Gavin Smith

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Gavin Smith is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Sociology and Political Science and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Gavin Smith has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Gavin Smith's work include Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (4 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers). Gavin Smith is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (4 papers) and Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 papers). Gavin Smith collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Gavin Smith's co-authors include T R Hesketh, James C. Metcalfe, John P. Moore, Michael A. Beaven, Michael V. Taylor, J. C. Metcalfe, Graham Warren, Jane Rogers, Miles D. Houslay and N.J.M. Birdsall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Gavin Smith

42 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Free cytoplasmic calcium concentration and the mitogenic ... 1983 2026 1997 2011 1983 100 200 300 400
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. Free cytoplasmic calcium concentration and the mitogenic stimulation of lymphocytes.
    1983 426 citations T R Hesketh, Gavin Smith et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gavin Smith Canada 19 1.2k 423 352 248 199 49 2.1k
Robert W. Wallace United States 31 1.7k 1.4× 374 0.9× 462 1.3× 251 1.0× 401 2.0× 132 3.7k
Akiko Hashimoto Japan 29 1.3k 1.0× 1.9k 4.6× 216 0.6× 86 0.3× 201 1.0× 85 4.1k
Robert F. Williams United States 33 627 0.5× 449 1.1× 119 0.3× 110 0.4× 69 0.3× 180 3.7k
Karin Fischer Germany 16 1.1k 0.9× 985 2.3× 318 0.9× 163 0.7× 55 0.3× 97 2.6k
Robert M. Bell United States 12 1.5k 1.2× 159 0.4× 93 0.3× 436 1.8× 453 2.3× 20 2.6k
Sergey Ryazantsev Russia 24 1.4k 1.1× 129 0.3× 255 0.7× 843 3.4× 635 3.2× 189 2.8k
Biplab Dasgupta United States 31 1.9k 1.5× 229 0.5× 290 0.8× 808 3.3× 268 1.3× 72 4.4k
Alan Richardson United Kingdom 31 1.6k 1.3× 180 0.4× 194 0.6× 99 0.4× 835 4.2× 130 3.6k
John Nixon United Kingdom 28 1.5k 1.2× 282 0.7× 284 0.8× 261 1.1× 162 0.8× 51 3.2k
Krzysztof Krajewski United States 34 3.9k 3.1× 231 0.5× 538 1.5× 80 0.3× 219 1.1× 103 5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Gavin Smith

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Gavin Smith's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Gavin Smith with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Gavin Smith more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Gavin Smith

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Gavin Smith. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Gavin Smith. The network helps show where Gavin Smith may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gavin Smith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gavin Smith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gavin Smith 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 Gavin Smith. Gavin Smith 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
1.
2.
Kasmir, Sharryn, Jaume Franquesa, Lesley Gill, Winnie Lem, & Gavin Smith. (2023). Uneven and combined development in anthropology. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 56(4). 1329–1334.
3.
Smith, Gavin. (2023). Livelihood and Resistance.
4.
Smith, Gavin. (2020). Power struggles: dignity, value, and the renewable energy frontier in Spain. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 47(4). 876–879. 1 indexed citations
5.
Smith, Gavin. (2019). Afterword: reflections on labor politics in an age of precarity. Dialectical Anthropology. 43(1). 127–137. 4 indexed citations
6.
Smith, Gavin. (2016). Against social democratic angst about revolution: from failed citizens to critical praxis. Dialectical Anthropology. 40(3). 221–239. 14 indexed citations
7.
Smith, Gavin, et al.. (2013). Surveillance Texts and Textualism: Truthtelling and Trustmaking in an Uncertain World. Surveillance & Society. 2 indexed citations
8.
Smith, Gavin. (2011). Reply to Respondents. Identities. 18(1). 81–95. 1 indexed citations
9.
Smith, Gavin. (2009). Formal Culture, Practical Sense and the Structures of Fear in Spain. 51(2). 279–288. 3 indexed citations
10.
Smith, Gavin. (2006). The EU Commission's Draft Regulation on Maintenance Obligations. The Family in Law. 36(6). 466–470. 1 indexed citations
11.
Smith, Gavin. (2006). When “the Logic of Capital Is the Real Which Lurks in the Background”. Current Anthropology. 47(4). 621–639. 18 indexed citations
12.
13.
Smith, Gavin. (2004). Hegemony. Focaal. 2004(43). 99–120. 14 indexed citations
14.
Kashino, Kunio, Gavin Smith, & Hiroshi Murase. (2000). Quick audio retrieval based on histogram feature sequences.. Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E). 21(4). 217–219. 3 indexed citations
15.
Smith, Gavin. (1991). Writing for Real. Critique of Anthropology. 11(3). 213–232. 10 indexed citations
16.
Smith, Gavin. (1985). Reflections on the social relations of simple commodity production. The Journal of Peasant Studies. 13(1). 99–108. 24 indexed citations
17.
Metcalfe, J. C., T R Hesketh, Gavin Smith, et al.. (1985). Early response pattern analysis of the mitogenic pathway in lymphocytes and fibroblasts. Journal of Cell Science. 1985(Supplement_3). 199–228. 39 indexed citations
18.
Smith, Gavin. (1980). Huasicanchino livelihoods: a study of extended domestic enterprises in rural and urban Peru*. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie. 17(4). 357–366. 5 indexed citations
19.
Turner, David H. & Gavin Smith. (1979). Challenging anthropology : a critical introduction to social and cultural anthropology. 6 indexed citations
20.
Hesketh, T R, Gavin Smith, Miles D. Houslay, et al.. (1976). Annular lipids determine the ATPase activity of a calcium transport protein complexed with dipalmitoyllecithin. Biochemistry. 15(19). 4145–4151. 259 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Robert W. Wallace Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Akiko Hashimoto Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Robert F. Williams Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Karin Fischer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Robert M. Bell Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sergey Ryazantsev Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Biplab Dasgupta Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Alan Richardson Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by John Nixon Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Krzysztof Krajewski
Rankless by CCL
2026