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Researcher · University of British Columbia · Canada

David Ley

David Ley publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies and Geography, Planning and Development, on topics such as Urban Planning and Governance, Urbanization and City Planning and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism.

ORCID 0000-0002-9112-4126 OpenAlex
World rank
#11,931
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#217
of 183,316
Works
154
Citations
9.1k
Citations per work
58.9
h-index
45
i10-index 81Top 0.6% in Sociology and Political Science
David Ley

What does David Ley research?

David Ley's work is mostly in Social Sciences (65%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (5%).

Social Sciences: 109 works · 70.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 101 works · 65.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 43 works · 28.1% of their workUrban Studies: 32 works · 20.6% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 12 works · 7.5% of their workDemography: 7 works · 4.8% of their workAnthropology: 7 works · 4.5% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 works · 5.4% of their workFinance: 8 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 29.1% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Ley154works
Social Sciences71%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences10165.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance85.4%
  2. Everything else4529.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2Urban Studies21% of their works
  3. 3Geography, Planning and Development8% of their works
  4. 4Finance5% of their works
  5. 5Demography5% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Ley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Neoliberalism, Gentrification, Urbanism, Shrinking Cities, Urban Decline, Financialization and Shareholder Value.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization624 topics
  2. Neoliberalism412 topics
  3. Gentrification251 topic
  4. Urbanism251 topic
  5. Shrinking Cities221 topic
  6. Urban Decline221 topic
  7. Financialization161 topic
  8. Shareholder Value161 topic
  9. Ethnic Minority Business141 topic
  10. Immigrant Entrepreneurship141 topic
  11. Geography131 topic
  12. Immigration131 topic
  13. Public Policy131 topic
  14. Remittances131 topic
  15. Neighborhood Effects121 topic
  16. Residential Segregation121 topic
  17. Nationalism111 topic
  18. Philippines111 topic

Where does David Ley work?

David Ley's main affiliation in the publication record is University of British Columbia, Canada.

How many publications and citations does David Ley have?

OpenAlex counts 154 works and 9,064 citations for David Ley, an h-index of 45, ranking #11,931 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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