Lee Jones

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Lee Jones is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Jones has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 23 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 19 papers in Development. Recurrent topics in Lee Jones's work include International Development and Aid (19 papers), Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (13 papers) and Peacebuilding and International Security (10 papers). Lee Jones is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (19 papers), Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (13 papers) and Peacebuilding and International Security (10 papers). Lee Jones collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Lee Jones's co-authors include Shahar Hameiri, Jinghan Zeng, Thomas J. Roffe, John A. Byers, Clara Portela, Emily K. Latch, Jamie A. Ivy, John Heathershaw, David E. Worley and Toby Carroll and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lee Jones

68 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: beyond ‘grand strategy’ to a state transformation analysis

2019 174 citations Lee Jones et al. Third World Quarterly profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lee Jones United Kingdom	24	1000	763	492	194	165	76	1.8k
Patrick M. Regan United States	29	1.4k 1.4×	2.5k 3.3×	656 1.3×	85 0.4×	294 1.8×	82	3.3k
William L. Reed United States	17	644 0.6×	732 1.0×	286 0.6×	56 0.3×	187 1.1×	36	1.2k
Joel Wainwright United States	22	375 0.4×	594 0.8×	56 0.1×	71 0.4×	48 0.3×	81	1.5k
Ronald J. Herring United States	19	298 0.3×	491 0.6×	62 0.1×	84 0.4×	226 1.4×	50	1.3k
Lina Fruzzetti United States	11	286 0.3×	601 0.8×	114 0.2×	45 0.2×	145 0.9×	27	1.4k
Harry G. West United Kingdom	16	480 0.5×	857 1.1×	74 0.2×	67 0.3×	96 0.6×	41	1.8k
Erik Melander Sweden	20	649 0.6×	1.7k 2.3×	309 0.6×	28 0.1×	146 0.9×	58	2.3k
Benedikt Korf Switzerland	25	515 0.5×	1.0k 1.3×	80 0.2×	21 0.1×	57 0.3×	105	1.6k
J. H. Iliffe United States	17	419 0.4×	861 1.1×	120 0.2×	36 0.2×	218 1.3×	46	2.1k
Colin Murray United Kingdom	20	476 0.5×	1.4k 1.9×	145 0.3×	64 0.3×	194 1.2×	110	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Lee Jones

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee Jones

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Nehring, Mary, et al.. (2026). Evaluation of a P48 ELISA for Mycoplasmopsis (Mycoplasma) bovis in North American bison (Bison bison): inferior performance compared to a commercially available ELISA. BMC Veterinary Research. 22(1).

Jones, Lee, et al.. (2025). International Development Financing in the Second Cold War: The Miserly Convergence of Western Donors and China. Development and Change. 56(1). 3–30.

Buttke, Danielle, et al.. (2025). High seroprevalence and age-associated dynamics of bluetongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease viruses in North American bison (Bison bison). Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 12. 1565805–1565805.

Jones, Lee, et al.. (2025). Indonesia, nickel, and the political economy of polyalignment in the Second Cold War. Third World Quarterly. 1–20. 5 indexed citations

Hameiri, Shahar & Lee Jones. (2025). Explaining China’s approach to the global governance of sovereign debt distress: a state transformation analysis. Review of International Political Economy. 32(4). 945–969. 6 indexed citations

Lefoulon, Emilie, Kimberlee B. Beckmen, Jennifer L. Malmberg, et al.. (2024). A footworm in the door: revising Onchocerca phylogeny with previously unknown cryptic species in wild North American ungulates. International Journal for Parasitology. 55(1). 59–68. 1 indexed citations

Hameiri, Shahar & Lee Jones. (2024). China, international competition and the stalemate in sovereign debt restructuring: beyond geopolitics. International Affairs. 100(2). 691–710. 6 indexed citations

Hameiri, Shahar & Lee Jones. (2023). Why the West’s alternative to China’s international infrastructure financing is failing. European Journal of International Relations. 30(3). 697–724. 12 indexed citations

Hofmeister, Erik K., Lucas Berio Fortini, Lee Jones, et al.. (2022). Future Directions to Manage Wildlife Health in a Changing Climate. EcoHealth. 19(3). 329–334. 3 indexed citations

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Jones, Lee, et al.. (2022). Genetic variation of the mitochondrial DNA control region across plains bison herds in USA and Canada. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0264823–e0264823. 3 indexed citations

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Sobotyk, Caroline, et al.. (2022). Opening a can of lungworms: Molecular characterization of Dictyocaulus (Nematoda: Dictyocaulidae) infecting North American bison (Bison bison). International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife. 18. 128–134. 5 indexed citations

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Laughrey, Zachary R., Victoria G. Christensen, Robert J. Dusek, et al.. (2021). A review of algal toxin exposures on reserved federal lands and among trust species in the United States. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 52(23). 4284–4307. 8 indexed citations

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Register, Karen B., Kelly Patyk, Steven J. Sweeney, et al.. (2021). Serological evidence for historical and present-day exposure of North American bison to Mycoplasma bovis. BMC Veterinary Research. 17(1). 18–18. 5 indexed citations

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Jones, Lee, et al.. (2021). Explaining Myanmar’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Disengagement to Embrace. Asian perspective. 45(2). 301–324. 8 indexed citations

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Jones, Lee, et al.. (2020). La evaluación del éxito de las sanciones internacionales: una nueva agenda investigadora. Revista CIDOB d Afers Internacionals. 39–60. 1 indexed citations

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Jones, Lee. (2019). Does China’s Belt and Road Initiative Challenge the Liberal, Rules-Based Order?. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 13(1). 113–133. 46 indexed citations

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Isidoro‐Ayza, Marcos, Lee Jones, Robert J. Dusek, et al.. (2018). Mortality of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus carissima) Naturally Exposed to Microcystin-LR. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 55(1). 266–266. 4 indexed citations

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Jones, Lee. (2015). Societies Under Siege: Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work. OUP Catalogue. 15 indexed citations

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Jones, Lee. (2009). International Relations Scholarship and the Tyranny of Policy Relevance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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Byers, John A., et al.. (2005). A Large Cost of Female Mate Sampling in Pronghorn. The American Naturalist. 166(6). 661–668. 90 indexed citations

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