Jon Swords

605 total citations
28 papers, 375 citations indexed

About

Jon Swords is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon Swords has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 375 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Urban Studies, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Jon Swords's work include Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (5 papers) and Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (4 papers). Jon Swords is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Industries and Urban Development (10 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (5 papers) and Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (4 papers). Jon Swords collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong. Jon Swords's co-authors include Geoff O’Brien, Zaina Gadema, Phil O’Keefe, Zachary Baynham‐Herd, Sarah Oakes, Peter Howson, Michael Jeffries, Mary Laing, Ian R. Cook and James Charlton and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Geoforum and Information Communication & Society.

In The Last Decade

Jon Swords

25 papers receiving 343 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jon Swords United Kingdom	9	168	51	44	40	34	28	375
Jason C. Young United States	11	139 0.8×	61 1.2×	17 0.4×	80 2.0×	25 0.7×	25	412
Stefanie Döringer Austria	6	104 0.6×	56 1.1×	57 1.3×	12 0.3×	14 0.4×	12	392
Scott McQuire Australia	12	181 1.1×	21 0.4×	37 0.8×	46 1.1×	44 1.3×	51	588
I-Chun Catherine Chang United States	7	79 0.5×	102 2.0×	25 0.6×	43 1.1×	14 0.4×	13	480
Elisabeth Roberts United Kingdom	8	151 0.9×	26 0.5×	80 1.8×	29 0.7×	16 0.5×	9	442
Rini Rachmawati Indonesia	12	135 0.8×	46 0.9×	60 1.4×	90 2.3×	7 0.2×	99	477
Bevaola Kusumasari Indonesia	12	305 1.8×	59 1.2×	39 0.9×	25 0.6×	6 0.2×	73	584
Turo‐Kimmo Lehtonen Finland	13	159 0.9×	54 1.1×	74 1.7×	9 0.2×	9 0.3×	38	442
Jalaluddin Abdul Malek Malaysia	12	87 0.5×	31 0.6×	28 0.6×	45 1.1×	6 0.2×	84	504

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Swords, Jon, et al.. (2025). XR stories as innovation and cultural intermediary for the creative industries. City Culture and Society. 42. 100653–100653.

Swords, Jon, et al.. (2024). The emergence of virtual production – a research agenda. Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 30(5). 1557–1574. 6 indexed citations

Jones, Bethan, et al.. (2024). The importance of professional skills within the changing media landscape of the UK screen industries: a case study of the ‘disruptive’ phenomenon of virtual production. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1–19. 4 indexed citations

Swords, Jon, et al.. (2023). Creative industries spatial policy in the United Kingdom, 1995–present. Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit. 38(2). 177–186. 5 indexed citations

Kirk, David, et al.. (2021). Memoryscapes: Designing Situated Narratives of Place through Heritage Collections. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 37(11). 1028–1048. 6 indexed citations

Swords, Jon, et al.. (2020). Colliding epistemologies, productive tensions and usable pasts in the generation of heritage-led immersive experiences. International Journal of Heritage Studies. 27(2). 186–199. 8 indexed citations

Swords, Jon, et al.. (2019). Mapping the City: participatory mapping with young people. Geography. 104(3). 141–147. 3 indexed citations

Swords, Jon. (2018). Interpenetration and intermediation of crowd-patronage platforms. Information Communication & Society. 23(4). 523–538. 14 indexed citations

Swords, Jon. (2017). Crowd-patronage—Intermediaries, geographies and relationships in patronage networks. Poetics. 64. 63–73. 33 indexed citations

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Swords, Jon, et al.. (2016). A topological road map of Newcastle upon Tyne. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 49(2). 245–247. 1 indexed citations

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Swords, Jon, et al.. (2016). Playing Out: The Importance of the City as a Playground for Skateboard and Parkour. 2013(30). 1 indexed citations

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Swords, Jon & Michael Jeffries. (2015). Tracing postrepresentational visions of the city: representing the unrepresentable Skateworlds of Tyneside. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 47(6). 1313–1331. 10 indexed citations

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Swords, Jon & Xingjian Liu. (2015). Visualizing urban and regional worlds: power, politics, and practices. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 47(6). 1235–1240. 1 indexed citations

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Swords, Jon. (2014). Featured Graphic. UK Government Spending in Times of Austerity. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 46(1). 2–4.

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Swords, Jon, et al.. (2013). Please mind the gap: students' perspectives of the transition in academic skills between A-level and degree-level geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 37(2). 230–240. 18 indexed citations

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Swords, Jon. (2013). Michael Porter’s cluster theory as a local and regional development tool: The rise and fall of cluster policy in the UK. Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit. 28(4). 369–383. 35 indexed citations

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Swords, Jon, et al.. (2012). The Accidental Youth Club: Skateboarding in Newcastle-Gateshead. Journal of Urban Design. 17(3). 371–388. 28 indexed citations

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Swords, Jon. (2011). Featured Graphic: Labour's Three-Term Spending Record, 1997–2010. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 43(2). 255–257. 1 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Geoff, Phil O’Keefe, Zaina Gadema, & Jon Swords. (2010). Approaching disaster management through social learning. Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal. 19(4). 498–508. 91 indexed citations

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O’Keefe, Phil, Geoff O’Brien, Zaina Gadema, & Jon Swords. (2009). Geographers and geography: making waves for the wrong reasons. Area. 42(3). 258–261. 7 indexed citations

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