Nigel Thrift

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
2 papers, 706 citations indexed

About

Nigel Thrift is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Organic Chemistry and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel Thrift has authored 2 papers receiving a total of 706 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 0 papers in Infectious Diseases, 0 papers in Organic Chemistry and 0 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Nigel Thrift's work include . Nigel Thrift is often cited by papers focused on . Nigel Thrift collaborates with scholars based in . Nigel Thrift's co-authors include A. Stewart Fotheringham and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment and Planning A Economy and Space.

In The Last Decade

Nigel Thrift

2 papers receiving 632 citations

Hit Papers

Spatial Formations 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 200 400 600
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. Spatial Formations
    1996 688 citations Nigel Thrift profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nigel Thrift 2 289 253 125 82 54 2 706
James Eflin United States 4 350 1.2× 140 0.6× 218 1.7× 115 1.4× 65 1.2× 7 997
Philip Sarre United Kingdom 13 356 1.2× 106 0.4× 157 1.3× 106 1.3× 30 0.6× 23 750
Dan Swanton United Kingdom 7 316 1.1× 191 0.8× 138 1.1× 131 1.6× 58 1.1× 16 687
Philip Crang United Kingdom 14 622 2.2× 197 0.8× 194 1.6× 94 1.1× 58 1.1× 27 1.2k
Susan Ruddick Canada 10 502 1.7× 149 0.6× 274 2.2× 107 1.3× 91 1.7× 23 953
Mekonnen Tesfahuney Sweden 10 407 1.4× 229 0.9× 92 0.7× 119 1.5× 36 0.7× 32 758
Peter J. Hugill United States 15 357 1.2× 136 0.5× 64 0.5× 156 1.9× 50 0.9× 46 894
Matthew G. Hannah Germany 14 432 1.5× 206 0.8× 117 0.9× 187 2.3× 37 0.7× 50 762
Miles Ogborn United Kingdom 16 492 1.7× 256 1.0× 112 0.9× 132 1.6× 73 1.4× 52 1.1k
George Revill United Kingdom 17 351 1.2× 335 1.3× 128 1.0× 73 0.9× 147 2.7× 40 910

Countries citing papers authored by Nigel Thrift

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nigel Thrift

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nigel Thrift. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nigel Thrift. The network helps show where Nigel Thrift may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nigel Thrift

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

All Works

2 of 2 papers shown
1.
Thrift, Nigel. (1996). Spatial Formations. 688 indexed citations breakdown →
2.
Thrift, Nigel & A. Stewart Fotheringham. (1990). Commentaries. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 22(9). 1135–1140. 18 indexed citations

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