| World cities in a world-system PL Knox, PJ Taylor, PJ Taylor Cambridge university press, 1995 | 1775 | 1995 |
| Urban land teleconnnections and sustainability K Seto, C Boone, O Branislav, M Fragkias, D Haase, T Langanke, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (20), 7687-7692, 2012 | 963 | 2012 |
| Urban environments: Issues on the peri-urban fringe D Simon Annual Review of Environment and Resources 33, 167-185, 2008 | 588 | 2008 |
| The changing urban-rural interface of African cities: definitional issues and an application to Kumasi, Ghana D Simon, D McGregor, K Nsiah-Gyabaah Environment and Urbanisation 16 (2), 235-247, 2004 | 344 | 2004 |
| The peri-urban interface: Approaches to sustainable natural and human resource use D McGregor, D Simon, D Thompson Routledge, 2012 | 309 | 2012 |
| Developing and testing the Urban Sustainable Development Goal’s targets and indicators – a five-city study D Simon, H Arfvidsson, G Anand, A Bazaaz, G Fenna, K Foster, G Jain, ... Environment and Urbanization 28 (1), 49-63, 2016 | 264 | 2016 |
| Cities, capital and development: African cities in the world economy D Simon (No Title), 1992 | 257 | 1992 |
| Development reconsidered; new directions in development thinking D Simon Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 79 (4), 183-201, 1997 | 209 | 1997 |
| Fostering multiscalar collaboration and co-operation for effective governance of climate change adaptation H Leck, D Simon Urban Studies 50 (6), 1221-1238, 2013 | 202 | 2013 |
| Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry: transcending poverty alleviation to climate change mitigation and adaptation S Lwasa, F Mugagga, B Wahab, D Simon, J Connors, C Griffith Urban Climate 7, 92-106, 2014 | 197 | 2014 |
| Separated by common ground? Bringing (post) development and (post) colonialism together D Simon Geographical Journal 172 (1), 10-21, 2006 | 191 | 2006 |
| The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery D Simon World cities in a world system, 132-155, 1995 | 191 | 1995 |
| Transport and development in the Third World D Simon Routledge, 2002 | 184 | 2002 |
| Sustainable development: theoretical construct or attainable goal? D Simon Environmental Conservation 16 (1), 41-48, 1989 | 173 | 1989 |
| Global environmental change: conceptualising the growing challenge for cities in poor countries S Parnell, D Simon, C Vogel Area 39 (3), 357-369, 2007 | 160 | 2007 |
| Scientists must have a say in the future of cities T McPhearson, S Parnell, D Simon, O Gaffney, T Elmqvist, X Bai, ... Nature 538 (16), 165-167, 2016 | 156 | 2016 |
| Untangling the relationships between used-clothing imports and the decline of African clothing industries A Brooks, D Simon Development and Change 43 (6), 1265-1290, 2012 | 150 | 2012 |
| Contemporary perspectives on the peri-urban zones of cities in developing countries D Simon, D McGregor, D Thompson The peri-urban interface, 26-40, 2012 | 148 | 2012 |
| Rethinking (post) modernism, postcolonialism, and posttraditionalism: South—north perspectives D Simon Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 16 (2), 219-245, 1998 | 142 | 1998 |
| 2.5 Neoliberalism, structural adjustment and poverty reduction strategies D Simon The companion to development studies, 2008 | 136 | 2008 |
