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Kwong Wing Chau

Kwong Wing Chau

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
6528
World Ranking
4799
National Ranking
74

Kwong Wing Chau 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 Kwong Wing Chau sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 300 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kwong Wing Chau 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 Kwong Wing Chau sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kwong Wing Chau is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Social Sciences. Within these broad fields, the subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Urban Studies, Transportation, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work extensively addresses topics related to the housing market and economics, economic and environmental valuation, housing finance and neoliberalism, urban and rural development challenges, land rights and reforms, urban transport and accessibility, and financial literacy with a focus on pension and retirement analysis.

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Kwong Wing Chau has multiple co-authors including Lawrence W.C. Lai, Siu Kei Wong, Lennon H.T. Choy, Linchuan Yang, and Stephen Davies.

Their recent publications include:

  • Accessibility to transit, by transit, and property prices: Spatially varying relationships (2020) published in Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Place-varying impacts of urban rail transit on property prices in Shenzhen, China: Insights for value capture (2020) published in Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Multiscale spatial analysis of metro usage and its determinants for sustainable urban development in Shenzhen, China (2022) published in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
  • Adaptive reuse of heritage architecture and its external effects on sustainable built environment-Hedonic pricing model and case studies in Hong Kong (2020) published in Sustainable Development
  • Information Asymmetry with Heterogeneous Buyers and Sellers in the Housing Market (2023) published in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Throughout their career, Kwong Wing Chau has published multiple articles in prominent venues such as Land Use Policy, Land, SSRN Electronic Journal, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Sustainability.

Best Publications

  • A decade's debate on the nexus between corporate social and corporate financial performance: a critical review of empirical studies 2002–2011

    Weisheng Lu;K.W. Chau;Hongdi Wang;Wei Pan

  • Short- and long-run effects between oil consumption and economic growth in China

    Gaolu Zou;K.W. Chau

  • A critical review of literature on the hedonic price model

    TL Chin;KW Chau

  • Accessibility to transit, by transit, and property prices: Spatially varying relationships

    Linchuan Yang;K.W. Chau;W.Y. Szeto;Xu Cui

  • Decoupling relationship between economic output and carbon emission in the Chinese construction industry

    Ya Wu;Ya Wu;K.W. Chau;Weisheng Lu;Liyin Shen

  • The Pricing of 'Luckiness' in the Apartment Market

    K. Chau;Vincent Ma;Daniel Ho

  • Virtuous nexus between corporate social performance and financial performance: A study of construction enterprises in China

    Bo Xiong;Weisheng Lu;Martin Skitmore;K.W. Chau

  • Do the forward sales of real estate stabilize spot prices

    S. K. Wong;C. Y. Yiu;M. K. S. Tse;K. W. Chau

  • Estimating the value enhancement effects of refurbishment

    K.W. Chau;S.K. Wong;A.Y.T. Leung;C.Y. Yiu

  • The curvilinear relationship between corporate social performance and corporate financial performance: Evidence from the international construction industry

    Hongdi Wang;Weisheng Lu;Meng Ye;K.W. Chau

  • Assessing the health and hygiene performance of apartment buildings

    D.C.W. Ho;H.F. Leung;S.K. Wong;A.K.C. Cheung

  • The validity of the triangular distribution assumption in Monte Carlo simulation of construction costs: empirical evidence from Hong Kong

    Kwong Wing Chau

  • The value of the provision of a balcony in apartments in Hong Kong

    Kwong Wing Chau;Siu Kei Wong;Chung Yim Yiu

  • The effects of improvement in public transportation capacity on residential price gradient in Hong Kong

    K.W. Chau;F.F. Ng

  • A survey of the health and safety conditions of apartment buildings in Hong Kong

    Daniel Chi Wing Ho;Kwong Wing Chau;Alex King-Chung Cheung;Yung Yau

  • Sick building syndrome and perceived indoor environmental quality: A survey of apartment buildings in Hong Kong

    Siu-Kei Wong;Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai;Daniel Chi-Wing Ho;Kwong-Wing Chau

  • Linkages between direct and indirect property performance in Hong Kong

    Graeme Newell;Kwong Wing Chau

  • The measurement of total factor productivity of the Hong Kong construction industry

    K. W. Chau;A. Walker

  • Sustainable Construction Safety Knowledge Sharing: A Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling and A Feedforward Neural Network Approach

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  • Price discovery in the Hong Kong real estate market

    K.W. Chau;Bryan D. MacGregor;Gregory M. Schwann

  • Real estate price indices in Hong Kong

    K. W. Chau;S. K. Wong;C. Y. Yiu;H. F. Leung

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme Newell
Graeme Newell Western Sydney University
Weisheng Lu
Weisheng Lu University of Hong Kong
Liyin Shen
Liyin Shen Chongqing University
Chris Webster
Chris Webster University of Hong Kong
Eddie C.M. Hui
Eddie C.M. Hui Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Martin Skitmore
Martin Skitmore Bond University
Shenjing He
Shenjing He University of Hong Kong
Wai Yuen Szeto
Wai Yuen Szeto University of Hong Kong
Wei Pan
Wei Pan University of Hong Kong
Xiaoling Zhang
Xiaoling Zhang University of Hong Kong

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