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D-Index
68
Citations
34858
World Ranking
832
National Ranking
396

Neil Smith 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 Neil Smith sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 249 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Neil Smith 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 Neil Smith 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
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1995 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Neil Smith was affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their academic work primarily spanned the social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science, Music, Urban Studies, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their research covered a range of topics, notably:

  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Music Technology and Sound Studies
  • Musicology and Musical Analysis
  • Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
  • Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
  • Geography Education and Pedagogy
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies

Neil Smith authored multiple papers including the following recent publications:

  • "Missing the Audience. Online Musicking in Times of COVID-19" (2021) published in Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy / Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik
  • "Concrete Culture: The Planning Hearing as a Stage for Cultural Debates" (2021) published in Cultural Sociology
  • "Constructing the Public Concert Hall" (2021) published in Journal of the Royal Musical Association
  • "Additional testing of blood samples: reflective versus reflex" (2022) published in BMJ
  • "Malin Bång - Malin Bång, Structures of Light and Spruce. Curious Chamber Players, UmeDuo, Karin Hellqvist. NEOS 11817." (2020) published in Tempo

Their frequent co-authors included:

  • Peter Peters
  • Ties van de Werff
  • Stefan Rosu
  • Diane Lillo-Martin
  • Ianthi Maria Tsimpli

Among the venues where Neil Smith most frequently published were:

  • Tempo
  • Revista Geografias
  • Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy / Zeitschrift für Kulturmanagement und Kulturpolitik
  • Cultural Sociology
  • Journal of the Royal Musical Association

Neil Smith also contributed to book publications, with at least one title published by Intellect, namely Mathias Spahlinger in 2021.

Recognition of their work included being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995.

Best Publications

  • The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City

    Neil Smith

  • New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy

    Neil T. Smith

  • Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space

    Neil Smith

  • Toward a Theory of Gentrification A Back to the City Movement by Capital, not People

    Neil Smith

  • New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind

    Noam Chomsky;Neil Smith

  • The Acquisition of Phonology: A Case Study

    Neilson V. Smith

  • The changing state of gentrification

    Jason Hackworth;Neil Smith

  • The Politics of Public Space

    Setha M. Low;Neil Smith

  • Gentrification and the Rent Gap

    Neil Smith

  • Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals

    Neil Smith

  • Contours of a Spatialized Politics: Homeless Vehicles and the Production of Geographical Scale

    Neil Smith

  • Gentrification and Uneven Development

    Neil Smith

  • Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale

    Neil Smith

  • After Geopolitics? : From the Geopolitical Social to Geoeconomics

    Deborah Cowen;Neil Smith

  • Modern Linguistics: The Results of Chomsky's Revolution

    Neil Smith;Deirdre Wilson

  • Gentrification of the City

    Neil Smith;Peter Williams

  • American Empire: Roosevelt’s Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization

    Neil Smith

  • The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City

    Martin Brockerhoff;Neil Smith

  • States, scales and households: limits to scale thinking? A response to Brenner

    Sallie A. Marston;Neil Smith

  • Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space

    David M. Smith;Neil Smith

  • New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind: Naturalism and dualism in the study of language and mind

    Noam Chomsky;Neil Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Bencie Woll
Bencie Woll University College London
Setha M. Low
Setha M. Low City University of New York
Don Mitchell
Don Mitchell Uppsala University
Deirdre Wilson
Deirdre Wilson University College London
Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey The Open University
Talal Asad
Talal Asad City University of New York
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Elvin Wyly
Elvin Wyly University of British Columbia
Alan Gilbert
Alan Gilbert University College London

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