John Potter

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
196 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

John Potter is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Education and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, John Potter has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 35 papers in Education and 29 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in John Potter's work include Literacy, Media, and Education (27 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (17 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (16 papers). John Potter is often cited by papers focused on Literacy, Media, and Education (27 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (17 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (16 papers). John Potter collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. John Potter's co-authors include Ben Williamson, Rebecca Eynon, James Noble, Donald C. Fraser, David G. Clarke, Julian McDougall, Felicitas Macgilchrist, Neil Selwyn, Sue Cranmer and Graham Welch and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Brain.

In The Last Decade

John Potter

169 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices: digital tech... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices: digital technologies and distance education during the coronavirus emergency
    2020 595 citations Ben Williamson, Rebecca Eynon et al. Learning Media and Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Potter United Kingdom 26 860 760 677 428 299 196 3.2k
Kirsi Tirri Finland 35 2.0k 2.3× 560 0.7× 395 0.6× 558 1.3× 31 0.1× 260 5.0k
Ton de Jong Netherlands 48 5.5k 6.4× 1.0k 1.4× 1.1k 1.6× 424 1.0× 19 0.1× 217 10.0k
Alan F. Blackwell United Kingdom 31 214 0.2× 466 0.6× 696 1.0× 351 0.8× 17 0.1× 173 3.7k
Bruce Bloom 2 2.1k 2.4× 212 0.3× 349 0.5× 266 0.6× 24 0.1× 4 3.9k
John M. Keller United States 30 3.5k 4.0× 437 0.6× 1.3k 1.9× 722 1.7× 15 0.1× 84 7.4k
Robert J. Mislevy United States 47 2.9k 3.4× 1.8k 2.3× 738 1.1× 543 1.3× 11 0.0× 211 10.0k
David Williamson Shaffer United States 33 1.6k 1.9× 461 0.6× 390 0.6× 793 1.9× 14 0.0× 134 4.8k
Stephen J.H. Yang Taiwan 39 1.7k 2.0× 1.1k 1.4× 2.5k 3.7× 558 1.3× 7 0.0× 180 6.4k
Robert L. Brennan United States 36 1.7k 2.0× 496 0.7× 296 0.4× 380 0.9× 8 0.0× 137 7.3k
Michael K. Buckland United States 22 100 0.1× 673 0.9× 1.1k 1.6× 456 1.1× 18 0.1× 136 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by John Potter

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Potter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Potter

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Potter, John, et al.. (2024). Children’s production of place and (third) space during Covid 19: Den building, filmmaking and the postdigital in the Play Observatory. Global Studies of Childhood. 14(1). 9–25. 2 indexed citations
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Williamson, Ben, Felicitas Macgilchrist, & John Potter. (2024). Against contextlessness in Learning, Media and Technology. Learning Media and Technology. 49(3). 335–338. 16 indexed citations
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Macgilchrist, Felicitas, John Potter, & Ben Williamson. (2024). Challenging the inequitable impacts of edtech. Learning Media and Technology. 49(2). 147–150. 2 indexed citations
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Williamson, Ben, Felicitas Macgilchrist, & John Potter. (2024). Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment. Learning Media and Technology. 49(4). 523–526. 3 indexed citations
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Williamson, Ben, Felicitas Macgilchrist, & John Potter. (2023). Re-examining AI, automation and datafication in education. Learning Media and Technology. 48(1). 1–5. 75 indexed citations
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Potter, John. (2023). Micro studies in macro digital ecosystems: AI dystopias, assemblages, and qualitative research in challenging times. Learning Media and Technology. 48(3). 369–371. 2 indexed citations
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Macgilchrist, Felicitas, John Potter, & Ben Williamson. (2022). Reading internationally: if citing is a political practice, who are we reading and who are we citing?. Learning Media and Technology. 47(4). 407–412. 6 indexed citations
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Gourlay, Lesley, Allison Littlejohn, Martin Oliver, & John Potter. (2021). Lockdown literacies and semiotic assemblages: academic boundary work in the Covid-19 crisis. Learning Media and Technology. 46(4). 377–389. 35 indexed citations
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Macgilchrist, Felicitas, John Potter, & Ben Williamson. (2021). Shifting scales of research on learning, media and technology. Learning Media and Technology. 46(4). 369–376. 19 indexed citations
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Williamson, Ben, Felicitas Macgilchrist, & John Potter. (2021). Covid-19 controversies and critical research in digital education. Learning Media and Technology. 46(2). 117–127. 52 indexed citations
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Potter, John, et al.. (2020). Playground as meaning-making space: Multimodal making and re-making of meaning in the (virtual) playground. Global Studies of Childhood. 10(3). 248–263. 22 indexed citations
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Potter, John. (2020). Researching the lived experience of the digital: a location for social and pedagogical activism. Learning Media and Technology. 45(4). 325–327. 2 indexed citations
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Williamson, Ben, John Potter, & Rebecca Eynon. (2019). New research problems and agendas in learning, media and technology: the editors’ wishlist. Learning Media and Technology. 44(2). 87–91. 68 indexed citations
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Burn, Andrew & John Potter. (2019). Professor Andrew Burn pays tribute to Professor Gunther Kress (1940–2019). Learning Media and Technology. 44(4). 399–399. 1 indexed citations
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Potter, John. (2018). Problematising learning in the age of data ‘acquisition’: issues in research, teaching and learning with digital media and technology. Learning Media and Technology. 43(2). 117–118. 5 indexed citations
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Potter, John. (2017). Framing the terms and conditions of digital life: new ways to view ‘known’ practices and digital/media literacy. Learning Media and Technology. 42(4). 387–389. 9 indexed citations
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Potter, John, et al.. (1986). Characterisation of Terminating Logic Programs.. 140–147. 10 indexed citations
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Briggs, Michelle & John Potter. (1971). Prevention of Delayed Traumatic Facial Palsy. BMJ. 3(5772). 458–459. 5 indexed citations

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