Alec Thornton
- Sociology and Political Science
- Global and Planetary Change top 10%
- Plant Science
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences top 5%
- Co-authors
- Amy L. GriffinLogan CochraneTony BinnsPaul TranterDavid SandersonEtienne NelDavid J. PaullStuart Pearson
- Topics
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (8 papers)Organic Food and Agriculture (5 papers)Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers)
- Partner nations
- AustraliaSouth AfricaCanada
In The Last Decade
Alec Thornton
27 papers receiving 357 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 77
- Sociology and Political Science 108
- Global and Planetary Change 105
- Plant Science 100
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 41
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 39
Countries citing papers authored by Alec Thornton
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Fields of papers citing papers by Alec Thornton
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alec Thornton. 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 Alec Thornton. The network helps show where Alec Thornton may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alec Thornton
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alec Thornton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alec Thornton 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 Alec Thornton. Alec Thornton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
All Works
| # | Work | Indexed citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | |
| 2 | 5 | |
| 3 | 18 | |
| 4 | 4 | |
| 5 | 16 | |
| 6 | 8 | |
| 7 | 6 | |
| 8 | Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South | 1 |
| 9 | 11 | |
| 10 | 64 | |
| 11 | 2 | |
| 12 | 13 | |
| 13 | 21 | |
| 14 | 12 | |
| 15 | 'The diamond of western area is land': Narratives of land use and land cover change in post-conflict Sierra Leone | 2 |
| 16 | 11 | |
| 17 | 15 | |
| 18 | Institutional capacity building for urban agriculture research using Participatory GIS in a post-conflict context: A case study of Sierra Leone | 9 |
| 19 | 15 | |
| 20 | 39 |
About Alec Thornton
Alec Thornton is a scholar working on Development, Urban Studies and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, having authored 28 papers that have together received 380 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (8 papers), Organic Food and Agriculture (5 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (105 citations), Urban Studies (29 citations) and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (39 citations). Alec Thornton has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, South Africa and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Amy L. Griffin, Logan Cochrane, Tony Binns, Paul Tranter, David Sanderson, Etienne Nel, David J. Paull, Stuart Pearson, Graham Hassall and Christian M. Rogerson. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing, Ecology and Society and Urban Studies.
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