Sylvia Croese

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 772 citations indexed

About

Sylvia Croese is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Croese has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 772 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Urban Studies, 10 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 6 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Croese's work include Urban and Rural Development Challenges (16 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (11 papers) and Local Economic Development and Planning (5 papers). Sylvia Croese is often cited by papers focused on Urban and Rural Development Challenges (16 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (11 papers) and Local Economic Development and Planning (5 papers). Sylvia Croese collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Sylvia Croese's co-authors include Michael Oloko, Sandra Valencia, Dávid Simon, Gareth J. Morgan, Joakim Nordqvist, Nick Taylor Buck, Liza Rose Cirolia, N Graham, M. Anne Pitcher and Philip Harrison and has published in prestigious journals such as Sustainability, Urban Studies and Land Use Policy.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Croese

24 papers receiving 711 citations

Hit Papers

Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Ur... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 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. Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project
    2019 206 citations Sandra Valencia, Dávid Simon et al. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sylvia Croese South Africa 13 276 181 142 118 109 25 772
Juan Miguel Kanai United Kingdom 16 377 1.4× 229 1.3× 300 2.1× 77 0.7× 43 0.4× 30 838
Tom Goodfellow United Kingdom 22 593 2.1× 437 2.4× 408 2.9× 72 0.6× 97 0.9× 47 1.2k
Femke van Noorloos Netherlands 13 330 1.2× 232 1.3× 155 1.1× 91 0.8× 22 0.2× 24 735
Paul K. Gellert United States 18 45 0.2× 256 1.4× 146 1.0× 166 1.4× 56 0.5× 28 723
Kathryn Furlong Canada 18 181 0.7× 487 2.7× 671 4.7× 117 1.0× 34 0.3× 42 1.3k
Michael Levien United States 17 215 0.8× 690 3.8× 540 3.8× 78 0.7× 37 0.3× 31 1.4k
Jorge E. Hardoy United Kingdom 16 469 1.7× 214 1.2× 147 1.0× 91 0.8× 32 0.3× 67 1.0k
Harris Selod United States 19 301 1.1× 384 2.1× 160 1.1× 157 1.3× 21 0.2× 80 1.4k
Vasudha Chhotray United Kingdom 14 52 0.2× 347 1.9× 221 1.6× 148 1.3× 69 0.6× 30 732
Victoria A. Beard United States 16 244 0.9× 342 1.9× 202 1.4× 107 0.9× 44 0.4× 31 923

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvia Croese

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvia Croese

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvia Croese

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Robinson, Jennifer, Philip Harrison, Sylvia Croese, et al.. (2024). Reframing urban development politics: Transcalarity in sovereign, developmental and private circuits. Urban Studies. 62(1). 3–30. 3 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia & Wilbard Kombe. (2024). Negotiating Urban Development in Africa: Transnational Communities of Embedded Support in Dar es Salaam. Development and Change. 55(6). 1125–1149. 3 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia & Astrid Wood. (2024). African Urban Studies: Contributions and Challenges. Urban Studies. 61(13). 2477–2491. 1 indexed citations
4.
Harrison, Philip & Sylvia Croese. (2022). The persistence and rise of master planning in urban Africa: transnational circuits and local ambitions. Planning Perspectives. 38(1). 25–47. 12 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia & Susan Parnell. (2022). Localizing the SDGs in African Cities. Sustainable development goals series. 12 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia & James Duminy. (2022). Co-producing urban expertise for SDG localization: the history and practices of urban knowledge production in South Africa. Urban Geography. 44(3). 538–557. 12 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia, et al.. (2022). The transcalar politics of urban master planning: the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Africa. Area Development and Policy. 8(3). 298–320. 8 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia, Michael Oloko, Dávid Simon, & Sandra Valencia. (2021). Bringing the Global to the Local: the challenges of multi-level governance for global policy implementation in Africa. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 13(3). 435–447. 37 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia, et al.. (2021). Co-producing urban knowledge in Angola and Mozambique: towards meeting SDG 11. npj Urban Sustainability. 1(1). 21 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia, et al.. (2020). SDG Implementation at the Local Level: Lessons From Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis in Three Cities in the Global South. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. 2. 12 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia, et al.. (2020). Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 8 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia. (2019). “He Will Know How to Explain”. Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East. 39(1). 37–48.
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Croese, Sylvia. (2018). Global Urban Policymaking in Africa: A View from Angola Through the Redevelopment of the Bay of Luanda. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 42(2). 198–209. 33 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia & M. Anne Pitcher. (2017). Ordering power? The politics of state-led housing delivery under authoritarianism – the case of Luanda, Angola. Urban Studies. 56(2). 401–418. 35 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia. (2016). Political identity and conflict in Central Angola, 1975–2002. Social Dynamics. 42(1). 196–198. 2 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia. (2016). The petro-developmental state in Africa: Making oil work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea. South African Journal of International Affairs. 23(4). 547–549. 43 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia. (2016). State-led housing delivery as an instrument of developmental patrimonialism: The case of post-war Angola. African Affairs. 116(462). 80–100. 53 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia. (2015). Inside the Government, but Outside the Law: Residents' Committees, Public Authority and Twilight Governance in Post-War Angola. Journal of Southern African Studies. 41(2). 405–417. 14 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia, Liza Rose Cirolia, & N Graham. (2015). Towards Habitat III: Confronting the disjuncture between global policy and local practice on Africa's ‘challenge of slums’. Habitat International. 53. 237–242. 59 indexed citations
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Croese, Sylvia. (2013). Uncovering African agency: Angola's management of China's credit lines. South African Journal of International Affairs. 20(3). 460–462. 65 indexed citations

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