Oliver Belcher

582 total citations
18 papers, 300 citations indexed

About

Oliver Belcher is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Belcher has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 300 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Oliver Belcher's work include Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 papers), Military History and Strategy (3 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 papers). Oliver Belcher is often cited by papers focused on Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 papers), Military History and Strategy (3 papers) and Global Energy and Sustainability Research (3 papers). Oliver Belcher collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Finland. Oliver Belcher's co-authors include Lauren Martin, Benjamin Neimark, Patrick Bigger, Stéphanie Simon, Anna J. Secor, Kirsti Ashworth, Stuart Parkinson, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Oliver Heidrich and Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Belcher

17 papers receiving 275 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Oliver Belcher United Kingdom 9 171 85 46 37 27 18 300
Kadri Leetmaa Estonia 13 175 1.0× 58 0.7× 48 1.0× 9 0.2× 61 2.3× 28 599
Vanessa Bowden Australia 9 145 0.8× 23 0.3× 9 0.2× 21 0.6× 55 2.0× 20 280
Giovanni Bettini United Kingdom 9 488 2.9× 31 0.4× 32 0.7× 6 0.2× 81 3.0× 16 566
Alan Rudy United States 7 99 0.6× 30 0.4× 40 0.9× 9 0.2× 39 1.4× 20 216
Elizabeth Cripps United Kingdom 9 162 0.9× 46 0.5× 11 0.2× 45 1.2× 201 7.4× 26 404
Ayesha Siddiqi United Kingdom 10 207 1.2× 39 0.5× 10 0.2× 5 0.1× 67 2.5× 17 270
Chris Methmann Germany 8 307 1.8× 44 0.5× 21 0.5× 7 0.2× 117 4.3× 11 415
Christine Labuski United States 8 173 1.0× 28 0.3× 8 0.2× 31 0.8× 64 2.4× 13 390
Kelvin Mason United Kingdom 8 139 0.8× 23 0.3× 47 1.0× 4 0.1× 77 2.9× 23 271
Peter Spearritt Australia 10 147 0.9× 34 0.4× 29 0.6× 6 0.2× 24 0.9× 45 314

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver Belcher

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Belcher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Belcher

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Belcher, Oliver. (2025). The appeals of communism: Extracting confessions from the communist subject in the Vietnam war. Political Geography. 123. 103295–103295.
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Neimark, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq. Antipode. 56(3). 983–1005. 4 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver. (2022). Greening national security The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War Neta C. Crawford MIT Press, 2022. 392 pp.. Science. 377(6613). 1389–1389. 1 indexed citations
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Rajaeifar, Mohammad Ali, Oliver Belcher, Stuart Parkinson, et al.. (2022). Decarbonize the military — mandate emissions reporting. Nature. 611(7934). 29–32. 23 indexed citations
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Neimark, Benjamin, et al.. (2021). How the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions. 2 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver & Jeremy J. Schmidt. (2020). Being earthbound: Arendt, process and alienation in the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 39(1). 103–120. 5 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver. (2019). Sensing, territory, population: Computation, embodied sensors, and hamlet control in the Vietnam War. Security Dialogue. 50(5). 416–436. 10 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver, et al.. (2019). Hidden carbon costs of the “everywhere war”: Logistics, geopolitical ecology, and the carbon boot‐print of the US military. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 45(1). 65–80. 86 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver. (2017). Anatomy of a village razing: Counterinsurgency, violence, and securing the intimate in Afghanistan. Political Geography. 62. 94–105. 13 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver. (2015). Data anxieties: objectivity and difference in early Vietnam War computing. 141–156. 4 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver. (2014). Staging the Orient: Counterinsurgency Training Sites and the U.S. Military Imagination. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104(5). 1012–1029. 10 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver & Lauren Martin. (2013). Ethnographies of closed doors: conceptualising openness and closure in US immigration and military institutions. Area. 45(4). 403–410. 49 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver. (2011). The Occupied Palestinian Territories and Late-modern Wars. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 4(1). 1–9. 1 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver. (2011). Introduction: The Occupied Palestinian Territories and Late-modern wars. Human Geography. 4(1). 1–9. 3 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver, et al.. (2008). Everywhere and Nowhere: The Exception and the Topological Challenge to Geography. Antipode. 40(4). 499–503. 63 indexed citations
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Belcher, Oliver & Joshua Inwood. (2008). Fatal Distraction. Human Geography. 1(2). 1–7. 3 indexed citations

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