Research
Peer-reviewed publications
Kotov, E., Vidal-Tortosa, E., Cantú-Ros, O. G., Burrieza-Galán, J., Herranz, R., Gullón Muñoz-Repiso, T., & Lovelace, R. (2026). spanishoddata: A package for accessing and working with Spanish Open Mobility Big Data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.
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Workshop materials for Analysing massive open human mobility data using spanishoddata, duckdb and flowmaps at Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) Conference 2025. Salzburg, Austria.
Tutorial materials for Mobility Flows and Accessibility Using R and Big Open Data at IC2S2 (11th International Conference on Computational Social Science), Norrköping, Sweden. In collaboration with Johannes Mast.
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Pardo-Araujo, M., Kotov, E., Alonso, D. & Bartumeus, F. (2026). Understanding Mosquito Vector Invasion Pathways: Synergistic Effects of Human Mobility, Climate and Natural Dispersal. Ecology Letters.
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Kotov, E., & Denecke, E. (2024). Expanding the Lifespan of Software for Demographic Analysis with Containers: An Application of Spatial Sampling. The Denominator. Population Dynamics Lab.
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Related: Kotov, E., & Denecke, E. (2024). Increasing the Lifespan of Software for Demographic Analysis. The Download. Population Dynamics Lab.
Goncharov, R., Kotov, E., & Molodtsova, V. (2023). Local Factors and COVID-19 Severity: Typological Analysis of Urban Districts in Russia. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics (In Russian), 19(1), 93–120.
- English version: Goncharov, R. V., Kotov, E. A., & Molodtsova, V. A. (2024). Local Factors of COVID-19 Severity in Russian Urban Areas. Regional Research of Russia, 14(2), 227–239.
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- English version: Goncharov, R. V., Kotov, E. A., & Molodtsova, V. A. (2024). Local Factors of COVID-19 Severity in Russian Urban Areas. Regional Research of Russia, 14(2), 227–239.
Kotov, E., Goncharov, R., Kulchitsky, Y., Molodtsova, V., Nikitin, B. (2022). Spatial Modelling of Key Regional-Level Factors of COVID-19 Mortality in Russia. GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY, 15(2), 71–83
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Zamyatina, N., Kotov, E., Goncharov, R., Burceva, A., Grebenec, V., Medvedkov, A., Molodcova, V., Kljueva, V., Kulchitsky, Y., Mironova, B., Nikitin, B., Pilyasov, A., Polyachenko, A., Poturaeva, A., Streletskiy, D., & Shamalo, I. (2022). Resilience Potential of the Russian Arctic Cities. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria 5, Geografia (In Russian), 5, 52–65. URL: vestnik5.geogr.msu.ru/jour/article/view/1065
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- Pilyasov, A., Zamyatina, N., Kotov, E. (2021). The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russian regions in 2020: Models and reality. Economy of Region/Ekonomika Regiona (In Russian), 17(4), 1079–1095.
- Kotov, E., Gorodnichev, A. (2017). Development trends in Moscow: Development of new centers, strengthening of existing ones or ad hoc development? Proceedings of XVII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Vol. 4 (In Russian), 1, 344–351. Full text at hse.ru
- Butorina, S., Kotov, E. (2016). Effects of transport infrastructure built for mega sports events on transportation systems of host cities. Urban Studies and Practices (In Russian), 1(3), 69–85.
Preprints
Renninger, A., Kotov, E., & Cabrera, C. (2026). The scales of urban mobility shape socioeconomic mixing. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.28734.
Basilone, R., Bergamin, E., Fanelli, F., Kotov, E., Morelle, K., Klamm, A., Nhili, M., Rosen, J., Schendl, A., Holubowska, O., Renninger, A., & Smolak, K. (2025). Preliminary analysis of Sus scrofa movement using Hidden Markov Models and Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22138.
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings & extended abstracts
Kotov, E., Pardo-Araujo, M., Eritja, R., & Bartumeus, F. (2026). A causal analysis of human mobility on colonization of disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes in Spain. 29th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Poster & Extended Abstract.
Kotov, E., Theile, T., Hexel, O., Jacobs, E., Kim, J., Perrotta, D., & Zagheni, E. (2025). Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Implications for Socio-Economic Segregation Studies. Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT).
Kotov, E., Theile, T., Hexel, O., Jacobs, E., Kim, J., Perrotta, D., & Zagheni, E. (2025). Impact of Temporary Location Visitors on Mobile App Usage in French Cities: Implications for Socio-Economic Segregation Studies. AGILE Conference 2025.
Other publications
Kotov, E., Goncharov, R., Novikov, A., Nikogosyan, K., Gorodnichev, A. (2016). Moscow: Heading towards policentricity. Evaluation of the effects of development on polycentric development of Moscow. HSE University. Full text at ResearchGate.net
Kotov, E. (2014). State expertise of project design documentation (In Russian). In State control and supervision: Analytical report—2013 (pp. 236–250). MAKS Press. Full text at hse.ru