Gerard Toal

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Gerard Toal is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerard Toal has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Gerard Toal's work include Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (22 papers), European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (10 papers) and Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies (9 papers). Gerard Toal is often cited by papers focused on Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (22 papers), European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (10 papers) and Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies (9 papers). Gerard Toal collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Gerard Toal's co-authors include John Ο’Loughlin, Vladimir Kolossov, Carl T. Dahlman, Gearóid Ó Tuathail, V. A. Kolosov, Kristin M. Bakke, Alex Jeffrey, Michael D. Ward, Anna J. Secor and Lynn A. Staeheli and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Progress in Human Geography and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

In The Last Decade

Gerard Toal

56 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerard Toal United States 20 798 664 141 82 80 60 1.2k
Vladimir Kolossov Russia 17 670 0.8× 463 0.7× 101 0.7× 84 1.0× 83 1.0× 42 927
Mark Bassin United Kingdom 18 579 0.7× 566 0.9× 37 0.3× 57 0.7× 30 0.4× 61 1.1k
Alex Jeffrey United Kingdom 18 333 0.4× 598 0.9× 42 0.3× 52 0.6× 29 0.4× 50 969
Stef Jansen Austria 18 346 0.4× 572 0.9× 60 0.4× 90 1.1× 45 0.6× 45 966
Robbie Shilliam United Kingdom 15 316 0.4× 590 0.9× 48 0.3× 45 0.5× 30 0.4× 46 829
Stephen Kotkin United States 17 825 1.0× 787 1.2× 25 0.2× 41 0.5× 80 1.0× 46 1.3k
Oscar J. Martínez United States 12 292 0.4× 505 0.8× 46 0.3× 133 1.6× 48 0.6× 45 862
Liam O’Dowd United Kingdom 14 622 0.8× 557 0.8× 27 0.2× 70 0.9× 88 1.1× 42 921
Joseph Nevins United States 14 273 0.3× 837 1.3× 78 0.6× 128 1.6× 11 0.1× 50 1.1k
Kanishka Goonewardena Canada 10 202 0.3× 466 0.7× 95 0.7× 42 0.5× 17 0.2× 23 924

Countries citing papers authored by Gerard Toal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerard Toal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerard Toal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerard Toal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerard Toal 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 Gerard Toal. Gerard Toal is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Toal, Gerard, et al.. (2025). The challenges of surveying in war zones: Lessons from Ukraine. Journal of Peace Research. 62(6). 2128–2135. 1 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard, et al.. (2024). The Many Semantic Lives of Geopolitics: Evidence from the New York Times Archive 1900-2023. Geopolitics. 30(3). 1173–1197. 1 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard. (2024). The territorial taboo: Explaining the public aversion to negotiations in the Ukraine war support coalition. Environment and Planning C Politics and Space. 42(7). 1108–1127. 2 indexed citations
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Bakke, Kristin M., et al.. (2024). Politicizing Memory: Evidence from Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism. 72(1). 16–35. 2 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard. (2024). Oceans Rise Empires Fall. 7 indexed citations
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Korostelina, Karina V., et al.. (2024). Exposure to violence and attitudes toward war and peace in Ukraine.. Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology. 30(2). 252–267. 2 indexed citations
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Ο’Loughlin, John & Gerard Toal. (2022). The geopolitical orientations of ordinary Belarusians: survey evidence from early 2020. Post-Soviet Affairs. 38(1-2). 43–61. 9 indexed citations
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Ο’Loughlin, John & Gerard Toal. (2019). Does War Change Geopolitical Attitudes? A Comparative Analysis of 2014 Surveys in Southeast Ukraine. Problems of Post-Communism. 67(3). 303–318. 7 indexed citations
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Murphy, Alexander B., John Agnew, Klaus Dodds, et al.. (2018). Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest Over Ukraine and the Caucasus. The AAG Review of Books. 6(4). 293–305. 69 indexed citations
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Ο’Loughlin, John, Gerard Toal, & V. A. Kolosov. (2016). The rise and fall of “Novorossiya”: examining support for a separatist geopolitical imaginary in southeast Ukraine. Post-Soviet Affairs. 33(2). 124–144. 39 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard. (2015). Author’s response. Progress in Human Geography. 39(5). 670–673. 2 indexed citations
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Ο’Loughlin, John, et al.. (2013). Divided space, divided attitudes? Comparing the Republics of Moldova and Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) using simultaneous surveys. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 54(2). 227–258. 23 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard, et al.. (2013). Cartographic Exhibitionism?. Problems of Post-Communism. 60(3). 16–35. 19 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard. (2013). Alex Jeffrey, The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia. Comparative Southeast European Studies. 61(2). 323–324. 2 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard, et al.. (2011). Is Bosnia-Herzegovina Unsustainable? Implications for the Balkans and European Union. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 52(2). 279–293. 9 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard. (2007). A Review of: “A Not So Distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor”. Geopolitics. 12(3). 529–537. 2 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard, et al.. (2000). Dis/placing the geo-politics which one cannot not want. Political Geography. 19(3). 385–396. 8 indexed citations
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Toal, Gerard. (1989). Critical geopolitics: The social construction of space and place in the practice of statecraft. 16 indexed citations

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