Colin Wight

2.8k total citations
37 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Colin Wight is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Wight has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 2 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Colin Wight's work include International Relations and Foreign Policy (9 papers), Critical Realism in Sociology (7 papers) and Peacebuilding and International Security (4 papers). Colin Wight is often cited by papers focused on International Relations and Foreign Policy (9 papers), Critical Realism in Sociology (7 papers) and Peacebuilding and International Security (4 papers). Colin Wight collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico. Colin Wight's co-authors include Heikki Patomäki, Tim Dunne, Lene Hansen, John Michael Roberts, Kathryn Dean, Jonathan Joseph, Brett Ashley Leeds, J. Ann Tickner, Brian C. Schmidt and Howard Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as International Studies Quarterly, Political Studies and European Journal of International Relations.

In The Last Decade

Colin Wight

36 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin Wight United Kingdom	15	832	795	187	82	56	37	1.3k
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson United States	21	1.2k 1.5×	1.3k 1.6×	315 1.7×	75 0.9×	99 1.8×	55	1.8k
Stefano Guzzini Denmark	17	902 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	271 1.4×	51 0.6×	78 1.4×	67	1.5k
Nicholas Greenwood Onuf United States	15	688 0.8×	871 1.1×	179 1.0×	62 0.8×	66 1.2×	74	1.2k
Jutta Weldes United States	16	843 1.0×	824 1.0×	124 0.7×	64 0.8×	24 0.4×	23	1.3k
Milja Kurki United Kingdom	16	653 0.8×	613 0.8×	161 0.9×	25 0.3×	57 1.0×	43	971
Mark Laffey United Kingdom	11	829 1.0×	745 0.9×	163 0.9×	40 0.5×	60 1.1×	22	1.2k
Anna Leander Denmark	17	754 0.9×	749 0.9×	140 0.7×	46 0.6×	74 1.3×	78	1.3k
Jens Bartelson Sweden	16	612 0.7×	665 0.8×	109 0.6×	67 0.8×	44 0.8×	40	1.1k
Christian Reus‐Smit Australia	22	1.2k 1.4×	1.6k 2.1×	427 2.3×	77 0.9×	141 2.5×	53	2.2k
Neta C. Crawford United States	16	912 1.1×	715 0.9×	93 0.5×	161 2.0×	33 0.6×	40	1.4k

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Schmidt, Brian C. & Colin Wight. (2023). Rationalism and the “rational actor assumption” in realist international relations theory. Journal of International Political Theory. 19(2). 158–182. 3 indexed citations

Wight, Colin. (2020). Critical Dogmatism: Academic Freedom Confronts Moral and Epistemological Certainty. Political Studies Review. 19(3). 435–449. 14 indexed citations

Wight, Colin. (2019). Bringing the outside in: The limits of theoretical fragmentation and pluralism in IR theory. Politics. 39(1). 64–81. 16 indexed citations

Wight, Colin. (2018). Post-Truth, Postmodernism and Alternative Facts. 26(3). 17–29. 31 indexed citations

Wight, Colin. (2018). Forum introduction. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 48(2). 154–156. 2 indexed citations

Wight, Colin. (2016). Maps, models, and theories: a scientific realist approach to validity. 49–68. 1 indexed citations

Wight, Colin. (2016). Over Socialising the Social World(s)?. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 46(4). 413–419. 9 indexed citations

Wight, Colin. (2012). Critical Realism: some responses. Review of International Studies. 38(1). 267–274. 5 indexed citations

Wight, Colin. (2012). The Dualistic Grounding of Monism: Science, Pluralism and Typological Truncation. Millennium Journal of International Studies. 41(2). 326–345. 11 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (2010). Daniel Chernilo,A Social Theory of the Nation State: The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism. Journal of Critical Realism. 9(1). 112–118. 1 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (2007). A response to Friedrich Kratochwil: why shooting the messenger does not make the bad news go away!. Journal of International Relations and Development. 10(3). 301–315. 9 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (2006). Agents, Structures and International Relations: Politics as Ontology. 197 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (2004). Theorizing the Mechanisms of Conceptual and Semiotic Space. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 34(2). 283–299. 20 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (2003). The Agent-Structure Problem and Institutional Racism. Political Studies. 51(4). 706–721. 31 indexed citations

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Williams, Howard, et al.. (2001). Political Thought and German Reunification: The New German Ideology?. German Studies Review. 24(3). 659–659. 1 indexed citations

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Patomäki, Heikki & Colin Wight. (2000). After Postpositivism? The Promises of Critical Realism. International Studies Quarterly. 44(2). 213–237. 218 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (2000). Interpretation All the Way Down?. European Journal of International Relations. 6(3). 423–430. 4 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (1999). They Shoot Dead Horses Don't They?. European Journal of International Relations. 5(1). 109–142. 68 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (1999). MetaCampbell: the epistemological problematics of perspectivism. Review of International Studies. 25(2). 311–316. 7 indexed citations

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Wight, Colin. (1996). Incommensurability and Cross-Paradigm Communication in International Relations Theory: 'What's the Frequency Kenneth?. Millennium Journal of International Studies. 25(2). 291–319. 37 indexed citations

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