Clifford Shearing

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Clifford Shearing is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Clifford Shearing has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 64 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 24 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Clifford Shearing's work include Policing Practices and Perceptions (51 papers), Crime Patterns and Interventions (32 papers) and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (25 papers). Clifford Shearing is often cited by papers focused on Policing Practices and Perceptions (51 papers), Crime Patterns and Interventions (32 papers) and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (25 papers). Clifford Shearing collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Australia and Canada. Clifford Shearing's co-authors include Philip Stenning, David H. Bayley, Les Johnston, Richard V. Ericson, Lorna Weir, Pat O’Malley, Jennifer Wood, Mike Brogden, Lorena Pasquini and T. Dunbar Moodie and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Clifford Shearing

174 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

The New Environmental Governance 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 25 50 75

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Clifford Shearing South Africa 29 2.9k 2.0k 421 400 287 181 4.2k
Pat O’Malley Australia 25 2.5k 0.9× 733 0.4× 178 0.4× 132 0.3× 631 2.2× 91 3.6k
John T. Scholz United States 32 1.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 264 0.6× 1.2k 3.0× 198 0.7× 55 4.8k
Patrick Bond South Africa 29 1.6k 0.5× 692 0.3× 107 0.3× 165 0.4× 195 0.7× 192 3.2k
Margaret E. Keck United States 21 3.6k 1.2× 3.0k 1.5× 59 0.1× 940 2.4× 201 0.7× 38 6.8k
Roger B. Parks United States 22 1.7k 0.6× 1.7k 0.8× 83 0.2× 194 0.5× 208 0.7× 37 2.8k
Helen Ingram United States 27 1.9k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 52 0.1× 425 1.1× 579 2.0× 112 5.4k
Timothy Mitchell United States 21 2.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 44 0.1× 161 0.4× 323 1.1× 47 5.2k
Nicholas Blomley Canada 38 1.6k 0.6× 795 0.4× 139 0.3× 77 0.2× 424 1.5× 96 4.1k
Stuart Elden United Kingdom 28 2.4k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 82 0.2× 60 0.1× 181 0.6× 114 4.5k
J. Craig Jenkins United States 32 3.1k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 34 0.1× 445 1.1× 348 1.2× 91 5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Clifford Shearing

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Fields of papers citing papers by Clifford Shearing

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Clifford Shearing

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Clifford Shearing. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Clifford Shearing 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 Clifford Shearing. Clifford Shearing 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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Sisto, Marco De, et al.. (2024). Reshaping disaster management: An integrated community‐led approach. Australian Journal of Public Administration. 85(1). 3–30. 4 indexed citations
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Sanderson, David, et al.. (2024). Community‐centred disaster recovery: A call to change the narrative. Disasters. 49(1). e12655–e12655. 6 indexed citations
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Simpson, Nicholas P., Clifford Shearing, & Benoît Dupont. (2020). Gated Adaptation during the Cape Town Drought: Mentalities, Transitions and Pathways to Partial Nodes of Water Security. Society & Natural Resources. 33(8). 1041–1049. 16 indexed citations
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Holley, Cameron, et al.. (2019). Resilience Policing: An Emerging Response to Shifting Harm Landscapes and Reshaping Community Policing. Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice. 15(1). 606–621. 13 indexed citations
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Simpson, Nicholas P., Clifford Shearing, & Benoît Dupont. (2019). When Anthropocene shocks contest conventional mentalities: a case study from Cape Town. Climate and Development. 12(2). 163–169. 11 indexed citations
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Simpson, Nicholas P., et al.. (2019). Municipal finance and resilience lessons for urban infrastructure management: a case study from the Cape Town drought. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 11(3). 257–276. 35 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford. (2019). Energy Civilization through Industrial Modernity and Beyond. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford, et al.. (2017). Security in the Anthropocene. transcript Verlag eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Berg, Julie & Clifford Shearing. (2016). The practice of crime prevention: Design principles for more effective security governance. South African Crime Quarterly. 2 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford, Michael Kempa, & Philip Stenning. (2016). Policing in Canada in the 21st Century: Directions for Law Reform. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Marks, Monique & Clifford Shearing. (2010). Who Should the Police Be? Finding a New Narrative for Community Policing in South Africa. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford, et al.. (2007). Beyond Restorative Justice - Zwelethemba, a future-focused model using local capacity conflict resolution. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 4 indexed citations
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Drahos, Peter, Clifford Shearing, & Scott Burris. (2005). Nodal governance as an approach to regulation. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 30. 30–58. 10 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford. (2001). Transforming security: A South African experiment. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 27 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford. (2001). A Nodal Conception of Governance: Thoughts on a Police Commission. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Bayley, David H. & Clifford Shearing. (2001). New Structure of Policing: Description, Conceptualization, and Research Agenda. 137 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford & Philip Stenning. (1985). Corporate Perceptions of Private Security. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford & Philip Stenning. (1985). Public Perceptions of Private Security. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford. (1981). Introduction to Organizational Police Deviance: Its Structure and Control. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Shearing, Clifford. (1979). Private Security and Private Justice: Doing Justice to Justice. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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