Bas van Heur

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 726 citations indexed

About

Bas van Heur is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bas van Heur has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 726 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Urban Studies, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Bas van Heur's work include Cultural Industries and Urban Development (14 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (8 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 papers). Bas van Heur is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Industries and Urban Development (14 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (8 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 papers). Bas van Heur collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Slovakia. Bas van Heur's co-authors include Andrew Karvonen, Bruno Meeus, Karel Arnaut, Sally Wyatt, Loet Leydesdorff, Luc Hens, David Bassens, André Bank, Anne Lorentzen and Anna Harris and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Urban Studies and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

In The Last Decade

Bas van Heur

36 papers receiving 664 citations

Hit Papers

Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Urban Laboratories: Experiments in Reworking Cities
    2013 281 citations Bas van Heur et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bas van Heur Belgium 12 262 227 115 103 99 42 726
Tali Hatuka Israel 12 128 0.5× 120 0.5× 50 0.4× 49 0.5× 45 0.5× 43 486
Gro Sandkjær Hanssen Norway 15 173 0.7× 115 0.5× 56 0.5× 182 1.8× 152 1.5× 67 630
Chad R. Miller United States 10 370 1.4× 633 2.8× 59 0.5× 118 1.1× 32 0.3× 28 1.1k
Crystal Legacy Australia 20 263 1.0× 469 2.1× 38 0.3× 231 2.2× 89 0.9× 68 1.1k
Ramón Ribera-Fumaz Spain 10 147 0.6× 156 0.7× 105 0.9× 126 1.2× 37 0.4× 24 560
Mirko Guaralda Australia 21 254 1.0× 330 1.5× 181 1.6× 97 0.9× 111 1.1× 74 1.0k
Klaus R. Kunzmann Germany 16 259 1.0× 539 2.4× 34 0.3× 268 2.6× 140 1.4× 87 1.2k
Byron Miller Canada 13 390 1.5× 212 0.9× 49 0.4× 207 2.0× 96 1.0× 23 844
Davide Ponzini Italy 16 233 0.9× 450 2.0× 26 0.2× 82 0.8× 60 0.6× 51 800
Alain Thierstein Germany 17 143 0.5× 368 1.6× 95 0.8× 200 1.9× 78 0.8× 148 984

Countries citing papers authored by Bas van Heur

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bas van Heur

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bas van Heur

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bas van Heur. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bas van Heur 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 Bas van Heur. Bas van Heur is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Heur, Bas van. (2024). Urban vacancy in Europe: A synthetic review and research agenda. SocArXiv (OSF Preprints).
2.
Heur, Bas van. (2024). Studying the institutionalisation of urban studies: Fragmentation, the place of disciplines, organisational form. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 2(1). 114–119.
3.
Heur, Bas van. (2023). What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 2(1). 63–90. 7 indexed citations
4.
Criekingen, Mathieu Van, et al.. (2022). Housing evictions in Brussels: how many, who and where?. Brussels Studies. 4 indexed citations
5.
Heur, Bas van, et al.. (2022). Collective cultural infrastructures: ownership, architecture, governance. Cultural Trends. 32(5). 569–575. 2 indexed citations
6.
Heur, Bas van, et al.. (2021). Resistance is in the air: From post-politics to the politics of expertise. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space. 40(3). 592–610. 10 indexed citations
7.
Heur, Bas van. (2020). Urban geography as if urban knowledge matters. Urban Geography. 41(5). 694–702. 4 indexed citations
8.
Heur, Bas van & David Bassens. (2019). An urban studies approach to elites: nurturing conceptual rigor and methodological pluralism. Urban Geography. 40(5). 591–603. 8 indexed citations
9.
Heur, Bas van, et al.. (2018). Spaces of openness. City. 22(5-6). 801–819. 3 indexed citations
10.
Dotti, Nicola Francesco, André Spithoven, & Bas van Heur. (2016). The competitiveness of Brussels in European research. Brussels Studies. 2 indexed citations
11.
Heur, Bas van, et al.. (2016). The Invisible City of Alternative Theatre: Tactics, Collective Actions and Micro-Publics in Istanbul's Cultural Economy. 20(1). 1–14.
12.
Heur, Bas van, Loet Leydesdorff, & Sally Wyatt. (2012). Turning to ontology in STS? Turning to STS through ‘ontology’. Social Studies of Science. 43(3). 341–362. 50 indexed citations
13.
Heur, Bas van, et al.. (2012). Kan de stad de wereld redden. 2 indexed citations
14.
Heur, Bas van. (2010). From analogue to digital and back again: institutional dynamics of heritage innovation. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 16(6). 405–416. 4 indexed citations
15.
Heur, Bas van. (2010). Creative Networks and the City. transcript Verlag eBooks. 1 indexed citations
16.
Heur, Bas van. (2010). Small cities and the geographical bias of creative industries research and policy. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism Leisure and Events. 2(2). 189–192. 35 indexed citations
17.
Heur, Bas van. (2010). Beyond Regulation: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Complexity and Emergence. New Political Economy. 15(3). 421–444. 27 indexed citations
18.
Heur, Bas van. (2010). Creative Networks and the City: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Aesthetic Production. OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation). 12 indexed citations
19.
Heur, Bas van. (2009). Imagining the Spatialities of Music Production: the Co-Constitution of Creative Clusters and Networks. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 2 indexed citations
20.
Heur, Bas van. (2009). The Clustering of Creative Networks: Between Myth and Reality. Urban Studies. 46(8). 1531–1552. 45 indexed citations

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