Rob Aitken

1.2k total citations
35 papers, 635 citations indexed

About

Rob Aitken is a scholar working on Finance, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob Aitken has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 635 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Finance, 10 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Rob Aitken's work include Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (16 papers), Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (4 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 papers). Rob Aitken is often cited by papers focused on Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (16 papers), Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (4 papers) and Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 papers). Rob Aitken collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland. Rob Aitken's co-authors include Myfanwy Franks, Haleh Afshar, Gareth A. Jones, Nikki Craske, Anthony du Vivier, PM King, Amanda Owen‐Smith, Bruce Bower, R. Aubrey and John R. Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Development and Change, Political Studies and Review of International Political Economy.

In The Last Decade

Rob Aitken

27 papers receiving 540 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rob Aitken Canada	14	318	249	152	129	108	35	635
Dick Bryan Australia	16	630 2.0×	350 1.4×	191 1.3×	196 1.5×	22 0.2×	46	933
Cameron Graham Canada	15	198 0.6×	170 0.7×	115 0.8×	82 0.6×	348 3.2×	33	858
Johnna Montgomerie United Kingdom	16	549 1.7×	252 1.0×	132 0.9×	233 1.8×	21 0.2×	31	735
Lamia Karim United States	8	102 0.3×	297 1.2×	399 2.6×	142 1.1×	106 1.0×	10	764
Alya Guseva United States	11	158 0.5×	237 1.0×	122 0.8×	94 0.7×	17 0.2×	26	499
Natascha van der Zwan Netherlands	7	821 2.6×	291 1.2×	193 1.3×	243 1.9×	31 0.3×	19	1.0k
Martijn Konings Australia	17	669 2.1×	395 1.6×	161 1.1×	312 2.4×	17 0.2×	47	1.1k
Christopher Hood United Kingdom	16	62 0.2×	197 0.8×	124 0.8×	277 2.1×	89 0.8×	25	828
Ringa Raudla Estonia	18	92 0.3×	136 0.5×	333 2.2×	542 4.2×	154 1.4×	80	991
Daniel Mügge Netherlands	18	486 1.5×	189 0.8×	139 0.9×	389 3.0×	15 0.1×	41	976

Countries citing papers authored by Rob Aitken

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rob Aitken

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob Aitken

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

Aitken, Rob. (2025). Climate futures in the time of the unbroken asset. International Journal of Law in Context. 21(3). 346–366.

Aitken, Rob. (2024). Extractive separations: A Polanyian note on the international investment treaty regime. The Extractive Industries and Society. 20. 101559–101559.

Aitken, Rob. (2022). Mediating and mapping climate risk: micro-insurance and earth observation. Journal of Cultural Economy. 15(4). 468–487. 5 indexed citations

Aitken, Rob. (2017). “An Economics of Capital”: Genealogies of Everyday Financial Conduct. Journal of Historical Sociology. 31(2). 213–235. 5 indexed citations

Aitken, Rob. (2017). ‘All data is credit data’: Constituting the unbanked. Competition & Change. 21(4). 274–300. 114 indexed citations

Aitken, Rob. (2015). Fringe Finance: Crossing and Contesting the Borders of Global Capital. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 23 indexed citations

Aitken, Rob. (2015). Everyday Debt Relationalities. Cultural Studies. 29(5-6). 845–868. 18 indexed citations

Aitken, Rob. (2015). “An Instrument for Reaching Into Experience”: Progressive Film at the Rockefeller Boards, 1934–1945. Journal of Historical Sociology. 30(2). 284–314. 1 indexed citations

Aitken, Rob. (2014). Games and the Subjugated Knowledges of Finance: Art and Science in the Speculative Imaginary. TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 30-31. 65–88. 3 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob. (2013). Finding the Edges of Payday Lending. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. 12(3). 377–409. 1 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob. (2013). A ‘World Without End’: Post-War Reconstruction and Everyday Internationalism in Documentary Film. The International History Review. 35(4). 657–680. 6 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob. (2013). Performing the limits of finance. Journal for Cultural Research. 18(1). 78–97. 1 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob. (2011). Financializing security. Security Dialogue. 42(2). 123–141. 18 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob. (2011). Provincialising embedded liberalism: film, orientalism and the reconstruction of world order. Review of International Studies. 37(4). 1695–1720. 3 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob. (2010). Regul(ariz)ation of Fringe Credit: Payday Lending and the Borders of Global Financial Practice. Competition & Change. 14(2). 80–99. 11 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob. (2010). Ambiguous incorporations: microfinance and global governmentality. Global Networks. 10(2). 223–243. 30 indexed citations

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Afshar, Haleh, Rob Aitken, & Myfanwy Franks. (2007). Islamophobia and women of Pakistani descent in Bradford: The crisis of ascribed and adopted identities. 193–211. 4 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob. (2006). Capital at Its Fringes. New Political Economy. 11(4). 479–498. 18 indexed citations

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Afshar, Haleh, Rob Aitken, & Myfanwy Franks. (2005). Feminisms, Islamophobia and Identities. Political Studies. 53(2). 262–283. 55 indexed citations

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Aitken, Rob, et al.. (1996). Dismantling the Mexican State?. Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks. 37 indexed citations

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