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D-Index
43
Citations
10914
World Ranking
4316
National Ranking
2064

Helga Leitner 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 Helga Leitner sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 87 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Helga Leitner 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 Helga Leitner sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Helga Leitner is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Urban Studies, demonstrated by 16 publications in this subfield. Additional areas of study include Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Food Science, and Building and Construction.

Their work addresses main topics such as Urban Planning and Governance, Urban and Rural Development Challenges, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Socioeconomic Development in Asia, Urban Design and Spatial Analysis, Community Development and Social Impact, and Regional resilience and development.

Leitner has contributed to several publications in prominent venues, including:

  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers (2 publications)
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (2 publications)
  • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society (1 publication)
  • Journal of Political Ecology (1 publication)
  • Antipode (1 publication)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Leitner include:

  • Towards an epistemology for conjunctural inter-urban comparison, 2020, Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • For food space: theorizing alternative food networks beyond alterity, 2020, Journal of Political Ecology
  • Everyday speculation in the remaking of peri-urban livelihoods and landscapes, 2022, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space

Leitner has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Eric Sheppard, Sophie Webber, Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, and Renata Blumberg.

Their research often explores relationships between urban development, governance, economic forces, and social conditions, emphasizing comparative analyses between different geographic contexts and the reconfiguration of urban and peri-urban spaces.

Best Publications

  • The political construction of scale

    David Delaney;Helga Leitner

  • The spatialities of contentious politics

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard;Kristin M. Sziarto

  • Contesting neoliberalism : urban frontiers

    Helga Leitner;Jamie Peck;Eric S. Sheppard

  • Cities in pursuit of economic growth The local state as entrepreneur

    Helga Leitner

  • Urban Pulse-provincializing Global Urbanism: A Manifesto

    Eric Sheppard;Helga Leitner;Anant Maringanti

  • Spaces of Encounters: Immigration, Race, Class, and the Politics of Belonging in Small-Town America

    Helga Leitner

  • The Variegated Landscape of Local Immigration Policies in the United States

    Kyle E. Walker;Helga Leitner

  • Scale and the limitations of ontological debate: a commentary on Marston, Jones and Woodward

    Helga Leitner;Byron Miller

  • Dreaming the ordinary Daily life and the complex geographies of citizenship

    Lynn A. Staeheli;Patricia Ehrkamp;Helga Leitner;Caroline R. Nagel

  • Measuring the unmeasurable

    Helga Leitner;Neil Wrigley;Peter Nijkamp

  • Urban encounters with difference: the contact hypothesis and immigrant integration projects in eastern Berlin

    Tatiana Matejskova;Helga Leitner

  • Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus

    Eric Sheppard;Helga Leitner

  • Reconfiguring the spatiality of power: the construction of a supranational migration framework for the European Union

    Helga Leitner

  • Planning in the multicultural city: Celebrating diversity or reinforcing difference?

    Ruth Fincher;Kurt Iveson;Helga Leitner;Valerie Preston

  • Beyond National Citizenship: Turkish Immigrants and the (RE)Construction of Citizenship in Germany

    Patricia Ehrkamp;Helga Leitner

  • The Politics of Scale and Networks of Spatial Connectivity: Transnational Interurban Networks and the Rescaling of Political Governance in Europe

    Helga Leitner

  • Transnationalism and Migrants' Imaginings of Citizenship

    Helga Leitner;Patricia Ehrkamp

  • GIS-based measures of environmental equity: exploring their sensitivity and significance.

    E R I C Sheppard;H E L G A Leitner;Robert B Mcmaster;H O N G G U O Tian

  • GIS and Community-based Planning: Exploring the Diversity of Neighborhood Perspectives and Needs

    Sarah Elwood;Helga Leitner

  • Globalizing urban resilience

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard;Sophie Webber;Emma Colven

  • “The City is Dead, Long Live the Net”: Harnessing European Interurban Networks for a Neoliberal Agenda

    Helga Leitner;Eric Sheppard

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Sheppard
Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah Elwood
Sarah Elwood University of Washington
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Neil Wrigley
Neil Wrigley University of Southampton
Peter Nijkamp
Peter Nijkamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ananya Roy
Ananya Roy University of California, Los Angeles
Lynn A. Staeheli
Lynn A. Staeheli Durham University
Caroline R. Nagel
Caroline R. Nagel University of South Carolina
Craig Packer
Craig Packer University of Minnesota

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