AbdouMaliq Simone

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
119 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

AbdouMaliq Simone is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, AbdouMaliq Simone has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Urban Studies, 45 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 35 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in AbdouMaliq Simone's work include Urban Planning and Governance (32 papers), Urban and Rural Development Challenges (28 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (21 papers). AbdouMaliq Simone is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (32 papers), Urban and Rural Development Challenges (28 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (21 papers). AbdouMaliq Simone collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. AbdouMaliq Simone's co-authors include Sarah Nuttall, Achille Mbembé, Vyjayanthi Rao, Edgar Pieterse, David Hecht, Michele Lancione, Penny Harvey, Laura Bear, Laura Rival and Laura Kemmer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Annual Review of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

AbdouMaliq Simone

110 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
AbdouMaliq Simone United Kingdom	25	1.7k	1.3k	1.3k	545	371	119	3.4k
Oren Yiftachel Israel	31	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	2.3k 1.8×	251 0.5×	224 0.6×	92	3.9k
Teresa Caldeira Portugal	14	1.5k 0.9×	645 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	205 0.4×	219 0.6×	29	3.1k
Helga Leitner United States	26	1.1k 0.7×	774 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	86 0.2×	352 0.9×	48	3.0k
Gillian Hart United States	26	455 0.3×	819 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	336 0.6×	118 0.3×	59	2.8k
David Featherstone United Kingdom	22	401 0.2×	527 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	150 0.3×	221 0.6×	67	1.9k
Brian Larkin United States	13	384 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	685 1.3×	403 1.1×	35	2.9k
Tim Bunnell Singapore	28	885 0.5×	666 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	111 0.2×	136 0.4×	83	2.2k
Joe Painter United Kingdom	21	387 0.2×	697 0.5×	927 0.7×	94 0.2×	213 0.6×	47	1.8k
Ronan Paddison United Kingdom	20	1.1k 0.7×	468 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	73 0.1×	193 0.5×	62	2.4k
Sophie Watson United Kingdom	24	628 0.4×	379 0.3×	944 0.7×	65 0.1×	329 0.9×	61	2.2k

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Simone, AbdouMaliq. (2025). The untimely. 1(1). 74–77. 1 indexed citations

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Kihato, Caroline Wanjiku, et al.. (2024). The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions. Geographical Journal. 190(1).

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Pickett, Steward T. A., AbdouMaliq Simone, Pippin Anderson, et al.. (2024). The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures. AMBIO. 53(6). 845–870. 7 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq. (2024). Urban Life at the Extensions. South Atlantic Quarterly. 123(2). 363–384. 2 indexed citations

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Lancione, Michele & AbdouMaliq Simone. (2024). Dispossessed exposures. Housing and regimes of the visible. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 43(1). 70–89.

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Simone, AbdouMaliq, et al.. (2024). Extending dialogues on the urban. Dialogues in Human Geography. 15(1). 50–55.

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Simone, AbdouMaliq, et al.. (2023). Inhabiting the extensions. Dialogues in Human Geography. 15(1). 5–27. 20 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq, et al.. (2023). ON URBAN RE‐ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 47(3). 461–470.

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Abdullah, Adam, et al.. (2023). Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 48(4). 718–744. 2 indexed citations

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Marvin, Simon, Colin McFarlane, Prince K. Guma, et al.. (2023). Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 48(3). 452–473. 20 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq, et al.. (2023). MOVEMENT 3. NAVIGATING URBAN ARRANGEMENTS. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 47(3). 483–495. 3 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq. (2022). The Surrounds. 1 indexed citations

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Venkatesan, Soumhya, Laura Bear, Penny Harvey, et al.. (2017). Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political. Critique of Anthropology. 38(1). 3–52. 43 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq. (2017). The Black City?. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 8 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq. (2010). A Town on Its Knees?. Theory Culture & Society. 27(7-8). 130–154. 9 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq. (2008). The politics of the possible: Making urban life in Phnom Penh. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 29(2). 186–204. 75 indexed citations

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Rao, Vyjayanthi, Filip De Boeck, & AbdouMaliq Simone. (2007). Invisible urbanism in Africa. Perspecta. 39. 78–91. 4 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq. (2000). On the worlding of cities in Africa. 38–44. 1 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq & David Hecht. (1995). Invisible Governance: The Art of African Micropolitics. 43 indexed citations

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Simone, AbdouMaliq. (1994). In the mix : remaking coloured identities. Africa Insight. 24(3). 161–173. 4 indexed citations

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