Joshua Gamson

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Joshua Gamson is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Gamson has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Gender Studies, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 8 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Joshua Gamson's work include Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 papers), Media Studies and Communication (8 papers) and Media, Gender, and Advertising (7 papers). Joshua Gamson is often cited by papers focused on Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 papers), Media Studies and Communication (8 papers) and Media, Gender, and Advertising (7 papers). Joshua Gamson collaborates with scholars based in United States. Joshua Gamson's co-authors include Michael Warner, Joseph R. Gusfield, Enrique Laraña, Craig Calhoun, Hank Johnston, Dawne Moon, Denise D. Bielby, Leslie Hurst, Rosanna Hertz and Kathryn J. Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Journal of Marketing Research.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Gamson

37 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory.

1994 1.0k citations Joshua Gamson et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →
Social Theory and the Politics of Identity.

1995 668 citations Joshua Gamson et al. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Gamson United States	17	1.9k	1.4k	863	440	413	38	3.5k
Michael Warner United States	18	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	952 1.1×	518 1.2×	665 1.6×	62	4.4k
Dick Hebdige United States	12	2.2k 1.2×	858 0.6×	288 0.3×	362 0.8×	228 0.6×	32	4.6k
Merl Storr United Kingdom	13	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	423 0.5×	100 0.2×	387 0.9×	20	3.6k
Jasbir K. Puar United States	26	3.0k 1.6×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	128 0.3×	726 1.8×	51	4.7k
Verta Taylor United States	28	2.5k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	715 0.8×	331 0.8×	871 2.1×	64	3.9k
Judith Halberstam United States	20	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	766 0.9×	102 0.2×	224 0.5×	41	3.1k
Eva Illouz Israel	20	1.3k 0.7×	655 0.5×	306 0.4×	180 0.4×	174 0.4×	52	2.4k
Chas Critcher United Kingdom	20	4.0k 2.1×	707 0.5×	369 0.4×	956 2.2×	1.1k 2.6×	40	5.6k
Catherine Lutz United States	20	1.6k 0.9×	334 0.2×	1.1k 1.2×	128 0.3×	464 1.1×	58	3.8k
Ron Eyerman Sweden	28	2.7k 1.4×	284 0.2×	498 0.6×	424 1.0×	829 2.0×	71	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Joshua Gamson

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Joshua Gamson'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 Joshua Gamson with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Joshua Gamson more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua Gamson

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Joshua Gamson. 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 Joshua Gamson. The network helps show where Joshua Gamson may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Gamson

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Gamson, Joshua & Rosanna Hertz. (2023). “But Everything Else, I Learned Online”: School-Based and Internet-Based Sexual Learning Experiences of Heterosexual and LGBQ + Youth. Qualitative Sociology. 46(4). 461–485. 1 indexed citations

2.

Gamson, Joshua. (2018). Kindred spirits?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 1–3. 2 indexed citations

3.

Gamson, Joshua. (2013). Reality Queens. Contexts. 12(2). 52–54. 4 indexed citations

4.

Gamson, Joshua. (2011). The Unwatched Life Is Not Worth Living: The Elevation of the Ordinary in Celebrity Culture. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 126(4). 1061–1069. 72 indexed citations

5.

Gamson, Joshua. (2007). Call Me Tori … Or a Sociologist’s Son Rebels, Just a Little. Sociological Forum. 22(4). 579–583. 1 indexed citations

6.

Gamson, Joshua. (2005). The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco. USF Scholarship Repository (University of San Francisco). 6 indexed citations

7.

Gamson, Joshua. (2005). The Intersection of Gay Street and Straight Street: Shopping, Social Class, and the New Gay Visibility. Social Thought and Research. 11 indexed citations

8.

Gamson, Joshua, et al.. (2003). Sociology of Sexualities. International Review of Sociology. 1 indexed citations

9.

Gamson, Joshua. (2003). Reflections on Queer Theory and Communication. Journal of Homosexuality. 45(2-4). 385–389. 9 indexed citations

10.

Gamson, Joshua. (2000). LESBIANS, GAYS, STRAIGHTS, AND THE MEDIA. GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 6(3). 451–454. 2 indexed citations

11.

Gamson, Joshua. (1999). Taking the Talk Show Challenge: Television, Emotion, and Public Spheres. Constellations. 6(2). 190–205. 12 indexed citations

12.

Gamson, Joshua, et al.. (1999). Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity.. Journal of American History. 86(2). 870–870. 12 indexed citations

13.

Gamson, Joshua. (1998). Freaks Talk Back. 148 indexed citations

14.

Gamson, Joshua. (1998). Publicity Traps: Television Talk Shows and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Visibility. Sexualities. 1(1). 11–41. 23 indexed citations

15.

Gamson, Joshua. (1996). The organizational shaping of collective identity: The case of lesbian and gay film festivals in New York. Sociological Forum. 11(2). 231–261. 63 indexed citations

16.

Holt, Douglas B., et al.. (1995). Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home. Journal of Marketing Research. 32(4). 487–487. 5 indexed citations

17.

Gamson, Joshua, et al.. (1994). Picture Perfect: The Art and Artifice of Public Image Making.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 23(1). 132–132. 17 indexed citations

18.

Nader, Laura, Michael Burawoy, Kathryn J. Fox, et al.. (1993). Paradigm Busting and Vertical Linkage. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 22(1). 6–6. 4 indexed citations

19.

Molotch, Harvey, Michael Burawoy, Kathryn J. Fox, et al.. (1993). How the Field Grows: Cases from Berkeley. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 22(1). 4–4. 5 indexed citations

20.

Gamson, Joshua. (1992). The assembly line of greatness: Celebrity in twentieth‐century America. Critical Studies in Mass Communication. 9(1). 1–24. 47 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact