Philip Hills

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 764 citations indexed

About

Philip Hills is a scholar working on Education, Occupational Therapy and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Philip Hills has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 764 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Education, 1 paper in Occupational Therapy and 1 paper in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Philip Hills's work include Australian History and Society (1 paper), Online and Blended Learning (1 paper) and Historical Economic and Social Studies (1 paper). Philip Hills is often cited by papers focused on Australian History and Society (1 paper), Online and Blended Learning (1 paper) and Historical Economic and Social Studies (1 paper). Philip Hills collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and India. Philip Hills's co-authors include Desmond Keegan, Bruce M. Owen, John R. Gilbert, Eugene Garfield, Robert D. Willig and Anthony G. Oettinger and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Information Management, Scientometrics and British Journal of Educational Studies.

In The Last Decade

Philip Hills

7 papers receiving 664 citations

Hit Papers

Theoretical Principles of Distance Education 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 100 200 300 400
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. Theoretical Principles of Distance Education
    1994 489 citations Philip Hills, Desmond Keegan British Journal of Educational Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Philip Hills United Kingdom 4 392 169 157 119 110 10 764
Karl L. Smart United States 12 484 1.2× 124 0.7× 77 0.5× 150 1.3× 104 0.9× 40 782
William A. Drago United States 12 564 1.4× 142 0.8× 52 0.3× 72 0.6× 144 1.3× 24 867
Steven Hornik United States 12 307 0.8× 111 0.7× 178 1.1× 106 0.9× 116 1.1× 15 779
Donald P. Ely United States 15 600 1.5× 169 1.0× 93 0.6× 179 1.5× 100 0.9× 62 949
Annemieke Craig Australia 16 306 0.8× 95 0.6× 115 0.7× 140 1.2× 180 1.6× 80 722
M’hammed Abdous United States 15 483 1.2× 126 0.7× 122 0.8× 224 1.9× 193 1.8× 28 899
Laurie P. Dringus United States 15 458 1.2× 238 1.4× 75 0.5× 127 1.1× 295 2.7× 46 847
Gabrielle Baldwin Australia 10 589 1.5× 137 0.8× 94 0.6× 106 0.9× 203 1.8× 14 839
A. W. Bates Hong Kong 12 792 2.0× 227 1.3× 112 0.7× 201 1.7× 244 2.2× 42 1.2k
James J. Cappel United States 14 379 1.0× 84 0.5× 133 0.8× 240 2.0× 140 1.3× 39 897

Countries citing papers authored by Philip Hills

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Philip Hills's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Philip Hills with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Philip Hills more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Philip Hills

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Philip Hills. 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 Philip Hills. The network helps show where Philip Hills may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philip Hills

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
1.
Hills, Philip. (2007). . International Journal of Information Management. 27(1). 1–2. 1 indexed citations
2.
Hills, Philip. (2006). International Journal of Information Management. International Journal of Information Management. 26(3). 179–180. 260 indexed citations
3.
Hills, Philip. (2002). . International Journal of Information Management. 22(4). 245–245. 1 indexed citations
4.
Hills, Philip. (1995). Prest's experience of evaluation. Scientometrics. 34(3). 401–414. 1 indexed citations
5.
Hills, Philip & Desmond Keegan. (1994). Theoretical Principles of Distance Education. British Journal of Educational Studies. 42(4). 411–411. 489 indexed citations breakdown →
6.
Hills, Philip. (1988). TEACHING COMMUNICATION SKILLS. Education + Training. 30(5). 4–8. 2 indexed citations
7.
Hills, Philip. (1987). Division and cohesion in the nineteenth-century middle class: the case of Ipswich, 1830–1870. Urban History. 14. 42–50. 4 indexed citations
8.
Garfield, Eugene, et al.. (1981). General Communication. Communication Booknotes. 12(9). 97–98. 1 indexed citations
9.
Hills, Philip, et al.. (1979). Educational/Instructional Media. Communication Booknotes. 10(9). 180–182.
10.
Hills, Philip, et al.. (1975). Young People's Image of the Scientist.. 5 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Karl L. Smart Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by William A. Drago Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Steven Hornik Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Donald P. Ely Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Annemieke Craig Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by M’hammed Abdous Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Laurie P. Dringus Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Gabrielle Baldwin Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by A. W. Bates Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by James J. Cappel
Rankless by CCL
2026