Aidan While

3.2k total citations
70 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Aidan While is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Finance and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Aidan While has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Urban Studies, 18 papers in Finance and 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Aidan While's work include Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (18 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (17 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (8 papers). Aidan While is often cited by papers focused on Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (18 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (17 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (8 papers). Aidan While collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and India. Aidan While's co-authors include David Gibbs, Andrew E. G. Jonas, Nick Taylor Buck, Simon Marvin, Michael Short, Mark Whitehead, John Pendlebury, Rachel Macrorie, Robert J. Howell and Will Eadson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Energy Policy.

In The Last Decade

Aidan While

66 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aidan While United Kingdom	22	569	540	527	392	256	70	2.2k
Pauline Mc̱Guirk Australia	33	1.1k 1.9×	727 1.3×	358 0.7×	450 1.1×	276 1.1×	94	2.7k
Michele Acuto Australia	29	868 1.5×	761 1.4×	729 1.4×	911 2.3×	336 1.3×	110	3.5k
Oleg Golubchikov United Kingdom	22	537 0.9×	562 1.0×	260 0.5×	228 0.6×	95 0.4×	47	1.7k
Simon Guy United Kingdom	27	367 0.6×	588 1.1×	709 1.3×	258 0.7×	64 0.3×	94	2.6k
Hug March Spain	30	182 0.3×	365 0.7×	532 1.0×	515 1.3×	250 1.0×	90	2.4k
Jon Coaffee United Kingdom	29	533 0.9×	1.6k 2.9×	413 0.8×	348 0.9×	61 0.2×	88	2.6k
Federico Caprotti United Kingdom	25	318 0.6×	430 0.8×	464 0.9×	395 1.0×	721 2.8×	73	2.2k
Michaël Neuman United States	19	527 0.9×	320 0.6×	442 0.8×	201 0.5×	79 0.3×	56	1.7k
Nicola Dempsey United Kingdom	19	450 0.8×	763 1.4×	593 1.1×	81 0.2×	101 0.4×	46	2.7k
Bo Tang Hong Kong	31	484 0.9×	311 0.6×	680 1.3×	294 0.8×	46 0.2×	91	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Aidan While

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Aidan While's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Aidan While with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Aidan While more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Aidan While

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Aidan While. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Aidan While. The network helps show where Aidan While may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aidan While

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Aidan While. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Aidan While based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Aidan While. Aidan While is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

While, Aidan & John Pendlebury. (2025). Heritage Protection as Progressive Urbanism? Modernist Social Housing in England. Antipode. 57(2). 734–757.

Macrorie, Rachel, Simon Marvin, Adrian Smith, & Aidan While. (2022). A Common Management Framework for European Smart Cities? The Case of the European Innovation Partnership for Smart Cities and Communities Six Nations Forum. Journal of Urban Technology. 30(3). 63–80. 7 indexed citations

While, Aidan & Will Eadson. (2021). Zero carbon as economic restructuring: spatial divisions of labour and just transition. New Political Economy. 27(3). 385–402. 43 indexed citations

Inch, Andy, et al.. (2020). ‘The object is to change the heart and soul’: Financial incentives, planning and opposition to new housebuilding in England. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space. 38(4). 713–732. 8 indexed citations

Macrorie, Rachel, et al.. (2020). The role of ‘urban living labs’ in ‘real-world testing’ robotics and autonomous systems. 3. 61–62.

Broto, Vanesa Castán, Enora Robin, & Aidan While. (2020). Climate Urbanism. 36 indexed citations

Macrorie, Rachel, Simon Marvin, & Aidan While. (2019). Robotics and automation in the city: a research agenda. Urban Geography. 42(2). 197–217. 92 indexed citations

Crisp, Richard, et al.. (2016). Tackling poverty through housing and planning policy in city regions. SHURA (Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive) (Sheffield Hallam University). 9 indexed citations

Jones, Christopher R., Eckart Lange, Jian Kang, et al.. (2014). WindNet: Improving the impact assessment of wind power projects. AIMS energy. 2(4). 461–484. 3 indexed citations

10.

While, Aidan. (2013). The greenest government ever? The Coalition Government and low-carbon policy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(2). 100–106. 4 indexed citations

11.

Jonas, Andrew E. G., David Gibbs, & Aidan While. (2011). The New Urban Politics as a Politics of Carbon Control. Urban Studies. 48(12). 2537–2554. 101 indexed citations

12.

Hart, Diane, John P. Hughes, David N. Lerner, et al.. (2009). An Interdisciplinary Approach to Enhancing Sustainable Development Teaching in the Higher Education Built Environment Curriculum: Learning from a Curriculum Development Project at the University of Sheffield. 5(1). 31–50. 2 indexed citations

13.

While, Aidan. (2009). A New Diplomacy for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Global Change – By Bo Kjellén. Geographical Journal. 175(4). 318–318. 1 indexed citations

14.

While, Aidan. (2008). Viewpoint: Climate change and planning: carbon control and spatial regulation. Town Planning Review. 79(1). 10 indexed citations

15.

While, Aidan. (2008). Climate change and planning: carbon control and spatial regulation. Town Planning Review. 79(1). 10 indexed citations

16.

Gibbs, David, Aidan While, & Andrew E. G. Jonas. (2007). Governing Nature Conservation: The European Union Habitats Directive and Conflict around Estuary Management. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 39(2). 339–358. 36 indexed citations

17.

While, Aidan. (2007). The State and the Controversial Demands of Cultural Built Heritage: Modernism, Dirty Concrete, and Postwar Listing in England. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 34(4). 645–663. 18 indexed citations

18.

While, Aidan. (2006). Modernism vs Urban Renaissance: Negotiating Post-war Heritage in English City Centres. Urban Studies. 43(13). 2399–2419. 35 indexed citations

19.

While, Aidan. (2003). Multi-scalar governance and sectoral policy integration in the United Kingdom. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 2 indexed citations

20.

Haughton, Graham, et al.. (2000). Prototype Employment Zones A qualitative and contextual evaluation. Digital Education Resource Archive (University College London). 4 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact