Kelly Kay

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Kelly Kay is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Finance and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Kelly Kay has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Finance and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Kelly Kay's work include Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (7 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers). Kelly Kay is often cited by papers focused on Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (9 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (7 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers). Kelly Kay collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Kelly Kay's co-authors include Eleanor McLellan–Lemal, Kathleen M. MacQueen, Bobby Milstein, Miles Kenney‐Lazar, Chris Knudson, Emily Rosenman, Jim Thatcher, Scott Fisher, Alida Cantor and Taylor Shelton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Climate Change, Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Kelly Kay

27 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Codebook Development for Team-Based Qualitative Analysis 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Codebook Development for Team-Based Qualitative Analysis
    1998 1.3k citations Kathleen M. MacQueen, Eleanor McLellan–Lemal et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kelly Kay United States 14 454 417 184 168 160 28 1.8k
B.J. Regeer Netherlands 24 238 0.5× 320 0.8× 176 1.0× 168 1.0× 122 0.8× 108 1.7k
Gustavo Ángeles United States 24 410 0.9× 529 1.3× 95 0.5× 161 1.0× 73 0.5× 61 2.0k
Sarah Atkinson United Kingdom 28 467 1.0× 646 1.5× 150 0.8× 148 0.9× 87 0.5× 105 2.4k
Rachel Williams United Kingdom 8 243 0.5× 356 0.9× 280 1.5× 238 1.4× 113 0.7× 20 2.3k
Matthew Gray Australia 25 838 1.8× 383 0.9× 344 1.9× 91 0.5× 333 2.1× 141 2.2k
Nick Emmel United Kingdom 15 495 1.1× 384 0.9× 137 0.7× 113 0.7× 149 0.9× 31 1.4k
Marjolein Zweekhorst Netherlands 28 212 0.5× 513 1.2× 118 0.6× 189 1.1× 336 2.1× 98 2.0k
Birte Snilstveit United States 18 300 0.7× 360 0.9× 131 0.7× 150 0.9× 122 0.8× 26 1.9k
Nicholas Biddle Australia 22 730 1.6× 594 1.4× 465 2.5× 79 0.5× 271 1.7× 174 2.1k
Kate Hampshire United Kingdom 30 807 1.8× 410 1.0× 125 0.7× 209 1.2× 216 1.4× 82 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kelly Kay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kelly Kay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kelly Kay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kelly Kay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kelly Kay 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 Kelly Kay. Kelly Kay 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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Gibson, Chris & Kelly Kay. (2025). Critical Geographies of Green Hydrogen Transitions. Geography Compass. 19(12).
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Shelton, Taylor, et al.. (2023). Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US. Geography Compass. 17(2). 15 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly, Chris Knudson, & Alida Cantor. (2023). Plantation pasts, plantation futures: resisting zombie water infrastructures in Maui, Hawai’i. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 51(1). 111–134. 4 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly, et al.. (2023). Fiscal geographies between the crisis and the pandemic. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 55(7). 1738–1743. 1 indexed citations
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Knudson, Chris, Alida Cantor, & Kelly Kay. (2022). Just water transitions at the end of sugar in Maui, Hawai‘i. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 5(4). 2073–2097. 8 indexed citations
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Fortini, Lucas Berio, Tamara Ticktin, David W. Beilman, et al.. (2022). A Near Four-Decade Time Series Shows the Hawaiian Islands Have Been Browning Since the 1980s. Environmental Management. 71(5). 965–980. 6 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly, et al.. (2022). Labor resistance and municipal power: Scalar mismatch in the Los Angeles Green New Deal. Political Geography. 98. 102684–102684. 8 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly. (2021). Locating timber in ‘institutional grade investment geographies’. Dialogues in Human Geography. 12(1). 164–166. 2 indexed citations
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Cantor, Alida, Kelly Kay, & Chris Knudson. (2020). Legal geographies and political ecologies of water allocation in Maui, Hawai‘i. Geoforum. 110. 168–179. 18 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly, et al.. (2019). Fiscal geographies: “Placing” taxation in urban geography. Urban Geography. 40(4). 573–581. 54 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly & Miles Kenney‐Lazar. (2019). Revisiting value in capitalist natures: Rent, class, liberation. Dialogues in Human Geography. 10(1). 52–57. 4 indexed citations
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Rosenman, Emily, et al.. (2019). Diversity, representation, and the limits of engaged pluralism in (economic) geography. Progress in Human Geography. 44(3). 510–533. 49 indexed citations
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Cockayne, Daniel, et al.. (2018). On economic geography's “movers” to business and management schools: A response from outside “the project”. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 50(7). 1510–1518. 15 indexed citations
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Bigger, Patrick, Jessica Dempsey, Adeniyi Asiyanbi, et al.. (2018). Reflecting on neoliberal natures: an exchange:The ins and outs of Neoliberal natures. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 2 indexed citations
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Knudson, Chris, Kelly Kay, & Scott Fisher. (2018). Appraising geodiversity and cultural diversity approaches to building resilience through conservation. Nature Climate Change. 8(8). 678–685. 36 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly & Miles Kenney‐Lazar. (2017). Value in capitalist natures. Dialogues in Human Geography. 7(3). 295–309. 59 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly. (2017). Rural Rentierism and the Financial Enclosure of Maine's Open Lands Tradition. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 107(6). 1407–1423. 32 indexed citations
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Kay, Kelly. (2015). Breaking the bundle of rights: Conservation easements and the legal geographies of individuating nature. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 48(3). 504–522. 49 indexed citations
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MacQueen, Kathleen M., Eleanor McLellan–Lemal, Kelly Kay, & Bobby Milstein. (1998). Codebook Development for Team-Based Qualitative Analysis. 10(2). 31–36. 1263 indexed citations breakdown →

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