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Nicholas Blomley

Nicholas Blomley

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Law
Canada
2026
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Law and Political Science
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Law

D-Index
47
Citations
9555
World Ranking
68
National Ranking
1

Nicholas Blomley publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicholas Blomley sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 128 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Nicholas Blomley D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicholas Blomley sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

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

  • Law, Space, and the Geographies of Power

    Nicholas K. Blomley

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

    Nicholas Blomley

  • Enclosure, Common Right and the Property of the Poor

    Nicholas K. Blomley

  • Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

    Nicholas Blomley

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

    Nicholas Blomley

  • Landscapes of Property

    Nicholas Blomley

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

    Nicholas Blomley

  • Activism and the Academy

    Nicholas K Blomley

  • The Expanding Spaces of Law: a Timely Legal Geography

    Irus Braverman;Nicholas Blomley;David Delaney;Alexandre Kedar

  • The territory of property

    Nicholas Blomley

  • Performing property: making the world

    Nicholas K Blomley

  • Un‐real Estate: Proprietary Space and Public Gardening

    Nicholas Blomley

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

    Nicholas Blomley

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

    Nicholas Blomley

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

    Nicholas Blomley

  • Uncritical critical geography

    Nicholas Blomley

  • The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space

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

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

    Nicholas Blomley

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

    Sikee Liu;Nicholas Blomley

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