↓ Skip to main content

Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization

Overview of attention for article published in Planning Theory, February 2009
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 262)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
policy
6 policy sources
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
1416 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization
Published in
Planning Theory, February 2009
DOI 10.1177/1473095208099299
Authors

Ananya Roy

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,416 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 10 <1%
United Kingdom 8 <1%
India 6 <1%
Germany 3 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Other 6 <1%
Unknown 1375 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 286 20%
Student > Master 275 19%
Researcher 116 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 97 7%
Student > Bachelor 75 5%
Other 196 14%
Unknown 371 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 545 38%
Environmental Science 107 8%
Arts and Humanities 100 7%
Engineering 63 4%
Design 51 4%
Other 138 10%
Unknown 412 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,513,963
of 33,059,767 outputs
Outputs from Planning Theory
#5
of 262 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,623
of 241,979 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Planning Theory
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,059,767 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 262 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 241,979 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them