Douglas Thomas

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 740 citations indexed

About

Douglas Thomas is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Thomas has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 740 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Clinical Psychology and 4 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Douglas Thomas's work include Digital Games and Media (9 papers), Diverse Educational Innovations Studies (3 papers) and Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 papers). Douglas Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (9 papers), Diverse Educational Innovations Studies (3 papers) and Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 papers). Douglas Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States and Switzerland. Douglas Thomas's co-authors include John Seely Brown, Brian D. Loader, Alan Heirich, Drew Davidson, Robin H. Lock and Oksana Yakushko and has published in prestigious journals such as New Media & Society, Information Communication & Society and Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Thomas

26 papers receiving 582 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.

A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change

2011 392 citations Douglas Thomas, John Seely Brown profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Douglas Thomas	271	227	155	132	111	28	740
Suzanne K. Damarin	296 1.1×	313 1.4×	73 0.5×	105 0.8×	93 0.8×	36	876
S. Craig Watkins	404 1.5×	351 1.5×	116 0.7×	122 0.9×	109 1.0×	21	924
Patricia Wallace	397 1.5×	355 1.6×	119 0.8×	147 1.1×	70 0.6×	18	959
Matt Davies	273 1.0×	123 0.5×	76 0.5×	74 0.6×	86 0.8×	38	862
Clara Pereira Coutinho	343 1.3×	453 2.0×	270 1.7×	115 0.9×	152 1.4×	182	897
P. A. M. Taylor	227 0.8×	166 0.7×	119 0.8×	37 0.3×	67 0.6×	35	644
Zehra Altınay	129 0.5×	399 1.8×	205 1.3×	79 0.6×	155 1.4×	120	878
Ruth V. Small	244 0.9×	476 2.1×	373 2.4×	196 1.5×	110 1.0×	67	1.1k
Jeffrey R. Young	154 0.6×	509 2.2×	183 1.2×	109 0.8×	192 1.7×	101	964
Mary Thorpe	135 0.5×	657 2.9×	146 0.9×	229 1.7×	180 1.6×	39	974

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Douglas Thomas

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thomas, Douglas. (2024). Jung and the Queer Dialectic: A Heretical Tradition. Psychological Perspectives. 67(4). 346–356.

Thomas, Douglas. (2023). The Deep Psychology of BDSM and Kink.

Yakushko, Oksana, et al.. (2016). Cultural unconscious in research: integrating multicultural and depth paradigms in qualitative research. Journal of Analytical Psychology. 61(5). 656–675. 5 indexed citations

Thomas, Douglas & John Seely Brown. (2011). A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. 392 indexed citations breakdown →

Thomas, Douglas. (2009). Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture (review). Cinema Journal. 48(3). 148–150. 1 indexed citations

Thomas, Douglas. (2008). In Praise of the Anecdote or Gaming for Columbine. Television & New Media. 10(1). 158–161. 1 indexed citations

Heirich, Alan & Douglas Thomas. (2006). Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on Videogames. 1 indexed citations

Thomas, Douglas, et al.. (2006). Advancing Competency Development: A White Paper for Pennsylvania. Juvenile and Family Court Journal. 57(2). 11–25. 12 indexed citations

Thomas, Douglas. (2005). 2, 443 Quenkers and counting, or What in us really wants to grind? Examining the grind in Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided.. 3 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas. (2005). Middle Level Education in Rural Communities: Implications for School Leaders.. The rural educator. 27(1). 11–14. 1 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas. (2005). Hacking the body: code, performance and corporeality. New Media & Society. 7(5). 647–662. 8 indexed citations

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Lock, Robin H. & Douglas Thomas. (2004). Use Transportation as a Related Service. Intervention in School and Clinic. 39(4). 240–245. 3 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas, et al.. (2003). Networking: A Life Net for Embattled Principals.. Principal. 83(1). 40. 6 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas. (2002). Hacker Culture. 120 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas & Brian D. Loader. (2000). Cybercrime : law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age. Routledge eBooks. 80 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas. (1998). Criminality on the electronic frontier: Corporality and the judicial construction of the hacker. Information Communication & Society. 1(4). 382–400. 6 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas. (1998). Reading Nietzsche Rhetorically. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 15 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas. (1994). Reflections on a Nietzschean turn in rhetorical theory: Rhetoric without epistemology?. Quarterly Journal of Speech. 80(1). 71–76. 7 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas. (1993). Burke, Nietzsche, Lacan: Three perspectives on the rhetoric of order. Quarterly Journal of Speech. 79(3). 336–355. 10 indexed citations

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Thomas, Douglas. (1991). Rethinking Pedagogy in Public Speaking and American Public Address: A Feminist Alternative. Women s Studies in Communication. 14(2). 42–57. 1 indexed citations

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