Matt Watson

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Matt Watson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Food Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Matt Watson has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Food Science and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Matt Watson's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 papers) and Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (4 papers). Matt Watson is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 papers), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 papers) and Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (4 papers). Matt Watson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Matt Watson's co-authors include Elizabeth Shove, Mika Pantzar, Angela Meah, Harriet Bulkeley, Nicola Spurling, Ray Hudson, Jack Ingram, Ruth Lane, Jonathan Everts and Robin Lovelace and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Energy Policy and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Matt Watson

40 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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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 Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and How it Changes

2012 2.3k citations Elizabeth Shove, Matt Watson et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Matt Watson	1.3k	659	590	515	490	40	4.3k
Mika Pantzar	1.3k 1.0×	370 0.6×	676 1.1×	455 0.9×	310 0.6×	60	4.1k
Dale Southerton	1.1k 0.9×	524 0.8×	613 1.0×	549 1.1×	338 0.7×	57	3.3k
Andreas Reckwitz	2.1k 1.6×	308 0.5×	598 1.0×	308 0.6×	219 0.4×	51	4.8k
Gert Spaargaren	1.2k 0.9×	360 0.5×	796 1.3×	861 1.7×	733 1.5×	92	4.1k
Anna Davies	656 0.5×	435 0.7×	361 0.6×	350 0.7×	336 0.7×	93	2.2k
Gordon Waitt	2.9k 2.2×	311 0.5×	324 0.5×	284 0.6×	224 0.5×	180	4.9k
Gill Seyfang	2.7k 2.1×	420 0.6×	1.1k 1.8×	1.4k 2.7×	2.1k 4.3×	82	7.6k
Mike Crang	2.3k 1.8×	348 0.5×	368 0.6×	102 0.2×	169 0.3×	78	5.2k
Alan Warde	3.9k 3.0×	2.0k 3.1×	1.2k 2.0×	453 0.9×	156 0.3×	158	8.4k
Stewart Barr	1.6k 1.2×	444 0.7×	2.0k 3.5×	3.1k 6.1×	411 0.8×	85	5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Matt Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matt Watson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matt Watson

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Atchison, Jennifer, Jenny Pickerill, Leah Gibbs, et al.. (2024). Peopled landscapes: Questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding. People and Nature. 6(2). 458–473. 8 indexed citations

Robinson, Lucy M., Ingrid van Putten, Catherine Longo, et al.. (2021). Understanding societal approval of the fishing industry and the influence of third‐party sustainability certification. Fish and Fisheries. 22(6). 1213–1226. 15 indexed citations

Putten, Ingrid van, Catherine Longo, Matt Watson, et al.. (2020). Shifting focus: The impacts of sustainable seafood certification. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0233237–e0233237. 35 indexed citations

Watson, Matt, Alison Browne, David M. Evans, et al.. (2020). Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach. Global Environmental Change. 62. 102072–102072. 63 indexed citations

Holmes, Helen, et al.. (2018). Interdisciplinarity in Transdisciplinary Projects: Circulating Knowledges, Practices and Effects. disP - The Planning Review. 54(2). 77–93. 7 indexed citations

Beven, Keith, Susana Almeida, Willy Aspinall, et al.. (2017). Epistemic uncertainties and natural hazard risk assessment. 1. A review of different natural hazard areas. 6 indexed citations

Temenos, Cristina, Анна Николаева, Tim Schwanen, et al.. (2017). Theorizing Mobility Transitions. Transfers. 7(1). 113–129. 31 indexed citations

Meah, Angela & Matt Watson. (2013). Cooking up Consumer Anxieties about “Provenance” and “Ethics”. Food Culture & Society. 16(3). 495–512. 41 indexed citations

DiSalvo, Carl, Johan Redström, & Matt Watson. (2013). Commentaries on the special issue on practice-oriented approaches to sustainable HCI. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 20(4). 1–15. 10 indexed citations

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Lovelace, Robin, Dimitris Ballas, & Matt Watson. (2013). A spatial microsimulation approach for the analysis of commuter patterns: from individual to regional levels. Journal of Transport Geography. 34. 282–296. 48 indexed citations

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Watson, Matt & Angela Meah. (2012). Food, Waste and Safety: Negotiating Conflicting Social Anxieties into the Practices of Domestic Provisioning. The Sociological Review. 60(2_suppl). 102–120. 237 indexed citations

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Watson, Matt. (2012). How theories of practice can inform transition to a decarbonised transport system. Journal of Transport Geography. 24. 488–496. 304 indexed citations

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Meah, Angela & Matt Watson. (2011). Saints and Slackers: Challenging Discourses about the Decline of Domestic Cooking. Sociological Research Online. 16(2). 108–120. 53 indexed citations

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Everts, Jonathan, et al.. (2011). Practice matters! Geographical inquiry and theories of practice. Erdkunde. 65(4). 232–334. 71 indexed citations

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Ingram, Jack, Elizabeth Shove, & Matt Watson. (2007). Products and Practices: Selected Concepts from Science and Technology Studies and from Social Theories of Consumption and Practice. Design Issues. 23(2). 3–16. 81 indexed citations

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Bulkeley, Harriet, Matt Watson, & Ray Hudson. (2007). Modes of Governing Municipal Waste. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 39(11). 2733–2753. 110 indexed citations

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Bulkeley, Harriet, Matt Watson, Ray Hudson, & Paul M. Weaver. (2005). Governing municipal waste: Towards a new analytical framework. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 7(1). 1–23. 58 indexed citations

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Watson, Matt. (1999). Rethinking capital mobility, re‐regulating financial markets. New Political Economy. 4(1). 55–75. 37 indexed citations

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Watson, Matt & Colin Hay. (1998). In the dedicated pursuit of dedicated capital: Restoring an indigenous investment ethic to British capitalism. New Political Economy. 3(3). 407–426. 14 indexed citations

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Watson, Matt, F. V. Clulow, & Francesca Mariotti. (1983). Influence of Olfactory Stimuli on Pregnancy of the Meadow Vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus, in the Laboratory. Journal of Mammalogy. 64(4). 706–708. 2 indexed citations

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