Brett Neilson

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
79 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Brett Neilson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Brett Neilson has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 10 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Brett Neilson's work include Digital Economy and Work Transformation (8 papers), Cultural Industries and Urban Development (7 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 papers). Brett Neilson is often cited by papers focused on Digital Economy and Work Transformation (8 papers), Cultural Industries and Urban Development (7 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 papers). Brett Neilson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Italy and United Kingdom. Brett Neilson's co-authors include Sandro Mezzadra, Ned Rossiter, Giorgio Grappi, Martina Tazzioli, Sabine Heß, Irene Peano, Lorenzo Pezzani, Stephan Scheel, Charles Heller and John Pickles and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment and Planning D Society and Space, Theory Culture & Society and Perspectives on Politics.

In The Last Decade

Brett Neilson

66 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor 2008 2026 2014 2020 2013 2008 2014 250 500 750

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brett Neilson Australia 18 2.0k 771 464 313 285 79 2.9k
Sandro Mezzadra Italy 22 2.3k 1.2× 857 1.1× 346 0.7× 383 1.2× 197 0.7× 110 3.1k
Engin F. Isin United Kingdom 22 2.3k 1.2× 1.0k 1.4× 343 0.7× 189 0.6× 298 1.0× 42 3.3k
Michel Senellart France 14 1.9k 1.0× 898 1.2× 313 0.7× 184 0.6× 195 0.7× 46 3.4k
Jan Willem Duyvendak Netherlands 29 2.5k 1.2× 1.2k 1.5× 344 0.7× 141 0.5× 396 1.4× 157 3.7k
Alessandro Fontana 4 1.6k 0.8× 771 1.0× 249 0.5× 144 0.5× 137 0.5× 4 2.8k
Kevin Dunn Australia 30 2.2k 1.1× 309 0.4× 237 0.5× 385 1.2× 240 0.8× 117 2.9k
Simon Springer Canada 25 1.4k 0.7× 728 0.9× 204 0.4× 83 0.3× 268 0.9× 62 2.4k
Mitchell Dean Denmark 22 1.6k 0.8× 842 1.1× 380 0.8× 112 0.4× 127 0.4× 64 2.6k
Ngai Pun Hong Kong 26 2.0k 1.0× 1.3k 1.7× 593 1.3× 133 0.4× 138 0.5× 119 3.2k
Michael Warner United States 18 2.1k 1.1× 665 0.9× 139 0.3× 356 1.1× 167 0.6× 62 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Brett Neilson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brett Neilson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brett Neilson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brett Neilson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brett Neilson 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 Brett Neilson. Brett Neilson 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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Neilson, Brett. (2024). Consolidating platforms. 1.
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Mezzadra, Sandro & Brett Neilson. (2022). The capitalist virus. Politics. 44(2). 188–202. 4 indexed citations
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Mezzadra, Sandro & Brett Neilson. (2020). The Politics of Operations. 12 indexed citations
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Neilson, Brett & Tanya Notley. (2019). Data centres as logistical facilities: Singapore and the emergence of production topologies. Work Organisation Labour & Globalisation. 13(1). 2 indexed citations
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Mezzadra, Sandro & Brett Neilson. (2019). The Politics of Operations. 88 indexed citations
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Mezzadra, Sandro & Brett Neilson. (2018). Between Extraction and Exploitation: on Mutations in the Organization of Social Cooperation. Actuel Marx. 97–113. 1 indexed citations
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Mezzadra, Sandro & Brett Neilson. (2016). La frontera como metodo, o, la multiplicacion del trabajo. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 7–507. 15 indexed citations
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Mezzadra, Sandro & Brett Neilson. (2014). Confini e Frontiere: La Moltiplicazione del Lavoro nel Mondo Globale. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1–465. 15 indexed citations
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Neilson, Brett. (2014). Zones : beyond the logic of exception?. 40(2). 11–28. 10 indexed citations
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Mezzadra, Sandro & Brett Neilson. (2013). Extraction, logistics, finance : global crisis and the politics of operations. Radical philosophy. 178. 8–18. 50 indexed citations
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Neilson, Brett. (2012). Ageing, Experience, Biopolitics: Life’s Unfolding. Body & Society. 18(3-4). 44–71. 22 indexed citations
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Neilson, Brett. (2010). Borderscape: Between Governance and Sovereignty - Remaking the Borderscape to Australia's North. 8. 124. 5 indexed citations
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Morgan, George A., et al.. (2006). A city of two tales : distinction, dispersal and dissociation in Western Sydney. 79(4). 831–6. 3 indexed citations
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Neilson, Brett. (2005). La politica dell' immaginario : appunti incompleti su affetti e potere. 3–22. 1 indexed citations
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Neilson, Brett & Ned Rossiter. (2005). From precarity to precariousness and back again : labour, life and unstable networks. 129 indexed citations
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Neilson, Brett, et al.. (2004). Cutting Democracy's Knot. 8. 1 indexed citations
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Watson, Irene, Fiona Nicoll, Brett Neilson, & Fiona Allon. (2002). On what grounds? : sovereignties, territorialities and Indigenous rights. 3(5-6). 149–55.
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Neilson, Brett. (1999). History's Stamp: Wyndham Lewis's The Revenge for Love and the Heidegger Controversy. Comparative Literature. 51(1). 24–24. 1 indexed citations
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Neilson, Brett. (1996). Threshold Procedures: ‘Boat People’ in South Florida and Western Australia. Critical Arts. 10(2). 21–40. 2 indexed citations

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