Melanie Simms

1.3k total citations
49 papers, 900 citations indexed

About

Melanie Simms is a scholar working on Public Administration, General Health Professions and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie Simms has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 900 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Public Administration, 22 papers in General Health Professions and 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Melanie Simms's work include Labor Movements and Unions (37 papers), Employment and Welfare Studies (22 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (12 papers). Melanie Simms is often cited by papers focused on Labor Movements and Unions (37 papers), Employment and Welfare Studies (22 papers) and Social Policy and Reform Studies (12 papers). Melanie Simms collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Melanie Simms's co-authors include Jane Holgate, Edmund Heery, Jane Wills, Rick Delbridge, John F. Salmon, Deborah Dean, Maite Tapia, Guglielmo Meardi, John L. Salmon and Dennis Eversberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Industrial and Labor Relations Review, The International Journal of Human Resource Management and Human Resource Management Journal.

In The Last Decade

Melanie Simms

44 papers receiving 792 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melanie Simms United Kingdom 18 766 521 416 290 49 49 900
Rebecca Gumbrell‐McCormick United Kingdom 14 690 0.9× 383 0.7× 507 1.2× 259 0.9× 104 2.1× 24 851
Maite Tapia United States 13 528 0.7× 356 0.7× 235 0.6× 333 1.1× 70 1.4× 21 685
Kurt Vandaele Belgium 14 416 0.5× 273 0.5× 317 0.8× 240 0.8× 36 0.7× 66 649
Christian Lyhne Ibsen Denmark 14 365 0.5× 215 0.4× 314 0.8× 168 0.6× 85 1.7× 36 552
Richard W Hurd United States 15 810 1.1× 325 0.6× 378 0.9× 266 0.9× 151 3.1× 56 968
Janice Fine United States 13 419 0.5× 310 0.6× 202 0.5× 302 1.0× 114 2.3× 37 633
Thomas Bredgaard Denmark 15 240 0.3× 320 0.6× 358 0.9× 128 0.4× 36 0.7× 75 642
Stephanie Tailby United Kingdom 14 310 0.4× 331 0.6× 123 0.3× 159 0.5× 50 1.0× 26 530
Jens Arnholtz Denmark 13 247 0.3× 208 0.4× 282 0.7× 234 0.8× 32 0.7× 36 504
Bruce Nissen United States 14 391 0.5× 160 0.3× 158 0.4× 206 0.7× 61 1.2× 55 522

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Simms, Melanie. (2024). Book Review: The Real Living Wage: Civil Regulation and the Employment Relationship. By Edmund Heery, Deborah Hann, and David Nash. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 77(5). 882–884. 1 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie, et al.. (2023). Dental practice to dental hospital referrals—upgraded to urgent suspected cancer pathways: A three year service review. Oral Surgery. 16(4). 342–349. 1 indexed citations
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Meardi, Guglielmo, et al.. (2019). Trade unions and precariat in Europe: Representative claims. European Journal of Industrial Relations. 27(1). 41–58. 36 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie, Jane Holgate, & Andy Hodder. (2018). Organising innovation: unions, young workers and precarity. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 1 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie. (2014). Accounting for Greenfield Union Organizing Outcomes. British Journal of Industrial Relations. 53(3). 397–422. 7 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie. (2013). Mobilizing Against Inequality: Immigrant Workers, Unions, and Crisis of Capitalism. 2 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie, et al.. (2013). Skills for Sustainable Employment: Strategies to Tackle Youth Unemployment. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 1 indexed citations
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Heery, Edmund & Melanie Simms. (2011). Seizing an opportunity? Union organizing campaigns in Britain, 1998–2004. Labor History. 52(1). 23–47. 7 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie. (2011). Les militants de terrain dans les campagnes d'implantation syndicale dans le secteur des services en Grande-Bretagne. La Revue de l Ires. n° 68(1). 75–108. 5 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie & Jane Holgate. (2010). Organising for what? Where is the debate on the politics of organising?. Work Employment and Society. 24(1). 157–168. 90 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie & Jane Holgate. (2010). TUC Organizing Academy 10 years on: what has been the impact on British unions?. The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 21(3). 355–370. 12 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie. (2008). The organising model - an empirical critique. 1 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie. (2007). Managed activism: two union organising campaigns in the not‐for‐profit sector. Industrial Relations Journal. 38(2). 119–135. 39 indexed citations
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Heery, Edmund & Melanie Simms. (2007). Employer Responses to Union Organising in the United Kingdom. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 2 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie. (2006). The transition from organizing to recognition: a case study. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 3 indexed citations
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Wills, Jane & Melanie Simms. (2004). Building reciprocal community unionism in the UK. Capital & Class. 28(1). 59–84. 97 indexed citations
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Simms, Melanie, et al.. (2003). Contingent work in the public sector: A survey of fixed-term contract workers in higher education. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 1 indexed citations
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Heery, Edmund, Hazel Conley, Rick Delbridge, Paul Stewart, & Melanie Simms. (2002). Trade unions and the flexible workforce: A survey analysis of union policy and practice. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 2 indexed citations
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Heery, Edmund, et al.. (2000). Organizing unionism comes to the UK. Employee Relations. 22(1). 38–57. 82 indexed citations

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