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Manuel B. Aalbers

Manuel B. Aalbers

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
11364
World Ranking
3102
National Ranking
32

Manuel B. Aalbers 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 Manuel B. Aalbers sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 197 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Manuel B. Aalbers 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 Manuel B. Aalbers sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Manuel B. Aalbers is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, focusing primarily on economics, econometrics, and finance as well as social sciences. Their work intersects various subfields including finance, economics and econometrics, urban studies, sociology and political science, and geography, planning, and development.

The main topics covered in Manuel B. Aalbers' research include:

  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Urbanization and City Planning
  • Political Economy and Marxism

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
  • Housing Theory and Society
  • International Journal of Housing Policy
  • Housing Studies
  • Urban Geography

Some recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Manuel B. Aalbers include:

  • The Death and Life of Private Landlordism: How Financialized Homeownership Gave Birth to the Buy-To-Let Market (2020), published in Housing Theory and Society
  • The Financialization of Housing in Capitalism's Peripheries (2020), published in Housing Policy Debate
  • In Real Estate Investment We Trust: State De-risking and the Ownership of Listed US and German Residential Real Estate Investment Trusts (2023), published in Economic Geography

Frequent collaborators on their research are:

  • Gertjan Wijburg
  • Rodrigo Fernandez
  • Tobias J. Klinge
  • Zac J. Taylor
  • Cody Hochstenbach

Best Publications

  • The Financialization of Home and the Mortgage Market Crisis

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • The Financialization of Housing: A political economy approach

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • Geographies of the financial crisis

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • Centring Housing in Political Economy

    Manuel B. Aalbers;Brett Christophers

  • Financialization and Housing : Between Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism

    Rodrigo Fernandez;Manuel B Aalbers

  • The Variegated Financialization of Housing

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • The Financialization of Housing

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • Subprime cities: the political economy of mortgage markets

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • London and New York as a safe deposit box for the transnational wealth elite

    Rodrigo Fernandez;Annelore Hofman;Manuel B Aalbers

  • Neoliberalism is Dead … Long Live Neoliberalism!

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • The Financialisation of Rental Housing 2.0: Releasing Housing into the Privatised Mainstream of Capital Accumulation

    Gertjan Wijburg;Manuel B. Aalbers;Susanne Heeg

  • The Great Moderation, the Great Excess and the global housing crisis

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • Introduction To The Forum: From Third To Fifth‐Wave Gentrification

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • Encyclopedia of urban studies

    R. Hutchinson;M.B. Aalbers;R.A. Beauregard;M. Crang

  • The Sociology and Geography of Mortgage Markets: Reflections on the Financial Crisis

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • Financial geography III: The financialization of the city:

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • How real estate became ‘just another asset class’: the financialization of the investment strategies of Dutch institutional investors

    Jannes van Loon;Manuel B. Aalbers

  • The de-contextualisation of land use planning through financialisation: Urban redevelopment in Milan

    Federico Savini;Manuel B Aalbers

  • The financialization of a social housing provider

    Manuel B. Aalbers;Jannes Van Loon;Rodrigo Fernandez

  • Financial geography II: Financial geographies of housing and real estate:

    Manuel B. Aalbers

  • Creative destruction through the Anglo-American hegemony: A non-Anglo-American view on publications, referees and language

    Manuel B Aalbers

  • Place, exclusion, and mortgage markets

    Manuel B. Aalbers

Frequent Co-Authors

Sako Musterd
Sako Musterd University of Amsterdam
Brett Christophers
Brett Christophers Uppsala University
Alan Murie
Alan Murie University of Birmingham
Mike Crang
Mike Crang Durham University

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