David Delaney

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

David Delaney is a scholar working on Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, David Delaney has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Law, 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 5 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in David Delaney's work include Law in Society and Culture (13 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 papers) and Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses (3 papers). David Delaney is often cited by papers focused on Law in Society and Culture (13 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 papers) and Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses (3 papers). David Delaney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. David Delaney's co-authors include Helga Leitner, Nicholas Blomley, Richard Thompson Ford, Juniper L. Simonis, Joseph E. Merz, James J. Pierson, Paul J. Anders, Irus Braverman, Alexandre Kedar and Paul Slovic and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning D Society and Space and Political Geography.

In The Last Decade

David Delaney

27 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

Legal geography I

2014 118 citations David Delaney Progress in Human Geography profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Delaney United States	16	832	440	256	249	249	28	1.6k
Jenny Pickerill United Kingdom	22	866 1.0×	397 0.9×	333 1.3×	105 0.4×	321 1.3×	72	1.9k
Alison Todes South Africa	22	792 1.0×	498 1.1×	680 2.7×	260 1.0×	48 0.2×	79	2.0k
Maano Ramutsindela South Africa	17	620 0.7×	230 0.5×	113 0.4×	122 0.5×	216 0.9×	76	1.5k
David M. Smith United Kingdom	19	685 0.8×	225 0.5×	260 1.0×	43 0.2×	305 1.2×	85	1.6k
Don Mitchell United States	20	1.1k 1.4×	283 0.6×	683 2.7×	70 0.3×	411 1.7×	46	2.2k
Fred M. Shelley United States	14	787 0.9×	639 1.5×	260 1.0×	29 0.1×	136 0.5×	75	1.6k
Franz von Benda‐Beckmann Germany	21	691 0.8×	533 1.2×	74 0.3×	411 1.7×	44 0.2×	137	1.5k
Peter Linebaugh United States	17	872 1.0×	353 0.8×	105 0.4×	120 0.5×	84 0.3×	46	1.8k
Rob Nixon United States	13	1.5k 1.8×	521 1.2×	114 0.4×	45 0.2×	716 2.9×	37	3.2k
Robert A. Beauregard United States	25	1.0k 1.2×	398 0.9×	1.6k 6.3×	66 0.3×	189 0.8×	106	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Delaney

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Delaney, David, et al.. (2020). Scopic relations as spatial relations. Progress in Human Geography. 45(4). 704–719.

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Delaney, David & Paul Slovic. (2019). Countering the Prominence Effect: How U.S. National Security Lawyers Can Fulfill Non-Prominent Humanitarian Objectives. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2019). The Legal Molecule. Law Culture and the Humanities. 17(2). 184–199. 2 indexed citations

4.

Delaney, David. (2016). Legal geography III. Progress in Human Geography. 41(5). 667–675. 54 indexed citations

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Merz, Joseph E., et al.. (2016). Long-Term Seasonal Trends in the Prey Community of Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) Within the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. Estuaries and Coasts. 39(5). 1526–1536. 21 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2015). Legal geography II. Progress in Human Geography. 40(2). 267–274. 58 indexed citations

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Braverman, Irus, et al.. (2014). The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography [Introduction]. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2010). The Spatial, the Legal and the Pragmatics of World-Making: Nomospheric Investigations. 78 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2009). What is Law (Good) For? Tactical Maneuvers of the Legal War at Home. Law Culture and the Humanities. 5(3). 337–352. 3 indexed citations

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Blomley, Nicholas & David Delaney. (2004). Displacements: An Introduction to the Theme Issue. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 22(6). 799–807. 1 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2004). A Java tool for exploring state estimation using the Kalman filter. 2004. 679–684. 4 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2003). Law and Nature. 30 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2002). The Space That Race Makes. The Professional Geographer. 54(1). 6–14. 187 indexed citations

14.

Delaney, David. (2001). Semantic Ecology and Lexical Violence: Nature at the Limits of Law. Law/text/culture. 5(2). 4 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2001). Making Nature/Marking Humans: Law as a Site of (Cultural) Production. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 91(3). 487–503. 48 indexed citations

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Blomley, Nicholas, David Delaney, & Richard Thompson Ford. (2001). The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space. 128 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (2000). Of Minds and Bodies and the Legal-Spatial Constitution of Sanctuary. 28. 25–40. 3 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (1998). Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948. University of Texas Press eBooks. 64 indexed citations

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Delaney, David & Helga Leitner. (1997). The political construction of scale. Political Geography. 16(2). 93–97. 460 indexed citations

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Delaney, David. (1993). Geographies of Judgment: The Doctrine of Changed Conditions and the Geopolitics of Race. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 83(1). 48–65. 23 indexed citations

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