Clay Spinuzzi

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Clay Spinuzzi is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Clay Spinuzzi has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 24 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Clay Spinuzzi's work include Information Systems Theories and Implementation (25 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (24 papers) and Usability and User Interface Design (20 papers). Clay Spinuzzi is often cited by papers focused on Information Systems Theories and Implementation (25 papers), Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (24 papers) and Usability and User Interface Design (20 papers). Clay Spinuzzi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and United Kingdom. Clay Spinuzzi's co-authors include Mark Zachry, Silvia Ivaldi, Zlatko Bodrožić, Giuseppe Scaratti, Gregory P. Pogue, William Hart-Davidson, Axel Roesler, Brian J. McNely, Scott M. Nelson and Bonnie Nardi and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software and College Composition and Communication.

In The Last Decade

Clay Spinuzzi

89 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

The Methodology of Participatory Design

2005 641 citations Clay Spinuzzi Technical Communication profile →
Working Alone Together

2012 473 citations Clay Spinuzzi profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Clay Spinuzzi

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Clay Spinuzzi's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Clay Spinuzzi with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Clay Spinuzzi more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Clay Spinuzzi

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Clay Spinuzzi. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Clay Spinuzzi. The network helps show where Clay Spinuzzi may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clay Spinuzzi

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	“The City Residents Do Not Get Involved”: Understanding Barriers to Community Participation in a Small Texas Boomtown 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication ·Clay Spinuzzi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	“Fractional” Vocational Working and Learning in Project Teams: “Project Assemblage” as a Unit of Analysis? 2023 ·Vocations and Learning ·David Guile, Clay Spinuzzi	3
3	Origin Stories: How Stories of Founding in Small Texas Communities Reflect Current Relations 2023 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Clay Spinuzzi	0
4	Value Creation in Start-Up Discourse: Linking Pitch and Venture Through Logics of Justification 2023 ·International Journal of Business Communication ·(unknown), (unknown), Clay Spinuzzi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	3
5	Material Rhetorical Infrastructure as Limits and Limiter in small Texas Communities 2023 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Clay Spinuzzi	0
6	“The Somebody Elses Is Getting Few and Far between”: Solidarity and Individuality in Rural Texas Communities 2022 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Clay Spinuzzi	1
7	Go or No Go: Learning to Persuade in an Early-Stage Student Entrepreneurship Program 2020 ·IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication ·Clay Spinuzzi, (unknown), Gregory P. Pogue	9
8	“Trying to predict the future”: third-generation activity theory’s codesign orientation 2019 ·Mind Culture and Activity ·Clay Spinuzzi	10
9	Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism 2017 ·Mind Culture and Activity ·Clay Spinuzzi	17
10	Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition 2015 ·(unknown), Nathaniel A. Rivers, Clay Spinuzzi, Carl G. Herndl, S. Scott Graham, (unknown)	24
11	Co-creation by commenting: Participatory ways to write Quicklook® reports 2015 ·Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library) ·Eva-Maria Jakobs, Clay Spinuzzi, (unknown), Gregory P. Pogue	9
12	How Nonemployer Firms Stage-Manage Ad Hoc Collaboration: An Activity Theory Analysis 2013 ·Technical Communication Quarterly ·Clay Spinuzzi	20
13	What is communication design? 2012 ·Communication Design Quarterly ·Clay Spinuzzi	2
14	Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007 ·David Novick, Clay Spinuzzi	3
15	The Methodology of Participatory Design breakdown → 2005 ·Technical Communication ·Clay Spinuzzi	641
16	Four ways to investigate assemblages of texts 2004 ·Clay Spinuzzi	34
17	Using a handheld PC to collect and analyze observational data 2003 ·Clay Spinuzzi	7
18	Grappling with Distributed Usability: A Cultural-Historical Examination of Documentation Genres over Four Decades 2001 ·Journal of Technical Writing and Communication ·Clay Spinuzzi	19
19	Investigating the technology-work relationship: a critical comparison of three qualitative field methods 2000 ·Clay Spinuzzi	12
20	Pseudotransactionality, Activity Theory, and Professional Writing Instruction 1996 ·Technical Communication Quarterly ·Clay Spinuzzi	46

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact