Alex Nicholls

167 total papers · 7.4k total citations
60 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Alex Nicholls is a scholar working on Finance, Management of Technology and Innovation and Strategy and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Nicholls has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Finance, 22 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation and 19 papers in Strategy and Management. Recurrent topics in Alex Nicholls's work include Community Development and Social Impact (23 papers), Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (18 papers) and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (10 papers). Alex Nicholls is often cited by papers focused on Community Development and Social Impact (23 papers), Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (18 papers) and Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (10 papers). Alex Nicholls collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and Canada. Alex Nicholls's co-authors include Benjamin Huybrechts, Othmar M. Lehner, Madeleine Gabriel, Julie Simon, Nick Lee, Daniel Edmiston, Simon Teasdale, Michele‐Lee Moore, Frances Westley and Andrew Alexander and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, The Economic Journal and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

In The Last Decade

Alex Nicholls

54 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Alex Nicholls 1.7k 1.1k 1.0k 873 847 60 3.7k
Fergus Lyon 1.3k 0.8× 690 0.6× 892 0.9× 814 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 93 3.8k
Helen Haugh 2.5k 1.5× 778 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.8× 992 1.2× 58 4.5k
Sophie Bacq 2.4k 1.5× 410 0.4× 737 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 547 0.6× 68 3.5k
Jacques Defourny 1.6k 0.9× 753 0.7× 982 0.9× 924 1.1× 1.1k 1.3× 115 3.7k
Eleanor Shaw 2.6k 1.6× 506 0.5× 686 0.7× 1.7k 1.9× 1.1k 1.3× 65 4.5k
Howard H. Stevenson 2.9k 1.8× 425 0.4× 948 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 569 0.7× 37 4.2k
Anne-Claire Pache 1.4k 0.8× 559 0.5× 2.1k 2.0× 2.4k 2.7× 1.3k 1.5× 32 5.1k
Ignasi Martí 3.0k 1.8× 604 0.5× 1.2k 1.1× 2.0k 2.3× 1.2k 1.4× 29 5.5k
Marthe Nyssens 1.3k 0.8× 605 0.5× 667 0.6× 751 0.9× 889 1.0× 108 2.6k
Gillian Sullivan Mort 2.0k 1.2× 311 0.3× 1.9k 1.8× 1.7k 1.9× 1.3k 1.6× 99 5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Nicholls

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Nicholls

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Nicholls

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

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