Karen Gregory

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 608 citations indexed

About

Karen Gregory is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Marketing and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen Gregory has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 608 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Marketing and 3 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Karen Gregory's work include Digital Economy and Work Transformation (7 papers), Sharing Economy and Platforms (6 papers) and Social Media and Politics (3 papers). Karen Gregory is often cited by papers focused on Digital Economy and Work Transformation (7 papers), Sharing Economy and Platforms (6 papers) and Social Media and Politics (3 papers). Karen Gregory collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Karen Gregory's co-authors include Jathan Sadowski, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Joss Winn, Wenlong Li, Francesca Sobande, Vera Khovanskaya, Kate Orton‐Johnson, Sarah Fox, Nick Prior and Daniel Greene and has published in prestigious journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, Information Communication & Society and The Sociological Review.

In The Last Decade

Karen Gregory

18 papers receiving 578 citations

Hit Papers

Platforms and cultural production 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150 200
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. Platforms and cultural production
    2022 242 citations Karen Gregory International Journal of Cultural Policy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen Gregory United Kingdom 7 386 146 95 84 68 19 608
Lyndon Earl Garrett United States 5 377 1.0× 163 1.1× 176 1.9× 37 0.4× 28 0.4× 10 850
Pasi Pyöriä Finland 11 305 0.8× 35 0.2× 106 1.1× 75 0.9× 58 0.9× 28 664
Laurent Taskin Belgium 14 614 1.6× 48 0.3× 154 1.6× 54 0.6× 21 0.3× 76 944
Anita D. Bhappu United States 13 432 1.1× 220 1.5× 49 0.5× 121 1.4× 9 0.1× 26 915
Rory Donnelly United Kingdom 12 180 0.5× 35 0.2× 72 0.8× 86 1.0× 42 0.6× 30 518
Tui McKeown Australia 14 183 0.5× 59 0.4× 138 1.5× 18 0.2× 93 1.4× 48 479
Eran Fisher Israel 12 259 0.7× 31 0.2× 30 0.3× 94 1.1× 16 0.2× 28 455
Fabiola Bertolotti Italy 15 184 0.5× 83 0.6× 37 0.4× 97 1.2× 18 0.3× 47 620
Peter Standen Australia 10 345 0.9× 28 0.2× 67 0.7× 25 0.3× 51 0.8× 23 562
Gary S. Insch United States 12 215 0.6× 276 1.9× 22 0.2× 128 1.5× 64 0.9× 19 801

Countries citing papers authored by Karen Gregory

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karen Gregory

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Gregory

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Gregory, Karen, et al.. (2023). Digital worker inquiry and the critical potential of participatory worker data science for on‐demand platform workers. New Technology Work and Employment. 40(1). 20–40. 6 indexed citations
2.
Fox, Sarah, Daniel Greene, Karen Gregory, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, & Vera Khovanskaya. (2022). Reconsidering Accountability in the Present and Future of Work. 209–209. 1 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen, et al.. (2022). Analyzing Online Social Networks.
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Gregory, Karen. (2022). Platforms and cultural production. International Journal of Cultural Policy. 28(7). 923–925. 242 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sobande, Francesca & Karen Gregory. (2022). Thinking About Intersectionality in Online Research Methods. 1 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen & Jathan Sadowski. (2021). Biopolitical platforms: the perverse virtues of digital labour. Journal of Cultural Economy. 14(6). 662–674. 31 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen. (2020). ‘My Life Is More Valuable Than This’: Understanding Risk among On-Demand Food Couriers in Edinburgh. Work Employment and Society. 35(2). 316–331. 132 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen, et al.. (2020). Delivering Edinburgh: uncovering the digital geography of platform labour in the city. Information Communication & Society. 23(8). 1187–1202. 36 indexed citations
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Li, Wenlong & Karen Gregory. (2019). Vulnerable Workers: Gig Economy, Platform Labour and 'Smart Data' (Comments on the Smart Data Review). SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen, et al.. (2018). Anger in Academic Twitter: Sharing, Caring, and Getting Mad Online. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 16(1). 176–193. 16 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen. (2018). Pushed and Pulled to the Internet: Self Employment in the Spiritual Marketplace. American Behavioral Scientist. 63(2). 208–224. 5 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen, et al.. (2018). Anger in Academic Twitter: Sharing, Caring, and Getting Mad Online. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 16(1). 176–193. 2 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen. (2017). Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. Journal of Cultural Economy. 10(6). 552–555. 97 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen & Joss Winn. (2016). Marx, Engels and the Critique of Academic Labor. Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh). 28(28). 3 indexed citations
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Orton‐Johnson, Kate, Nick Prior, & Karen Gregory. (2015). Sociological Imagination: Digital Sociology and the Future of the Discipline. The Sociological Review. 1 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen, et al.. (2015). In Nonrepresentational Methodologies. 6 indexed citations
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Clough, Patricia Ticineto & Karen Gregory. (2015). The Datalogical Turn. 156–174. 6 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen, et al.. (2014). Education, Land, and Location. 16 indexed citations
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Gregory, Karen. (2012). Negotiating Precarity: Tarot as Spiritual Entrepreneurialism. Women's studies quarterly. 40(3-4). 264–280. 6 indexed citations

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