Dan Swanton

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 687 citations indexed

About

Dan Swanton is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Geography, Planning and Development and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Swanton has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 687 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Urban Studies, 5 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Dan Swanton's work include Urban Planning and Governance (5 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 papers). Dan Swanton is often cited by papers focused on Urban Planning and Governance (5 papers), Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 papers). Dan Swanton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Chile. Dan Swanton's co-authors include Matthew Kearnes, Ben Anderson, Colin McFarlane, Melanie Smith, Ray Hudson, M. Jane Bunting, Éric Laurier, Simon M. Hutchinson, Daniel R. Parsons and Lesley Batty and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Geoforum and Environment and Planning D Society and Space.

In The Last Decade

Dan Swanton

14 papers receiving 653 citations

Hit Papers

On assemblages and geography 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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. On assemblages and geography
    2012 399 citations Ben Anderson, Matthew Kearnes et al. Dialogues in Human Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dan Swanton United Kingdom 7 316 191 138 131 58 16 687
James Eflin United States 4 350 1.1× 140 0.7× 218 1.6× 115 0.9× 65 1.1× 7 997
Matthew G. Hannah Germany 14 432 1.4× 206 1.1× 117 0.8× 187 1.4× 37 0.6× 50 762
Steven Hoelscher United States 10 397 1.3× 217 1.1× 117 0.8× 69 0.5× 68 1.2× 20 850
Alex Jeffrey United Kingdom 18 598 1.9× 143 0.7× 111 0.8× 333 2.5× 55 0.9× 50 969
Susan Ruddick Canada 10 502 1.6× 149 0.8× 274 2.0× 107 0.8× 91 1.6× 23 953
Philip Crang United Kingdom 14 622 2.0× 197 1.0× 194 1.4× 94 0.7× 58 1.0× 27 1.2k
Ignacio Farías Germany 12 304 1.0× 155 0.8× 299 2.2× 188 1.4× 50 0.9× 38 861
Fernando J. Bosco United States 13 490 1.6× 120 0.6× 120 0.9× 128 1.0× 59 1.0× 26 769
Mekonnen Tesfahuney Sweden 10 407 1.3× 229 1.2× 92 0.7× 119 0.9× 36 0.6× 32 758
Peter J. Hugill United States 15 357 1.1× 136 0.7× 64 0.5× 156 1.2× 50 0.9× 46 894

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Swanton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Swanton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Swanton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dan Swanton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dan Swanton 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 Dan Swanton. Dan Swanton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Laurier, Éric, et al.. (2024). Encounters convening publics: opposing politics and confronting trouble-making. Social & Cultural Geography. 25(10). 1670–1690.
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Swanton, Dan. (2018). Urban encounters: Performance and making urban worlds. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 5(2). 229–248. 1 indexed citations
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Swanton, Dan. (2015). A Different Difference: Rethinking Race with Deleuze. Postcolonial Studies. 18(3). 305–312. 2 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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Swanton, Dan. (2012). Afterimages of Steel. Space and Culture. 15(4). 264–282. 10 indexed citations
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Swanton, Dan. (2012). The steel plant as assemblage. Geoforum. 44. 282–291. 32 indexed citations
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Anderson, Ben, Matthew Kearnes, Colin McFarlane, & Dan Swanton. (2012). Materialism and the politics of assemblage. Dialogues in Human Geography. 2(2). 212–215. 28 indexed citations
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Hudson, Ray & Dan Swanton. (2011). Global shifts in contemporary times: the changing trajectories of steel towns in China, Germany and the United Kingdom. European Urban and Regional Studies. 19(1). 6–19. 5 indexed citations
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Swanton, Dan. (2011). Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis – Part Four. City. 15(6). 727–730. 3 indexed citations
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Swanton, Dan. (2011). Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis: Part Three. City. 15(5). 548–551. 4 indexed citations
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Swanton, Dan. (2011). Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis: Part Two. City. 15(3-4). 343–346. 2 indexed citations
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Swanton, Dan. (2010). Sorting Bodies: Race, Affect, and Everyday Multiculture in a Mill Town in Northern England. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 42(10). 2332–2350. 76 indexed citations
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Swanton, Dan. (2010). Flesh, Metal, Road: Tracing the Machinic Geographies of Race. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 28(3). 447–466. 46 indexed citations
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Swanton, Dan. (2008). The force of race. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, Melanie, et al.. (2003). The Oxford handbook of economic geography.. Antipode. 35(1). 201–204. 76 indexed citations

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