health economics and policy (2).
- 3 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were National Bureau of Economic Research (2), University of Southern California (2) and Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2), Transportation (1) and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (1).
- The most-cited of them is “PromptCast: A New Prompt-Based Learning Paradigm for Time Series Forecasting” (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023), with 312 citations.
- Papers use SafeGraph most often with Facebook (4), American Community Survey (3) and Yelp (3); it has 3 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

## Mentions over 36 months

*Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)*

| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
|  | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-academy-of-marketing-science.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | 1 |
| 5 | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 1 |
| 6 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 1 |
| 7 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 1 |
| 9 | [Land Use Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/land-use-policy.md) | 1 |
| 10 | [Social Science & Medicine](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/social-science-medicine.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [National Bureau of Economic Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-bureau-of-economic-research.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [University of Southern California](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-southern-california.md) | 2 |
| 3 | Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science | 1 |
| 4 | [Arizona State University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/arizona-state-university.md) | 1 |
| 5 | Beijing University of Chemical Technology | 1 |
| 6 | Brown University | 1 |
| 7 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 1 |
| 8 | [Cornell University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/cornell-university.md) | 1 |
| 9 | Drexel University | 1 |
| 10 | Emory University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 11 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 2 |
| 3 | Australia | 1 |
| 4 | Canada | 1 |
| 5 | China | 1 |
| 6 | Germany | 1 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 1 |
| 8 | Italy | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 7 |
| 2 | mobile phone data | 2 |
| 3 | urban mobility | 2 |
| 4 | Austin, Texas | 1 |
| 5 | COVID-19 mortality | 1 |
| 6 | Italy | 1 |
| 7 | Los Angeles County | 1 |
| 8 | National Park Service | 1 |
| 9 | REACH regulation | 1 |
| 10 | SARS-CoV-2 transmission | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 312 | 9.0 | [PromptCast: A New Prompt-Based Learning Paradigm for Time Series Forecasting](https://doi.org/10.1109/tkde.2023.3342137) | [IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-knowledge-and-data-engineering.md) | 2023-12-13 | Hao Xue, Flora Dilys Salim |
| 2 | 33 | 0.5 | [The Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Policy Responses to the Covid-19 School Closures](https://doi.org/10.1057/s41308-022-00196-2) | [IMF Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/imf-economic-review.md) | 2021-10-01 | Nicola Fuchs‐Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, André Kurmann et al. |
| 3 | 33 | 0.6 | [Socio-economic disparities in activity-travel behavior adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic in North Carolina](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.05.012) | [Transport Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transport-policy.md) | 2022-05-27 | Jueyu Wang, Nikhil Kaza, Noreen McDonald et al. |
| 4 | 29 | 0.7 | [Spatial, temporal, and social dynamics in visitation to U.S. national parks: A big data approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmp.2023.101143) | [Tourism Management Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/tourism-management-perspectives.md) | 2023-07-11 | Junyu Lu, Xiao Huang, John A. Kupfer et al. |
| 5 | 28 | 0.5 | [Restaurant closures during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110380) | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 2022-02-16 | Dmitry Sedov |

## Used together with

Papers use SafeGraph most often with Facebook (4), American Community Survey (3) and Yelp (3); it has 3 partners in the code and data network, in the group around Twitter / X, Facebook, YouTube / TikTok.

*What papers use SafeGraph together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)*

| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---:|---:|
| [Facebook](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/facebook.md) | Dataset | 4 | 3.2 |
| [American Community Survey](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/american-community-survey.md) | Dataset | 3 | 24.2 |
| [Yelp](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/yelp.md) | Dataset | 3 | 19.7 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). SafeGraph. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/safegraph

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-safegraph,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {SafeGraph},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/safegraph}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).