David Ley

90 papers and 5.7k indexed citations
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About

David Ley is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, David Ley has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 27 papers in Urban Studies and 12 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in David Ley’s work include Urban Planning and Governance (18 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (12 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (12 papers). David Ley is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (18 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (12 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (12 papers). David Ley collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. David Ley's co-authors include Scott Duncan, Peter Jackson, Audrey Kobayashi, Graham D. Rowles, Roman Cybriwsky, Marwyn S. Samuels, J. Nicholas Entrikin, Heather A. Smith, Loretta Lees and Kris Olds and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Ley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Ley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Ley based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Ley. David Ley is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

David Ley

87 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by David Ley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by David Ley. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by David Ley. The network helps show where David Ley may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by David Ley

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