Kevin Ward

11.0k citations
195 papers · 7.4k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

  • Urban Studies top 0.01%
    • Urban Planning and Governance
    • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
    • Urbanization and City Planning
    • Labor Movements and Unions
    • Public Policy and Administration Research

Papers in

    • Urban Planning and Governance 52
    • Cultural Industries and Urban Development 22
    • Labor Movements and Unions 20
    • Public Policy and Administration Research 14

Kevin Ward

180 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks 2023 · 74 citations
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Peers

Kevin Ward
Comparison fields: 5 of 142
  • Urban Studies 2.9k
  • Public Administration 1.1k
  • Finance 1.2k
  • Political Science and International Relations 2.4k
  • Geography, Planning and Development 358
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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Ward

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kevin Ward, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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1 20252
2 202413
3 20244
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The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks
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202374
5 202120
6 20202
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Business Improvement Districts in the UK: Territorialising a ‘global’ model?
20172
8 201736
9 201636
10
Religion in New Zealand since the 1960s: Some sociological perspectives
20160
11 20148
12 201313
13
Mobile urbanism : cities and policymaking in the global age
2011158
14 201126
15
Agents of Casualization? The Temporary Staffing Industry and Labour Market Restructuring in Australia
20093
16
NASA Earth Observations (NEO): Data Imagery for Education and Visualization
20082
17 20088
18
Gender divisions and working time in the new economy: changing patterns of work, care and public policy in Europe and North America
200632
19
Workplace Learning: Perspectives on Education, Training and Work
199513
20
A NEW BEAST ON THE NEW ZEALAND WATERFRONT : THE PORT COMPANY SOLUTION TO CORPORATISING A LOCALLY-OWNED ENTERPRISE
19881

About Kevin Ward

Kevin Ward is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Public Administration, Finance, Political Science and International Relations and Geography, Planning and Development, having authored 195 papers that have together received 7.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Urban Planning and Governance (52 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (39 papers), Employment and Welfare Studies (24 papers), Cultural Industries and Urban Development (22 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (20 papers), Political and Economic history of UK and US (18 papers), Social Policy and Reform Studies (15 papers) and Public Policy and Administration Research (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Urban Studies (2.9k citations), Public Administration (1.1k citations), Finance (1.2k citations), Political Science and International Relations (2.4k citations) and Geography, Planning and Development (358 citations). Kevin Ward has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Slovakia and United States. Frequent co-authors include Eugene McCann, Andrew E. G. Jonas, Ian R. Cook, Neil M. Coe, Allan Cochrane, Jill Rubery, Damian Grimshaw, Huw Beynon, Jamie Peck and Martin Jones. Their work appears in journals such as Urban Geography, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Progress in Human Geography and Geoforum.

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