Alan Deacon

1.1k total citations
26 papers, 572 citations indexed

About

Alan Deacon is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Finance and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Deacon has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 572 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 7 papers in Finance and 6 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Alan Deacon's work include Social Policy and Reform Studies (12 papers), Political and Economic history of UK and US (7 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 papers). Alan Deacon is often cited by papers focused on Social Policy and Reform Studies (12 papers), Political and Economic history of UK and US (7 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 papers). Alan Deacon collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. Alan Deacon's co-authors include Kirk Mann, Lawrence M. Mead, Jonathan Bradshaw, Tim Dant, Jill Vincent, Fiona Williams, Robert Walker, Roger Middleton, Christie Davies and Robert Skidelsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Housing Studies, Health & Social Care in the Community and Journal of Social Policy.

In The Last Decade

Alan Deacon

26 papers receiving 430 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Deacon United Kingdom 14 313 262 202 168 99 26 572
Tony Eardley Australia 11 227 0.7× 225 0.9× 163 0.8× 112 0.7× 62 0.6× 31 442
Del Roy Fletcher United Kingdom 14 197 0.6× 324 1.2× 253 1.3× 139 0.8× 69 0.7× 42 592
Lutz Leisering Germany 14 327 1.0× 219 0.8× 190 0.9× 90 0.5× 33 0.3× 54 524
Kirk Mann United Kingdom 10 164 0.5× 150 0.6× 146 0.7× 92 0.5× 55 0.6× 20 360
Ana M. Guillén Spain 17 452 1.4× 382 1.5× 162 0.8× 116 0.7× 59 0.6× 40 746
Ugo Ascoli Italy 11 186 0.6× 145 0.6× 314 1.6× 93 0.6× 60 0.6× 27 552
Jay Wiggan United Kingdom 11 199 0.6× 162 0.6× 153 0.8× 118 0.7× 79 0.8× 24 446
Fran Bennett United Kingdom 11 207 0.7× 185 0.7× 227 1.1× 139 0.8× 51 0.5× 51 528
Mark Hyde United Kingdom 12 179 0.6× 101 0.4× 100 0.5× 78 0.5× 69 0.7× 47 398
Thomas Bredgaard Denmark 15 358 1.1× 320 1.2× 128 0.6× 66 0.4× 94 0.9× 75 642

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Deacon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Deacon

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Deacon, Alan. (2006). Social security: History and politics from the New Deal to the privatization debate. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 14(1). 69–70. 19 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (2004). Different Interpretations of Agency within Welfare Debates. Social Policy and Society. 3(4). 447–455. 17 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan & Fiona Williams. (2004). Introduction: Themed Section on Care, Values and the Future of Welfare. Social Policy and Society. 3(4). 385–390. 6 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (2003). ‘Ending Consensus as We Began to Know It’: Welfare Reform and the Republicans after 2002. Social Policy and Society. 2(2). 171–176. 4 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (2003). Perspectives on Welfare. Health & Social Care in the Community. 11(2). 186–186. 47 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (2002). Perspectives on Welfare: Ideas, Ideologies and Policy Debates. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 36 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (2002). Echoes of Sir Keith? New Labour and the cycle of disadvantage. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 10(3). 179–184. 4 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (2000). Learning from the US? The influence of American ideas upon ‘new labour’ thinking on welfare reform. Policy & Politics. 28(1). 5–18. 57 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan & Kirk Mann. (1999). Agency, Modernity and Social Policy. Journal of Social Policy. 28(3). 413–435. 84 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (1998). The Green Paper on Welfare Reform: A Case for Enlightened Self‐Interest?. The Political Quarterly. 69(3). 306–311. 11 indexed citations
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Mead, Lawrence M., et al.. (1997). From Welfare to Work: Lessons from America. OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique). 63 indexed citations
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Bentley, Michael L., David Marquand, Robert Skidelsky, et al.. (1996). The Boundaries of the State in Modern Britain. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Vincent, Jill, et al.. (1995). Homeless Single Men: Roads to Resettlement. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 16 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan, Jill Vincent, & Robert Walker. (1995). Whose choice, hostels or homes? Policies for single homeless people. Housing Studies. 10(3). 345–363. 9 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (1993). Richard Titmuss: 20 Years On. Journal of Social Policy. 22(2). 235–242. 13 indexed citations
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Dant, Tim & Alan Deacon. (1989). Hostels to homes? : the rehousing of homeless single people.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 16 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan & Jonathan Bradshaw. (1983). Reserved for the Poor: The Means Test in British Social Policy. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 36 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan. (1982). An End to the Means Test? Social Security and the Attlee Government. Journal of Social Policy. 11(3). 289–306. 8 indexed citations
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Deacon, Alan, et al.. (1974). Local Democracy and Central Policy: The Issue of Pauper Votes in the 1920s. Policy & Politics. 2(4). 347–364. 3 indexed citations

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