James Ash

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

James Ash is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Human-Computer Interaction. According to data from OpenAlex, James Ash has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 10 papers in Human-Computer Interaction. Recurrent topics in James Ash's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (11 papers), Digital Games and Media (11 papers) and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (10 papers). James Ash is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (11 papers), Digital Games and Media (11 papers) and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (10 papers). James Ash collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. James Ash's co-authors include Agnieszka Leszczynski, Rob Kitchin, Paul Simpson, Rachel Gordon, Paul Langley, Ben Anderson, Lesley Gallacher, Elizabeth L. Sweet, Mara Miele and Allison Hayes‐Conroy and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space and Geoforum.

In The Last Decade

James Ash

34 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Digital turn, digital geographies?

2016 472 citations James Ash, Rob Kitchin et al. Progress in Human Geography profile →
Geography and post-phenomenology

2014 141 citations James Ash, Paul Simpson Progress in Human Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Ash United Kingdom	20	679	572	154	150	135	39	1.6k
Shanti Sumartojo Australia	21	505 0.7×	391 0.7×	207 1.3×	90 0.6×	114 0.8×	68	1.3k
Noortje Marres United Kingdom	24	1.3k 1.9×	230 0.4×	189 1.2×	115 0.8×	125 0.9×	48	2.7k
Adriana de Souza e Silva United States	16	762 1.1×	238 0.4×	376 2.4×	41 0.3×	107 0.8×	32	1.6k
Agnieszka Leszczynski Canada	22	735 1.1×	876 1.5×	141 0.9×	45 0.3×	193 1.4×	44	2.4k
David Bissell Australia	31	1.2k 1.7×	957 1.7×	87 0.6×	225 1.5×	356 2.6×	71	2.6k
André Jansson Sweden	22	980 1.4×	179 0.3×	63 0.4×	67 0.4×	216 1.6×	96	1.6k
Heather A. Horst Australia	20	1.6k 2.3×	106 0.2×	227 1.5×	99 0.7×	83 0.6×	73	2.7k
Kevin Hetherington United Kingdom	23	933 1.4×	531 0.9×	50 0.3×	105 0.7×	310 2.3×	40	2.2k
N. N. Patricios United States	10	878 1.3×	309 0.5×	72 0.5×	106 0.7×	276 2.0×	25	2.3k
Celia Lury United Kingdom	24	1.2k 1.8×	190 0.3×	118 0.8×	173 1.2×	238 1.8×	56	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by James Ash

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Ash

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ash, James, et al.. (2024). Levering the Cracks: A Data Power SymposiumData Power: Radical Geographies of Control and ResistanceJim E.Thatcher and Craig M.Dalton. London, UK: Pluto, 2022. 163 pp., 14 black-and-white illustrations. $26.95/£14.65 (ISBN 9780745340074).. The AAG Review of Books. 12(3). 54–66.

Mills, Sarah, James Ash, & Rachel Gordon. (2024). Digital geographies of home: parenting practices in the space between gaming and gambling. Children s Geographies. 22(5). 778–794.

Wilson, Matthew W., et al.. (2023). Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the Digital Mundane in Favelas of Brazil. The AAG Review of Books. 11(1). 54–64. 8 indexed citations

Mills, Sarah, James Ash, & Rachel Gordon. (2023). Children and Young People’s Experiences and Understandings of Gambling-Style Systems in Digital Games: Loot Boxes, Popular Culture, and Changing Childhoods. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 114(1). 200–217. 8 indexed citations

Ash, James. (2023). Automation and environmental dispositions. Dialogues in Human Geography. 14(1). 76–79. 1 indexed citations

Ash, James, Rob Kitchin, & Agnieszka Leszczynski. (2019). Digital Geographies. 26 indexed citations

Anderson, Ben, Paul Langley, James Ash, & Rachel Gordon. (2019). Affective life and cultural economy: Payday loans and the everyday space‐times of credit‐debt in the UK. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 45(2). 420–433. 31 indexed citations

Ash, James. (2019). Post‐phenomenology and space: A geography of comprehension, form and power. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 45(1). 181–193. 16 indexed citations

Ash, James. (2018). Smart Cities and the Digital Geographies of Technical Memory. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 109(1). 161–172. 3 indexed citations

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Sexton, Alexandra, Allison Hayes‐Conroy, Elizabeth L. Sweet, Mara Miele, & James Ash. (2017). Better than text? Critical reflections on the practices of visceral methodologies in human geography. Geoforum. 82. 200–201. 30 indexed citations

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Ash, James, Rob Kitchin, & Agnieszka Leszczynski. (2016). Digital turn, digital geographies?. Progress in Human Geography. 42(1). 25–43. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ash, James. (2016). Theorizing studio space: Spheres and atmospheres in a video game design studio. 4 indexed citations

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Ash, James, Rob Kitchin, & Agnieszka Leszczynski. (2015). Digital turn, digital geography? Programmable City Working Paper 17. Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University). 2 indexed citations

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Ash, James. (2015). Sensation, Affect and the GIF: towards an allotropic account of networks.

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Ash, James & Paul Simpson. (2014). Geography and post-phenomenology. Progress in Human Geography. 40(1). 48–66. 141 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ash, James. (2013). Technologies of Captivation. Body & Society. 19(1). 27–51. 64 indexed citations

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Ash, James. (2012). Technology, Technicity, and Emerging Practices of Temporal Sensitivity in Videogames. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 44(1). 187–203. 37 indexed citations

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Ash, James. (2010). Teleplastic technologies: charting practices of orientation and navigation in videogaming. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 35(3). 414–430. 32 indexed citations

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Ash, James. (2009). Emerging Spatialities of the Screen: Video Games and the Reconfiguration of Spatial Awareness. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 41(9). 2105–2124. 57 indexed citations

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Dennis, Everette E. & James Ash. (2001). Toward a taxonomy of new media ‐ management views of an evolving industry. The International Journal on Media Management. 3(1). 26–32. 6 indexed citations

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