Colin McFarlane

11.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
104 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Colin McFarlane is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin McFarlane has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Urban Studies, 37 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 26 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Colin McFarlane's work include Urban Planning and Governance (52 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (33 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (30 papers). Colin McFarlane is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (52 papers), Water Governance and Infrastructure (33 papers) and Urban and Rural Development Challenges (30 papers). Colin McFarlane collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Colin McFarlane's co-authors include Ben Anderson, Jonathan Silver, Renu Desai, Dan Swanton, Matthew Kearnes, Patrick D. McGorry, Henry J. Jackson, George Patton, Alison R. Yung and Ola Söderström and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Schizophrenia Bulletin and Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Colin McFarlane

97 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

Monitoring and Care of Yo... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 2011 2011 2011 2012 100 200 300 400 500
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. Monitoring and Care of Young People at Incipient Risk of Psychosis
    1996 570 citations Colin McFarlane et al. profile →
  2. Assemblage and geography
    2011 555 citations Ben Anderson, Colin McFarlane profile →
  3. Assemblage and critical urbanism
    2011 488 citations Colin McFarlane profile →
  4. The City as Assemblage: Dwelling and Urban Space
    2011 422 citations Colin McFarlane profile →
  5. On assemblages and geography
    2012 399 citations Ben Anderson, Matthew Kearnes et al. Dialogues in Human Geography profile →
  6. Translocal assemblages: Space, power and social movements
    2009 355 citations Colin McFarlane Geoforum profile →
  7. The Comparative City: Knowledge, Learning, Urbanism
    2010 328 citations Colin McFarlane International Journal of Urban and Regional Research profile →
  8. Rethinking Informality: Politics, Crisis, and the City
    2012 318 citations Colin McFarlane Planning Theory & Practice profile →
  9. Political Infrastructures: Governing and Experiencing the Fabric of the City
    2008 275 citations Colin McFarlane et al. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Colin McFarlane 2.9k 2.3k 2.3k 991 599 104 7.6k
Setha Low 1.4k 0.5× 558 0.2× 3.0k 1.3× 564 0.6× 297 0.5× 101 5.8k
Gillian Rose 1.3k 0.4× 848 0.4× 5.4k 2.4× 2.2k 2.2× 251 0.4× 123 10.3k
Michael Dear 1.3k 0.5× 496 0.2× 2.1k 0.9× 385 0.4× 217 0.4× 115 5.1k
Gill Valentine 1.6k 0.6× 746 0.3× 7.8k 3.5× 1.4k 1.4× 239 0.4× 198 12.4k
Ben Anderson 780 0.3× 988 0.4× 3.5k 1.5× 2.4k 2.4× 487 0.8× 74 6.9k
Sherry R. Arnstein 1.2k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 3.5k 1.5× 419 0.4× 1.6k 2.7× 11 9.9k
Edward W. Soja 2.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.4× 3.2k 1.4× 974 1.0× 236 0.4× 49 7.7k
Rachel Pain 687 0.2× 524 0.2× 3.8k 1.7× 1.1k 1.1× 341 0.6× 81 6.0k
Timothy Mitchell 473 0.2× 1.9k 0.8× 2.5k 1.1× 339 0.3× 230 0.4× 47 5.2k
Henri Lefebvre 3.3k 1.1× 1.7k 0.7× 5.3k 2.4× 1.3k 1.3× 382 0.6× 118 11.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin McFarlane

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin McFarlane

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McFarlane, Colin. (2025). Crisis and the urban imagination. 3(3). 305–309. 1 indexed citations
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McFarlane, Colin. (2025). Writing urban worlds in City of Men. Urban Geography. 46(2). 472–474.
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McFarlane, Colin, et al.. (2025). Book review forum: For a Liberatory Politics of Home. Urban Studies. 62(4). 786–797.
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Marvin, Simon, Colin McFarlane, & Jonathan Rutherford. (2025). INFRASTRUCTURAL EXTENSIONS: Rethinking Infrastructure in Urban Studies. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 50(1). 256–264.
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Bulkeley, Harriet & Colin McFarlane. (2024). Changing climate, changing geographies?. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 49(4). 3 indexed citations
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McFarlane, Colin, et al.. (2024). In Desperate Need: Public Sanitation in Contemporary London. Antipode. 57(1). 193–214. 1 indexed citations
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McFarlane, Colin, et al.. (2024). Density textures: the crowd, everyday life, and urban poverty in Manila. Urban Geography. 46(5). 1222–1241. 1 indexed citations
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McFarlane, Colin, et al.. (2023). Density as a politics of value: Regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism. Progress in Human Geography. 47(5). 664–679. 6 indexed citations
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Lavell, Allan, Colin McFarlane, Henrietta L. Moore, Saffron Woodcraft, & Christopher Yap. (2023). Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity. International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 15(1). 215–229. 8 indexed citations
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Marvin, Simon, Colin McFarlane, Prince K. Guma, et al.. (2023). Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 48(3). 452–473. 20 indexed citations
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McFarlane, Colin. (2023). Geography in the world part 2: Editorial. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 49(2). 2 indexed citations
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Esson, James, Markus Roos Breines, Katherine Brickell, et al.. (2023). Way‐finding agendas through Transactions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 49(1). 1 indexed citations
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Ruszczyk, Hanna A., Vanesa Castán Broto, & Colin McFarlane. (2022). Urban health challenges: Lessons from COVID-19 responses. Geoforum. 131. 105–115. 15 indexed citations
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McFarlane, Colin. (2021). Fragments of the City. 1 indexed citations
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McFarlane, Colin, Jonathan Silver, & Yaffa Truelove. (2016). Cities within cities: intra-urban comparison of infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town. Urban Geography. 38(9). 1393–1417. 75 indexed citations
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Anderson, Ben, Matthew Kearnes, Colin McFarlane, & Dan Swanton. (2012). On assemblages and geography. Dialogues in Human Geography. 2(2). 171–189. 399 indexed citations breakdown →
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McFarlane, Colin. (2012). Rethinking Informality: Politics, Crisis, and the City. Planning Theory & Practice. 13(1). 89–108. 318 indexed citations breakdown →
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McFarlane, Colin & Jennifer Robinson. (2012). Introduction—Experiments in Comparative Urbanism. Urban Geography. 33(6). 765–773. 123 indexed citations
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Arnold, Jeffrey, Colin McFarlane, & Alexander Vasudevan. (2007). Afflicted powers: Capital and spectacle in a new age of war. Geopolitics. 13 indexed citations
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Raphael, Beverley, Tom Lundin, & Colin McFarlane. (1989). A RESEARCH METHOD FOR THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF DISASTER. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 80(S353). 1–75. 121 indexed citations

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