Nicholas Jepson

734 total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 222 citations indexed

About

Nicholas Jepson is a scholar working on Development, Political Science and International Relations and Business and International Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Jepson has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 222 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Development, 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 3 papers in Business and International Management. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Jepson's work include International Development and Aid (5 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (3 papers) and ICT Impact and Policies (3 papers). Nicholas Jepson is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (5 papers), Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (3 papers) and ICT Impact and Policies (3 papers). Nicholas Jepson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Nicholas Jepson's co-authors include Seth Schindler, Ilias Alami, Jeffrey Henderson, Jessica DiCarlo, Steve Rolf, Tim Zajontz, Kevin Ward, Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Meredith J. DeBoom and Julie Tian Miao and has published in prestigious journals such as Development and Change, The Information Society and New Political Economy.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Jepson

12 papers receiving 209 citations

Hit Papers

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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 Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks

2023 74 citations Seth Schindler, Ilias Alami et al. Geopolitics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Jepson United Kingdom	7	89	64	54	45	42	13	222
Imogen T. Liu Netherlands	7	108 1.2×	91 1.4×	33 0.6×	31 0.7×	60 1.4×	9	212
Kathryn C. Lavelle United States	10	80 0.9×	55 0.9×	80 1.5×	60 1.3×	85 2.0×	24	234
Morris L. Bian United States	6	122 1.4×	54 0.8×	102 1.9×	30 0.7×	19 0.5×	10	233
Jan Knoerich United Kingdom	9	43 0.5×	152 2.4×	30 0.6×	39 0.9×	22 0.5×	17	247
Tim Zajontz South Africa	9	141 1.6×	50 0.8×	67 1.2×	149 3.3×	29 0.7×	16	309
Percy S. Mistry United Kingdom	7	28 0.3×	33 0.5×	45 0.8×	52 1.2×	21 0.5×	17	175
Andrew Mold Ethiopia	10	28 0.3×	62 1.0×	35 0.6×	68 1.5×	12 0.3×	29	228
Ian Lienert United States	10	96 1.1×	25 0.4×	25 0.5×	22 0.5×	33 0.8×	25	231
Rush Doshi United States	4	87 1.0×	30 0.5×	61 1.1×	45 1.0×	12 0.3×	4	188
Christian May Germany	7	180 2.0×	117 1.8×	88 1.6×	50 1.1×	109 2.6×	16	341

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Jepson

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

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Heeks, Richard, et al.. (2024). China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Special issue introduction. The Information Society. 40(2). 65–68. 2 indexed citations

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Heeks, Richard, et al.. (2024). China’s digital expansion in the Global South: Systematic literature review and future research agenda. The Information Society. 40(2). 69–95. 18 indexed citations

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Heeks, Richard, et al.. (2024). China’s Digital Expansion in the Global South: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Jepson, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Chinese State Capital as a Partner for Resource-Based Structural Transformation? The Belt and Road Initiative and Downstream Linkages in Bolivia and Kazakhstan. European Journal of Development Research. 36(3). 718–745. 2 indexed citations

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Schindler, Seth, Ilias Alami, Jessica DiCarlo, et al.. (2023). The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks. Geopolitics. 29(4). 1083–1120. 74 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schindler, Seth, Ilias Alami, & Nicholas Jepson. (2022). Goodbye Washington Confusion, hello Wall Street Consensus: contemporary state capitalism and the spatialisation of industrial strategy. New Political Economy. 28(2). 223–240. 72 indexed citations

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Jepson, Nicholas. (2021). Hidden in Plain Sight: Chinese Development Finance in Central and Eastern Europe. Development and Change. 52(5). 1222–1250. 5 indexed citations

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Jepson, Nicholas. (2020). In China's Wake: How the Commodity Boom Transformed Development Strategies in the Global South. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 11 indexed citations

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Schindler, Seth, et al.. (2020). Covid-19, China and the future of global development. Research in Globalization. 2. 100020–100020. 17 indexed citations

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Jepson, Nicholas. (2019). In China's Wake. Columbia University Press eBooks. 8 indexed citations

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Henderson, Jeffrey & Nicholas Jepson. (2017). Critical transformations and global development: materials for a new analytical framework. Area Development and Policy. 3(1). 1–23. 5 indexed citations

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Henderson, Jeffrey & Nicholas Jepson. (2016). Critical Transformations: Re-thinking Zambian Development. Bristol Research (University of Bristol). 33. 2 indexed citations

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Jepson, Nicholas. (2012). A 21st century scramble : South Africa, China and the Rare Earth Metals Industry. SUNScholar (Stellenbosch University). 6 indexed citations

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