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Yeung, Henry Wai-chung  PhD

Leading researcher with 280 publications in the last 31 years
Professor Henry Yeung has been Distinguished Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, since 2018, and Professor of Economic Geography since 2005. As a leading academic expert in global production networks and the global economy, his research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations, East Asian firms, and developmental states. He is the first geographer based in Asia to receive the UK’s Royal Geographical Society Murchison Award 2017 (for “pioneering publications in the field of globalisation”), the 2018 American Association of Geographers Distinguished Scholarship Honors (“in recognition of his extraordinary scholarship and leadership in the discipline”), and the UK’s Regional Studies Association 2022 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field (“acknowledging and celebrating excellence in the field of regional studies”). Professor Yeung has published 6 monographs and 1 textbook (3 editions), 7 edited books, 105 journal articles, and 50 book chapters. His latest books are "Theory and Explanation in Geography" (RGS-IBG Book Series, Wiley, forthcoming November 2023) and "Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia" (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy Series, Stanford University Press, Stanford, June 2022). His previous monographs are "Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy" (Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, May 2016), "Global Production Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected World" (with Neil Coe, Oxford University Press, 2015), "Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era" (Routledge, London, 2004), "Entrepreneurship and the Internationalisation of Asian Firms" (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002), and "Transnational Corporations and Business Networks" (Routledge, London, 1998). He is also co-author of a leading text "Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction" (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2007/2013/2020). Professor Yeung’s views on global production networks and East Asian development have been quoted in The Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes Asia, South China Morning Post, and others. He has also served as an expert consultant contributor to World Investment Report and ASEAN Investment Report (UNCTAD), Global Value Chain Development Report (WTO/ADB), and others. As of September 2022, over 4,750 publications listed in the ISI Web of Science Core Collection databases cited his work (excluding self-citations; h-index = 37). Altogether, his work has been cited over 6,700 times by the same set of ISI WoS publications (24,500 citations on Google Scholar). He was ranked 16th among 12,897 authors in the field of Geography in the November 2020 study of the world’s top 2 per cent of scientists, led by Stanford’s John Ioannidis, in 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. For two decades since 2001, Professor Yeung has been editor of two top journals in Geography – Economic Geography and Environment and Planning A. He is also past editor of Review of International Political Economy (2004-2013) and serves on the editorial boards of 19 other journals. show More

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Aggregated career metrics
280

Total documents

5.62

Normalized Impact

112

Highly Cited Papers (10%)

12.86

International Collab. (%)

Most cited publications


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Dimensions One by One

Spanning 73 diverse indicators, the dimensions considered capture a comprehensive spectrum of academic attributes. Each dimension includes a set of indicators and has a especific weight on the One Index. More information here...

Activity

983
/1000
Reflects an author's research output.

Impact

959
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Excellence

980
/1000
Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Leadership

920
/1000
Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Cooperation

561
/1000
Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.

Openness

588
/1000
Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Community Support

0
/1000
Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Community Recognition

0
/1000
Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Transference

0
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Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Fundraising

0
/1000
Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

All indicators

Performance

Activity

Reflects an author's research output.

Documents 280 Count of all document types.
Docs/Year 9.03 Average of documents published by author per year.
Citable docs 173 Count of journal articles, proceeding papers and reviews.
Journal Articles 168 Documents published as articles in scientific journals usually peer-reviewed.
Conferences 0 Original article reporting data presented at a conference or symposium.
Reviews 5 Review papers authored by the researcher.
Patents 0 Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Theses 0 Document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings
Books 20 A whole monograph or the entire book.
Book Chapters 0 Complete chapter in a book or book series volume where the item is identified as a chapter by a heading or section indicator.
Datasets 0 Number of dataset where the author have contributed to the creation.
Editorials 1 Papers where the author contributed editorial content.
Reports 0 Research reports or white papers authored.
Grants 0 Research projects funded through external grants awarded to the author.
Pre-Prints 3 Number of publications freely available in pre-print format.
Clinical Trials N/A Number of clinical trials where the author has participated.
Other types 0 Other type of documents.

Impact

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citations 15819 Total number of citations to all the publications attributed to the author (all types).
Self Citations 901 Citations where the author references their own previous work.
Self Citation Rate 5.696 Percentage of self-citations in the author's total citation count.
Non Self Citation Rate 94.304 Percentage of citations received from sources that are not self-citations.
Hot Citations 468 Total number of citations recieved in the last 6 months.
Citations/Document 56.5 Average of citations recieved per document.
% Not Cited 0.0 Percentage of documents with no citations recieved.
Relative Citation Index 5.616 Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and discipline. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
Journal Relative Citation Index 4.128 Item oriented indicator consisting of the quotient between the number of citations to a given work and the average number of citations to works of the same type, year and journal. An author's RCI corresponds to the average of the values of his/her publications.
H Index 62 Maximum value of h such that the given author has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times.
G Index 124 Maximum value of g such that the given author has published at least g papers that have each been cited at least g^2 times.
i10 Index 132 Number of documents with at least 10 citations recieved.

