Ryan Holifield

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ryan Holifield is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Holifield has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 5 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Ryan Holifield's work include Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (17 papers), Risk Perception and Management (7 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers). Ryan Holifield is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (17 papers), Risk Perception and Management (7 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers). Ryan Holifield collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Ryan Holifield's co-authors include Gordon Walker, Jayajit Chakraborty, Michael A. Porter, Kathleen C. Williams, Michael H. Finewood, Kyle Powys Whyte and Anne Bonds and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Environmental Management, Geoforum and Antipode.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Holifield

22 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200
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. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice
    2017 241 citations Ryan Holifield, Gordon Walker et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ryan Holifield United States 15 733 224 201 178 176 23 1.1k
Jennifer L. Rice United States 20 502 0.7× 154 0.7× 556 2.8× 147 0.8× 116 0.7× 41 1.3k
Sheila R. Foster United States 14 459 0.6× 104 0.5× 128 0.6× 93 0.5× 64 0.4× 44 867
Melissa Checker United States 12 516 0.7× 91 0.4× 290 1.4× 322 1.8× 129 0.7× 30 1.1k
Martin V. Melosi United States 19 320 0.4× 247 1.1× 140 0.7× 91 0.5× 95 0.5× 75 1.2k
Stella M. Čapek United States 9 680 0.9× 104 0.5× 71 0.4× 88 0.5× 95 0.5× 16 885
Georgina Drew Australia 16 643 0.9× 156 0.7× 97 0.5× 98 0.6× 97 0.6× 60 971
Giacomo D’Alisa Spain 17 424 0.6× 164 0.7× 234 1.2× 30 0.2× 85 0.5× 30 1.2k
Christian Hunold United States 15 423 0.6× 282 1.3× 263 1.3× 77 0.4× 66 0.4× 28 1.0k
Hillary Angelo United States 13 340 0.5× 301 1.3× 284 1.4× 182 1.0× 194 1.1× 26 1.1k
Gregory L. Simon United States 17 357 0.5× 114 0.5× 321 1.6× 90 0.5× 153 0.9× 47 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ryan Holifield

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ryan Holifield

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Holifield

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Whyte, Kyle Powys, et al.. (2023). Indigenous Peoples and the Justice40 Screening Tool: Lessons from EJSCREEN. Environmental Justice. 16(5). 360–369. 9 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan, et al.. (2022). Touristification, commercial gentrification, and experiences of displacement in a disadvantaged neighborhood in Busan, South Korea. Journal of Urban Affairs. 46(3). 509–527. 16 indexed citations
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Bonds, Anne & Ryan Holifield. (2022). Birds, Dogs, and Racism: Conflicts over Care in New York’s Central Park. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 113(7). 1630–1638. 3 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan & Kathleen C. Williams. (2020). Watershed or bank-to-bank? Scales of governance and the geographic definition of Great Lakes Areas of Concern. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 4(3). 1031–1054. 6 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan. (2018). David Naguib Pellow, What is Critical Environmental Justice?. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 99(3-4). 303–306. 3 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan & Kathleen C. Williams. (2018). Recruiting, integrating, and sustaining stakeholder participation in environmental management: A case study from the Great Lakes Areas of Concern. Journal of Environmental Management. 230. 422–433. 44 indexed citations
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Finewood, Michael H. & Ryan Holifield. (2015). Critical approaches to urban water governance: from critique to justice, democracy, and transdisciplinary collaboration. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water. 2(2). 85–96. 26 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan, et al.. (2015). The Place and Time of the Political in Urban Political Ecology: Contested Imaginations of a River's Future. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(2). 294–303. 29 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan & Kathleen C. Williams. (2014). Urban Parks, Environmental Justice, and Voluntarism: The Distribution of Friends of the Parks Groups in Milwaukee County. Environmental Justice. 7(3). 70–76. 24 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan, et al.. (2013). Keep costumes out, keep trains in: defining and defending spaces for “good jobs” in a Rust Belt city. GeoJournal. 79(3). 309–328. 5 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan. (2012). The Elusive Environmental Justice Area: Three Waves of Policy in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Justice. 5(6). 293–297. 22 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan. (2012). Science in democracy: Expertise, institutions and representation. Contemporary Political Theory. 11(3). e5–e8. 3 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan. (2012). Environmental Justice as Recognition and Participation in Risk Assessment: Negotiating and Translating Health Risk at a Superfund Site in Indian Country. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102(3). 591–613. 85 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan, Michael A. Porter, & Gordon Walker. (2010). Spaces of Environmental Justice. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 12 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan, Michael A. Porter, & Gordon Walker. (2009). Introduction Spaces of Environmental Justice: Frameworks for Critical Engagement. Antipode. 41(4). 591–612. 108 indexed citations
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Holifield, Ryan. (2001). DEFINING ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM. Urban Geography. 22(1). 78–90. 194 indexed citations

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