Colin Sparks
- Communication top 0.2%
- Sociology and Political Science top 1%
- Political Science and International Relations top 2%
- Gender Studies top 2%
- Literature and Literary Theory top 2%
- Co-authors
- Peter DahlgrenJohn TullochHaiyan WangSlávko SplichalAnna ReadingJingrong TongJames CurranPaddy Scannell
- Topics
- Media Studies and Communication (25 papers)Social Media and Politics (15 papers)Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (9 papers)
- Partner nations
- Hong KongUnited KingdomChina
In The Last Decade
Colin Sparks
75 papers receiving 1.8k citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 90
- Communication 1.4k
- Sociology and Political Science 997
- Political Science and International Relations 380
- Gender Studies 214
- Literature and Literary Theory 169
Countries citing papers authored by Colin Sparks
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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Sparks
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Colin Sparks. 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 Colin Sparks. The network helps show where Colin Sparks may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Sparks
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin Sparks. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin Sparks 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 Sparks. Colin Sparks is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
All Works
| # | Work | Indexed citations |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 43 | |
| 2 | 1 | |
| 3 | 9 | |
| 4 | Deconstructing the BRICS | 8 |
| 5 | Technological innovation and social change | 1 |
| 6 | Media in Europe : New questions for research and policy | 4 |
| 7 | 10 | |
| 8 | China Media Colloquium| China's Media in Comparative Perspective | 3 |
| 9 | 29 | |
| 10 | Theories of Transition | 3 |
| 11 | 34 | |
| 12 | 23 | |
| 13 | Tabloid tales: global debates over media standards | 280 |
| 14 | 53 | |
| 15 | Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media | 79 |
| 16 | Information society and civil society : contemporary perspectives on the changing world order | 18 |
| 17 | 9 | |
| 18 | Communication and citizenship : journalism and the public sphere in the new media age | 130 |
| 19 | Media, culture and society : a critical reader | 105 |
| 20 | The Evolution of Cultural Studies. | 13 |
About Colin Sparks
Colin Sparks is a scholar working on Communication, Cultural Studies and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 80 papers that have together received 2.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Media Studies and Communication (25 papers), Social Media and Politics (15 papers) and Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Communication (1.4k citations), Sociology and Political Science (997 citations) and Gender Studies (214 citations). Colin Sparks has collaborated with scholars based in Hong Kong, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Peter Dahlgren, John Tulloch, Haiyan Wang, Slávko Splichal, Anna Reading, Jingrong Tong, James Curran, Paddy Scannell, Philip Schlesinger and Claudia Mellado. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Communication, The Canadian Journal of Sociology and Media Culture & Society.
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.