David Mills

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

David Mills is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, David Mills has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Anthropology and 12 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in David Mills's work include Academic Publishing and Open Access (7 papers), Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 papers) and Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (6 papers). David Mills is often cited by papers focused on Academic Publishing and Open Access (7 papers), Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 papers) and Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (6 papers). David Mills collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, India and Australia. David Mills's co-authors include Kelsey Inouye, Mark Jones, Vijay K. Agarwal, Mary Taylor Huber, Toluwase Asubiaro, J. S. Mason, Sanjay K. Gupta, Patricia Kingori, S. N. Singh and V. Seshadri and has published in prestigious journals such as Wear, American Journal of Physics and Powder Technology.

In The Last Decade

David Mills

69 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Mills United Kingdom	16	319	283	280	117	100	77	1.3k
Helen Sampson United Kingdom	23	71 0.2×	553 2.0×	181 0.6×	113 1.0×	7 0.1×	78	1.6k
André Laurent France	17	60 0.2×	273 1.0×	98 0.3×	87 0.7×	17 0.2×	35	1.8k
Wolfgang Menz Germany	22	67 0.2×	322 1.1×	136 0.5×	121 1.0×	53 0.5×	91	1.8k
Robert Mayer United States	20	43 0.1×	497 1.8×	77 0.3×	121 1.0×	27 0.3×	102	1.6k
William Haller United States	22	262 0.8×	2.4k 8.6×	150 0.5×	224 1.9×	85 0.8×	67	3.2k
Allen White United States	21	155 0.5×	631 2.2×	111 0.4×	47 0.4×	9 0.1×	81	1.5k
Craig R. Scott United States	26	150 0.5×	1.0k 3.6×	143 0.5×	60 0.5×	127 1.3×	65	2.5k
Sara Bragg United Kingdom	19	562 1.8×	684 2.4×	125 0.4×	100 0.9×	63 0.6×	62	1.5k
David Woodward United Kingdom	26	38 0.1×	259 0.9×	219 0.8×	200 1.7×	34 0.3×	162	2.2k
Alexandru Cernat United Kingdom	13	53 0.2×	353 1.2×	98 0.3×	40 0.3×	56 0.6×	87	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by David Mills

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Mills

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All Works

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Mills, David. (2024). One index, two publishers and the global research economy. Oxford Review of Education. 51(4). 545–560. 1 indexed citations

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Mills, David, et al.. (2023). Who Counts?. 16 indexed citations

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Mills, David, et al.. (2022). Getting by in a bibliometric economy: scholarly publishing and academic credibility in the Nigerian academy. Africa. 92(5). 839–859. 3 indexed citations

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Mills, David, et al.. (2021). Democratising Monograph Publishing or Preying on Researchers? Scholarly Recognition and Global ‘Credibility Economies’. Science as Culture. 31(2). 187–211. 4 indexed citations

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Mills, David. (2020). The epistemic politics of ‘academography’: navigating competing representations of Africa’s university futures. Globalisation Societies and Education. 18(5). 541–552. 5 indexed citations

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Mills, David & David James. (2019). Reconceptualising organisational collaborations in social science doctoral education. Higher Education. 79(5). 791–809. 8 indexed citations

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Gupta, Sanjay K., Vijay K. Agarwal, & David Mills. (2010). A model for fluidized motion conveyor transporting fly ash. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 34(8). 1042–1048. 6 indexed citations

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Mills, David & Mette Louise Berg. (2010). Gender, disembodiment and vocation: Exploring the unmentionables of British academic life. Critique of Anthropology. 30(4). 331–353. 11 indexed citations

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Lebeau, Yann & David Mills. (2008). From 'crisis' to 'transformation'? Shifting orthodoxies of African higher education policy and research. Learning and Teaching. 1(1). 58–88. 11 indexed citations

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Mills, David. (2008). Difficult Folk?. Berghahn Books. 20 indexed citations

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Mills, David, et al.. (2007). An interview with Adam Kuper. Social Anthropology. 9(2). 207–216. 4 indexed citations

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Mills, David. (2007). Review Article. Social Anthropology. 11(3). 363–372.

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Mills, David. (2005). Made in Manchester? Methods and Myths in Disciplinary History. Social Analysis. 49(3). 3 indexed citations

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Mills, David. (2005). Pneumatiic Conveying: Dilute vs. Dense Phase. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 112(1). 51–57.

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Mills, David, et al.. (2005). 'No Romance Without Finance': Commodities, Masculinities and Relationships Amongst Kampalan Students. 90–95. 14 indexed citations

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Mills, David & Mary Taylor Huber. (2005). Anthropology and the Educational ‘Trading Zone’. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. 4(1). 9–32. 35 indexed citations

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Whitehead, Phillip, et al.. (2001). Anthropology and Education: Anthropology 'Outside In'. Figshare. 1 indexed citations

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Mills, David. (1981). The spring and mass pendulum: An exercise in mathematical modeling. The Physics Teacher. 19(6). 404–405. 4 indexed citations

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Sullivan, John A., et al.. (1969). Management of Bell's Palsy. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. 89(1). 144–144. 2 indexed citations

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Jones, Wesley & David Mills. (1961). Porosity and surface area of a granular bed from measurements of the flow of air through the bed and measurements of the granular shape factors. British Journal of Applied Physics. 12(4). 172–174. 7 indexed citations

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