Peter Adey

6.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
87 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Peter Adey is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Adey has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Peter Adey's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (34 papers), Global Security and Public Health (13 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 papers). Peter Adey is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (34 papers), Global Security and Public Health (13 papers) and Urban Transport and Accessibility (9 papers). Peter Adey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Singapore. Peter Adey's co-authors include Ben Anderson, Peter Kraftl, Lucy Budd, David Bissell, Phil Hubbard, David Tyfield, Kevin Hannam, Tim Cresswell, Mimí Sheller and Cristina Temenos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Peter Adey

83 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

If Mobility is Everything Then it is Nothing: Towards a Relational Politics of (Im)mobilities

2006 448 citations Peter Adey Mobilities profile →
The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities

2014 277 citations Peter Adey profile →
Pandemic (Im)mobilities

2021 101 citations Peter Adey, Kevin Hannam et al. Mobilities profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Adey United Kingdom	36	2.2k	1.4k	715	631	470	87	4.1k
Tim Cresswell United Kingdom	30	2.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	478 0.7×	812 1.3×	673 1.4×	61	4.1k
Mike Crang United Kingdom	36	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	506 0.7×	318 0.5×	498 1.1×	78	5.2k
Tim Edensor United Kingdom	34	2.8k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	416 0.6×	563 0.9×	894 1.9×	98	5.4k
David Bissell Australia	31	1.2k 0.5×	957 0.7×	285 0.4×	512 0.8×	356 0.8×	71	2.6k
Rachel Pain United Kingdom	41	3.8k 1.7×	1.1k 0.8×	524 0.7×	314 0.5×	687 1.5×	81	6.0k
Geraldine Pratt Canada	34	3.5k 1.6×	558 0.4×	479 0.7×	527 0.8×	650 1.4×	109	5.8k
Alan Latham United Kingdom	27	1.5k 0.7×	688 0.5×	263 0.4×	301 0.5×	587 1.2×	63	2.9k
Gordon Waitt Australia	41	2.9k 1.3×	871 0.6×	235 0.3×	362 0.6×	742 1.6×	180	4.9k
Dallen J. Timothy United States	46	5.6k 2.5×	1.3k 1.0×	720 1.0×	1.3k 2.1×	352 0.7×	214	7.6k
David Crouch United Kingdom	23	1.5k 0.7×	761 0.6×	259 0.4×	163 0.3×	387 0.8×	141	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Adey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Adey

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Adey

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Adey. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Adey 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 Peter Adey. Peter Adey 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

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Adey, Peter, et al.. (2025). Seeing like a train: the viapolitics of emergency mobilities during Russia’s war against Ukraine. Mobilities. 21(1). 18–35. 1 indexed citations

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Holden, Michael, et al.. (2024). Mapping Musical Mobilities: Challenging Musical Nationalism through Mobility and Migration. GeoHumanities. 10(1). 73–93.

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Badger, Adam, et al.. (2024). Winging it: visions, automation, and narrating alternative mobility futures. Mobilities. 20(2). 255–270. 3 indexed citations

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Adey, Peter, et al.. (2024). “We touch their heart”: Plastic Automaticity and Affective Labour at Jakarta Soekarno‐Hatta Airport. Antipode. 56(4). 1073–1092.

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Adey, Peter, Kevin Hannam, Mimí Sheller, & David Tyfield. (2021). Pandemic (Im)mobilities. Mobilities. 16(1). 1–19. 101 indexed citations breakdown →

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Николаева, Анна, et al.. (2019). Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 44(2). 346–360. 122 indexed citations

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Adey, Peter. (2016). Emergency Mobilities. Mobilities. 11(1). 32–48. 51 indexed citations

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Adey, Peter & Weiqiang Lin. (2016). Social and Cultural Geographies of Air Transport. 77–88. 3 indexed citations

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Merriman, Peter, Kimberley Peters, Peter Adey, et al.. (2016). Interventions on military mobilities. Political Geography. 56. 44–52. 15 indexed citations

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Adey, Peter & Ben Anderson. (2012). Anticipating emergencies: Technologies of preparedness and the matter of security. Security Dialogue. 43(2). 99–117. 130 indexed citations

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Horton, John, et al.. (2011). Claiming events of school (re)design: materialising the promise of Building Schools for the Future. Social & Cultural Geography. 12(1). 9–26. 16 indexed citations

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Anderson, Ben & Peter Adey. (2011). Governing events and life: ‘Emergency’ in UK Civil Contingencies. Political Geography. 31(1). 24–33. 89 indexed citations

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Anderson, Ben & Peter Adey. (2011). Affect and Security: Exercising Emergency in ‘UK Civil Contingencies’. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 29(6). 1092–1109. 97 indexed citations

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Adey, Peter. (2010). Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 124 indexed citations

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Horton, John, et al.. (2009). Claiming Events of School (Re)Design: Materialising the Promise of Building Schools for the Future. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Budd, Lucy & Peter Adey. (2009). The Software-Simulated Airworld: Anticipatory Code and Affective Aeromobilities. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 41(6). 1366–1385. 49 indexed citations

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Salter, Mark B., et al.. (2008). Politics at the Airport. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 57 indexed citations

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Adey, Peter. (2008). Architectural geographies of the airport balcony: mobility, sensation and the theatre of flight. Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography. 90(1). 29–47. 22 indexed citations

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Adey, Peter. (2006). If Mobility is Everything Then it is Nothing: Towards a Relational Politics of (Im)mobilities. Mobilities. 1(1). 75–94. 448 indexed citations breakdown →

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Adey, Peter. (2002). Secured and Sorted Mobilities: Examples from the Airport.. Surveillance & Society. 1(4). 111 indexed citations

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