2026 Lily Kong: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	48	3164	2908	11	11	216	9142

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

3164

2908

216

9142

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

9142

World Ranking

3164

National Ranking

Overview

Lily Kong is affiliated with Singapore Management University in Singapore. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and medicine, with significant contributions in sociology, political science, demography, geography, planning, development, media technology, and education.

Their recent scholarly output includes several papers:

Towards more inclusive smart cities: Reconciling the divergent realities of data and discourse at the margins, 2020, Geography Compass
The spatial subversions of global citizenship education: Negotiating imagined inclusions and everyday exclusions in international schools in China, 2020, Geoforum
Rural revitalization in China: Towards inclusive geographies of ruralization, 2022, Dialogues in Human Geography
Lived religion in a digital age: technology, affect and the pervasive space-times of 'new' religious praxis, 2022, Social & Cultural Geography
Scaling smartness, (de)provincialising the city? The ASEAN Smart Cities Network and the translational politics of technocratic regionalism, 2021, Cities

Lily Kong has authored books published by Amsterdam University Press and World Scientific, including titles such as Religion, Hypermobility and Digital Media in Global Asia (2020) and Universities Reinvented (2025).

Their research topics cover a variety of fields, with key topics including:

Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Religious Tourism and Spaces
Smart Cities and Technologies
Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
Global Education and Multiculturalism
Media, Religion, Digital Communication

Lily Kong frequently publishes in venues such as:

Geoforum
Dialogues in Human Geography
Urban Geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Ethnic and Racial Studies

Their frequent coauthors include:

Orlando Woods
Tim Bunnell
Catherine Gomes
Brian J. Flynn
Prerona Das

Best Publications

Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity:

Lily Kong

619
Citations
Cultural Economy: A Critical Review

Chris Gibson;Lily Kong

566
Citations
Global shifts, theoretical shifts: Changing geographies of religion

Lily Kong

443
Citations
Singapore: A Developmental City State

Martin Perry;Lily Kong;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

352
Citations
The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Constructions of "Nation"

Lily Kong;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

320
Citations
Geography and religion: trends and prospects

Lily Kong

267
Citations
Knowledges of the creative economy: Towards a relational geography of diffusion and adaptation in Asia

Lily Kong;Chris Gibson;Louisa May Khoo;Anne Louise Semple

265
Citations
Popular music in geographical analyses

Lily Kong

263
Citations
Cultural icons and urban development in Asia: Economic imperative, national identity, and global city status ☆

Lily Kong

257
Citations
Cemetaries and Columbaria, Memorials and Mausoleums: Narrative and Interpretation in the Study of Deathscapes in Geography

Lily Kong

210
Citations
Culture, economy, policy: trends and developments.

Lily Kong

177
Citations
The Construction of National Identity through the Production of Ritual and Spectacle: An Analysis of National Day Parades in Singapore

Lily Kong;Brenda S.A. Yeoh

177
Citations
Negotiating Conceptions of 'Sacred Space': A Case Study of Religious Buildings in Singapore

Lily Kong

144
Citations
Cultural policy in Singapore: negotiating economic and socio-cultural agendas

Lily Kong

142
Citations
The ideological alignment of smart urbanism in Singapore: Critical reflections on a political paradox:

Lily Kong;Orlando Sebastian Isambard Woods

141
Citations
Creative economies, creative cities : Asian-European perspectives

Lily Kong;Justin O'Connor

139
Citations
Religion and Modernity: Ritual Transformations and the Reconstruction of Space and Time

Tong Chee Kiong;Lily Kong

139
Citations
Marketing the Chinese Dream Home: Gated Communities and Representations of the Good Life in (Post-)Socialist Shanghai

Choon-Piew Pow;Lily Kong

130
Citations
Ideological Hegemony and the Political Symbolism of Religious Buildings in Singapore

Lily Kong

116
Citations
Urban Conservation in Singapore: A Survey of State Policies and Popular Attitudes:

Lily Kong;Brenda S. A. Yeoh

108
Citations
The city as text: The politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom

Lily Kong

38
Citations
Popular Music and Society by Brian Longhurst

Lily Kong

19
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brenda S. A. Yeoh National University of Singapore

David Chan Singapore Management University

Henry Wai-chung Yeung Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chris Gibson University of Wollongong

George C. S. Lin University of Hong Kong

Shenjing He University of Hong Kong

External Links

Wikipedia of Lily Kong Personal website of Lily Kong

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