Melanie Lombard

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 942 citations indexed

About

Melanie Lombard is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie Lombard has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 942 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Urban Studies, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Melanie Lombard's work include Urban and Rural Development Challenges (14 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (13 papers) and Latin American Urban Studies (5 papers). Melanie Lombard is often cited by papers focused on Urban and Rural Development Challenges (14 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (13 papers) and Latin American Urban Studies (5 papers). Melanie Lombard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Colombia and United States. Melanie Lombard's co-authors include Diana Mitlin, Nicola Banks, Carole Rakodi, John A. G. Briggs, Vanessa Watson, Margo Huxley, Tolga İslam, Deden Rukmana, Libby Porter and Ryan Thomas Devlin and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Geoforum and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

In The Last Decade

Melanie Lombard

25 papers receiving 868 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Urban Informality as a Site of Critical Analysis
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melanie Lombard United Kingdom 14 604 299 186 133 130 26 942
Robert Home United Kingdom 16 401 0.7× 269 0.9× 130 0.7× 63 0.5× 115 0.9× 67 936
Marie Huchzermeyer South Africa 18 993 1.6× 351 1.2× 265 1.4× 166 1.2× 174 1.3× 38 1.3k
Francesco Chiodelli Italy 18 430 0.7× 295 1.0× 74 0.4× 81 0.6× 215 1.7× 66 825
Clara Irazábal United States 20 341 0.6× 414 1.4× 122 0.7× 106 0.8× 66 0.5× 56 953
Maarten Loopmans Belgium 16 312 0.5× 367 1.2× 153 0.8× 73 0.5× 83 0.6× 78 937
Vinit Mukhija United States 17 448 0.7× 211 0.7× 100 0.5× 56 0.4× 188 1.4× 33 752
Nurit Alfasi Israel 18 369 0.6× 282 0.9× 76 0.4× 47 0.4× 99 0.8× 43 902
James Heitzman United States 11 331 0.5× 233 0.8× 237 1.3× 50 0.4× 68 0.5× 25 723
Tom Gillespie United Kingdom 10 317 0.5× 117 0.4× 100 0.5× 82 0.6× 85 0.7× 17 519
Paul Waley United Kingdom 18 482 0.8× 437 1.5× 296 1.6× 26 0.2× 111 0.9× 54 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melanie Lombard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melanie Lombard

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All Works

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Lombard, Melanie, et al.. (2025). Everyday urban peace: Experiences from a marginalised neighbourhood in Cali, Colombia. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space. 43(7). 1391–1408.
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Lombard, Melanie, et al.. (2024). Hybridising governance for resilience in a time of crisis: learning from community-based organisations in Cape Town and Cali. International Development Planning Review. 47(1). 41–63. 2 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie, et al.. (2024). Entangled Rationalities: Planning Responses to Informal Housing Practices Within Middle-Income Neighbourhoods in Nairobi City, Kenya. Planning Theory & Practice. 25(3). 299–320. 2 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie, et al.. (2023). Framing urban threats: A socio-spatial analysis of urban securitisation in Latin America and the Caribbean. Urban Studies. 60(14). 2741–2762. 7 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie, et al.. (2021). Beyond displacement: territorialization in the port city of Buenaventura, Colombia. Territory Politics Governance. 11(7). 1324–1343. 11 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie. (2021). The experience of precarity: low-paid economic migrants’ housing in Manchester. Housing Studies. 38(2). 307–326. 40 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie, et al.. (2020). Informal rental housing in Colombia: an essential option for low-income households. International Development Planning Review. 43(2). 257–277. 6 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie. (2019). Informality as Structure or Agency? Exploring Shed Housing in the UK as Informal Practice. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 43(3). 569–575. 43 indexed citations
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Smith, Harry, et al.. (2018). Interrogating informality: Conceptualisations, practices and policies in the light of the New Urban Agenda. Habitat International. 75. 59–66. 34 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie & Carole Rakodi. (2016). Urban land conflict in the Global South: Towards an analytical framework. Urban Studies. 53(13). 2683–2699. 63 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie. (2015). Discursive Constructions of Low‐income Neighbourhoods. Geography Compass. 9(12). 648–659. 7 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie. (2015). Land conflict in peri-urban areas: Exploring the effects of land reform on informal settlement in Mexico. Urban Studies. 53(13). 2700–2720. 52 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie. (2014). Constructing ordinary places: Place-making in urban informal settlements in Mexico. Progress in Planning. 94. 1–53. 132 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie. (2013). Struggling, Suffering, Hoping, Waiting: Perceptions of Temporality in Two Informal Neighbourhoods in Mexico. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 31(5). 813–829. 35 indexed citations
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Lombard, Melanie. (2012). Citizen Participation in Urban Governance in the Context of Democratization: Evidence from Low‐Income Neighbourhoods in Mexico. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 37(1). 135–150. 34 indexed citations
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Porter, Libby, Melanie Lombard, Margo Huxley, et al.. (2011). Contribution to Interface: Self-made cities: ordinary informality?. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 12(1). 115–153. 81 indexed citations
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Crane, Lucy, et al.. (2009). More than just translation: challenges and opportunities in intercultural and multilingual research. 5(1). 51–70. 4 indexed citations
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Crane, Lucy, et al.. (2009). More than just translation: challenges and opportunities in translingual research. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 4(1). 39–46. 9 indexed citations

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