Ayona Datta

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Ayona Datta is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Ayona Datta has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Urban Studies, 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Ayona Datta's work include Urban Planning and Governance (14 papers), Smart Cities and Technologies (8 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 papers). Ayona Datta is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (14 papers), Smart Cities and Technologies (8 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 papers). Ayona Datta collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Slovakia and Australia. Ayona Datta's co-authors include Katherine Brickell, Nancy Odendaal, Lucien Georgeson, Federico Caprotti, Robert Cowley, Simon Joss, Vanesa Castán Broto, Clare Herrick, Eleanor Gao and Suzanne Hall and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Progress in Human Geography and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ayona Datta

54 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

New urban utopias of postcolonial India

2015 362 citations Ayona Datta Dialogues in Human Geography profile →
The New Urban Agenda: key opportunities and challenges for policy and practice

2017 208 citations Ayona Datta et al. profile →

Peers

Ayona Datta

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MT

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Reinout Kleinhans Netherlands

Pauline Mc̱Guirk Australia

Robert G. Hollands United Kingdom

Gary Bosworth United Kingdom

Francisco Klauser Switzerland

Jed Kolko United States

Sophia Maalsen Australia

Jennifer Evans-Cowley United States

Elizabeth A. Mack United States

Charlotta Mellander Sweden

Reinout Kleinhans Netherlands

Ayona Datta

957 ×1.3

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350 ×0.5

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650 ×1.3

US

280 ×0.6

TRANS

378 ×0.8

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Citations per year, relative to Ayona Datta Ayona Datta (= 1×) peers Reinout Kleinhans

Countries citing papers authored by Ayona Datta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ayona Datta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ayona Datta

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Datta, Ayona, et al.. (2025). Timing the state. 1(1). 93–98.

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Datta, Ayona, et al.. (2024). Sorting paper: The archival labour of digitising land records in Kenya. Geographical Journal. 190(4). 7 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2024). Digital Timescapes: Technology, temporality and Society. Space and Polity. 28(2). 300–303.

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Datta, Ayona. (2024). Distant time: The future of urbanisation from ‘there’ and ‘then’. Dialogues in Human Geography. 16(1). 5–25. 11 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2023). The informational periphery: territory, logistics and people in the margins of a digital age. Asian Geographer. 41(2). 125–142. 11 indexed citations

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Bailey, David, et al.. (2021). Regions in Covid-19 recovery. Regional Studies. 55(12). 1955–1965. 48 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona, et al.. (2020). Mapping Gendered Infrastructures: Critical Reflections on Violence Against Women in India. Architectural Design. 90(4). 104–111. 7 indexed citations

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Shaban, Abdul & Ayona Datta. (2019). Towards 'Slow' and 'Moderated' Urbanism. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2018). The digital turn in postcolonial urbanism: Smart citizenship in the making of India's 100 smart cities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 43(3). 405–419. 157 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2018). Postcolonial urban futures: Imagining and governing India’s smart urban age. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 37(3). 393–410. 86 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2015). New urban utopias of postcolonial India. Dialogues in Human Geography. 5(1). 6 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2015). Smart Urbanism: Utopian Vision or False dawn?. 157 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2012). India's Ecocity? Environment, Urbanisation, and Mobility in the Making of Lavasa. Environment and Planning C Government and Policy. 30(6). 982–996. 53 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2011). “Mongrel City”: Cosmopolitan Neighbourliness in a Delhi Squatter Settlement. Antipode. 44(3). 745–763. 31 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2009). Home, migration, and the city: spatial forms and practices in a globalising world. London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona & Katherine Brickell. (2009). We have a little bit more finesse as a nation. 41(4). 439–464. 3 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2008). Spatialising performance: masculinities and femininities in a ‘fragmented’ field. Gender Place & Culture. 15(2). 189–204. 33 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2008). Places of Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: East European Construction Workers in London. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 41(2). 353–370. 66 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2007). Gender and Learning in the Design Studio. 2(2). 21–35. 18 indexed citations

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Datta, Ayona. (2005). "Homed" in Arizona: The Architecture of Emergency Shelters. Urban Geography. 26(6). 536–557. 18 indexed citations

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