Karen P.Y. Lai

1.7k total citations
43 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Karen P.Y. Lai is a scholar working on Finance, Urban Studies and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen P.Y. Lai has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Finance, 9 papers in Urban Studies and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Karen P.Y. Lai's work include Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (19 papers), Global Urban Networks and Dynamics (8 papers) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (7 papers). Karen P.Y. Lai is often cited by papers focused on Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (19 papers), Global Urban Networks and Dynamics (8 papers) and Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (7 papers). Karen P.Y. Lai collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and United States. Karen P.Y. Lai's co-authors include Dariusz Wójcik, Neil M. Coe, Michael Samers, James D. Sidaway, Shaun Lin, Fenghua Pan, Paul Langley, Gordon L. Clark, Kurtuluş Gemici and Martin Sokol and has published in prestigious journals such as Critical Care Medicine, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Karen P.Y. Lai

37 papers receiving 953 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen P.Y. Lai United Kingdom 18 450 373 267 209 178 43 1.0k
David Bassens Belgium 22 301 0.7× 506 1.4× 596 2.2× 268 1.3× 214 1.2× 61 1.4k
Ulrich Jürgens Germany 17 100 0.2× 180 0.5× 130 0.5× 281 1.3× 367 2.1× 86 1.2k
Leslie Budd United Kingdom 12 117 0.3× 244 0.7× 187 0.7× 240 1.1× 139 0.8× 43 817
Nichola Lowe United States 18 32 0.1× 441 1.2× 220 0.8× 307 1.5× 182 1.0× 57 1.1k
Burkard Eberlein Canada 16 158 0.4× 109 0.3× 27 0.1× 143 0.7× 616 3.5× 34 1.2k
Linda Low Singapore 16 73 0.2× 191 0.5× 53 0.2× 511 2.4× 157 0.9× 103 981
Tessa Hebb United Kingdom 15 363 0.8× 173 0.5× 22 0.1× 90 0.4× 413 2.3× 34 804
Pablo Fernández Spain 21 677 1.5× 318 0.9× 24 0.1× 123 0.6× 659 3.7× 149 1.3k
Stephen J. Appold United States 15 31 0.1× 319 0.9× 145 0.5× 219 1.0× 237 1.3× 33 889
Martina Fromhold‐Eisebith Germany 12 64 0.1× 282 0.8× 47 0.2× 122 0.6× 184 1.0× 40 722

Countries citing papers authored by Karen P.Y. Lai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen P.Y. Lai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McLean, Jessie, et al.. (2025). Geographies of Responsibility, Care and Repair in Digital Worlds of AI : Introduction to the Themed Intervention. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 2 indexed citations
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Fang, Cheng, et al.. (2025). Reshaping state-finance-tech nexus through central bank digital currencies: the case of the mBridge project. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 2(1). 281–304.
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2025). Atlas of finance: Seeing and communicating the (financial) world differently. Geoforum. 160. 104229–104229.
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2025). Financial geography II – green finance and climate transition. Progress in Human Geography. 49(2). 215–226. 2 indexed citations
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Bassens, David, Janelle Knox‐Hayes, Karen P.Y. Lai, Fenghua Pan, & Dariusz Wójcik. (2024). Finance in the age of geoeconomics: intersections of finance, production, and digital technology. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 1(1). 542–555. 2 indexed citations
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Wójcik, Dariusz, David Bassens, Janelle Knox‐Hayes, & Karen P.Y. Lai. (2023). Revolution, evolution, progress: Finance & Space manifesto. VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 1(1). 1–12. 17 indexed citations
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Dörry, Sabine, Dariusz Wójcik, Karen P.Y. Lai, & Manuel B. Aalbers. (2023). Lost (in) space for dialogue: On the (abandoned) need for working papers in human geography. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 2(3). 438–456.
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Lai, Karen P.Y., Shaun Lin, & James D. Sidaway. (2020). Financing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): research agendas beyond the “debt-trap” discourse. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 61(2). 109–124. 88 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y. & Michael Samers. (2020). Towards an economic geography of FinTech. Progress in Human Geography. 45(4). 720–739. 87 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y., Fenghua Pan, Martin Sokol, & Dariusz Wójcik. (2019). New financial geographies of Asia. Regional Studies. 54(2). 143–148. 24 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2018). Financialization of Everyday Life. Oxford University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2018). Agency, power, and state–firm relations in global financial networks. Dialogues in Human Geography. 8(3). 285–288. 19 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2017). Unpacking financial subjectivities: Intimacies, governance and socioeconomic practices in financialisation. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 35(5). 913–932. 59 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2015). Financial Advisors, Financial Ecologies and the Variegated Financialisation of Everyday Investors. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y., et al.. (2015). “Neighbours First, Bankers Second”: Mobilising financial citizenship in Singapore. Geoforum. 64. 65–77. 2 indexed citations
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Coe, Neil M., Karen P.Y. Lai, & Dariusz Wójcik. (2014). Integrating Finance into Global Production Networks. Regional Studies. 48(5). 761–777. 176 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2011). Globalization: key thinkers. jones, andrew.. Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography. 93(3). 274–276. 1 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2011). Differentiated Markets: Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong in China’s Financial Centre Network. Urban Studies. 49(6). 1275–1296. 143 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2009). New Spatial Logics in Global Cities Research: Networks, Flows and New Political Spaces. Geography Compass. 3(3). 997–1012. 11 indexed citations
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Lai, Karen P.Y.. (2006). ‘Imagineering’ Asian emerging markets: Financial knowledge networks in the fund management industry. Geoforum. 37(4). 627–642. 30 indexed citations

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