Al James

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 844 citations indexed

About

Al James is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Al James has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 844 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Urban Studies and 7 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Al James's work include Employment and Welfare Studies (7 papers), Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 papers). Al James is often cited by papers focused on Employment and Welfare Studies (7 papers), Work-Family Balance Challenges (7 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 papers). Al James collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore. Al James's co-authors include Bhaskar Vira, Mia Gray, Esther Dermott, Julie MacLeavy, Kate Boyer, Ron Martin, Michael Bradshaw, Neil M. Coe, James Faulconbridge and Fiona McConnell and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space and Regional Studies.

In The Last Decade

Al James

22 papers receiving 776 citations

Hit Papers

The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction
    2020 327 citations Al James Economic Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Al James United Kingdom 15 580 201 191 145 108 22 844
Ursula Huws United Kingdom 18 773 1.3× 238 1.2× 298 1.6× 106 0.7× 67 0.6× 86 1.1k
Charles Umney United Kingdom 15 493 0.8× 122 0.6× 326 1.7× 88 0.6× 119 1.1× 33 750
François Pichault Belgium 14 303 0.5× 61 0.3× 159 0.8× 52 0.4× 136 1.3× 112 696
Laurent Taskin Belgium 14 614 1.1× 48 0.2× 154 0.8× 70 0.5× 56 0.5× 76 944
JR Keller United States 9 253 0.4× 74 0.4× 206 1.1× 211 1.5× 31 0.3× 17 984
Axel Haunschild Germany 9 290 0.5× 81 0.4× 56 0.3× 58 0.4× 306 2.8× 30 883
Leandro Sepúlveda United Kingdom 13 373 0.6× 61 0.3× 70 0.4× 137 0.9× 54 0.5× 32 762
Jennifer Johns United Kingdom 13 277 0.5× 36 0.2× 145 0.8× 109 0.8× 129 1.2× 37 690
Michael McGann Australia 15 265 0.5× 63 0.3× 215 1.1× 72 0.5× 25 0.2× 42 783
Ermanno Tortia Italy 17 336 0.6× 97 0.5× 84 0.4× 196 1.4× 31 0.3× 55 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Al James

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Fields of papers citing papers by Al James

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Al James

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Al James. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Al James 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 Al James. Al James is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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James, Al. (2023). Platform work‐lives in the gig economy: Recentering work–family research. Gender Work and Organization. 31(2). 513–534. 15 indexed citations
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James, Al. (2022). Women in the gig economy: feminising ‘digital labour’. 2(1). 2–26. 28 indexed citations
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James, Al. (2020). The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction. Economic Geography. 97(1). 113–114. 327 indexed citations breakdown →
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James, Al, Michael Bradshaw, Neil M. Coe, & James Faulconbridge. (2018). Sustaining Economic Geography? Business and Management Schools and the UK’s Great Economic Geography Diaspora. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 50(6). 1355–1366. 34 indexed citations
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James, Al. (2017). Work‐Life Advantage. 8 indexed citations
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Boyer, Kate, Esther Dermott, Al James, & Julie MacLeavy. (2017). Men at work? Debating shifting gender divisions of care. Dialogues in Human Geography. 7(1). 92–98. 10 indexed citations
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Boyer, Kate, Esther Dermott, Al James, & Julie MacLeavy. (2017). Regendering care in the aftermath of recession?. Dialogues in Human Geography. 7(1). 56–73. 28 indexed citations
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Williams, Philippa, Al James, Fiona McConnell, & Bhaskar Vira. (2017). Working at the margins? Muslim middle class professionals in India and the limits of ‘labour agency’. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 49(6). 1266–1285. 13 indexed citations
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Pollard, Jane, et al.. (2015). Islamic charitable infrastructure and giving in East London: Everyday economic-development geographies in practice. Journal of Economic Geography. 16(4). 871–896. 13 indexed citations
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James, Al. (2013). Work–Life ‘Balance’, Recession and the Gendered Limits to Learning and Innovation (Or, Why It Pays Employers To Care). Gender Work and Organization. 21(3). 273–294. 47 indexed citations
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James, Al. (2013). Work-life 'balance' and gendered (im)mobilities of knowledge and learning in high-tech regional economies. Journal of Economic Geography. 14(3). 483–510. 18 indexed citations
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Vira, Bhaskar & Al James. (2011). Researching hybrid ‘economic’/‘development’ geographies in practice. Progress in Human Geography. 35(5). 627–651. 19 indexed citations
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James, Al. (2008). Gendered Geographies of High‐Tech Regional Economies. Geography Compass. 2(1). 176–198. 6 indexed citations
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Gray, Mia & Al James. (2007). Connecting Gender and Economic Competitiveness: Lessons from Cambridge's High-Tech Regional Economy. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 39(2). 417–436. 26 indexed citations
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James, Al. (2006). Critical moments in the production of `rigorous' and `relevant' cultural economic geographies. Progress in Human Geography. 30(3). 289–308. 49 indexed citations
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James, Al. (2005). Demystifying the role of culture in innovative regional economies. Regional Studies. 39(9). 1197–1216. 63 indexed citations
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James, Al, Mia Gray, & Ron Martin. (2004). (Expanding) the Role of Geography in Public Policy. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 36(11). 1901–1905. 28 indexed citations

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