Nik Theodore

15.8k total citations · 10 hit papers
95 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Nik Theodore is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science and Public Administration. According to data from OpenAlex, Nik Theodore has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in General Health Professions, 44 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 23 papers in Public Administration. Recurrent topics in Nik Theodore's work include Employment and Welfare Studies (44 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (21 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (19 papers). Nik Theodore is often cited by papers focused on Employment and Welfare Studies (44 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (21 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (19 papers). Nik Theodore collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Africa. Nik Theodore's co-authors include Jamie Peck, Neil Brenner, Edwin Meléndez, Abel Valenzuela, Nina Martin, Kevin Ward, Annette Bernhardt, Nina Martin, Héctor R. Cordero‐Guzmán and Michael W. Spiller and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Nik Theodore

90 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”

2002 1.9k citations Neil Brenner, Nik Theodore profile →
Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways

2009 1.2k citations Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck et al. profile →
Mobilizing policy: Models, methods, and mutations

2010 629 citations Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore profile →
Fast Policy

2015 502 citations Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore profile →
Variegated capitalism

2007 487 citations Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore profile →
Neoliberal Urbanism: Models, Moments, Mutations

2009 391 citations Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore et al. profile →
Postneoliberalism and its Malcontents

2010 375 citations Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore et al. profile →
Follow the Policy: A Distended Case Approach

2012 274 citations Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore profile →
Neoliberal Urbanism Redux?

2013 219 citations Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore et al. profile →
Urbanismo neoliberal: La ciudad y el imperio de los mercados

2015 170 citations Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nik Theodore United States	40	3.8k	3.5k	3.3k	2.4k	1.7k	95	9.9k
Kevin Ward United Kingdom	49	2.6k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	195	7.4k
Bob Jessop United Kingdom	56	5.4k 1.4×	2.4k 0.7×	5.6k 1.7×	1.9k 0.8×	779 0.5×	277	13.3k
Neil Brenner United States	43	5.7k 1.5×	7.4k 2.1×	6.1k 1.8×	3.0k 1.2×	802 0.5×	87	16.4k
Jamie Peck Canada	67	6.0k 1.6×	6.8k 1.9×	6.1k 1.8×	4.4k 1.8×	1.9k 1.1×	180	17.3k
Saskia Sassen United States	48	6.6k 1.8×	3.1k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	925 0.4×	928 0.5×	219	12.3k
Andrew Sayer United Kingdom	43	5.9k 1.6×	1.3k 0.4×	2.2k 0.7×	911 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	126	11.5k
Gerry Stoker United Kingdom	49	3.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.4×	4.6k 1.4×	1.1k 0.4×	777 0.5×	226	10.9k
Ash Amin United Kingdom	46	3.9k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.7×	876 0.4×	648 0.4×	85	10.0k
Doreen Massey United Kingdom	43	5.1k 1.3×	2.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	768 0.3×	788 0.5×	135	11.4k
Harvey Molotch United States	32	4.2k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	843 0.3×	677 0.4×	115	8.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Nik Theodore

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nik Theodore

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nik Theodore

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Theodore, Nik, Derick Blaauw, & Rinie Schenck. (2025). Township economics: How the market structure of the informal economy impacts the recirculation of secondhand tires in South Africa. Urban Studies. 63(3). 505–523. 1 indexed citations

Theodore, Nik, et al.. (2025). The e-commerce labour regime: Amazon and beyond. Work Organisation Labour & Globalisation. 19(2).

Peck, Jamie & Nik Theodore. (2024). Cities for a guaranteed income: renewing the urban politics of cash assistance in the United States. Urban Geography. 46(4). 907–939. 1 indexed citations

Theodore, Nik. (2023). Day-Labor Worker Centers: Advancing New Models of Equity and Inclusion in the Informal Economy. Economic Development Quarterly. 37(4). 363–374. 1 indexed citations

Schenck, Rinie, et al.. (2023). Informal Tyre Dealers in South Africa: an Assessment of Their Contributions to a Circular Economy. Urban Forum. 35(1). 65–81. 4 indexed citations

Wright, Emily, Jarvis T. Chen, Jason Beckfield, Nik Theodore, & Nancy Krieger. (2022). Workplace hazards and health among informally employed domestic workers in 14 cities, United States, 2011–2012: Using four approaches to characterize workers’ patterns of exposures. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 65(12). 959–974. 2 indexed citations

Theodore, Nik. (2020). Deportations and development: Responding to El Salvador’s new migration crisis. Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit. 35(7). 635–654.

Kuhn, Randall, et al.. (2020). Beyond Occupational Hazards: Abuse of Day Laborers and Health. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 22(6). 1172–1183. 17 indexed citations

Theodore, Nik. (2019). Governing through austerity: (Il)logics of neoliberal urbanism after the global financial crisis. Journal of Urban Affairs. 42(1). 1–17. 57 indexed citations

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Theodore, Nik. (2019). Regulating informality: Worker centers and collective action in day‐labor markets. Growth and Change. 51(1). 144–160. 12 indexed citations

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Theodore, Nik, et al.. (2018). Workplace Health and Safety Hazards Faced by Informally Employed Domestic Workers in the United States. Workplace Health & Safety. 67(1). 9–17. 23 indexed citations

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Theodore, Nik, et al.. (2017). Informality and the context of reception in South Africa's new immigrant destinations. Population Space and Place. 24(3). 18 indexed citations

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Meléndez, Edwin, M. Anne Visser, Nik Theodore, & Abel Valenzuela. (2013). Worker Centers and Day Laborers’ Wages*. Social Science Quarterly. 95(3). 835–851. 20 indexed citations

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Brenner, Neil, Jamie Peck, & Nik Theodore. (2012). Após a neoliberalização. 14(27). 15–39. 11 indexed citations

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Peck, Jamie & Nik Theodore. (2012). Reanimating neoliberalism: process geographies of neoliberalisation. Social Anthropology. 20(2). 177–185. 113 indexed citations

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Theodore, Nik. (2011). Policing Borders: Unauthorized Immigration and the Pernicious Politics of Attrition. Social Justice A Journal of Crime Conflict & World Order. 38. 90. 11 indexed citations

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Meléndez, Edwin, Nik Theodore, & Abel Valenzuela. (2008). Day Labor Worker Centers: New Approaches to Protecting Labor Standards in the Informal Economy. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Theodore, Nik, et al.. (2006). Securing the City: Emerging Markets in the Private Provision of Security Services in Chicago. Social Justice A Journal of Crime Conflict & World Order. 33(3). 85. 5 indexed citations

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Theodore, Nik, et al.. (2004). Winning Union Representation for Temps: An Analysis of the NLRB’s M.B. Sturgis and Jeffboat Division Ruling. WorkingUSA. 4(3). 37–58. 2 indexed citations

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Theodore, Nik. (2003). Political Economies of Day Labour: Regulation and Restructuring of Chicago's Contingent Labour Markets. Urban Studies. 40(9). 1811–1828. 56 indexed citations

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