Matthew Thompson

922 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 615 citations indexed

About

Matthew Thompson is a scholar working on Finance, Urban Studies and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Thompson has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 615 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Finance, 13 papers in Urban Studies and 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Matthew Thompson's work include Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (10 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (6 papers). Matthew Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (14 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (10 papers) and Political and Economic history of UK and US (6 papers). Matthew Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and South Africa. Matthew Thompson's co-authors include Alan Southern, J. K. Davies, Paul Hepburn, Bertie Russell, Colin Lorne, Peter North, Allan Cochrane, Martin Jones, Kevin Morgan and David Beel and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Progress in Human Geography and Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Thompson

26 papers receiving 577 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew Thompson United Kingdom	12	250	207	206	179	56	27	615
Michael McQuarrie United States	12	153 0.6×	177 0.9×	67 0.3×	346 1.9×	35 0.6×	19	622
Juliet Carpenter United Kingdom	14	265 1.1×	89 0.4×	80 0.4×	198 1.1×	79 1.4×	33	591
Guy Baeten Sweden	14	338 1.4×	132 0.6×	187 0.9×	217 1.2×	92 1.6×	37	688
Hartmut Häußermann Germany	12	263 1.1×	98 0.5×	93 0.5×	202 1.1×	76 1.4×	43	588
Lee Pugalis United Kingdom	14	220 0.9×	305 1.5×	164 0.8×	91 0.5×	137 2.4×	77	641
Gilles Pinson France	14	379 1.5×	243 1.2×	90 0.4×	520 2.9×	60 1.1×	67	777
Marc Doussard United States	13	221 0.9×	153 0.7×	197 1.0×	197 1.1×	209 3.7×	40	657
Sue Brownill United Kingdom	14	261 1.0×	96 0.5×	112 0.5×	177 1.0×	21 0.4×	29	547
Annika Agger Denmark	12	129 0.5×	121 0.6×	77 0.4×	179 1.0×	29 0.5×	43	561
Richard Meegan United Kingdom	12	250 1.0×	185 0.9×	160 0.8×	256 1.4×	219 3.9×	24	762

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thompson, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Planning for Degrowth: Insights from Shrinking Cities. Built Environment. 51(1). 16–34.

Thompson, Matthew, Colin Lorne, David Beel, et al.. (2025). Conjunctural municipalism and the struggle for Zagreb: Hegemony, crisis, articulation, praxis. Staffordshire Online Repository (Staffordshire University). 4(1). 41–68. 3 indexed citations

Thompson, Matthew, et al.. (2024). Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation?. Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society. 17(3). 535–550. 8 indexed citations

Thompson, Matthew. (2023). Whatever happened to municipal radicalism?. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 48(3). 603–618. 17 indexed citations

Thompson, Matthew & Colin Lorne. (2023). Designing a New Civic Economy? On the Emergence and Contradictions of Participatory Experimental Urbanism. Antipode. 55(6). 1919–1942. 5 indexed citations

Thompson, Matthew, et al.. (2023). Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution. Competition & Change. 29(1). 101–120. 5 indexed citations

Lorne, Colin, Matthew Thompson, & Allan Cochrane. (2023). Thinking conjuncturally, looking elsewhere. Dialogues in Human Geography. 14(3). 499–503. 10 indexed citations

Russell, Bertie, et al.. (2023). Politicising proximity: Radical municipalism as a strategy in crisis. Urban Studies. 60(11). 2009–2035. 38 indexed citations

Thompson, Matthew. (2022). Money for everything? Universal basic income in a crisis. Economy and Society. 51(3). 353–374. 18 indexed citations

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Thompson, Matthew & Paul Hepburn. (2022). Self-financing regeneration? Capturing land value through institutional innovations in public housing stock transfer, planning gain and financialisation. Town Planning Review. 93(3). 251–274. 7 indexed citations

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Thompson, Matthew, et al.. (2022). On the (im)possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university. Area. 55(1). 46–52. 18 indexed citations

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Thompson, Matthew. (2020). Reconstructing public housing: Liverpool's hidden history of collective alternatives. 2 indexed citations

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Thompson, Matthew, et al.. (2020). Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region. Urban Studies. 59(4). 675–697. 11 indexed citations

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Thompson, Matthew, et al.. (2020). Re-grounding the city with Polanyi: From urban entrepreneurialism to entrepreneurial municipalism. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 52(6). 1171–1194. 76 indexed citations

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North, Peter, et al.. (2020). Generative Anger: From Social Enterprise to Antagonistic Economies. Rethinking Marxism. 32(3). 330–347. 14 indexed citations

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Thompson, Matthew. (2019). Brexit, Scotland, and the Continuing Divergence of Politics. 60(2). 141. 2 indexed citations

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Southern, Alan, et al.. (2019). Growth, sustainability and purpose in the community business market in the Liverpool City Region. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Matthew. (2018). From Co-Ops to Community Land Trusts: Tracing the Historical Evolution and Policy Mobilities of Collaborative Housing Movements. Housing Theory and Society. 37(1). 82–100. 39 indexed citations

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Hepburn, Paul & Matthew Thompson. (2018). The Hattersley and Mottram housing estate: An evaluation of its regeneration. 2 indexed citations

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Thompson, Matthew. (2018). Playing with the Rules of the Game: Social Innovation for Urban Transformation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 43(6). 1168–1192. 38 indexed citations

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