Hok Bun Ku

918 total citations
48 papers, 590 citations indexed

About

Hok Bun Ku is a scholar working on Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Hok Bun Ku has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 590 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Public Administration, 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Hok Bun Ku's work include Social Work Education and Practice (23 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (7 papers) and China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 papers). Hok Bun Ku is often cited by papers focused on Social Work Education and Practice (23 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (7 papers) and China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (5 papers). Hok Bun Ku collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Hok Bun Ku's co-authors include Hairong Yan, Yiyuan Chen, Lena Dominelli, Karita Kan, David Ip, Chung Lim Vico Chiang, Doris Leung, Ken Hok Man Ho, Heqing Zhang and Ngai Pun and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, BMC Public Health and Journal of Advanced Nursing.

In The Last Decade

Hok Bun Ku

44 papers receiving 556 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hok Bun Ku Hong Kong	14	247	156	155	92	79	48	590
Peter Westoby Australia	12	295 1.2×	66 0.4×	154 1.0×	68 0.7×	58 0.7×	67	711
Fiona MacPhail Canada	13	412 1.7×	70 0.4×	184 1.2×	38 0.4×	115 1.5×	34	697
Dan Trudeau United States	15	359 1.5×	31 0.2×	161 1.0×	37 0.4×	66 0.8×	30	709
Altha J. Cravey United States	15	344 1.4×	48 0.3×	101 0.7×	28 0.3×	65 0.8×	28	659
Alison Mathie Australia	7	237 1.0×	36 0.2×	217 1.4×	44 0.5×	37 0.5×	10	728
Simon Pemberton United Kingdom	16	591 2.4×	44 0.3×	167 1.1×	127 1.4×	257 3.3×	48	1.0k
Kate Swanson United States	13	426 1.7×	51 0.3×	169 1.1×	24 0.3×	121 1.5×	35	785
Tanya Basok Canada	18	885 3.6×	146 0.9×	341 2.2×	53 0.6×	186 2.4×	63	1.2k
Leann M. Tigges United States	12	414 1.7×	43 0.3×	203 1.3×	53 0.6×	38 0.5×	25	667
Laurence Cox Ireland	12	562 2.3×	73 0.5×	79 0.5×	31 0.3×	248 3.1×	69	865

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hok Bun Ku

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chan, Alex Siu Wing, Hok Bun Ku, & Elsie Yan. (2024). Exploring discrimination, social acceptance, and its impact on the psychological well-being of older men who have sex with men: A cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 49–49. 6 indexed citations

Ku, Hok Bun, et al.. (2024). Cross-border healthcare-seeking and utilization behaviours among ethnic minorities: exploring the nexus of the perceived better option and public health concerns. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 1497–1497.

Ku, Hok Bun, et al.. (2024). Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution. Development and Change. 55(2). 219–243. 3 indexed citations

Ku, Hok Bun, et al.. (2023). Health‐seeking, intercultural health communication, and health outcomes: An intersectional study of ethnic minorities' lived experiences. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 79(5). 1856–1867. 5 indexed citations

Ku, Hok Bun, et al.. (2023). An ethnographic study on the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on indigenous people and their coping strategies in Bangladesh. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 86. 103553–103553. 6 indexed citations

Kan, Karita & Hok Bun Ku. (2023). Social Organizations in Rural China: From Autonomy to Governance. The China Quarterly. 256. 871–885. 4 indexed citations

Ku, Hok Bun. (2022). From action to theory building: an action research of rural social work practice in China. China Journal of Social Work. 15(3). 233–249. 4 indexed citations

Yan, Hairong, et al.. (2020). Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 48(4). 853–874. 50 indexed citations

Ku, Hok Bun. (2020). The achievement and predicament of 30-year social work development in Chinese mainland. China Journal of Social Work. 13(1). 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun & Karita Kan. (2020). Social work and sustainable rural development: The practice of social economy in China. International Journal of Social Welfare. 29(4). 346–355. 17 indexed citations

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Bradbury, Hilary, Hok Bun Ku, Sofia Kjellström, et al.. (2019). What is good action research: Quality choice points with a refreshed urgency. Action Research. 17(1). 14–18. 32 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun. (2015). Post-disaster community development in rural Sichuan, China. PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). 10(3). 120–130. 9 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun, et al.. (2015). Elderly people as “apocalyptic demography”? A study of the life stories of older people in Hong Kong born in the 1930s. Journal of Aging Studies. 36. 1–9. 5 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun. (2014). Gendered suffering - Middle-aged Miao women’s narratives on domestic violence in Southwest China. PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). 127(4). 3–21. 2 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun. (2011). ‘Happiness being like a blooming flower’: An action research of rural social work in an ethnic minority community of Yunnan Province, PRC. Action Research. 9(4). 344–369. 15 indexed citations

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Pun, Ngai & Hok Bun Ku. (2011). China at the crossroads: social economy as the new way of development. China Journal of Social Work. 4(3). 197–199. 1 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun. (2011). Gendered suffering: married Miao women's narratives on domestic violence in southwest China. China Journal of Social Work. 4(1). 23–39. 2 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun & David Ip. (2011). Designing development: a case study of community economy in Pingzhai, Yunnan Province, in PRC. China Journal of Social Work. 4(3). 235–253. 5 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun, et al.. (2008). Making habitable space together with female Chinese immigrants to Hong Kong. Action Research. 6(3). 261–283. 34 indexed citations

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Ku, Hok Bun, et al.. (2005). Searching for a Capacity Building Model in Social Work Education in China. Social Work Education. 24(2). 213–233. 24 indexed citations

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