Pat Thomson

7.2k total citations
208 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Pat Thomson is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Pat Thomson has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Education, 42 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 31 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Pat Thomson's work include Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (37 papers), Education Systems and Policy (26 papers) and Global Educational Policies and Reforms (25 papers). Pat Thomson is often cited by papers focused on Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (37 papers), Education Systems and Policy (26 papers) and Global Educational Policies and Reforms (25 papers). Pat Thomson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Pat Thomson's co-authors include Barbara Kamler, Helen Gunter, Christine Hall, Jill Blackmore, Lisa Russell, Inger Mewburn, Ken Jones, Bob Lingard, Terry Wrigley and Ashley Shepherd and has published in prestigious journals such as British Journal of Cancer, Journal of Advanced Nursing and Educational Researcher.

In The Last Decade

Pat Thomson

182 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pat Thomson United Kingdom	30	2.1k	982	564	544	276	208	3.5k
Harry Daniels United Kingdom	29	1.9k 0.9×	789 0.8×	270 0.5×	408 0.8×	177 0.6×	175	3.4k
Vivienne Bozalek South Africa	27	1.2k 0.6×	628 0.6×	234 0.4×	298 0.5×	111 0.4×	121	2.3k
Gerbert Kraaykamp Netherlands	36	1.2k 0.6×	2.6k 2.7×	385 0.7×	451 0.8×	125 0.5×	148	4.3k
Patricia Cranton Canada	30	3.5k 1.6×	422 0.4×	386 0.7×	234 0.4×	87 0.3×	93	4.4k
J. Amos Hatch United States	18	1.9k 0.9×	727 0.7×	118 0.2×	139 0.3×	226 0.8×	74	3.1k
Emily Eisner United Kingdom	13	967 0.5×	512 0.5×	74 0.1×	250 0.5×	118 0.4×	37	2.4k
Kenneth R. Howe United States	24	1.3k 0.6×	715 0.7×	278 0.5×	486 0.9×	97 0.4×	82	2.9k
Alan Prout United Kingdom	18	1.6k 0.8×	2.7k 2.8×	129 0.2×	498 0.9×	140 0.5×	35	3.8k
Nirmala Rao Hong Kong	39	2.6k 1.2×	830 0.8×	296 0.5×	154 0.3×	63 0.2×	209	4.5k
Sarah Robinson United Kingdom	23	1.0k 0.5×	421 0.4×	180 0.3×	458 0.8×	115 0.4×	78	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Pat Thomson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pat Thomson

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All Works

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Greany, Toby, Pat Thomson, Thomas Perry, & Mike Collins. (2025). Signature pedagogies for leadership development: a comparison of headteacher preparation programmes in England and Scotland. London Review of Education. 23(1).

Thomson, Pat & Toby Greany. (2024). The best of times, the worst of times: Continuities in school leaders' work in uncertain times. Educational Management Administration & Leadership. 53(6). 1376–1393. 4 indexed citations

Mills, Martin & Pat Thomson. (2022). English schooling and little e and big E exclusion: what’s equity got to do with it?. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 27(3). 185–198. 6 indexed citations

Keddie, Amanda, Jill Blackmore, Ruth Boyask, et al.. (2022). What needs to happen for school autonomy to be mobilised to create more equitable public schools and systems of education?. The Australian Educational Researcher. 50(5). 1571–1597. 6 indexed citations

Calhoun, John C., et al.. (2014). Espionage, Payback and Laughs. 95(3). 54–67. 1 indexed citations

Vincent, Kerry & Pat Thomson. (2013). 'Your Age Don't Determine Whether You're A Good Mum': Reframing the discourse of deviance ascribed to teenage mothers. Social alternatives. 32(2). 6. 2 indexed citations

Wrigley, Terry, Bob Lingard, & Pat Thomson. (2012). Pedagogies of transformation: keeping hope alive in troubled times. Critical Studies in Education. 53(1). 95–108. 56 indexed citations

Thomson, Pat, Bob Lingard, & Terry Wrigley. (2012). Reimagining school change. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 23(4). 1–14. 1 indexed citations

Thomson, Pat & Helen Gunter. (2011). Inside, outside, upside down: the fluidity of academic researcher ‘identity’ in working with/in school. International Journal of Research & Method in Education. 34(1). 17–30. 73 indexed citations

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Bailey, Simon & Pat Thomson. (2009). Routine (dis)order in an infant school. Ethnography & Education. 4(2). 211–227. 8 indexed citations

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Thomson, Pat. (2009). Demythologizing the Mafia. 90(3). 18–22.

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Grenfell, Michael, Derek Robbins, Karl Maton, et al.. (2008). Pierre Bourdieu. 151 indexed citations

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Thomson, Pat. (2008). Scales of Policy Intervention: Problematizing High Poverty Contexts in South Australia. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice. 10(2). 97–116. 1 indexed citations

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Thomson, Pat. (2005). Miners, diggers, ferals and show‐men: school–community projects that affirm and unsettle identities and place?. British Journal of Sociology of Education. 27(1). 81–96. 24 indexed citations

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Thomson, Pat. (2005). Developing the textual turn: tracking the grammar of research case records. Educational Action Research. 13(1). 137–160. 1 indexed citations

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Thomson, Pat, et al.. (2003). Towards a just indigenous education : a continuing challenge for state schooling. Inflammation. 24(1). 95–120. 4 indexed citations

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Thomson, Pat, et al.. (2003). "No-One's a good or bad student here" : changing identities in an active citizenship project.. The International Journal of Learning Annual Review. 10. 1 indexed citations

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Thomson, Pat. (2001). Ambiguous practice : a professional doctorate for public sector leaders. British Journal of Cancer. 55(1). 247–274. 2 indexed citations

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Kamler, Barbara & Pat Thomson. (2001). Talking down 'writing up' or ten e-mails make a conference paper. Deakin Research Online (Deakin University). 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Blackmore, Jill, et al.. (2000). Editorial—What’s happened to social justice lately?. The Australian Educational Researcher. 27(3). i–iv. 4 indexed citations

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