Nik Heynen

6.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
57 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Nik Heynen is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Nik Heynen has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 17 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 8 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Nik Heynen's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (17 papers), Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (13 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (7 papers). Nik Heynen is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (17 papers), Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (13 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (7 papers). Nik Heynen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Nik Heynen's co-authors include Harold A. Perkins, Parama Roy, Paul Robbins, E Swyngedouw, Sophie Watson, Gary Bridge, Maria Kaïka, Don Mitchell, Dean Hardy and Megan Ybarra and has published in prestigious journals such as Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Ecology and Society and Urban Studies.

In The Last Decade

Nik Heynen

56 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

The Political Ecology of Uneven Urban Green Space

2006 575 citations Nik Heynen, Harold A. Perkins et al. profile →
In the Nature of Cities: Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism

2006 565 citations Nik Heynen, E Swyngedouw et al. profile →
Urban political ecology I

2013 207 citations Nik Heynen Progress in Human Geography profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nik Heynen	1.4k	1.1k	877	813	673	57	3.9k
Henrik Ernstson	912 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	646 0.7×	799 1.0×	222 0.3×	50	4.1k
David Schlosberg	4.1k 3.0×	2.1k 1.9×	1.1k 1.2×	777 1.0×	581 0.9×	78	7.2k
Maria Kaïka	1.3k 0.9×	620 0.5×	1.7k 1.9×	198 0.2×	659 1.0×	77	4.1k
Matthew Gandy	841 0.6×	492 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	297 0.4×	926 1.4×	90	3.5k
David N. Pellow	3.4k 2.5×	784 0.7×	407 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	518 0.8×	97	5.1k
Andrew Church	846 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	214 0.2×	775 1.0×	238 0.4×	86	3.1k
Robert D. Bullard	4.6k 3.3×	700 0.6×	556 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	540 0.8×	79	6.5k
Yvonne Rydin	1.0k 0.7×	819 0.7×	416 0.5×	362 0.4×	141 0.2×	112	3.5k
Andrea J. Nightingale	2.6k 1.9×	2.1k 1.8×	628 0.7×	197 0.2×	308 0.5×	63	5.3k
Isabelle Anguelovski	3.1k 2.3×	3.4k 3.0×	364 0.4×	3.5k 4.3×	306 0.5×	119	8.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nik Heynen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nik Heynen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nik Heynen 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 Nik Heynen. Nik Heynen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Heynen, Nik & Megan Ybarra. (2020). On Abolition Ecologies and Making “Freedom as a Place”. Antipode. 53(1). 21–35. 107 indexed citations

Coleman, Mathew, et al.. (2019). Open Borders: In Defense of Free Movement. 7 indexed citations

Heynen, Nik, et al.. (2018). The Enduring Struggle for Social Justice and the City. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108(2). 301–316. 23 indexed citations

Welch‐Devine, Meredith, et al.. (2018). Facilitating Interdisciplinary Graduate Education: Barriers, Solutions, and Needed Innovations. Change The Magazine of Higher Learning. 50(5). 53–59. 8 indexed citations

Lawson, Victoria, et al.. (2018). Relational Poverty Politics: Forms, Struggles, and Possibilities. 6 indexed citations

Milligan, Richard, et al.. (2016). Solidarity in Climate/Immigrant Justice Direct Action: Lessons from Movements in the US South. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 40(2). 284–298. 17 indexed citations

Rice, Jennifer L., Brian J. Burke, & Nik Heynen. (2015). Knowing Climate Change, Embodying Climate Praxis: Experiential Knowledge in Southern Appalachia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(2). 253–262. 73 indexed citations

Heynen, Nik & Levi Van Sant. (2015). Political Ecologies of Activism and Direct Action Politics. 3 indexed citations

Heynen, Nik, et al.. (2015). Organizing for Survival: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Anarchism through the Life of Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. Open Collections. 11(3). 393–412. 5 indexed citations

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Burke, Brian J. & Nik Heynen. (2014). Transforming Participatory Science into Socioecological Praxis: Valuing Marginalized Environmental Knowledges in the Face of the Neoliberalization of Nature and Science. 5(1). 41 indexed citations

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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, Dean Hardy, Karen E. Allen, et al.. (2014). Acknowledging Trade-offs and Understanding Complexity: Exurbanization Issues in Macon County, North Carolina. Ecology and Society. 19(1). 28 indexed citations

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Welch‐Devine, Meredith, Dean Hardy, J. Peter Brosius, & Nik Heynen. (2014). A pedagogical model for integrative training in conservation and sustainability. Ecology and Society. 19(2). 23 indexed citations

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Heynen, Nik. (2013). Marginalia of a revolution: naming popular ethnography through William W. Bunge'sFitzgerald. Social & Cultural Geography. 14(7). 744–751. 11 indexed citations

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Heynen, Nik. (2013). Urban political ecology I. Progress in Human Geography. 38(4). 598–604. 207 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chatterton, Paul, et al.. (2011). Antipode in an Antithetical Era. Antipode. 43(2). 181–189. 3 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Don & Nik Heynen. (2009). The Geography of Survival and the Right to the City: Speculations on Surveillance, Legal Innovation, and the Criminalization of Intervention. Urban Geography. 30(6). 611–632. 156 indexed citations

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Heynen, Nik. (2006). Green Urban Political Ecologies: Toward a Better Understanding of Inner-City Environmental Change. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 38(3). 499–516. 113 indexed citations

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Heynen, Nik. (2006). “But it's Alright, Ma, it's Life, and Life Only”: Radicalism as Survival. Antipode. 38(5). 916–929. 32 indexed citations

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Heynen, Nik & Harold A. Perkins. (2005). Scalar dialectics in green: urban private property and the contradictions of the neoliberalization of nature. Capitalism Nature Socialism. 16(1). 99–113. 62 indexed citations

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Swyngedouw, E & Nik Heynen. (2003). Guest Editor of Special Issue on ?Justice and Urban Political Ecology?. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 34(4). 2 indexed citations

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