Jim Thatcher

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 976 citations indexed

About

Jim Thatcher is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Transportation and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jim Thatcher has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 976 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 12 papers in Transportation and 6 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Jim Thatcher's work include Geographic Information Systems Studies (23 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers) and Smart Cities and Technologies (6 papers). Jim Thatcher is often cited by papers focused on Geographic Information Systems Studies (23 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (12 papers) and Smart Cities and Technologies (6 papers). Jim Thatcher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Jim Thatcher's co-authors include David O’Sullivan, Craig M. Dalton, Dillon Mahmoudi, Linnet Taylor, James J. McCarthy, Kelly Kay, Britta Ricker, Ryan Burns, Lisa Hoffman and Wei Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space and Regional Studies.

In The Last Decade

Jim Thatcher

37 papers receiving 911 citations

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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.

Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession: New metaphors for daily data

2016 299 citations Jim Thatcher, David O’Sullivan et al. Environment and Planning D Society and Space profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jim Thatcher United States	14	335	227	176	123	117	38	976
Tracey P. Lauriault Canada	11	179 0.5×	110 0.5×	228 1.3×	92 0.7×	77 0.7×	20	805
Dillon Mahmoudi United States	8	186 0.6×	56 0.2×	87 0.5×	116 0.9×	61 0.5×	19	670
Eric Gordon United States	14	331 1.0×	98 0.4×	94 0.5×	140 1.1×	65 0.6×	36	871
Shannon Mattern United States	14	160 0.5×	85 0.4×	116 0.7×	99 0.8×	66 0.6×	48	720
Linnet Taylor Netherlands	19	629 1.9×	54 0.2×	152 0.9×	228 1.9×	271 2.3×	55	1.6k
Taylor Shelton United States	16	408 1.2×	523 2.3×	643 3.7×	114 0.9×	103 0.9×	35	1.6k
Sophia Maalsen Australia	24	370 1.1×	61 0.3×	225 1.3×	93 0.8×	53 0.5×	75	1.3k
Agnieszka Leszczynski Canada	22	735 2.2×	876 3.9×	560 3.2×	233 1.9×	153 1.3×	44	2.4k
Francisco Klauser Switzerland	18	641 1.9×	150 0.7×	379 2.2×	278 2.3×	67 0.6×	61	1.6k
Sorin Adam Matei United States	18	564 1.7×	42 0.2×	47 0.3×	71 0.6×	128 1.1×	63	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jim Thatcher

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Mahmoudi, Dillon, et al.. (2024). From FOSS to profit: Digital spatial technologies and the mode of production. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100101–100101. 2 indexed citations

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.

Thatcher, Jim, David Retchless, & Carolyn Fish. (2024). Dueling cartographies: science, positivism, art, and critical praxis. International Journal of Cartography. 10(3). 377–394. 3 indexed citations

Dalton, Craig M., et al.. (2024). Speculative geographies: Fictions and futures. Dialogues in Human Geography. 14(2). 371–380. 1 indexed citations

Thatcher, Jim & Craig M. Dalton. (2021). Data Power. Pluto Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

Thatcher, Jim. (2019). Waste is information: infrastructure legibility and governance. Urban Geography. 40(4). 587–589. 2 indexed citations

Dalton, Craig M., et al.. (2019). “Smart” Discourses, the Limits of Representation, and New Regimes of Spatial Data. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110(2). 485–496. 24 indexed citations

Dalton, Craig M. & Jim Thatcher. (2019). Seeing by the Starbucks: The Social Context of Mobile Maps and Users’ Geographic Knowledges. Cartographic Perspectives. 6 indexed citations

Thatcher, Jim, et al.. (2018). The poverty of GIS theory: Continuing the debates around the political economy of GISystems. Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes. 62(1). 27–34. 11 indexed citations

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Burns, Ryan, et al.. (2018). Transdisciplinary approaches to critical data studies. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 55(1). 657–660. 4 indexed citations

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Ricker, Britta & Jim Thatcher. (2017). Evolving technology, shifting expectations: cultivating pedagogy for a rapidly changing GIS landscape. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 41(3). 368–382. 15 indexed citations

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Thatcher, Jim. (2017). You are where you go, the commodification of daily life through ‘location’. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 49(12). 2702–2717. 23 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Lisa & Jim Thatcher. (2017). Urban studies and thinking topologically. Territory Politics Governance. 7(2). 141–155. 12 indexed citations

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McCarthy, James J. & Jim Thatcher. (2017). Visualizing new political ecologies: A critical data studies analysis of the World Bank’s renewable energy resource mapping initiative. Geoforum. 102. 242–254. 59 indexed citations

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Thatcher, Jim, David O’Sullivan, & Dillon Mahmoudi. (2016). Data colonialism through accumulation by dispossession: New metaphors for daily data. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 34(6). 990–1006. 299 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thatcher, Jim, et al.. (2016). Searching for common ground (again). 1. 3 indexed citations

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Thatcher, Jim. (2015). Understanding Spatial Media: Locative and Sousveillant Media. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Cummings, K. D., et al.. (2015). Communication and Control: Tools, Systems, and New Dimensions. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Thatcher, Jim. (2014). Living on Fumes: Digital Footprints, Data Fumes, and the Limitations of Spatial Big Data. International journal of communication. 8. 19. 67 indexed citations

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Thatcher, Jim. (2013). Avoiding the Ghetto through hope and fear: an analysis of immanent technology using ideal types. GeoJournal. 78(6). 967–980. 31 indexed citations

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