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David Ley publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Ley sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 168 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

David Ley D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Ley sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

David Ley is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on topics within social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with particular emphasis on housing, finance, neoliberalism, urban planning, governance, and urbanization. The scope of Ley's work also covers subjects related to the housing market and economics, as well as regional political issues concerning Hong Kong and Taiwan. Additionally, their interests extend to socioeconomic development in Asia and reproductive health and contraception.

David Ley has contributed to several recent publications across diverse scholarly journals. These include:

  • "A regional growth ecology, a great wall of capital and a metropolitan housing market" (2020) published in Urban Studies
  • "Is Comparative Gentrification Possible? Sceptical Voices from Hong Kong" (2020) published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
  • "Housing Vancouver, 1972-2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response" (2020) published in Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
  • "Pinball Wizard" (2023) published in Dialogues in Urban Research
  • "Residential Alienation and Generational Activism in Hong Kong" (2023) published in Housing Theory and Society

The research venues frequented by Ley include Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, Dialogues in Urban Research, and Housing Theory and Society.

Frequent collaborators include Alison Mountz, Pablo Martín Méndez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton-Roberts, and Ilse Helbrecht. These coauthors have partnered with Ley on multiple occasions, reflecting an engaged network of research partnerships within their fields.

David Ley's publications are positioned at the intersection of social sciences and economics, frequently addressing urban studies and finance within an academic framework related to housing markets, governance, and socio-political dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region.

Best Publications

  • The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City

    David Ley

  • Artists, Aestheticisation and the Field of Gentrification

    David Ley

  • Place/Culture/Representation

    James S. Duncan;David Ley

  • Alternative Explanations for Inner-City Gentrification: A Canadian Assessment

    David Ley

  • LIBERAL IDEOLOGY AND THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY

    David Ley

  • URBAN GRAFFITI AS TERRITORIAL MARKERS

    David Ley;Roman Cybriwsky

  • Back to Hong Kong: return migration or transnational sojourn?

    David Ley;Audrey Kobayashi

  • Transnational spaces and everyday lives

    David Ley

  • A Social Geography of the City

    David Ley

  • Gentrification and the Politics of the New Middle Class

    David Ley

  • The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City

    Christopher Mele;David Ley

  • Landscape as Spectacle: World's Fairs and the Culture of Heroic Consumption

    D Ley;K Olds

  • Millionaire Migrants: Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    David Ley

  • Introduction to Special Issue on Gentrification and Public Policy

    Loretta Lees;David Ley

  • Are There Limits to Gentrification? The Contexts of Impeded Gentrification in Vancouver

    David Ley;Cory Dobson

  • Structural marxism and human geography: a critical assessment

    James Duncan;David Ley

  • Cultural/humanistic geography

    David Ley

  • Styles of the times: liberal and neo-conservative landscapes in inner Vancouver, 1968–1986

    David Ley

  • Seeking Homo Economicus: The Canadian State and the Strange Story of the Business Immigration Program

    David Ley

  • Between Europe and Asia: the Case of the Missing Sequoias:

    David Ley

  • Humanistic geography : prospects and problems

    David Ley;Marwyn S. Samuels

  • Place/Culture/Representation

    Peter Jackson;James Duncan;David Ley

  • The Chinese Diaspora: Space, Place, Mobility and Identity

    David Ley

Frequent Co-Authors

Ceri Peach
Ceri Peach University of Oxford
Loretta Lees
Loretta Lees University of Leicester
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
John Urry
John Urry Lancaster University
Gordon L. Clark
Gordon L. Clark University of Oxford
John Agnew
John Agnew University of California, Los Angeles
Alison Mountz
Alison Mountz University of Toronto

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