Luuk Boelens

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 953 citations indexed

About

Luuk Boelens is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Global and Planetary Change and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Luuk Boelens has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 953 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Urban Studies, 8 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Luuk Boelens's work include Urban Planning and Governance (8 papers), Dutch Social and Cultural Studies (6 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (6 papers). Luuk Boelens is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (8 papers), Dutch Social and Cultural Studies (6 papers) and Urbanization and City Planning (6 papers). Luuk Boelens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and China. Luuk Boelens's co-authors include Beitske Boonstra, Gert de Roo, Wouter Jacobs, Jean Hillier, Torill Nyseth, Alessandro Balducci, Cathy Wilkinson, Thomas Verbeek, Hannelore Mees and Ann Crabbé and has published in prestigious journals such as Sustainability, Land Use Policy and Journal of Transport Geography.

In The Last Decade

Luuk Boelens

45 papers receiving 875 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Self-organization in urban development: towards a new perspective on spatial planning

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luuk Boelens Belgium	13	287	265	203	126	120	52	953
John Abbott United States	15	180 0.6×	332 1.3×	178 0.9×	108 0.9×	91 0.8×	63	1.1k
Nurit Alfasi Israel	18	184 0.6×	369 1.4×	282 1.4×	76 0.6×	123 1.0×	43	902
Leonie Janssen-Jansen Netherlands	17	263 0.9×	226 0.9×	161 0.8×	100 0.8×	56 0.5×	56	793
Bruno De Meulder Belgium	12	230 0.8×	230 0.9×	156 0.8×	172 1.4×	124 1.0×	100	733
Maarten Loopmans Belgium	16	175 0.6×	312 1.2×	367 1.8×	153 1.2×	50 0.4×	78	937
Li Yu China	16	257 0.9×	103 0.4×	141 0.7×	117 0.9×	91 0.8×	65	854
Eugénie L. Birch United States	17	161 0.6×	251 0.9×	262 1.3×	54 0.4×	90 0.8×	53	909
John Minnery Australia	16	164 0.6×	281 1.1×	402 2.0×	84 0.7×	60 0.5×	70	1.0k
Hillary Angelo United States	13	284 1.0×	377 1.4×	340 1.7×	301 2.4×	84 0.7×	26	1.1k
Joshua Long United States	13	209 0.7×	214 0.8×	375 1.8×	74 0.6×	48 0.4×	22	794

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luuk Boelens

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All Works

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Boelens, Luuk, et al.. (2016). The Socio-Economic Interfaces of the Port City of Ghent: Acknowledging its potential towards the Third Industrial Revolution. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk, et al.. (2016). Beyond the divide: evaluation in co-evolutionary spatial planning. European Planning Studies. 24(6). 1079–1097. 13 indexed citations

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Boussauw, Kobe & Luuk Boelens. (2015). Fuzzy tales for hard blueprints: the selective coproduction of the Spatial Policy Plan for Flanders, Belgium. Environment and Planning C Government and Policy. 33(6). 1376–1393. 10 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (2015). From flux to frame. 58–59. 2 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk & Gert de Roo. (2014). Planning of undefined becoming: First encounters of planners beyond the plan. Planning Theory. 15(1). 42–67. 76 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (2014). Delta Governance: The DNA of a Specific Kind of Urbanization. Built Environment. 40(2). 169–183. 4 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (2013). De ontspannen versus de jachtige metropool: pleidooi voor een horizontale ruimtelijke planning. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk, et al.. (2013). …ter wille van de samenleving : liber Amicorum Georges Allaert. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Maiheu, B., et al.. (2013). Opmaak van een hittekaart en analyse van het stedelijk hitte-eiland effect voor Gent. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 3 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (2012). Ontspannen metropolitane interventies. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 2 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (2011). Going beyond planners' dependencies: An actor-relational approach to Mainport Rotterdam. Town Planning Review. 82(5). 547–572. 4 indexed citations

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Balducci, Alessandro, Luuk Boelens, Jean Hillier, Torill Nyseth, & Cathy Wilkinson. (2011). Introduction: Strategic spatial planning in uncertainty: theory and exploratory practice. Town Planning Review. 82(5). 481–501. 53 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk, et al.. (2011). Compact city extended: outline for future policy research and design. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 4. 3 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk, et al.. (2009). Waarom steden als delta's floreren. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 229–258. 2 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (2008). Review: Recapturing Democracy—Neoliberalization and the Struggle for Alternative Urban Futures, by Mark Purcell. New York and London: Routledge. 2008. 208 pages. $31.95 (paperback). Journal of Planning Education and Research. 28(2). 268–269. 1 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk, Tejo Spit, & Bart Wissink. (2006). Planning zonder overheid, een toekomst voor planning. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 6 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (2006). Beyond the Plan; Towards a New Kind of Planning. disP - The Planning Review. 42(167). 25–40. 15 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (2000). Nederland netwerkenland : een inventarisatie van de nieuwe condities van planologie en stedebouw. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 4 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (1991). De planologie en het tijd-ruimte vraagstuk : crisis van de corrigerende tegenbeweging. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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Boelens, Luuk. (1988). De nieuwe opleving binnen de stedebouw en planologie : een dood spoor?. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations

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