David Ley

8.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
103 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

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 103 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 28 papers in Urban Studies and 13 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in David Ley's work include Urban Planning and Governance (19 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (12 papers). David Ley is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (19 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (12 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (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, Heather A. Smith, J. Nicholas Entrikin, 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

David Ley

99 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Artists, Aestheticisation and the Field of Gentrification

2003 546 citations David Ley Urban Studies profile →
Place/Culture/Representation

1994 377 citations David Ley et al. profile →
Alternative Explanations for Inner-City Gentrification: A Canadian Assessment

1986 346 citations David Ley Annals of the Association of American Geographers profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
David Ley	3.1k	2.5k	834	670	659	103	6.1k
Edward W. Soja	3.2k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	442 0.5×	315 0.5×	974 1.5×	49	7.7k
Loretta Lees	2.3k 0.7×	3.9k 1.5×	341 0.4×	1.3k 1.9×	479 0.7×	94	5.9k
Geraldine Pratt	3.5k 1.1×	650 0.3×	593 0.7×	357 0.5×	558 0.8×	109	5.8k
Michael Dear	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	254 0.3×	568 0.8×	385 0.6×	115	5.1k
Chris Hamnett	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	314 0.4×	1.2k 1.8×	156 0.2×	116	4.1k
Cole Harris	2.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.4×	313 0.4×	341 0.5×	539 0.8×	47	5.9k
Neil Smith	4.4k 1.4×	6.2k 2.4×	528 0.6×	2.2k 3.3×	989 1.5×	122	10.9k
Jennifer Robinson	1.8k 0.6×	3.4k 1.4×	198 0.2×	639 1.0×	391 0.6×	86	5.4k
Setha Low	3.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	320 0.4×	209 0.3×	564 0.9×	101	5.8k
S. Musterd	4.4k 1.4×	2.9k 1.2×	522 0.6×	1.3k 1.9×	94 0.1×	264	7.2k

Countries citing papers authored by David Ley

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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.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lundgren, Peter, Aldina Pivodic, Nele Brusselaers, et al.. (2026). Proteomic Profile in Retinopathy of Prematurity. JAMA Ophthalmology. 144(2). 174–174.

Ley, David. (2023). Housing Booms in Gateway Cities. 6 indexed citations

Ley, David, et al.. (2018). Residential relocation and the remaking of socialist workers through state-facilitated urban redevelopment in Chengdu, China. Urban Studies. 56(12). 2480–2498. 22 indexed citations

Dwyer, Claire, et al.. (2016). ‘Highway to Heaven’: the creation of a multicultural, religious landscape in suburban Richmond, British Columbia. Social & Cultural Geography. 17(5). 667–693. 19 indexed citations

Ley, David & Marwyn S. Samuels. (2014). Humanistic Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography). 3 indexed citations

Ley, David. (2013). URBAN STRUCTURE AND URBAN RESTRUCTURING. Urban Geography. 7(6). 530–535.

Ley, David. (2013). Does Transnationalism Trump Immigrant Integration? Evidence from Canada's Links with East Asia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 39(6). 921–938. 32 indexed citations

Ley, David. (2003). Forgetting postmodernism? Recuperating a social history of local knowledge. Progress in Human Geography. 27(5). 537–560. 23 indexed citations

Ley, David & Peter Murphy. (2001). Immigration in gateway cities: Sydney and Vancouver in comparative perspective. Progress in Planning. 55(3). 119–194. 64 indexed citations

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Ley, David & Heather A. Smith. (1997). Immigration and Poverty in Canadian Cities, 1971-1991. Canadian Journal of Regional Science. 20. 29. 29 indexed citations

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Ley, David. (1997). Book Reviews : A place in the world? places, cultures and globalization. Edited by D. Massey and P. Jess. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1995. viii + 248 pp. £30, cloth; £13.99, paper. ISBN 0 19 874190 1, cloth; 0 19874191 X, paper. Ecumene. 4(3). 361–363. 1 indexed citations

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Ley, David. (1995). Between Europe and Asia: the Case of the Missing Sequoias. Ecumene. 2(2). 185–210. 90 indexed citations

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Ley, David. (1994). THEORETICAL PLURALISM IN ANGLO-AMERICAN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 40(1). 63–75. 5 indexed citations

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Ley, David. (1990). URBAN LIVEABILITY IN CONTEXT. Urban Geography. 11(1). 31–35. 32 indexed citations

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Ley, David. (1986). Alternative Explanations for Inner-City Gentrification: A Canadian Assessment. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 76(4). 521–535. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ley, David & Caroline A. Mills. (1986). Gentrification and Reform Politics in Montréal, 1982. Cahiers de géographie du Québec. 30(81). 419–419. 10 indexed citations

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Farmer, B. H., Colin Clarke, David Ley, & Ceri Peach. (1985). Geography and Ethnic Pluralism. Geographical Journal. 151(2). 273–273. 66 indexed citations

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Clarke, Colin, et al.. (1984). Geography & ethnic pluralism. 3 indexed citations

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Ley, David. (1977). The Personality of a Geographical Fact. The Professional Geographer. 29(1). 8–13. 9 indexed citations

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Ley, David. (1974). The City and Good and Evil: Reflections on Christian and Marxist Interpretations. Antipode. 6(1). 66–74. 11 indexed citations

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