Shaping Technology, Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change.1993 · 2.4k citations
What are hit papers?
Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies
if any of the following hold:
it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the
threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
This map shows the geographic impact of John Law's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by John Law with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites John Law more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by John Law. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by John Law. The network helps show where John Law may publish in the future.
Co-authors
The 3 scholars most cited alongside John Law, linked wherever they
have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers
they share.
Border = papers with John LawLine = papers co-authored togetherJohn Law links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.
John Law is a scholar working on Law, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Infectious Diseases and Organic Chemistry, having authored 5 papers that have together received 2.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include European Union Policy and Governance (2 papers), Political Systems and Governance (2 papers), Law and Political Science (1 paper), Legal Education and Practice Innovations (1 paper), Comparative and International Law Studies (1 paper) and Canadian Identity and History (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Human-Computer Interaction (244 citations), Communication (206 citations), Management of Technology and Innovation (182 citations), Computer Science Applications (133 citations) and Sociology and Political Science (1.0k citations). John Law has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and France. Frequent co-authors include Michael P. Lynch, Wiebe E. Bijker and David Schneiderman. Their work appears in journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, The Political Quarterly and Alberta Law Review.
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