Derick Fay

1.1k total citations
21 papers, 608 citations indexed

About

Derick Fay is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Derick Fay has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 608 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Law and 8 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Derick Fay's work include Legal Issues in South Africa (11 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (8 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers). Derick Fay is often cited by papers focused on Legal Issues in South Africa (11 papers), Land Rights and Reforms (8 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 papers). Derick Fay collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Netherlands. Derick Fay's co-authors include Gillian Hart, P.G.M. Hebinck, Richard N. Palmer, M. Timm Hoffman, Wayne Twine, Charlie M. Shackleton, Kristine Maciejewski, Scott Drimie, David Hoffman and Lucas Joppa and has published in prestigious journals such as World Development, Land Use Policy and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Derick Fay

19 papers receiving 515 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Derick Fay United States 10 248 113 100 98 93 21 608
Fiona Mackenzie Canada 15 150 0.6× 96 0.8× 164 1.6× 73 0.7× 134 1.4× 27 536
Ambreena Manji United Kingdom 13 172 0.7× 54 0.5× 191 1.9× 127 1.3× 257 2.8× 47 583
Lungisile Ntsebeza South Africa 13 353 1.4× 69 0.6× 146 1.5× 83 0.8× 242 2.6× 23 651
Monique Nuijten Netherlands 13 201 0.8× 99 0.9× 108 1.1× 190 1.9× 64 0.7× 32 561
Willem Assies Netherlands 13 229 0.9× 143 1.3× 184 1.8× 313 3.2× 133 1.4× 47 715
Robert Home United Kingdom 16 269 1.1× 65 0.6× 83 0.8× 130 1.3× 97 1.0× 67 936
Issa G. Shivji Tanzania 17 455 1.8× 61 0.5× 167 1.7× 220 2.2× 130 1.4× 67 983
Sandra F. Joireman United States 12 229 0.9× 31 0.3× 127 1.3× 178 1.8× 218 2.3× 46 592
Parker Shipton United States 12 334 1.3× 64 0.6× 198 2.0× 122 1.2× 254 2.7× 27 875
Jan Kees van Donge Netherlands 13 229 0.9× 40 0.4× 74 0.7× 92 0.9× 92 1.0× 45 498

Countries citing papers authored by Derick Fay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Derick Fay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Derick Fay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Derick Fay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Derick Fay 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 Derick Fay. Derick Fay 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
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Fay, Derick. (2020). Participation and litigation: parallel routes to policy in the South African postcolony. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 40(3). 333–353. 1 indexed citations
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Shackleton, Charlie M., Scott Drimie, Derick Fay, et al.. (2019). Deactivation of field cultivation in communal areas of South Africa: Patterns, drivers and socio-economic and ecological consequences. Land Use Policy. 82. 686–699. 57 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick. (2016). Studying up after studying down: dilemmas of research on South African conservation professionals. Critical African Studies. 8(3). 255–265. 1 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick. (2015). ‘Keeping Land for Their Children’: Generation, Migration and Land in South Africa’s Transkei. Journal of Southern African Studies. 41(5). 1083–1097. 7 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick, et al.. (2015). After restitution: Community, litigation and governance in South African land reform. African Affairs. 114(456). 432–454. 9 indexed citations
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Hoffman, David, Derick Fay, & Lucas Joppa. (2011). Introduction: Human migration to protected area edges in Africa and Latin America: Questioning large-scale statistical analysis. Conservation and Society. 9(1). 1–1. 18 indexed citations
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Hebinck, P.G.M., et al.. (2011). Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province: Caught by Continuities. Journal of Agrarian Change. 11(2). 220–240. 29 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick. (2010). Landmarked: land claims and restitution in South Africa. Review of African Political Economy. 37(124). 9 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick. (2010). Crossing the Zambezi: The politics of landscape on a Central African frontier. Journal of Contemporary African Studies. 28(4). 523–525. 1 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick. (2009). Land Tenure, Land Use, and Land Reform at Dwesa–Cwebe, South Africa: Local Transformations and the Limits of the State. World Development. 37(8). 1424–1433. 26 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick. (2008). Douglas L. Johnson and Laurence A. Lewis: Land Degradation: Creation and Destruction.. Human Ecology. 36(5). 785–786. 1 indexed citations
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Hebinck, P.G.M. & Derick Fay. (2006). Land reform in South Africa: caught by continuities. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 1 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick. (2005). Kinship and Access to Land in the Eastern Cape: Implications for Land Tenure Reform. Social Dynamics. 31(1). 182–207. 10 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick. (2004). In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kleinzee, and the Control of a Town. American Anthropologist. 106(1). 182–183. 1 indexed citations
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Fay, Derick & Gillian Hart. (2003). Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 36(1). 217–217. 329 indexed citations
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Palmer, Richard N., et al.. (2002). From Conflict to Negotiation: Nature-Based Development on South Africa's Wild Coast. 49 indexed citations

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