Excellence

Reflects an author's academic visibility and the exceptional quality and influence of their most highly cited works.

Citation Score 0.683 Ratio between 0 and 1 being 0 corresponding to the citation percentile being 0 the 0th and 1 the 100th.
Citation Normalized Percentile 0.659 Citation percentile normalized to 1 (0 worst, 1 best) of the position in citations rankin within the field. Provided by OpenAlex.
Higly Cited Papers (top 10%) 112 Count of publications falling on or above the 90th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Higly Cited Papers 4.0 Quotient between the real number of Highly Cited Papers (HCP) and expected number of HCP's that is the 10% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 1%) 17 Count of publications falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Relative Outstanding Papers 6.071 Quotient between the real number of Outstanding Papers (OP) and expected number of OP's that is the 1% of total documents.
Outstanding Papers (top 0.1%) 2 Count of publications falling on or above the 99.9th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.
Hot Papers 22 Using only the citations recieved in the last 6 months: documents falling on or above the 99th citation percentile in the cohort of publications of the same type, year and discipline.

Interaction within community

Leadership

Reflects an author's efforts and commitment in leading research initiatives.

Docs Leadership 266 Number of documents lead by the author.
% Leadership 95.0 Percentage of documents lead by the author.
Docs International Leadership 28 Number of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
% International Leadership 10.0 Percentage of documents in international collaboration lead by the author.
Principal Investigator 0 Number of times where the author served as the lead researcher in a project.
Associations Founded 0 Number of associations founded by the author.
Societies Founded 0 Number of scientific or professional societies established by the author.
Foundations Founded 0 Number of research-related foundations established by the author.
Councils 0 Number of councils founded by author.

Cooperation

Reflects a researcher's ability to navigate and thrive in varied academic and research environments, highlighting adaptability, resourcefulness, and the capacity to build and maintain collaborative relationships across the spectrum of their career.

Authors/Paper 1.74 Average number of authors per document.
% Highly Authored Papers 0.0 Percentage of documents with 25 or more authors.
Countries/Paper 0.68 Average number of different countries in the author's affiliation line per document.
Docs International Collaboration 36 Number of documents reporting two or more different countries in the author's affiliation line.
% International Collaboration 12.86 Percentage of documents reporting two or more diffetent countries in the author's affiliation line.

Community Support

Reflects an author's contributions to the academic community beyond their own research.

Peer Review Counts 0 Number of times the author peer-reviewed publications.
Society Membership 0 Number of societies of wich the author is a member.
Society Memberships 0 Memberships held by the author in scientific or professional societies.
Editorial Board Memberships 0 Number of journals where the author has been member of editorial board.
Panelists 0 Number of times the author have been a panelist in the European Research Council (ERC) calls.

Community Recognition

Reflects the academic community's acknowledgment and appreciation of an author's contributions.

Distinctions 0 Number of times the author have recieved a distinction for its career.
Invitations 0 Number of times the author has been invited to talks, professorships, expositions or demonstrations.
Talks 0 Number of times the author has been invited to talks.
Professorships 0 Number of times the author has been invited to professorhips.
Commissioned Reports 0 Commissioned reports done by the author.

Interaction with society

Openness

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research freely accessible and open to the public.

Open Access Documents 41 Number of documents in Open Access mode.
% Open Access Documents 14.64 Percentage of documents in Open Access mode.
Open Access Gold 3 Number of documents published in an OA journal that is indexed by the DOAJ.
Open Access Green 12 Toll-access on the publisher landing page, but there is a free copy in an OA repository.
Open Access Hybrid 13 Free under an open license in a toll-access journal.
Open Access Bronze 13 Free to read on the publisher landing page, but without any identifiable license.
Open Access Closed 239 Non Open Access documents.

Transference

Reflects an author's commitment to making their research a practical application and real-world impact of an author's research.

Patents 0 Intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Advisory Boards 0 Number of advisory boards of which the author is member.
Companies 0 Number of companies created or founded by the author.

Fundraising

Reflects an author's ability in securing project funding from major global entities, showcasing your ability to drive research initiatives forward.

Funding Counts 0 Number of activities reported as funding recieved.
ERC Grantees 0 Researchers awarded grants from the European Research Council.
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