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Researcher · King's College London · United Kingdom

Loretta Lees

Loretta Lees publishes mostly in Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Finance, on topics such as Urban Planning and Governance, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism and Urbanization and City Planning.

ORCID 0000-0001-5834-8155 OpenAlex
World rank
#25,478
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,868
of 367,258
Works
234
Citations
9.9k
Citations per work
42.5
h-index
45
i10-index 79Top 0.2% in Urban Studies
Loretta Lees

What does Loretta Lees research?

Loretta Lees's work is mostly in Social Sciences (64%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (5%).

Social Sciences: 171 works · 73.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 149 works · 63.5% of their workUrban Studies: 105 works · 45.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 24 works · 10.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 10 works · 4.3% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 9 works · 3.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 23 works · 9.7% of their workFinance: 23 works · 9.7% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 21.6% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 5.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 works · 5.2% of their workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 12 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKLoretta Lees234works
Life Sciences5%Social Sciences73%

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 Sciences14963.5%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance239.7%
  2. Everything else5121.6%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences125.2%
  1. 1Urban Studies45% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Finance10% of their works
  4. 4General Agricultural and Biological Sciences5% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Loretta Lees's research?

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

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. Neoliberalism1342 topics
  2. Gentrification921 topic
  3. Urbanism921 topic
  4. Financialization421 topic
  5. Shareholder Value421 topic
  6. Shrinking Cities421 topic
  7. Urban Decline421 topic
  8. Creative Economy411 topic
  9. Urban Development411 topic
  10. Urban Poverty252 topics
  11. Agricultural Change231 topic
  12. Rural Development231 topic
  13. Neighborhood Effects131 topic
  14. Residential Segregation131 topic
  15. Housing Policy121 topic
  16. Slum Upgrading121 topic
  17. British Politics101 topic
  18. Depoliticisation101 topic

Where does Loretta Lees work?

Loretta Lees's main affiliation in the publication record is King's College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Loretta Lees have?

OpenAlex counts 234 works and 9,943 citations for Loretta Lees, an h-index of 45, ranking #25,478 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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