Alan Latham

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Alan Latham is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Latham has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 16 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Alan Latham's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (18 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (15 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (8 papers). Alan Latham is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (18 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (15 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (8 papers). Alan Latham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and Netherlands. Alan Latham's co-authors include David Conradson, Derek McCormack, Jack Layton, Russell Hitchings, Peter Wood, Donald McNeill, Sara Kindon, M. Gascoyne, Derek Ford and Russell S. Harmon and has published in prestigious journals such as Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Alan Latham

59 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Stud... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2022 50 100 150 200 250
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. Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces
    2019 270 citations Alan Latham, Jack Layton Geography Compass profile →
  2. Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it
    2022 62 citations Alan Latham, Jack Layton Urban 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
Alan Latham United Kingdom 27 1.5k 688 587 434 301 63 2.9k
David Crouch United Kingdom 23 1.5k 1.0× 761 1.1× 387 0.7× 310 0.7× 163 0.5× 141 3.0k
Tim Cresswell United Kingdom 30 2.1k 1.4× 1.0k 1.5× 673 1.1× 634 1.5× 812 2.7× 61 4.1k
Sarah L. Holloway United Kingdom 34 2.0k 1.4× 388 0.6× 412 0.7× 325 0.7× 160 0.5× 64 3.7k
Liz Bondi United Kingdom 35 2.1k 1.4× 869 1.3× 729 1.2× 257 0.6× 107 0.4× 100 3.7k
Edward Relph Canada 12 1.8k 1.3× 663 1.0× 680 1.2× 222 0.5× 233 0.8× 24 3.4k
Iain Hay Australia 24 1.5k 1.0× 467 0.7× 278 0.5× 290 0.7× 146 0.5× 87 3.2k
Peter Kraftl United Kingdom 28 1.6k 1.1× 609 0.9× 288 0.5× 155 0.4× 129 0.4× 104 2.6k
Rachel Pain United Kingdom 41 3.8k 2.6× 1.1k 1.6× 687 1.2× 453 1.0× 314 1.0× 81 6.0k
Cindi Katz United States 24 3.0k 2.0× 707 1.0× 622 1.1× 322 0.7× 84 0.3× 56 4.5k
Phil Jones United Kingdom 23 807 0.6× 408 0.6× 403 0.7× 124 0.3× 497 1.7× 101 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Latham

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Latham

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Latham, Alan, et al.. (2025). Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 50(3).
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Hitchings, Russell, Alan Latham, & Tatiana Thieme. (2024). Opening the notebook: How and why human geographers take fieldnotes. Area. 57(1). 2 indexed citations
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Николаева, Анна & Alan Latham. (2024). Cities and Smart Technology: The Case of Cycling. Journal of Urban Technology. 31(1). 1–7. 3 indexed citations
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Hitchings, Russell & Alan Latham. (2023). Working with the spoken word: A candid conference conversation and some original ideas. Area. 55(2). 186–190. 1 indexed citations
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Hitchings, Russell & Alan Latham. (2020). Qualitative methods III: On different ways of describing our work. Progress in Human Geography. 45(2). 394–403. 28 indexed citations
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Latham, Alan & Jack Layton. (2019). Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces. Geography Compass. 13(7). 270 indexed citations breakdown →
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Latham, Alan, et al.. (2017). Key Thinkers on Cities. 1 indexed citations
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Hitchings, Russell & Alan Latham. (2017). Exercise and environment: New qualitative work to link popular practice and public health. Health & Place. 46. 300–306. 31 indexed citations
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Hitchings, Russell & Alan Latham. (2016). How ‘social’ is recreational running? Findings from a qualitative study in London and implications for public health promotion. Health & Place. 46. 337–343. 41 indexed citations
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Conradson, David & Alan Latham. (2007). The Affective Possibilities of London: Antipodean Transnationals and the Overseas Experience. Mobilities. 2(2). 231–254. 116 indexed citations
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Latham, Alan & Derek McCormack. (2007). Developing ‘real-world’ methods in urban geography fieldwork. Planet. 18(1). 25–27. 4 indexed citations
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Latham, Alan. (2006). Berlin and everywhere else: A reply to Allan Cochrane. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations
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Latham, Alan. (2006). Anglophone urban studies and the European City: Some comments on interpreting Berlin. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Latham, Alan. (2004). Commentary—American Dreams, American Empires, American Cities. Urban Geography. 25(8). 788–791. 1 indexed citations
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Latham, Alan. (2003). Research, performance, and doing human geography: some reflections on the diary-photo diary-interview method. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Latham, Alan. (2003). Urbanity, Lifestyle and Making Sense of the New Urban Cultural Economy: Notes from Auckland, New Zealand. Urban Studies. 40(9). 1699–1724. 120 indexed citations
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Gascoyne, M., Alan Latham, Russell S. Harmon, & Derek Ford. (1983). The Antiquity of Castleguard Cave, Columbia Icefields, Alberta, Canada. Arctic and Alpine Research. 15(4). 463–470. 6 indexed citations
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Ford, Derek, Henry P. Schwarcz, John J. Drake, et al.. (1981). Estimates of the Age of the Existing Relief within the Southern Rocky Mountains of Canada. Arctic and Alpine Research. 13(1). 1–10. 5 indexed citations

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