Alex Hughes

2.4k total citations
56 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Alex Hughes is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Plant Science and Business and International Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Hughes has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Strategy and Management, 14 papers in Plant Science and 13 papers in Business and International Management. Recurrent topics in Alex Hughes's work include Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (23 papers), Organic Food and Agriculture (14 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (13 papers). Alex Hughes is often cited by papers focused on Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (23 papers), Organic Food and Agriculture (14 papers) and Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (13 papers). Alex Hughes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Alex Hughes's co-authors include Neil Wrigley, Cheryl McEwan, A. Hurst, J. Baddiley, I.C. Hancock, David Bek, Mike Crang, Nicky Gregson, Lucy Norris and Farid Uddin Ahamed and has published in prestigious journals such as Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of Bacteriology and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Alex Hughes

53 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex Hughes United Kingdom 23 691 321 220 167 159 56 1.6k
William A. Kerr Canada 22 531 0.8× 634 2.0× 160 0.7× 66 0.4× 288 1.8× 259 2.2k
Fred Gale Australia 24 508 0.7× 271 0.8× 218 1.0× 45 0.3× 131 0.8× 117 1.8k
Susanne Freidberg United States 21 438 0.6× 662 2.1× 252 1.1× 95 0.6× 118 0.7× 43 1.5k
Nigel Poole United Kingdom 27 514 0.7× 607 1.9× 165 0.8× 343 2.1× 79 0.5× 122 2.5k
Johann F. Kirsten South Africa 26 521 0.8× 568 1.8× 277 1.3× 420 2.5× 87 0.5× 210 2.9k
Vaughan Higgins Australia 24 287 0.4× 497 1.5× 297 1.4× 55 0.3× 132 0.8× 66 1.8k
Marijke D’Haese Belgium 27 437 0.6× 349 1.1× 210 1.0× 232 1.4× 68 0.4× 130 2.4k
Luigi Orsi Italy 21 403 0.6× 133 0.4× 169 0.8× 65 0.4× 91 0.6× 64 1.4k
Hermann Waibel Germany 27 277 0.4× 544 1.7× 264 1.2× 166 1.0× 82 0.5× 120 2.1k
Carmen Bain United States 18 693 1.0× 730 2.3× 158 0.7× 140 0.8× 34 0.2× 42 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Hughes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Hughes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Hughes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Hughes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Hughes 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 Alex Hughes. Alex Hughes 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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McEwan, Cheryl, et al.. (2025). Food, memory, and changing framings of sustainable consumption in Johannesburg. Critical African Studies. 17(2). 119–137. 1 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex, et al.. (2025). Sustainable Food Consumption in China.
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Kleine, Dorothea, et al.. (2023). Access, health, re‐conhecimento: Co‐crafted Brazilian discourses on sustainable food. Geographical Journal. 190(3). 1 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex, Emma Roe, Elvis Omondi Achach Wambiya, et al.. (2023). The challenges of implementing antibiotic stewardship in diverse poultry value chains in Kenya. Agriculture and Human Values. 41(2). 749–767. 2 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex, et al.. (2021). Food supply chains and the antimicrobial resistance challenge: On the framing, accomplishments and limitations of corporate responsibility. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 53(6). 1373–1390. 14 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex, et al.. (2018). Public sector procurement and ethical trade: Governance and social responsibility in some hidden global supply chains. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 44(2). 242–255. 31 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex, Cheryl McEwan, & David Bek. (2015). Postcolonial Perspectives on Global Production Networks: Insights from Flower Valley in South Africa. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 47(2). 249–266. 21 indexed citations
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Crang, Mike & Alex Hughes. (2015). Globalizing ethical consumption. Geoforum. 67. 131–134. 6 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex. (2013). Globalizing responsibility. Area. 45(2). 259–260. 1 indexed citations
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Avdic, Edina, Alex Hughes, Andrew R. Hansen, et al.. (2012). Impact of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Intervention on Shortening the Duration of Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 54(11). 1581–1587. 100 indexed citations
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Crang, Mike, Alex Hughes, Nicky Gregson, Lucy Norris, & Farid Uddin Ahamed. (2012). Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 38(1). 12–24. 134 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex, et al.. (2007). Organisational geographies of corporate responsibility: a UK-US comparison of retailers' ethical trading initiatives. Journal of Economic Geography. 7(4). 491–513. 70 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex. (2005). Geographies of exchange and circulation: alternative trading spaces. Progress in Human Geography. 29(4). 496–504. 49 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex. (1999). Constructing Competitive Spaces: On the Corporate Practice of British Retailer—Supplier Relationships. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 31(5). 819–839. 32 indexed citations
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Hughes, Alex. (1996). Retail Restructuring and the Strategic Significance of Food Retailers' Own-Labels: A UK—USA Comparison. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 28(12). 2201–2226. 37 indexed citations
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Hurst, A. & Alex Hughes. (1983). Injury of bacteria by novobiocin and coumermycin. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 17(1-3). 77–80.
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Hughes, Alex & A. Hurst. (1980). The effect of NaCl on the upper temperature limit for growth of and enterotoxin synthesis by Staphylococcus aureus. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 26(4). 507–510. 10 indexed citations
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Hurst, A., Alex Hughes, & R. D. Pontefract. (1980). Mechanism of the temperature protective effect of salts on Staphylococcus aureus. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 26(4). 511–517. 12 indexed citations
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Hurst, A., Alex Hughes, M. Duckworth, & J. Baddiley. (1975). Loss of D-Alanine during Sublethal Heating of Staphylococcus aureus s6 and Magnesium Binding during Repair. Journal of General Microbiology. 89(2). 277–284. 28 indexed citations

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