David Bissell

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

David Bissell is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, David Bissell has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in David Bissell's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (38 papers), Digital Economy and Work Transformation (14 papers) and Sharing Economy and Platforms (9 papers). David Bissell is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (38 papers), Digital Economy and Work Transformation (14 papers) and Sharing Economy and Platforms (9 papers). David Bissell collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. David Bissell's co-authors include Andrew Gorman‐Murray, Peter Adey, Elizabeth Straughan, Lizzie Richardson, Thomas Birtchnell, Vincent J. Del Casino, Rachel Macrorie, Eric L. Hsu, Desiree Fields and Anthony Elliott and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Geographical Journal and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

David Bissell

69 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Passenger Mobilities: Affective Atmospheres and the Socia... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300
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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. Passenger Mobilities: Affective Atmospheres and the Sociality of Public Transport
    2010 379 citations David Bissell Environment and Planning D Society and Space profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Bissell Australia 31 1.2k 957 512 356 285 71 2.6k
Peter Adey United Kingdom 36 2.2k 1.9× 1.4k 1.4× 631 1.2× 470 1.3× 715 2.5× 87 4.1k
Tim Cresswell United Kingdom 30 2.1k 1.8× 1.0k 1.1× 812 1.6× 673 1.9× 478 1.7× 61 4.1k
Éric Laurier United Kingdom 30 1.1k 0.9× 622 0.6× 381 0.7× 260 0.7× 75 0.3× 99 2.8k
Robyn Dowling Australia 36 1.5k 1.3× 395 0.4× 580 1.1× 937 2.6× 344 1.2× 103 3.9k
Tim Edensor United Kingdom 34 2.8k 2.4× 2.0k 2.1× 563 1.1× 894 2.5× 416 1.5× 98 5.4k
Peter Kraftl United Kingdom 28 1.6k 1.3× 609 0.6× 129 0.3× 288 0.8× 210 0.7× 104 2.6k
Jonas Larsen Denmark 26 2.3k 2.0× 709 0.7× 653 1.3× 241 0.7× 90 0.3× 64 3.4k
Edward Relph Canada 12 1.8k 1.6× 663 0.7× 233 0.5× 680 1.9× 122 0.4× 24 3.4k
Maximiliano E. Korstanje Argentina 20 1.3k 1.1× 375 0.4× 221 0.4× 125 0.4× 146 0.5× 395 2.1k
Kevin Hannam United Kingdom 24 1.4k 1.2× 364 0.4× 332 0.6× 157 0.4× 102 0.4× 86 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Bissell

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Bissell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Bissell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Bissell 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 David Bissell. David Bissell 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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Bissell, David. (2025). Feeling out of it: Displacement, disengagement and dispossession in experiences of brain fog. Dialogues in Human Geography. 4 indexed citations
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Bissell, David, et al.. (2025). What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 50(4).
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Bissell, David, et al.. (2023). What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses. Progress in Human Geography. 48(2). 190–205. 9 indexed citations
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Bissell, David. (2023). Transforming dispositions towards automation. Dialogues in Human Geography. 14(1). 80–84. 2 indexed citations
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Bissell, David, Thomas Birtchnell, Michelle Duffy, et al.. (2023). Region power for mobilities research. Australian Geographer. 54(3). 251–275. 5 indexed citations
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Straughan, Elizabeth & David Bissell. (2022). Working in the gig economy is boring: Non‐encounters and the politics of detachment in platform capitalism. Geographical Journal. 188(4). 534–545. 10 indexed citations
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Bissell, David. (2021). Affective life of financial loss: Detaching from lost investments in the wake of the gig economy. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 54(3). 477–492. 7 indexed citations
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Lynch, Casey R., David Bissell, Lily House‐Peters, & Vincent J. Del Casino. (2021). Robotics, Affective Displacement, and the Automation of Care. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 112(3). 684–691. 13 indexed citations
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Secor, Anna J., et al.. (2021). Negativity: space, politics and affects. Cultural Geographies. 29(1). 5–21. 27 indexed citations
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Bissell, David. (2021). A changing sense of place: Geography and COVID‐19. Geographical Research. 59(2). 150–159. 41 indexed citations
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Fields, Desiree, David Bissell, & Rachel Macrorie. (2020). Platform methods: studying platform urbanism outside the black box. Urban Geography. 41(3). 462–468. 73 indexed citations
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Lobo, Michele, Michelle Duffy, Andrea Witcomb, et al.. (2020). Practising lively geographies in the city: encountering Melbourne through experimental field-based workshops. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 44(3). 406–426. 4 indexed citations
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Bissell, David. (2020). Encountering automation: Redefining bodies through stories of technological change. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 39(2). 366–384. 29 indexed citations
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Bissell, David. (2020). Affective platform urbanism: Changing habits of digital on-demand consumption. Geoforum. 115. 102–110. 65 indexed citations
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Bissell, David & Andrew Gorman‐Murray. (2019). Disoriented geographies: Undoing relations, encountering limits. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 44(4). 707–720. 32 indexed citations
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Bissell, David. (2018). Social & Cultural Geography at 20 years: looking back, thinking forward. Social & Cultural Geography. 20(1). 1–3. 3 indexed citations
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Bissell, David, Thomas Birtchnell, Anthony Elliott, & Eric L. Hsu. (2018). Autonomous automobilities: The social impacts of driverless vehicles. Current Sociology. 68(1). 116–134. 96 indexed citations
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Richardson, Lizzie & David Bissell. (2017). Geographies of digital skill. Geoforum. 99. 278–286. 54 indexed citations
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Bissell, David. (2017). Institutionalising mobilities research: Networks, regions, futures. New Zealand Geographer. 73(2). 141–144. 1 indexed citations
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Bissell, David. (2009). Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station. Social & Cultural Geography. 10(2). 173–195. 80 indexed citations

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