Academic papers & publications

Posts tagged with Call Detail Records (CDR)

Bias estimates for mobile phone data (MPD)-derived mobility statistics in low-and middle-income countries

16 Oct 2025

Targeting mobile money cash transfers for emergency relief using Call Detail Records in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

16 Oct 2025

Challenges in predicting individual poverty status from MNO customer segmentation metrics and phone surveys: a Papua New Guinea case study

06 Oct 2023

Flowminder standards in producing mobility and population estimates from call details records in low- and middle-income countries

06 Oct 2023

Assessing the utility of mobile network operator data in geospatial models of poverty - a Ghana case study

06 Oct 2023

Using survey data to correct for representation biases in mobility indicators derived from mobile operator data to produce high-frequency estimates of population and internal migration

06 Oct 2023

Correcting measurement biases in the detection of long and short stay locations in sparse Call Detail Records (CDRs)

06 Oct 2023

The impact of apparent ‘teleports’ on the estimation of mobility from Call Detail Records (CDRs)

06 Oct 2023

Monitoring the impact of the 2020-2021 COVID-19 mobility restrictions: Flowminder CDR analysis in seven low- and middle-income countries

06 Oct 2023

Enabling the Ghanaian National Statistics Office to produce official statistics derived from mobile operator data with applications across the public sector

06 Oct 2023

Call detail record aggregation methodology impacts infectious disease models informed by human mobility

15 Aug 2023
PLoS Computational Biology, 10 August 2023. 19(8): e1011368. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011368

Mobile phone usage data for disaster response

04 Apr 2022
Communications of the ACM: 04 April 2022. Volume 65. Issue 4.

Guiding principles to maintain public trust in the use of mobile operator data for policy purposes

04 Oct 2021
Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2021. Data & Policy, 3, E24. doi:10.1017/dap.2021.21

Analysis of call detail records to inform the COVID-19 response in Ghana—opportunities and challenges

26 Jun 2021
Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2021.

Towards high-resolution sex-dissagregated dynamic mapping

18 Sep 2019
Data2X, Final Report

Estimating the resilience to natural disasters by using call detail records to analyse the mobility of internally displaced persons

06 Aug 2019
arXiv.org, arXiv:1908.02381 [physics.soc-ph]

Detecting individual internal displacements following a sudden-onset disaster using time series analysis of call detail records

06 Aug 2019
arXiv.org, arXiv:1908.02377 [physics.soc-ph]

Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus

08 Apr 2019
Nature Microbiology, 4, 854–863 (2019)

Exploring the use of mobile phone data for national migration statistics

26 Mar 2019
Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Communications 5, Article number: 34 (2019)

On the privacy-conscientious use of mobile phone data

11 Dec 2018
Scientific Data, 2018, 5, 180286

Population mobility reductions associated with travel restrictions during the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone: use of mobile phone data

26 Jun 2018
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2018, 1–9

A trip to work: Estimation of origin and destination of commuting patterns in the main metropolitan regions of Haiti using CDR

30 Mar 2018
Development Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.deveng.2018.03.002

Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data

01 Feb 2017
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, February 2017 Volume 14, issue 127

Rapid and Near Real-Time Assessments of Population Displacement Using Mobile Phone Data Following Disasters: The 2015 Nepal Earthquake

24 Feb 2016
PloS Currents Disasters, Feb 2016

Unveiling Hidden Migration and Mobility Patterns in Climate Stressed Regions: A Longitudinal Study of Six Million Anonymous Mobile Phone Users in Bangladesh

18 Feb 2016
Global Environment Change, May 2016

Quantifying Seasonal Population Fluxes Driving Rubella Transmission Dynamics Using Mobile Phone Data

21 Jul 2015
Amy Wesolowski, C. J. E. Metcalf, Nathan Eagle, Janeth Kombich, Bryan T. Grenfell, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Justin Lessler, Andrew Tatem, and Caroline Buckee. PNAS, Jul 2015

Quantifying the Impact of Accessibility on Preventive Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Mobile Phone Data

18 Mar 2015
Epidemiology, Feb 2015

Remotely Measuring Populations During a Crisis By Overlaying Two Data Sources

18 Mar 2015
International Health, Mar 2015

Using Mobile Phone Data to Predict the Spatial Spread of Cholera

18 Mar 2015
By Linus Bengtsson, Jean Gaudart, Xin Lu, Sandra Moore, Erik Wetter, Kankoe Sallah, Stanislas Rebaudet, and Renaud Piarroux. Scientific Reports, Mar 2015

Containing the Ebola Outbreak — The Potential and Challenge of Mobile Data

30 Sep 2014
PloS Current Outbreaks, Sep 2014