John Western

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 899 citations indexed

About

John Western is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Anthropology and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, John Western has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 899 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 4 papers in Anthropology and 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in John Western's work include African history and culture studies (3 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 papers) and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 papers). John Western is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (3 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 papers) and Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 papers). John Western collaborates with scholars based in United States and Slovenia. John Western's co-authors include Anne Büttimer, David Seamon, Paul White, Ron Johnston, Jan Pakulski, Janeen Baxter, Mark Western, Jenny Chesters, Martin O’Flaherty and Bruce Tranter and has published in prestigious journals such as Foreign Affairs, British Journal of Sociology and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

John Western

26 papers receiving 758 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Human Experience of Space and Place

1981 349 citations John Western, Anne Büttimer et al. Economic Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Western United States	10	462	216	125	100	96	27	899
Stephen Nathan Haymes United States	5	730 1.6×	288 1.3×	236 1.9×	67 0.7×	169 1.8×	18	1.3k
Susan Ruddick Canada	10	502 1.1×	274 1.3×	149 1.2×	41 0.4×	129 1.3×	23	953
Kanishka Goonewardena Canada	10	466 1.0×	196 0.9×	103 0.8×	115 1.1×	95 1.0×	23	924
Robert M. Vanderbeck United Kingdom	19	791 1.7×	113 0.5×	100 0.8×	30 0.3×	141 1.5×	45	1.1k
Tim Rowse Australia	19	529 1.1×	72 0.3×	135 1.1×	263 2.6×	182 1.9×	112	1.4k
Torsten Malmberg	4	456 1.0×	156 0.7×	74 0.6×	88 0.9×	53 0.6×	6	929
Lise Nelson United States	14	531 1.1×	155 0.7×	97 0.8×	37 0.4×	92 1.0×	22	865
Mona Domosh United States	19	696 1.5×	261 1.2×	442 3.5×	100 1.0×	95 1.0×	70	1.4k
Heidi J. Nast United States	13	714 1.5×	168 0.8×	338 2.7×	69 0.7×	83 0.9×	29	1.1k
Miles Ogborn United Kingdom	16	492 1.1×	112 0.5×	256 2.0×	216 2.2×	43 0.4×	52	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by John Western

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Western

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Western

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Western, John. (2008). Russian Dolls Or Scale Skippers? Two Generations In Strasbourg*. Geographical Review. 98(4). 532–550. 4 indexed citations

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Western, John. (2007). Neighbors or Strangers? Binational and Transnational Identities in Strasbourg. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97(1). 158–181. 8 indexed citations

3.

Western, John. (2004). Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town. The Professional Geographer. 56(2). 304–306. 6 indexed citations

4.

Western, John. (2003). Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa. Geographical Review. 530–532. 5 indexed citations

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Western, John. (2002). A divided city: Cape Town. Political Geography. 21(5). 711–716. 8 indexed citations

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Western, John. (2001). AFRICA IS COMING TO THE CAPE. Geographical Review. 91(4). 617–640. 17 indexed citations

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Phillips, Deborah & John Western. (1995). A Passage to England: Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 20(3). 390–390. 1 indexed citations

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Western, John. (1993). Ambivalent Attachments to Place in London: Twelve Barbadian Families. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 11(2). 147–170. 9 indexed citations

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Western, John, et al.. (1993). A Passage to England: Barbadian Londoners Speak of Home. Geographical Review. 83(2). 219–219. 42 indexed citations

10.

Western, John. (1992). A passage to England. 5 indexed citations

11.

Western, John. (1986). The Authorship of Places: Reflections on Fieldwork in South Africa. 7(1). 2. 1 indexed citations

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Western, John. (1986). South African Cities: A Social Geography. Journal of Geography. 85(6). 249–255. 5 indexed citations

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Western, John. (1985). Undoing the Colonial City?. Geographical Review. 75(3). 335–335. 32 indexed citations

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Kosmin, Barry A. & John Western. (1985). Outcast Cape Town. British Journal of Sociology. 36(3). 478–478. 2 indexed citations

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Western, John & Ron Johnston. (1985). Residential Segregation, the State and Constitutional Conflict in American Urban Areas. Geographical Review. 75(4). 509–509. 26 indexed citations

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Western, John & Paul White. (1984). The West European City: A Social Geography. Geographical Review. 74(4). 491–491. 45 indexed citations

17.

Whitaker, Jennifer Seymour & John Western. (1982). Outcast Cape Town. Foreign Affairs. 60(4). 975–975. 3 indexed citations

18.

Western, John. (1981). Outcast Cape Town. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 150 indexed citations

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Western, John, Anne Büttimer, & David Seamon. (1981). The Human Experience of Space and Place. Economic Geography. 57(3). 275–275. 349 indexed citations breakdown →

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Western, John. (1974). Market Development in Central Southern Burundi. 1974(12). 34–45. 1 indexed citations

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