2026 Nicholas Blomley: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	47	68	61	1	1	128	9555

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Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Law in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Law in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Law in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Canada Leader Award
2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Nicholas Blomley is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and has contributed primarily to the social sciences through a body of work spanning several interconnected fields. Their research prominently intersects sociology, political science, law, nature and landscape conservation, urban studies, and soil science.

The scholar's main areas of study include:

Social Sciences

With focused subfields in:

Sociology and Political Science
Law
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Urban Studies
Soil Science

The key topics they have explored cover various dimensions of crime, law, governance, and social dynamics, including:

Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Law in Society and Culture
Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
Sex work and related issues
Crime Patterns and Interventions
Land Rights and Reforms

Their frequent co-authors include:

Marie-Ève Sylvestre
Céline Bellot
Alexandra Flynn
Sarah Ferencz
Kaitlin Findlay

Publication venues where they have most commonly contributed are:

Annual Review of Law and Social Science
Environment and Planning C Politics and Space
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
McGill Law Journal
Dialogues in Human Geography

Recent scholarly articles include the following:

"Governing the Belongings of the Precariously Housed: A Critical Legal Geography," 2020, Annual Review of Law and Social Science
"MAKING PROPERTY OUTLAWS: Law and Relegation," 2021, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
"Grounding legal geography: Conversations on law, space, and power across disparate geographies," 2024, Environment and Planning C Politics and Space (co-authored by Diana Ojeda)
"Are Tents a "Home"? Extending Section 8 Privacy Rights for the Precariously Housed," 2022, McGill Law Journal (co-authored by Sarah Ferencz)
"Legal geography on the edge," 2022, Dialogues in Human Geography

Nicholas Blomley has also published books, including one titled Red Zones, released by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Their work has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2017, acknowledged by the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property

Nicholas K. Blomley

1260
Citations
Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power

Nicholas K. Blomley

1089
Citations
Law, Property, and the Geography of Violence: The Frontier, the Survey, and the Grid

Nicholas Blomley

962
Citations
Enclosure, Common Right and the Property of the Poor

Nicholas K. Blomley

386
Citations
Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

Nicholas Blomley

334
Citations
Making Private Property: Enclosure, Common Right and the Work of Hedges

Nicholas Blomley

294
Citations
Landscapes of Property

Nicholas Blomley

271
Citations
Flowers in the bathtub: boundary crossings at the public–private divide

Nicholas Blomley

233
Citations
Activism and the Academy

Nicholas K Blomley

214
Citations
The Expanding Spaces of Law: a Timely Legal Geography

Irus Braverman;Nicholas Blomley;David Delaney;Alexandre Kedar

208
Citations
The territory of property

Nicholas Blomley

202
Citations
Performing property: making the world

Nicholas K Blomley

188
Citations
Un‐real Estate: Proprietary Space and Public Gardening

Nicholas Blomley

171
Citations
How to Turn a Beggar into a Bus Stop: Law, Traffic and the 'Function of the Place':

Nicholas Blomley

159
Citations
From ‘What?’ to ‘So What?’: Law and Geography in Retrospect

Nicholas Blomley

156
Citations
"Shut the Province Down": First Nations Blockades in British Columbia, 1984-1995

Nicholas Blomley

152
Citations
Uncritical critical geography

Nicholas Blomley

151
Citations
The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space

Nicholas K. Blomley;David Delaney;Richard T. Ford

140
Citations
The Borrowed View: Privacy, Propriety, and the Entanglements of Property

Nicholas Blomley

119
Citations
Making news and making space: Framing Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Sikee Liu;Nicholas Blomley

111
Citations

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