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Wendy Larner 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 Wendy Larner sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 161 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wendy Larner 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 Wendy Larner 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: 39 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% 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

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Wendy Larner is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research is situated within the social sciences, with a focus on geography, planning, development, sociology, and political science.

Their work addresses multiple topics including:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Sex work and related issues
  • Migration, refugees, and integration
  • Historical geography and geographical thought

Some of their recent publications include:

  • COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Professor Ron Johnston, 1941-2020. Kua hinga te totara I te Wao Nui a Tane-The totara has fallen in the forest of Tane (2020), New Zealand Geographer

Wendy Larner has collaborated frequently with a range of co-authors such as:

  • Julie MacLeavy
  • Maria Fannin
  • Sarah M. A. Moss
  • Sereana Naepi
  • Darren Powell

Their publications have appeared prominently in journals such as:

  • Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Progress in Human Geography
  • New Zealand Geographer

Among the honors received, Wendy Larner is recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand since 2009 and also holds fellowship in the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Constructions of Neoliberal Reason

    Ananya Roy;Wendy Larner;Jamie Peck

  • Neo-liberalism: policy, ideology, governmentality

    Wendy Larner

  • Global Governmentality: Governing International Spaces

    Wendy Larner;William Walters

  • After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa, New Zealand

    Wendy Larner;David Craig

  • Travelling technocrats, embodied knowledges: Globalising privatisation in telecoms and water

    Wendy Larner;Nina Laurie

  • Globalization as Governmentality

    Wendy Larner;William Walters

  • The spaces and subjects of a globalising economy: a situated exploration of method

    Wendy Larner;Richard Le Heron

  • Expatriate experts and globalising governmentalities: the New Zealand diaspora strategy

    Wendy Larner

  • Neo-liberalizing spaces and subjectivities: Reinventing New Zealand universities

    Wendy Larner;Richard Le Heron

  • The political rationality of new regionalism: Toward a genealogy of the region

    Wendy Larner;Wendy Larner;William Walters;William Walters

  • Global Benchmarking: Participating at a Distance in the Global Economy

    WJ Larner

  • Neoliberalism in (Regional) Theory and Practice: the Stronger Communities Action Fund in New Zealand

    Wendy Larner

  • Governmentalities of local partnerships : the rise of a "partnering state" in New Zealand

    Wendy Larner;Maria Butler

  • Post-Welfare State Governance: Towards a Code of Social and Family Responsibility

    Wendy Larner

  • Calculating the Social

    Vaughan Higgins;Wendy Larner

  • Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography

    Felicity Wray;Rae Dufty-Jones;Chris Gibson;Wendy Larner

  • From economic globalisation to globalising economic processes: towards post-structural political economies

    Wendy Larner;Richard Le Heron

  • The Limits of Post-Politics: Rethinking Radical Social Enterprise

    Wendy Larner

  • The New Zealand Designer Fashion Industry: Making industries and co-constituting political projects

    Nick Lewis;Wendy Larner;Richard Le Heron

  • Globalising knowledge networks: Universities, diaspora strategies, and academic intermediaries

    Wendy Larner

  • The Spaces and Subjects of a Globalising Economy

    WJ Larner;R Le Heron

  • On the front line: Organization of work in the information economy

    W Larner

Frequent Co-Authors

William Walters
William Walters Carleton University
Paul Chatterton
Paul Chatterton University of Leeds
Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Liz Bondi
Liz Bondi University of Edinburgh
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck University of British Columbia
Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Robin Kearns
Robin Kearns University of Auckland
Christine Milligan
Christine Milligan Lancaster University
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Mark G. Macklin
Mark G. Macklin University of Lincoln

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