Ian Bogost

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Ian Bogost is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Bogost has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ian Bogost's work include Digital Games and Media (24 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (6 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (4 papers). Ian Bogost is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (24 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Games (6 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (4 papers). Ian Bogost collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ian Bogost's co-authors include Tom Jenkins, Nick Montfort, Michael Mateas, Mike Treanor, Yasmin B. Kafai, Michael Nitsche, Josie Murray, William Huber, David C. Thomas and Margaret Robertson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computer and First Monday.

In The Last Decade

Ian Bogost

32 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Persuasive Games

2007 599 citations Ian Bogost The MIT Press eBooks profile →
Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing

2012 512 citations Ian Bogost profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Bogost United States	16	1.2k	411	323	276	268	38	2.2k
Espen Aarseth Denmark	13	1.5k 1.2×	456 1.1×	430 1.3×	511 1.9×	176 0.7×	38	2.0k
Jesper Juul Denmark	11	1.1k 0.9×	515 1.3×	225 0.7×	389 1.4×	171 0.6×	27	1.5k
Marie‐Laure Ryan United States	27	967 0.8×	187 0.5×	1.3k 4.1×	375 1.4×	277 1.0×	92	2.7k
Лев Манович United States	19	1.3k 1.0×	104 0.3×	491 1.5×	200 0.7×	395 1.5×	81	3.2k
Eric Zimmerman United States	8	1.6k 1.3×	1.4k 3.4×	209 0.6×	499 1.8×	617 2.3×	30	3.1k
Jay David Bolter United States	26	977 0.8×	126 0.3×	440 1.4×	186 0.7×	1.2k 4.3×	100	3.4k
George P. Landow United States	20	828 0.7×	170 0.4×	591 1.8×	162 0.6×	298 1.1×	68	2.1k
Norah E. Dunbar United States	23	840 0.7×	168 0.4×	188 0.6×	191 0.7×	160 0.6×	83	2.2k
Geoff Kaufman United States	18	1.1k 0.9×	177 0.4×	821 2.5×	357 1.3×	282 1.1×	57	2.3k
Roger Caillois	12	826 0.7×	292 0.7×	184 0.6×	124 0.4×	135 0.5×	68	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Bogost

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Bogost

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Bogost

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Bogost, Ian. (2020). Curiosity Journalism, or the First Decades of Newsgames. Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 26(3). 572–576. 1 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2016). Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games. 58 indexed citations

3.

Bogost, Ian, et al.. (2013). Reviewing Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 50–52. 2 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2013). Rage Against the Machines:The real danger of videogames isn't violence; it's swindling. 24. 96–103.

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Bogost, Ian. (2012). Pretty Hate Machines: A Review of Gameplay Mode .. 12. 4 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2012). What is fun?. 1–1.

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Montfort, Nick, John B. Bell, Ian Bogost, et al.. (2012). 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10. The MIT Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian, et al.. (2010). Newsgames. The MIT Press eBooks. 56 indexed citations

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Nitsche, Michael, Ian Bogost, & John T. Sharp. (2010). What is an Art History of Games. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

10.

Thomas, David C., José P. Zagal, Margaret Robertson, Ian Bogost, & William Huber. (2009). You Played That? Game Studies Meets Game Criticism. 7 indexed citations

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Montfort, Nick & Ian Bogost. (2009). Random and Raster: Display Technologies and the Development of Videogames. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 31(3). 34–43. 6 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian & Nick Montfort. (2009). Platform Studies: Frequently Questioned Answers. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 76 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2008). Videogames and the future of education. 146–154. 3 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2008). The phenomenology of videogames. publish.UP (University of Potsdam). 3 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2007). Persuasive Games. The MIT Press eBooks. 599 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kafai, Yasmin B. & Ian Bogost. (2007). Why Johnny Can't Fly: Treating Games as a Form of Youth Media Within a Youth Development Framework. 2007. 253–266. 7 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2006). Videogames and Ideological Frames. Popular Communication. 4(3). 165–183. 32 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2006). Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 188 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2005). Videogames and the future of education. On the Horizon The International Journal of Learning Futures. 13(2). 119–125. 9 indexed citations

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Bogost, Ian. (2005). Frame and Metaphor in Political Games. 9 indexed citations

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