Jack Layton

658 total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 394 citations indexed

About

Jack Layton is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Jack Layton has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 394 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 3 papers in Urban Studies and 3 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Jack Layton's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (3 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 papers). Jack Layton is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (3 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 papers). Jack Layton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Jack Layton's co-authors include Alan Latham and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Human Geography, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Urban Geography.

In The Last Decade

Jack Layton

6 papers receiving 369 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.

Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

2019 270 citations Alan Latham, Jack Layton Geography Compass profile →
Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it

2022 62 citations Alan Latham, Jack Layton Urban Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jack Layton United Kingdom	5	127	114	87	71	62	6	394
Christien Klaufus Netherlands	12	145 1.1×	192 1.7×	34 0.4×	35 0.5×	56 0.9×	28	401
Miriam Williams Australia	11	185 1.5×	152 1.3×	165 1.9×	28 0.4×	80 1.3×	28	557
Brandon Marc Finn United States	11	137 1.1×	213 1.9×	50 0.6×	37 0.5×	65 1.0×	21	382
Katherine Hankins United States	12	228 1.8×	104 0.9×	63 0.7×	28 0.4×	33 0.5×	22	403
Martin Šimon Czechia	12	92 0.7×	149 1.3×	37 0.4×	46 0.6×	69 1.1×	27	354
Renia Ehrenfeucht United States	13	243 1.9×	267 2.3×	51 0.6×	120 1.7×	23 0.4×	30	590
Rodrigo Salcedo Chile	8	149 1.2×	261 2.3×	49 0.6×	28 0.4×	47 0.8×	18	482
Éric Charmes France	11	295 2.3×	241 2.1×	75 0.9×	51 0.7×	57 0.9×	55	487
John J. Betancur United States	12	319 2.5×	269 2.4×	83 1.0×	46 0.6×	65 1.0×	24	562
Nico Kotzé South Africa	9	167 1.3×	147 1.3×	22 0.3×	47 0.7×	60 1.0×	35	362

Countries citing papers authored by Jack Layton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jack Layton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jack Layton

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

All Works

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Layton, Jack. (2024). Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park. Area. 57(1). 1 indexed citations

2.

Latham, Alan & Jack Layton. (2022). Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it. Urban Geography. 43(5). 659–668. 62 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Layton, Jack & Alan Latham. (2021). Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London. Urban Geography. 43(5). 755–776. 37 indexed citations

4.

Latham, Alan & Jack Layton. (2019). Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces. Geography Compass. 13(7). 270 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Latham, Alan & Jack Layton. (2019). Kinaesthetic cities: Studying the worlds of amateur sports and fitness in contemporary urban environments. Progress in Human Geography. 44(5). 852–876. 17 indexed citations

6.

Latham, Alan & Jack Layton. (2019). Publics and their Problems: Notes on the Remaking of the South Bank, London. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 43(6). 1148–1167. 7 indexed citations

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