Colin Flint

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
234 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Colin Flint is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Flint has authored 234 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Materials Chemistry, 65 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 46 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Colin Flint's work include Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (68 papers), Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography (41 papers) and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (39 papers). Colin Flint is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (68 papers), Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography (41 papers) and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (39 papers). Colin Flint collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Chile. Colin Flint's co-authors include Peter A. Tanner, Jean‐Marc F. Blanchard, Margaret Goodgame, Marco Bettinelli, Steven M. Radil, George Tita, Roberto Acevedo, John Ο’Loughlin, Luc Anselin and Lawrence Freedman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Colin Flint

225 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

The Geopolitics of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2018 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. The Geopolitics of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative
    2017 214 citations Colin Flint et al. profile →
  2. The geopolitics of connectivity, cooperation, and hegemonic competition: The Belt and Road Initiative
    2018 170 citations Colin Flint et al. Geoforum profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Colin Flint United Kingdom 31 1.3k 912 682 609 395 234 3.5k
Jochen Gläser Germany 29 635 0.5× 592 0.6× 365 0.5× 478 0.8× 243 0.6× 129 3.6k
David Metcalf United States 31 810 0.6× 231 0.3× 349 0.5× 209 0.3× 185 0.5× 138 3.0k
James Ferguson United Kingdom 35 879 0.7× 622 0.7× 264 0.4× 233 0.4× 404 1.0× 167 5.0k
R. Garrett United States 45 1.1k 0.8× 3.4k 3.7× 825 1.2× 143 0.2× 420 1.1× 292 8.2k
Peter Evans United Kingdom 15 517 0.4× 1.4k 1.5× 782 1.1× 211 0.3× 314 0.8× 59 3.1k
Peter Dickens United Kingdom 29 1.2k 0.9× 498 0.5× 137 0.2× 493 0.8× 175 0.4× 162 3.2k
John F. Turner United States 36 762 0.6× 250 0.3× 105 0.2× 274 0.4× 147 0.4× 149 4.3k
Robert G. Jones United Kingdom 46 2.4k 1.9× 330 0.4× 196 0.3× 331 0.5× 349 0.9× 259 7.8k
Matloub Hussain United Arab Emirates 37 437 0.3× 281 0.3× 118 0.2× 475 0.8× 380 1.0× 179 4.5k
James R. Thompson United States 31 467 0.4× 473 0.5× 254 0.4× 36 0.1× 346 0.9× 160 4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Flint

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Flint

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Flint

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin Flint. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin Flint 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 Colin Flint. Colin Flint 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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Flint, Colin. (2025). Hegemonic retreat: Transactionalism as foreign policy. Geographical Journal. 191(4).
2.
Flint, Colin & Peter J. Taylor. (2025). Political Geography. 1 indexed citations
3.
Flint, Colin, et al.. (2023). Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict. 4 indexed citations
4.
Flint, Colin. (2021). Putting the “geo” into geopolitics: a heuristic framework and the example of Australian foreign policy. GeoJournal. 87(4). 2577–2592. 6 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin, et al.. (2018). The geopolitics of connectivity, cooperation, and hegemonic competition: The Belt and Road Initiative. Geoforum. 99. 95–101. 170 indexed citations breakdown →
6.
Flint, Colin, et al.. (2018). An investigation into the experience of advertising students in seeking and working in internships. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1).
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Flint, Colin. (2017). Geographic Perspectives on World-Systems Theory. 2 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin, Paul F. Diehl, John A. Vasquez, et al.. (2014). The Spatial Diffusion of War: The Case of World War I. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 49(1). 57–76. 1 indexed citations
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Falah, Ghazi & Colin Flint. (2011). Geopolitical Spaces: The Dialectic of Public and Private Space in the Palestine–Israel Conflict. Arab world geographer. 7. 117–134. 4 indexed citations
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Vasquez, John A., et al.. (2011). The ConflictSpace of Cataclysm: The International System and the Spread of War 1914-1917. Foreign Policy Analysis. 7(2). 143–168. 14 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin. (2003). GEOGRAPHIES OF INCLUSION/EXCLUSION. IN: THE GEOGRAPHICAL DIMENSIONS OF TERRORISM. 2 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin. (2001). Initial Thoughts towards Political Geographies in the Wake of 11 September 2001: An Introduction. Arab world geographer. 4(2). 77–80. 2 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin. (2001). Ending in Order to Begin.... Arab world geographer. 4(2). 103–103. 1 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin, et al.. (1997). Energy transfer from the4S 3/2 state of Cs 2 NaEr x Y 1-x C l6. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3176. 98–98. 2 indexed citations
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Luxbacher, Thomas, et al.. (1995). Fast cross relaxation in lanthanide hexachloroelpasolites: application of the shell model. Chemical Physics Letters. 241(1-2). 103–108. 14 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin & Peter A. Tanner. (1982). UO2F42−: A new uranyl complex ion. Polyhedron. 1(11-12). 835–836. 4 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin, et al.. (1978). Splitting of the (A) ground state in Cs2ReF6. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy. 70(3). 481–483. 11 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin, et al.. (1973). The use of luminescence spectroscopy to determine infrared and Raman inactive fundamentals: the τ2uvibrational frequencies of the Cr(CN)3–6ion. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 489–490. 5 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin, et al.. (1969). - and - 1,3-diethyl-2,4-diphenyl-2,4-dithiocyclodiphosphazanes. Tetrahedron Letters. 10(36). 3061–3062. 2 indexed citations
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Flint, Colin & Margaret Goodgame. (1967). Magnetic and spectral studies including metal–ligand vibrations of thiourea complexes of some salts of divalent metals with oxyanions. Journal of the Chemical Society A Inorganic Physical Theoretical. 0(0). 1718–1721. 14 indexed citations

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