Patsy Healey

20.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
157 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Patsy Healey is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Public Administration and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Patsy Healey has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Urban Studies, 22 papers in Public Administration and 19 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Patsy Healey's work include Urban Planning and Governance (57 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (23 papers) and Public Policy and Administration Research (22 papers). Patsy Healey is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (57 papers), Urbanization and City Planning (23 papers) and Public Policy and Administration Research (22 papers). Patsy Healey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Patsy Healey's co-authors include Stephen Graham, Louis Albrechts, Sara González, Klaus R. Kunzmann, Jon Coaffee, Susan Barrett, Richard H. Williams, Ali Madanipour, Geoff Vigar and Simin Davoudi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Urban Studies and Land Use Policy.

In The Last Decade

Patsy Healey

146 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

Collaborative Planning: S... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1997 1997 1992 2003 1998 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies
    1997 1.8k citations Patsy Healey profile →
  2. Collaborative Planning
    1997 1.6k citations Patsy Healey profile →
  3. Planning through debate: the communicative turn in planning theory
    1992 697 citations Patsy Healey Town Planning Review profile →
  4. Collaborative Planning in Perspective
    2003 644 citations Patsy Healey profile →
  5. Building Institutional Capacity through Collaborative Approaches to Urban Planning
    1998 454 citations Patsy Healey profile →
  6. The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation
    1996 420 citations Patsy Healey Environment and Planning B Planning and Design profile →
  7. The Treatment of Space and Place in the New Strategic Spatial Planning in Europe
    2004 360 citations Patsy Healey International Journal of Urban and Regional Research profile →
  8. Planning With Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy
    2010 240 citations Patsy Healey Planning Theory & Practice profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Patsy Healey 6.0k 3.6k 2.8k 2.2k 1.7k 157 13.3k
E Swyngedouw 5.9k 1.0× 8.7k 2.4× 7.9k 2.8× 2.5k 1.1× 1.8k 1.0× 242 22.9k
Neil Brenner 7.4k 1.2× 5.7k 1.6× 6.1k 2.2× 1.1k 0.5× 3.0k 1.8× 87 16.4k
Jamie Peck 6.8k 1.1× 6.0k 1.7× 6.1k 2.2× 736 0.3× 4.4k 2.6× 180 17.3k
Bob Jessop 2.4k 0.4× 5.4k 1.5× 5.6k 2.0× 598 0.3× 1.9k 1.2× 277 13.3k
Judith E. Innes 1.8k 0.3× 1.9k 0.5× 1.1k 0.4× 1.5k 0.7× 400 0.2× 54 6.5k
Adrian Smith 1.1k 0.2× 4.7k 1.3× 1.9k 0.7× 5.2k 2.4× 772 0.5× 194 15.1k
Sherry R. Arnstein 1.2k 0.2× 3.5k 1.0× 1.5k 0.5× 1.6k 0.7× 448 0.3× 11 9.9k
Harriet Bulkeley 1.5k 0.2× 5.5k 1.5× 2.5k 0.9× 7.6k 3.5× 627 0.4× 162 15.7k
Nik Theodore 3.5k 0.6× 3.8k 1.0× 3.3k 1.2× 477 0.2× 2.4k 1.5× 95 9.9k
Fulong Wu 6.3k 1.1× 4.7k 1.3× 6.3k 2.3× 3.1k 1.4× 1.5k 0.9× 238 15.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patsy Healey

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

All Works

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Tulumello, Simone & Patsy Healey. (2016). Questioning planning, connecting places and times. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 7–15.
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Silva, Elisabete A., et al.. (2014). 4 Measuring space: a review of spatial metrics for urban growth and shrinkage. Routledge eBooks. 321–334. 5 indexed citations
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Silva, Elisabete A., Patsy Healey, Neil Harris, & Pieter Van den Broeck. (2014). 4 What can we learn from France? Some reflections on the methodologies of cross-national research. 126–138. 5 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy. (2012). Re-enchanting democracy as a mode of governance. Critical Policy Studies. 6(1). 19–39. 37 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy. (2009). In Search of the “Strategic” in Spatial Strategy Making. Planning Theory & Practice. 10(4). 439–457. 155 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy. (2007). European Integration and the Planning Academy: Reflections on the AESOP Project. Town Planning Review. 78(5). 1 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy. (2007). Cities where planning is valued.... Planning Theory & Practice. 8(3). 287–291.
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Healey, Patsy. (2004). The Treatment of Space and Place in the New Strategic Spatial Planning in Europe. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 28(1). 45–67. 360 indexed citations breakdown →
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Healey, Patsy. (1998). Collaborative planning in a stakeholder society. Town Planning Review. 69(1). 1–1. 250 indexed citations
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Allmendinger, Philip, Mike Danson, Clifford M. Guy, et al.. (1997). Book reviews. International Planning Studies. 2(2). 273–286. 1 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy. (1996). The Communicative Turn in Planning Theory and its Implications for Spatial Strategy Formation. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 23(2). 217–234. 420 indexed citations breakdown →
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Healey, Patsy. (1996). Consensus-building across Difficult Divisions: New approaches to collaborative strategy making. Planning Practice and Research. 11(2). 207–216. 73 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy. (1993). The Communicative Work of Development Plans. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 20(1). 83–104. 87 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy. (1991). Models of the development process: A review. Journal of Property Research. 8(3). 219–238. 143 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy. (1991). The Content of Planning Education Programmes: Some Comments from Recent British Experience. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 18(2). 177–189. 5 indexed citations
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Barrett, Susan & Patsy Healey. (1985). Land policy : problems and alternatives. Gower eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Healey, Patsy, et al.. (1982). Planning theory : prospects for the 1980s : selected papers from a conference held in Oxford, 2-4 April 1981. Pergamon Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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