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Researcher · City University of New York · United States

Neil Smith

Neil Smith publishes mostly in Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Urbanization and City Planning, Urban Planning and Governance and Historical Geography and Geographical Thought.

ORCID 0000-0002-2142-3841 OpenAlex
World rank
#56,273
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#21,749
of 1,627,098
Works
288
Citations
19k
Citations per work
67.0
h-index
49
i10-index 92Top 0.1% in Urban Studies
Neil Smith

What does Neil Smith research?

Neil Smith's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Everything else: 147 works · 51.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 141 works · 49.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 119 works · 41.2% of their workUrban Studies: 43 works · 15.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 41 works · 14.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 works · 6.1% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 17 works · 5.8% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 works · 4.1% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 12 works · 4.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 3.7% of their workMusic: 11 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKNeil Smith288works
Social Sciences49%

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 else14751.0%
    1. Social Sciences11941.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance124.1%
    3. Arts and Humanities113.7%
  1. 1Urban Studies15% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  4. 4Geography, Planning and Development6% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6Music4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Neil Smith's research?

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

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. Globalization613 topics
  2. Neoliberalism543 topics
  3. Shrinking Cities311 topic
  4. Urban Decline311 topic
  5. Gentrification251 topic
  6. Urbanism251 topic
  7. Creative Economy201 topic
  8. Geography201 topic
  9. Public Policy201 topic
  10. Urban Development201 topic
  11. Capitalism161 topic
  12. Marxism161 topic
  13. Financialization131 topic
  14. Musical Theory131 topic
  15. Musicology131 topic
  16. Shareholder Value131 topic
  17. Design Thinking111 topic
  18. Engineering Design111 topic

Where does Neil Smith work?

Neil Smith's main affiliation in the publication record is City University of New York, United States.

How many publications and citations does Neil Smith have?

OpenAlex counts 288 works and 19,308 citations for Neil Smith, an h-index of 49, ranking #56,273 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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