Deborah Youdell

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Deborah Youdell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Education and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah Youdell has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 12 papers in Education and 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Deborah Youdell's work include Global Educational Policies and Reforms (7 papers), Critical Race Theory in Education (7 papers) and Foucault, Power, and Ethics (4 papers). Deborah Youdell is often cited by papers focused on Global Educational Policies and Reforms (7 papers), Critical Race Theory in Education (7 papers) and Foucault, Power, and Ethics (4 papers). Deborah Youdell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico. Deborah Youdell's co-authors include David Gillborn, Jane Kenway, Felicity Armstrong, Ian McGimpsey, Stephen J. Ball, Martin R. Lindley, Sue Saltmarsh, Julie Allan, Valerie Harwood and Sally Power and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Sociology of Education, Journal of Education Policy and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

In The Last Decade

Deborah Youdell

35 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Rationing Education: Policy, Practice, Reform and Equity 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Rationing Education: Policy, Practice, Reform and Equity
    1999 570 citations David Gillborn, Deborah Youdell profile →

Peers

Deborah Youdell
Kathleen Weiler United States
Madeleine Arnot United Kingdom
Amanda Keddie Australia
Kevin K. Kumashiro United States
Helen Lucey United Kingdom
James Joseph Scheurich United States
Lois Weis United States
Audrey Osler United Kingdom
Megan Boler Canada
Zeus Leonardo United States
Kathleen Weiler United States
Deborah Youdell
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Fields of papers citing papers by Deborah Youdell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Deborah Youdell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Deborah Youdell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Deborah Youdell 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 Deborah Youdell. Deborah Youdell 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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Bergen, Penny Van, et al.. (2025). ‘Quality and consequence’: interrogating the drive for new performance indicators and funding levers in Australian initial teacher education programs. The Australian Educational Researcher. 52(3). 2607–2630. 1 indexed citations
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Sutton, J.P., Deborah Youdell, & Karl Kitching. (2025). School spaces of dissensus: Protecting sexualities education in anti‐gender, anti‐Muslim and de‐democratising times. The Curriculum Journal. 37(1). 107–123.
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Youdell, Deborah, et al.. (2020). From science wars to transdisciplinarity: the inescapability of the neuroscience, biology and sociology of learning. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 41(6). 881–899. 2 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah & Martin R. Lindley. (2018). Biosocial Education. 13 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah. (2017). Bioscience and the sociology of education: the case for biosocial education. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 38(8). 1273–1287. 20 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah, Valerie Harwood, & Martin R. Lindley. (2017). Biological sciences, social sciences and the languages of stress. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 39(2). 219–241. 10 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah. (2016). A biosocial education future?. Research in Education. 96(1). 52–61. 11 indexed citations
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Allan, Julie & Deborah Youdell. (2015). Ghostings, materialisations and flows in Britain's special educational needs and disability assemblage. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 38(1). 70–82. 17 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah. (2015). From policy sociology to assemblage ethnography. 110–121. 1 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah & Ian McGimpsey. (2014). Assembling, disassembling and reassembling ‘youth services’ in Austerity Britain. Critical Studies in Education. 56(1). 116–130. 58 indexed citations
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Kenway, Jane & Deborah Youdell. (2011). The emotional geographies of education: Beginning a conversation. Emotion, space and society. 4(3). 131–136. 92 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah. (2010). School Trouble: Identity, Power and Politics in Education. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 115 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah. (2010). Queer outings: uncomfortable stories about the subjects of post‐structural school ethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 23(1). 87–100. 32 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah, et al.. (2009). Privatización encubierta en la educación pública. 54–92. 6 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah. (2006). Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 274 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah. (2004). Wounds andReinscriptions: Schools, Sexualities and Performative Subjects. Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 25(4). 477–493. 67 indexed citations
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Saltmarsh, Sue & Deborah Youdell. (2004). ‘Special sport’ for misfits and losers: educational triage and the constitution of schooled subjectivities. International Journal of Inclusive Education. 8(4). 353–371. 19 indexed citations
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Youdell, Deborah. (2003). Identity Traps or How Black [1] Students Fail: The interactions between biographical, sub-cultural, and learner identities. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 24(1). 3–20. 148 indexed citations
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Gillborn, David & Deborah Youdell. (1999). Rationing Education: Policy, Practice, Reform and Equity. 570 indexed citations breakdown →
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Whitty, Geoff, Sally Power, Eva Gamarnikow, et al.. (1999). Health, housing and education: tackling multiple disadvantage. ResearchSPAce (Bath Spa University). 3 indexed citations

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