Risa Whitson

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 658 citations indexed

About

Risa Whitson is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Risa Whitson has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 658 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 2 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Risa Whitson's work include Taxation and Compliance Studies (3 papers), Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (1 paper). Risa Whitson is often cited by papers focused on Taxation and Compliance Studies (3 papers), Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 papers) and Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (1 paper). Risa Whitson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Colombia. Risa Whitson's co-authors include Alison Mountz, Becky Mansfield, Trina Hamilton, Winifred Curran, Margaret Walton‐Roberts, Anne Bonds, Roberta Hawkins, Jennifer Hyndman, Ranu Basu and Jenna M. Loyd and has published in prestigious journals such as Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, Antipode and The Professional Geographer.

In The Last Decade

Risa Whitson

11 papers receiving 613 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.

For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University

2015 450 citations Alison Mountz, Anne Bonds et al. Open Collections profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Risa Whitson United States	10	282	116	95	92	76	12	658
Jodi Melamed United States	6	538 1.9×	100 0.9×	64 0.7×	134 1.5×	104 1.4×	12	814
Ranu Basu Canada	9	415 1.5×	232 2.0×	72 0.8×	134 1.5×	124 1.6×	19	905
Miranda Joseph United States	6	292 1.0×	47 0.4×	65 0.7×	99 1.1×	60 0.8×	12	584
John H. McKendrick United Kingdom	15	509 1.8×	228 2.0×	54 0.6×	82 0.9×	124 1.6×	100	880
Caroline Knowles United Kingdom	18	612 2.2×	76 0.7×	77 0.8×	85 0.9×	130 1.7×	53	902
Daniel Hammett United Kingdom	17	434 1.5×	161 1.4×	59 0.6×	126 1.4×	52 0.7×	52	753
Beverley Mullings Canada	14	646 2.3×	50 0.4×	89 0.9×	115 1.3×	108 1.4×	29	923
John Michael Roberts United Kingdom	15	343 1.2×	56 0.5×	44 0.5×	95 1.0×	41 0.5×	54	568
Fernando J. Bosco United States	13	490 1.7×	47 0.4×	56 0.6×	128 1.4×	70 0.9×	26	769
Gregor McLennan United Kingdom	19	598 2.1×	85 0.7×	53 0.6×	208 2.3×	54 0.7×	75	897

Countries citing papers authored by Risa Whitson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Risa Whitson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Risa Whitson

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

1.

Whitson, Risa, et al.. (2024). ‘We live to write, from our life, the best of stories’: exploring Colombian women’s embodied narratives of displacement through body mapping. Cultural Geographies. 32(2). 165–182.

2.

Curran, Winifred, Trina Hamilton, Becky Mansfield, et al.. (2019). ‘Will you be my mentor?’ Feminist mentoring at mid-career for institutional change. Gender Place & Culture. 26(12). 1721–1739. 16 indexed citations

3.

Whitson, Risa, et al.. (2018). Reviving feminism through social media: from the classroom to online and offline public spaces. Gender and Education. 32(6). 751–766. 11 indexed citations

4.

Oberhauser, Ann M., Jennifer L. Fluri, Risa Whitson, & Sharlene Mollett. (2017). Feminist Spaces. 9 indexed citations

5.

Whitson, Risa, et al.. (2016). Birthing modernity: spatial discourses of cesarean birth in São Paulo, Brazil. Gender Place & Culture. 23(8). 1207–1220. 6 indexed citations

6.

Whitson, Risa. (2016). Painting Pictures of Ourselves: Researcher Subjectivity in the Practice of Feminist Reflexivity. The Professional Geographer. 69(2). 299–306. 31 indexed citations

7.

Mountz, Alison, Anne Bonds, Becky Mansfield, et al.. (2015). For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University. Open Collections. 14(4). 1235–1259. 450 indexed citations breakdown →

8.

Jin, Xiuming & Risa Whitson. (2014). Young women and public leisure spaces in contemporary Beijing: recreating (with) gender, tradition, and place. Social & Cultural Geography. 15(4). 449–469. 18 indexed citations

9.

Whitson, Risa. (2011). Negotiating Place and Value: Geographies of Waste and Scavenging in Buenos Aires. Antipode. 43(4). 1404–1433. 43 indexed citations

10.

Whitson, Risa. (2009). “The Reality of Today Has Required Us to Change”: Negotiating Gender Through Informal Work in Contemporary Argentina. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 100(1). 159–181. 12 indexed citations

11.

Whitson, Risa. (2007). Beyond the Crisis: Economic globalization and informal work in urban Argentina. Journal of Latin American geography. 6(2). 121–136. 18 indexed citations

12.

Whitson, Risa. (2007). Hidden Struggles: Spaces of Power and Resistance in Informal Work in Urban Argentina. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 39(12). 2916–2934. 44 indexed citations

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