Allan Watson

673 total citations
27 papers, 411 citations indexed

About

Allan Watson is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Music and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Allan Watson has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 411 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Urban Studies, 6 papers in Music and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Allan Watson's work include Cultural Industries and Urban Development (17 papers), Music History and Culture (6 papers) and Global Urban Networks and Dynamics (6 papers). Allan Watson is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Industries and Urban Development (17 papers), Music History and Culture (6 papers) and Global Urban Networks and Dynamics (6 papers). Allan Watson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Germany. Allan Watson's co-authors include Michael Hoyler, Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Jenna Ward, Andrew Leyshon, Calvin W. Taylor, James R. Fair, Fiona S. Tweed, Aaron Hess and Ben Derudder and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space and Regional Studies.

In The Last Decade

Allan Watson

25 papers receiving 386 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Allan Watson United Kingdom 13 280 139 108 89 32 27 411
Paul Lopes United States 6 120 0.4× 168 1.2× 24 0.2× 131 1.5× 33 1.0× 17 332
Reebee Garofalo United States 8 76 0.3× 106 0.8× 31 0.3× 251 2.8× 16 0.5× 17 371
Julia F. Lowell United States 8 91 0.3× 93 0.7× 58 0.5× 19 0.2× 10 0.3× 18 265
Susan Smulyan United States 7 25 0.1× 92 0.7× 64 0.6× 58 0.7× 17 0.5× 21 434
Michael Z. Newman United States 8 41 0.1× 165 1.2× 97 0.9× 20 0.2× 7 0.2× 21 393
Dominik Bartmański Germany 9 85 0.3× 144 1.0× 17 0.2× 44 0.5× 3 0.1× 25 305
Simon Roodhouse United Kingdom 8 165 0.6× 66 0.5× 44 0.4× 4 0.0× 13 0.4× 25 264
Sherman Young Slovenia 8 36 0.1× 90 0.6× 20 0.2× 15 0.2× 14 0.4× 17 224
Chuck Tryon United States 8 28 0.1× 119 0.9× 77 0.7× 8 0.1× 17 0.5× 14 246
Håkon Larsen Norway 9 60 0.2× 97 0.7× 10 0.1× 9 0.1× 10 0.3× 43 332

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Fields of papers citing papers by Allan Watson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allan Watson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leyshon, Andrew & Allan Watson. (2025). The Rise of the Platform Music Industries. Agenda Publishing eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan. (2023). Supporting regional music production clusters in the post-pandemic era: placing business support at the heart of local cultural policy. International Journal of Cultural Policy. 30(5). 667–681. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan. (2023). Place: Towards a Geophilosophy of Photography. The AAG Review of Books. 11(3). 16–20.
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Watson, Allan, et al.. (2023). Tech start-up capitalisation in an oligopolistic copyright industry: the case of the contemporary music industry. Cultural Trends. 33(5). 641–659. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan, Ben Derudder, & Michael Hoyler. (2023). Transnational media corporations in global media cities: A geographical approach to understanding media power through corporate office networks. Global Media and Communication. 19(3). 399–423.
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Watson, Allan & Andrew Leyshon. (2022). Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry. Journal of Cultural Economy. 15(3). 326–343. 12 indexed citations
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Tweed, Fiona S. & Allan Watson. (2018). The screams all sound the same: The music of Of Monsters and Men and the Icelandic imaginary as geographical discourse. Area. 51(1). 126–133. 4 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan, Jenna Ward, & James R. Fair. (2018). Staging atmosphere: collective emotional labour on the film set. Social & Cultural Geography. 22(1). 76–96. 10 indexed citations
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Hoyler, Michael & Allan Watson. (2018). Framing city networks through temporary projects: (Trans)national film production beyond ‘Global Hollywood’. Urban Studies. 56(5). 943–959. 16 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan & Jonathan V. Beaverstock. (2016). Transnational freelancing: Ephemeral creative projects and mobility in the music recording industry. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 48(7). 1428–1446. 17 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan, et al.. (2016). ‘Tuning Out' or ‘Tuning in'? Mobile Music Listening and Intensified Encounters with the City. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 40(5). 1036–1043. 9 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan & Jonathan V. Beaverstock. (2014). World City Network Research at a Theoretical Impasse: On the Need toRe‐Establish Qualitative Approaches to Understanding Agency in World City Networks. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 105(4). 412–426. 33 indexed citations
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Hess, Aaron, et al.. (2014). Never Forget: Public Memory & 9/11. 2 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan & Calvin W. Taylor. (2013). Invisible Agents and hidden Protagonists: Rethinking Creative Cities Policy. European Planning Studies. 22(12). 2429–2435. 7 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan & Jenna Ward. (2013). Creating the Right ‘Vibe’: Emotional Labour and Musical Performance in the Recording Studio. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 45(12). 2904–2918. 23 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan. (2012). The world according to iTunes: mapping urban networks of music production. Global Networks. 12(4). 446–466. 29 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan. (2010). US Hegemony and the Obama Administration: Towards a New World Order?. Antipode. 42(2). 242–247. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan, et al.. (2009). Spaces and Networks of Musical Creativity in the City. Geography Compass. 3(2). 856–878. 43 indexed citations
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Watson, Allan, et al.. (1999). Economic Development and Consortia. New Directions for Higher Education. 1999(106). 93–99. 1 indexed citations

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