Ding Fei

646 total citations
26 papers, 319 citations indexed

About

Ding Fei is a scholar working on Development, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ding Fei has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 319 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Development, 12 papers in Anthropology and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Ding Fei's work include International Development and Aid (14 papers), China's Global Influence and Migration (9 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 papers). Ding Fei is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (14 papers), China's Global Influence and Migration (9 papers) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 papers). Ding Fei collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Finland. Ding Fei's co-authors include Chuan Liao, Qingxu Huang, Peijun Shi, Lu Jiang, Abdi Ismail Samatar, Mengmeng Cai, Penghui Jiang, Tingting Xu, Yihan Zhou and Huan Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Social Science & Medicine, World Development and Urban Studies.

In The Last Decade

Ding Fei

21 papers receiving 312 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ding Fei United States 10 116 91 69 68 55 26 319
Erica Downs United States 8 202 1.7× 162 1.8× 26 0.4× 25 0.4× 82 1.5× 13 545
Guillaume Fontaine Ecuador 12 95 0.8× 42 0.5× 30 0.4× 21 0.3× 30 0.5× 47 304
Paul Hubbard Australia 10 53 0.5× 74 0.8× 26 0.4× 9 0.1× 64 1.2× 23 280
Jean‐Pierre Cling France 9 114 1.0× 45 0.5× 12 0.2× 8 0.1× 123 2.2× 41 299
Éric Cédiey France 3 98 0.8× 22 0.2× 6 0.1× 32 0.5× 58 1.1× 7 243
Ndongo Samba Sylla Germany 8 73 0.6× 37 0.4× 16 0.2× 26 0.4× 50 0.9× 18 255
Courage Mlambo South Africa 11 42 0.4× 59 0.6× 15 0.2× 9 0.1× 179 3.3× 31 374
Albert Arhin United Kingdom 10 87 0.8× 28 0.3× 5 0.1× 20 0.3× 72 1.3× 21 303
Soyeun Kim United Kingdom 9 154 1.3× 135 1.5× 6 0.1× 10 0.1× 55 1.0× 22 283
Deval Desai United Kingdom 6 87 0.8× 31 0.3× 4 0.1× 10 0.1× 183 3.3× 20 408

Countries citing papers authored by Ding Fei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ding Fei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ding Fei. 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 Ding Fei. The network helps show where Ding Fei may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ding Fei

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

All Works

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Liu, Mingyao, et al.. (2025). Relocation for improved ecosystem service and human wellbeing? Evidence from Fuping, Hebei, China. Journal of Geographical Sciences. 35(7). 1556–1574. 3 indexed citations
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Fei, Ding. (2024). Transnational mobility and precarity in the shadow of pandemics: Chinese migrants in Africa. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 51(9). 2434–2455.
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Fei, Ding. (2024). Flexible sovereignty and contested legality: The overseas employment and legal struggles of Chinese workers. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 43(3). 442–463. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Mengmeng, et al.. (2024). Spatial multi-objective optimization towards low-carbon transition in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China. Landscape Ecology. 39(8). 6 indexed citations
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Fei, Ding. (2024). Transnationalizing intrapreneurship of Chinese private investment in Africa. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 56(6). 1595–1613. 2 indexed citations
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Fei, Ding. (2023). They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria. The Journal of Development Studies. 60(5). 809–810.
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Fei, Ding. (2023). China–Africa skills transfer through overseas economic and trade cooperation zones. Journal of International Development. 36(1). 172–191.
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Fei, Ding. (2022). Chinese in Africa: expatriation regime and lived experience. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 49(11). 2720–2741. 14 indexed citations
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Fei, Ding. (2022). Assembling Chinese health engagement in Africa: structures, strategies and emerging patterns. Third World Quarterly. 43(5). 1093–1114. 2 indexed citations
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Fei, Ding. (2021). Networked Internationalization: Chinese Companies in Ethiopia’s Infrastructure Construction Sector. The Professional Geographer. 73(2). 322–332. 9 indexed citations
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Fei, Ding, Chuan Liao, & Huan Yang. (2021). Student returnees from China's COVID-19 epicenter: Spatio-temporal movement and impact of tracing. Social Science & Medicine. 287. 114371–114371.
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Fei, Ding. (2020). Employee Management Strategies of Chinese Telecommunications Companies in Ethiopia: Half-way Localization and Internationalization. Journal of Contemporary China. 30(130). 661–676. 7 indexed citations
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Liao, Chuan, Ding Fei, Qingxu Huang, Lu Jiang, & Peijun Shi. (2020). Targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic-based intervention: Rhetoric and reality in Qinghai, China. World Development. 137. 105117–105117. 58 indexed citations
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Fei, Ding. (2020). The compound labor regime of Chinese construction projects in Ethiopia. Geoforum. 117. 13–23. 17 indexed citations
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Fei, Ding. (2017). Worlding Developmentalism: China's Economic Zones Within and Beyond its Border. Journal of International Development. 29(6). 825–850. 25 indexed citations
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Xu, Tingting, et al.. (2013). Linkage Relationship between Port Logistics and Regional Economy based on Eviews Software. Journal of Software. 8(4). 4 indexed citations

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