John Bale

2.7k total citations
97 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

John Bale is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and History. According to data from OpenAlex, John Bale has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 50 papers in Gender Studies and 11 papers in History. Recurrent topics in John Bale's work include Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (51 papers), Sports, Gender, and Society (50 papers) and Sports Analytics and Performance (7 papers). John Bale is often cited by papers focused on Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (51 papers), Sports, Gender, and Society (50 papers) and Sports Analytics and Performance (7 papers). John Bale collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and Russia. John Bale's co-authors include Joseph Maguire, Mike Cronin, Mette Krogh Christensen, John A. Maguire, Trudo Dejonghe, Norman Graves, Joseph L. Arbena, Rex Walford, H. F. Moorhouse and Alan M. Klein and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Rural Studies and Journal of science and medicine in sport.

In The Last Decade

John Bale

85 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Bale United Kingdom 20 1.5k 1.1k 426 241 109 97 1.8k
Alan Bairner United Kingdom 22 1.2k 0.8× 934 0.9× 127 0.3× 181 0.8× 97 0.9× 129 1.4k
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj Canada 20 1.0k 0.7× 989 0.9× 308 0.7× 152 0.6× 124 1.1× 53 1.3k
John Nauright United States 17 1.1k 0.7× 831 0.8× 199 0.5× 311 1.3× 113 1.0× 124 1.3k
Joshua I. Newman United States 19 703 0.5× 509 0.5× 158 0.4× 132 0.5× 101 0.9× 70 1.0k
Wray Vamplew United Kingdom 17 905 0.6× 688 0.6× 89 0.2× 342 1.4× 47 0.4× 109 1.2k
Jonathan Long United Kingdom 20 964 0.7× 467 0.4× 254 0.6× 88 0.4× 192 1.8× 70 1.3k
Cara Aitchison United Kingdom 17 1.4k 0.9× 361 0.3× 502 1.2× 36 0.1× 25 0.2× 47 1.8k
Allen Guttmann United States 19 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 203 0.5× 237 1.0× 139 1.3× 102 1.9k
J.A. Mangan United Kingdom 18 1.2k 0.8× 907 0.8× 102 0.2× 194 0.8× 114 1.0× 147 1.5k
David McGillivray United Kingdom 19 847 0.6× 484 0.4× 260 0.6× 90 0.4× 45 0.4× 85 1.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bale, John. (2012). Finnish Dreams: A Modest Memoir. The International Journal of the History of Sport. 29(7). 1080–1089. 2 indexed citations
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Bale, John & Mette Krogh Christensen. (2004). Post-Olympism? Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century. 28 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (2004). Three Geographies of African Footballer Migration: Patterns, Problems and Postcoloniality. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 21. 229–246. 20 indexed citations
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Bale, John & Mike Cronin. (2003). Sport and postcolonialism. 109 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (2002). Imagined Olympians: Body Culture and Colonial Representation in Rwanda. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 219. 109061–109061. 30 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (2001). Imaginative Sports and African Athleticism: Colonial Representations of a Rwandan Corporeality. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 23(1). 7. 1 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (2000). Geography and the Olympics: An evaluation of the work of Ernst Joki. Journal of science and medicine in sport. 3(3). 223–229. 7 indexed citations
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Bale, John, et al.. (1994). Professional sports migration to Finland during the 1980s.. 126–140. 6 indexed citations
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Bale, John, et al.. (1990). Index Britanniae scriptorum : John Bale's index of British and other writers. 6 indexed citations
10.
Bale, John. (1990). In the Shadow of the Stadium: Football Grounds as Urban Nuisances. Geography. 75(4). 325–334. 18 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (1989). Football and topophilia: the public and the stadium. 2 indexed citations
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Bale, John, et al.. (1989). John Bale's Index of British and other writers. Medical Entomology and Zoology.
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Bale, John. (1989). Didáctica de la geografía en la escuela primaria. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 3 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (1983). Changing Regional Origins of an Occupation: The Case of Professional Footballers in 1950 and 1980. Geography. 68(2). 140–148. 3 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (1982). Sport and place. A geography of sport in England, Scotland and Wales.. 34 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (1981). Geography, Sport and Geographical Education. Geography. 66(2). 104–115. 7 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (1979). The actes of Englysh votaryes. 6 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (1977). Industrial Estate Development and Location in Post-war Britain. Geography. 62(2). 87–92. 3 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (1974). TOWARD A GEOGRAPHY OF THE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE. The Professional Geographer. 26(3). 291–297. 2 indexed citations
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Bale, John. (1973). The image of bothe churches, after the moste wonderfull and heauenly Reuelacion of Sainct John the Euangelist, contayning a very frutefull exposicion or paraphrase upon the same : Wherin it is conferred with the other scripturs, and most auctorised historyes.

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