Kean Fan Lim

909 total citations
33 papers, 553 citations indexed

About

Kean Fan Lim is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Kean Fan Lim has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 553 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Kean Fan Lim's work include China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (12 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 papers) and Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 papers). Kean Fan Lim is often cited by papers focused on China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (12 papers), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 papers) and Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 papers). Kean Fan Lim collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Kean Fan Lim's co-authors include Xiaobo Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Kean Fan Lim

30 papers receiving 512 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kean Fan Lim United Kingdom 15 315 196 142 119 85 33 553
Meg Rithmire United States 10 285 0.9× 150 0.8× 60 0.4× 64 0.5× 78 0.9× 19 423
Bae‐Gyoon Park South Korea 12 209 0.7× 160 0.8× 36 0.3× 158 1.3× 71 0.8× 23 430
Herbert H. Werlin United States 11 138 0.4× 227 1.2× 46 0.3× 139 1.2× 101 1.2× 55 521
Henk Overbeek Netherlands 14 232 0.7× 215 1.1× 97 0.7× 21 0.2× 58 0.7× 30 507
W. G. Huff United Kingdom 12 156 0.5× 353 1.8× 85 0.6× 34 0.3× 153 1.8× 23 584
Toby Carroll Hong Kong 13 208 0.7× 210 1.1× 69 0.5× 20 0.2× 53 0.6× 26 450
Dele Olowu Nigeria 14 274 0.9× 197 1.0× 47 0.3× 55 0.5× 146 1.7× 43 563
Alan Hudson United Kingdom 11 136 0.4× 228 1.2× 74 0.5× 35 0.3× 44 0.5× 15 454
Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard Denmark 14 409 1.3× 298 1.5× 95 0.7× 15 0.1× 101 1.2× 66 679
Jinn‐Yuh Hsu Taiwan 15 178 0.6× 233 1.2× 215 1.5× 112 0.9× 126 1.5× 25 566

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kean Fan Lim

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kean Fan Lim

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All Works

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Lim, Kean Fan & Xiaobo Su. (2025). Urban state venturism: Toward exciting research directions. Dialogues in Human Geography. 15(2). 305–309.
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2024). The firm as a geoeconomic actor. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 57(1). 138–143. 3 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2023). PEASANT MOBILIZATION, THE ‘LAND QUESTION’ AND SPATIAL EGALITARIANISM IN AN URBANIZING CHINA: A Genealogical Assessment and a New Research Agenda. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 47(6). 1030–1051. 1 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2023). On the rationale and implications of China’s RMB internationalization: A global historical perspective. Journal of Global History. 18(2). 304–325. 8 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan & Xiaobo Su. (2022). Making markets ‘decisive’: a firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China–Myanmar border region. Journal of Economic Geography. 23(2). 397–418. 3 indexed citations
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Su, Xiaobo & Kean Fan Lim. (2019). Opium substitution, reciprocal control and the tensions of geoeconomic integration in the China–Myanmar Border. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 51(8). 1665–1683. 10 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan, et al.. (2017). The "China Model" as a Complicated Developmental Trope. China An International Journal. 15(2). 166–176.
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2017). The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law. The AAG Review of Books. 5(1). 23–25. 2 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan, et al.. (2016). The “Singapore Fever” in China: Policy Mobility and Mutation. The China Quarterly. 228. 992–1017. 23 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2016). On the shifting spatial logics of socioeconomic regulation in post-1949 China. Territory Politics Governance. 5(1). 65–91. 16 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan, et al.. (2016). The Chongqing vs. Guangdong developmental ‘models’ in post-Mao China: regional and historical perspectives on the dynamics of socioeconomic change. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. 22(3). 372–395. 10 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2014). Spatial egalitarianism as a social ‘counter-movement’: on socio-economic reforms in Chongqing. Economy and Society. 43(3). 455–493. 17 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2013). ‘Socialism with Chinese characteristics’. Progress in Human Geography. 38(2). 221–247. 92 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2010). On China’s growing geo-economic influence and the evolution of variegated capitalism. Geoforum. 41(5). 677–688. 51 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2006). Transnational collaborations, local competitiveness: mapping the geographies of filmmaking in/through hong kong. Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography. 88(3). 337–357. 7 indexed citations
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Lim, Kean Fan. (2004). Where Love Dares (Not) Speak Its Name: The Expression of Homosexuality in Singapore. Urban Studies. 41(9). 1759–1788. 26 indexed citations

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