Jonathan Murdoch

9.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Murdoch is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Murdoch has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 13 papers in Plant Science and 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Murdoch's work include Rural development and sustainability (20 papers), Organic Food and Agriculture (13 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (8 papers). Jonathan Murdoch is often cited by papers focused on Rural development and sustainability (20 papers), Organic Food and Agriculture (13 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (8 papers). Jonathan Murdoch collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Jonathan Murdoch's co-authors include Terry Marsden, Jo Banks, Kevin Morgan, Mara Miele, Andy C. Pratt, Philip Lowe, Simone Abram, Natasha Wilson, Nicholas Parrott and Neil Ward and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Murdoch

56 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Quality, Nature, and Embeddedness: Some Theoretical Consi... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2000 2000 1998 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. Quality, Nature, and Embeddedness: Some Theoretical Considerations in the Context of the Food Sector*
    2000 552 citations Jonathan Murdoch, Terry Marsden et al. Economic Geography profile →
  2. Networks — a new paradigm of rural development?
    2000 504 citations Jonathan Murdoch Journal of Rural Studies profile →
  3. The spaces of actor-network theory
    1998 495 citations Jonathan Murdoch Geoforum profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan Murdoch United Kingdom 35 2.3k 2.1k 1.7k 1.1k 948 56 6.6k
Paul Cloke United Kingdom 54 2.4k 1.1× 850 0.4× 3.2k 1.9× 448 0.4× 1.5k 1.6× 172 8.4k
Brian Ilbery United Kingdom 37 1.9k 0.8× 2.2k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 266 0.3× 161 5.2k
Terry Marsden United Kingdom 53 5.9k 2.6× 6.1k 2.8× 2.0k 1.2× 2.7k 2.5× 973 1.0× 201 13.0k
J.D. van der Ploeg Netherlands 44 4.5k 1.9× 2.3k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 490 0.5× 305 0.3× 212 7.6k
Philip McMichael United States 46 4.6k 2.0× 2.5k 1.2× 2.6k 1.5× 561 0.5× 292 0.3× 112 9.4k
Kevin Morgan United Kingdom 36 668 0.3× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 678 0.6× 956 1.0× 148 7.5k
Johan Swinnen Belgium 56 4.3k 1.9× 1.5k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 784 0.7× 161 0.2× 313 10.5k
Sarah Whatmore United Kingdom 35 1.2k 0.5× 745 0.3× 1.9k 1.1× 303 0.3× 371 0.4× 76 6.5k
Stewart Lockie Australia 33 871 0.4× 1.5k 0.7× 975 0.6× 627 0.6× 132 0.1× 137 4.5k
Katherine Gibson Australia 37 769 0.3× 697 0.3× 3.7k 2.2× 285 0.3× 1.2k 1.3× 109 7.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jonathan Murdoch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Murdoch

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jonathan Murdoch. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jonathan Murdoch 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 Jonathan Murdoch. Jonathan Murdoch 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
1.
Murdoch, Jonathan & Simone Abram. (2017). Rationalities of Planning. 7 indexed citations
2.
Morgan, Kevin, Terry Marsden, & Jonathan Murdoch. (2006). Worlds of Food. Oxford University Press eBooks. 231 indexed citations
3.
Murdoch, Jonathan. (2006). Post-Structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space. 347 indexed citations
4.
Roe, Emma, Jonathan Murdoch, & Terry Marsden. (2005). The retail of welfare-friendly products: A comparative assessment of the nature of the market for welfare-friendly products in six European Countries. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 6 indexed citations
5.
Murdoch, Jonathan. (2004). Putting discourse in its place: planning, sustainability and the urban capacity study. Area. 36(1). 50–58. 51 indexed citations
6.
Parrott, Nicholas, Natasha Wilson, & Jonathan Murdoch. (2002). Spatializing Quality: Regional Protection and the Alternative Geography of Food. European Urban and Regional Studies. 9(3). 241–261. 247 indexed citations
7.
Murdoch, Jonathan. (2001). Ecologising Sociology: Actor-Network Theory, Co-Construction and the Problem of Human Exemptionalism. Sociology. 35(1). 111–133. 137 indexed citations
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Murdoch, Jonathan, Terry Marsden, & Jo Banks. (2000). Quality, Nature, and Embeddedness: Some Theoretical Considerations in the Context of the Food Sector. Economic Geography. 76(2). 107–107. 411 indexed citations
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Murdoch, Jonathan. (2000). Space Against Time: Competing Rationalities in Planning for Housing. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 25(4). 503–519. 60 indexed citations
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Murdoch, Jonathan & Mark Tewdwr‐Jones. (1999). Planning and the English Regions: Conflict and Convergence Amongst the Institutions of Regional Governance. Environment and Planning C Government and Policy. 17(6). 715–729. 17 indexed citations
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Cowell, Richard & Jonathan Murdoch. (1999). Land Use and the Limits to (Regional) Governance: Some Lessons from Planning for Housing and Minerals in England. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 23(4). 654–669. 35 indexed citations
12.
Ward, Neil, Jonathan Murdoch, & Philip Lowe. (1997). Redes en el desarrollo rural: más allá de los modelos exógenos y endógenos. Agricultura y sociedad. 13–44. 5 indexed citations
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Murdoch, Jonathan. (1997). Towards a geography of heterogeneous associations. Progress in Human Geography. 21(3). 321–337. 260 indexed citations
14.
Abram, Simone, Jonathan Murdoch, & Terry Marsden. (1996). The social construction of ‘Middle England’: The politics of participation in forward planning. Journal of Rural Studies. 12(4). 353–364. 24 indexed citations
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Pahl, R. E., Jonathan Murdoch, & Terry Marsden. (1996). Reconstituting Rurality: Class, Community and Power in the Development Process. Geographical Journal. 162(1). 115–115. 67 indexed citations
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Murdoch, Jonathan & Terry Marsden. (1995). The Spatialization of Politics: Local and National Actor-Spaces in Environmental Conflict. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 20(3). 368–368. 162 indexed citations
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Murdoch, Jonathan, et al.. (1994). Sustainable agriculture and endogenous development: a socio-political perspective.. 262–279. 4 indexed citations
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Murdoch, Jonathan. (1994). Some comments on ‘nature’ and ‘society’ in the political economy of food. Review of International Political Economy. 1(3). 571–577. 12 indexed citations
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Murdoch, Jonathan & Andy C. Pratt. (1994). Rural studies of power and the power of rural studies: a reply to Philo. Journal of Rural Studies. 10(1). 83–87. 60 indexed citations
20.
Murdoch, Jonathan. (1993). Sustainable rural development: towards a research agenda. Geoforum. 24(3). 225–241. 29 indexed citations

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