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Researcher · University of Hong Kong · China

Lawrence W.C. Lai

Lawrence W.C. Lai publishes mostly in Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, on topics such as Housing Market and Economics, Land Rights and Reforms and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism.

ORCID 0000-0002-8960-2766 OpenAlex
World rank
#93,762
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#7,965
of 978,568
Works
169
Citations
2.2k
Citations per work
12.8
h-index
26
i10-index 77Top 6.4% in Economics and Econometrics
Lawrence W.C. Lai

What does Lawrence W.C. Lai research?

Lawrence W.C. Lai's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (21%), Social Sciences (20%), Environmental Science (12%).

Everything else: 78 works · 46.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 70 works · 41.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 35 works · 20.7% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 35 works · 20.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 20.5% of their workUrban Studies: 16 works · 9.4% of their workLaw: 10 works · 5.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 works · 5.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 21 works · 12.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 21 works · 12.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 12 works · 7.2% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKLawrence W.C. Lai169works
Physical Sciences12%Social Sciences41%

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. Everything else7846.4%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3520.7%
    2. Social Sciences3520.5%
    1. Environmental Science2112.4%
  1. 1Economics and Econometrics21% of their works
  2. 2Urban Studies9% of their works
  3. 3Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law7% of their works
  4. 4Law6% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change5% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lawrence W.C. Lai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Urban Development, Real Estate Market, Housing Supply, Mortgage Credit Expansion, Property Rights, Neoliberalism, Agricultural Investment and Land Tenure.

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.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Urban Development482 topics
  2. Real Estate Market472 topics
  3. Housing Supply361 topic
  4. Mortgage Credit Expansion361 topic
  5. Property Rights362 topics
  6. Neoliberalism332 topics
  7. Agricultural Investment211 topic
  8. Land Tenure211 topic
  9. Financialization201 topic
  10. Shareholder Value201 topic
  11. Compensation151 topic
  12. Eminent Domain151 topic
  13. Shrinking Cities151 topic
  14. Urban Decline151 topic
  15. Gentrification131 topic
  16. Urbanism131 topic
  17. Adaptive Reuse121 topic
  18. Intangible Heritage121 topic
  19. Sustainability111 topic
  20. Transferable Development Rights111 topic

Where does Lawrence W.C. Lai work?

Lawrence W.C. Lai's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Hong Kong, China.

How many publications and citations does Lawrence W.C. Lai have?

OpenAlex counts 169 works and 2,156 citations for Lawrence W.C. Lai, an h-index of 26, ranking #93,762 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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