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Nicholas A. Phelps

Nicholas A. Phelps

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
7537
World Ranking
3676
National Ranking
265

Nicholas A. Phelps publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 233 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Nicholas A. Phelps 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 Nicholas A. Phelps sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Nicholas A. Phelps is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and contributes extensively to the social sciences, with a particular focus on urban studies and related fields. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary areas, demonstrating engagement with urban planning, governance, and socioeconomic transformations.

Their recent publications highlight a diverse range of topics within urban and regional development. Notable papers include:

  • "E-commerce and the transformation of the rural: The Taobao village phenomenon in Zhejiang Province, China" (2020) published in the Journal of Rural Studies
  • "Diversity in decline: The changing suburban fortunes of Tokyo Metropolis" (2020) published in Cities
  • "Gateways or backdoors to development? Filtering mechanisms and territorial embeddedness in the Chilean copper GPN's urban system" (2020) published in Growth and Change
  • "Centring the periphery in urban studies: Notes towards a research agenda on peripheral centralities" (2022) published in Urban Studies
  • "From Metropolitanization to Megaregionalization: Intentionality in the Urban Restructuring of Java's North Coast, Indonesia" (2020) published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors across their work. Their most frequent collaborators include:

  • Julie Tian Miao
  • Hiroaki Ohashi
  • David Valler
  • Cassandra C. Wang
  • Paul J. Maginn

Publication venues that feature multiple works by Nicholas A. Phelps are:

  • Urban Studies
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • Journal of Planning Education and Research
  • Urban Geography
  • The Professional Geographer

Their primary fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, subfields of focus include:

  • Urban Studies
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance

Key research topics covered by their publications comprise:

  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Urbanization and City Planning
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Cultural Industries and Urban Development
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Best Publications

  • Contrasts in agglomeration: proto-industrial, industrial and post-industrial forms compared

    N. A. Phelps;T. Ozawa

  • Clusters, dispersion and the spaces in between: for an economic geography of the banal

    N.A. Phelps

  • Embedding the multinationals ? institutions and the development of overseas manufacturing affiliates in Wales and North East England.

    N. A. Phelps;Danny Mackinnon;Ian Stone;Paul Braidford

  • Multinationals, Intracorporate Competition, and Regional Development

    Nick Phelps;Crispian Fuller

  • The New Post-suburban Politics?

    Nicholas A. Phelps;Andrew M. Wood

  • Small Firms, Borrowed Size and the Urban‐Rural Shift

    N. A. Phelps;R. J. Fallon;C. L. Williams

  • Post-Suburban Europe: Planning and Politics at the Margins of Europe's Capital Cities

    Nicholas Phelps;Nick Parsons;Dimitrios Ballas;Andrew Dowling

  • Encore for the Enclave: The Changing Nature of the Industry Enclave with Illustrations from the Mining Industry in Chile

    Nicholas A. Phelps;Miguel Atienza;Martin Arias

  • (Post)Suburban Development and State Entrepreneurialism in Beijing's Outer Suburbs

    Fulong Wu;Nicholas A Phelps

  • A Postsuburban World? An Outline of a Research Agenda

    Nicholas A Phelps;Andrew M Wood;David C Valler

  • Cluster or Capture? Manufacturing Foreign Direct Investment, External Economies and Agglomeration

    N. A. Phelps

  • External Economies, Agglomeration and Flexible Accumulation

    Nicholas A. Phelps

  • Branch Plants and the Evolving Spatial Division of Labour: A Study of Material Linkage Change in the Northern Region of England

    N. A. Phelps

  • Scratching the Surface of Collaborative and Associative Governance: Identifying the Diversity of Social Action in Institutional Capacity Building

    Nicholas A Phelps;Mark Tewdwr-Jones

  • An invitation to the dark side of economic geography

    Nicholas A Phelps;Miguel Atienza;Martin Arias

  • Multinationals and European integration : trade, investment, and regional development

    Nicholas A. Phelps

  • Megalopolis unbound: Knowledge collaboration and functional polycentricity within and beyond the Yangtze River Delta Region in China, 2014:

    Yingcheng Li;Nicholas Phelps

  • Tying the Firm to the Region or Tying the Region to the Firm? Early Observations on the Case of LG in South Wales

    Nicholas A. Phelps;John Lovering;Kevin Morgan

  • Varieties of urban entrepreneurialism

    Nicholas A Phelps;Julie T Miao

  • International Perspectives on Suburbanization

    Nicholas A. Phelps;Fulong Wu

  • From suburbia to post-suburbia in China? Aspects of the transformation of the Beijing and Shanghai global city regions

    Fulong Wu;Nicholas A. Phelps

  • Levelling the Uneven Playing Field: Inward Investment, Interregional Rivalry and the Planning System

    Mark Tewdwr-Jones;Nicholas A. Phelps

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitris Ballas
Dimitris Ballas University of Groningen
Fulong Wu
Fulong Wu University College London
Paul Stephen Benneworth
Paul Stephen Benneworth University of Bergen
Mike Raco
Mike Raco University College London
Peter Shirlow
Peter Shirlow University of Liverpool
Danny MacKinnon
Danny MacKinnon Newcastle University
Rob Imrie
Rob Imrie King's College London
Kevin Morgan
Kevin Morgan University of Nottingham
Graham Clarke
Graham Clarke University of Leeds
Yvonne Rydin
Yvonne Rydin University College London

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