Ramón Lobato

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 863 citations indexed

About

Ramón Lobato is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ramón Lobato has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 863 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Urban Studies and 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Ramón Lobato's work include Cultural Industries and Urban Development (18 papers), Digital Games and Media (16 papers) and Cinema and Media Studies (14 papers). Ramón Lobato is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Industries and Urban Development (18 papers), Digital Games and Media (16 papers) and Cinema and Media Studies (14 papers). Ramón Lobato collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Ramón Lobato's co-authors include Amanda D. Lotz, Julian Thomas, James Meese, David Hesmondhalgh, Mark David Ryan, Stuart Cunningham, Angela Daly, Darcy W E Allen, Pradip Sarkar and Scott Ewing and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Communication and Media Culture & Society.

In The Last Decade

Ramón Lobato

43 papers receiving 780 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.

Chinese video streaming services in the context of global platform studies

2019 81 citations Ramón Lobato et al. Chinese Journal of Communication profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ramón Lobato Australia	15	400	243	228	167	127	53	863
Amanda D. Lotz Australia	19	499 1.2×	303 1.2×	448 2.0×	213 1.3×	162 1.3×	66	1.2k
Janet Wasko United States	17	328 0.8×	185 0.8×	272 1.2×	140 0.8×	73 0.6×	45	889
Gillian Doyle United Kingdom	14	381 1.0×	151 0.6×	391 1.7×	215 1.3×	36 0.3×	38	1.0k
Tom Evens Belgium	17	372 0.9×	151 0.6×	186 0.8×	110 0.7×	25 0.2×	87	913
Dal Yong Jin Canada	19	815 2.0×	102 0.4×	192 0.8×	152 0.9×	609 4.8×	98	1.4k
Patricia Aufderheide United States	16	251 0.6×	93 0.4×	264 1.2×	55 0.3×	32 0.3×	90	782
Aswin Punathambekar United States	12	287 0.7×	115 0.5×	137 0.6×	43 0.3×	66 0.5×	33	600
Alan B. Albarran United States	15	284 0.7×	89 0.4×	277 1.2×	53 0.3×	29 0.2×	38	695
Dan Schiller United States	13	307 0.8×	42 0.2×	264 1.2×	59 0.4×	45 0.4×	47	764
Siva Vaidhyanathan United States	9	298 0.7×	43 0.2×	173 0.8×	55 0.3×	29 0.2×	23	773

Countries citing papers authored by Ramón Lobato

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ramón Lobato

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ramón Lobato. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ramón Lobato 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 Ramón Lobato. Ramón Lobato 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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Lobato, Ramón. (2025). Automated content recognition (ACR), smart TVs, and ad-tech infrastructure. Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 31(6). 1799–1814.

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Johnson, Catherine, et al.. (2025). Default viewing: Reconceptualising choice and habit in television audience research. Media Culture & Society. 47(5). 893–909.

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Lobato, Ramón. (2024). Subcinema: theorizing marginal film distribution. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Lobato, Ramón, et al.. (2021). Producing local content in international waters: the case of Netflix’s Tidelands. Continuum. 35(1). 137–150. 12 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón & Amanda D. Lotz. (2020). Imagining Global Video: The Challenge of Netflix. Journal of cinema and media studies. 59(3). 132–136. 42 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón, et al.. (2019). Chinese video streaming services in the context of global platform studies. Chinese Journal of Communication. 12(3). 356–371. 81 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hesmondhalgh, David & Ramón Lobato. (2019). Television device ecologies, prominence and datafication: the neglected importance of the set-top box. Media Culture & Society. 41(7). 958–974. 25 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón, et al.. (2018). Australian Content in SVOD Catalogs: Availability and Discoverability – 2019 edition. RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library). 7 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón. (2017). Rethinking International TV Flows Research in the Age of Netflix. Television & New Media. 19(3). 241–256. 127 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón, et al.. (2017). Australian content in SVOD catalogs: availability and discoverability. 9 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón, et al.. (2016). Geoblocking and Video Culture. DigitalCommons - Fairfield (Fairfield University). 1 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón. (2016). The cultural logic of digital intermediaries. Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 22(4). 348–360. 96 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón & Julian Thomas. (2015). The Informal Media Economy. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 21 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón & Julian Thomas. (2012). Piracy Cultures| The Business of Anti-Piracy: New Zones of Enterprise in the Copyright Wars. International journal of communication. 6. 20. 1 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón. (2012). Shadow Economies of Cinema. British Film Institute eBooks. 62 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón. (2012). Shadow Economies of Cinema. British Film Institute eBooks.

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Lobato, Ramón. (2009). Creative industries and informal economies: the case of Nigerian video. Minerva Access (University of Melbourne). 3 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón. (2009). The politics of digital distribution: exclusionary structures in online cinema. Studies In Australasian Cinema. 3(2). 167–178. 2 indexed citations

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Lobato, Ramón. (2008). Crimes against urbanity: The concrete soul of Michael Mann. Continuum. 22(3). 341–352.

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Lobato, Ramón. (2008). Secret lives of Asian Australian cinema: offshore labour in transnational film industries. Studies In Australasian Cinema. 2(3). 213–227. 3 indexed citations

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