Ron Johnston

32.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
1.0k papers, 20.7k citations indexed

About

Ron Johnston is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ron Johnston has authored 1.0k papers receiving a total of 20.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 353 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 339 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 158 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Ron Johnston's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (218 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (182 papers) and Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (108 papers). Ron Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (218 papers), Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (182 papers) and Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (108 papers). Ron Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Ron Johnston's co-authors include Charles Pattie, Kelvyn Jones, James Forrest, David Manley, Michael Poulsen, Derek Gregory, D. M. Smith, Bertil Vilhelmson, David Rossiter and Michael Gibbons and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ron Johnston

997 papers receiving 18.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Dictionary of Human G... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2009 2017 2002 2015 400 800 1.2k
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. The Dictionary of Human Geography
    1995 1.5k citations Ron Johnston et al. profile →
  2. The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost always do Better
    2009 1.3k citations Ron Johnston profile →
  3. Confounding and collinearity in regression analysis: a cautionary tale and an alternative procedure, illustrated by studies of British voting behaviour
    2017 744 citations Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones et al. profile →
  4. Mixed‐Member electoral systems: The best of both worlds?
    2002 393 citations Ron Johnston profile →
  5. Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West
    2015 195 citations David Manley, Ron Johnston et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ron Johnston 8.8k 6.5k 3.8k 2.0k 2.0k 1.0k 20.7k
David Harvey 13.7k 1.6× 5.6k 0.9× 3.1k 0.8× 3.6k 1.8× 8.8k 4.4× 266 34.0k
Clifford Geertz 17.0k 1.9× 6.5k 1.0× 1.7k 0.4× 1.3k 0.6× 912 0.5× 169 37.7k
Nigel Thrift 8.1k 0.9× 2.9k 0.4× 2.8k 0.7× 4.5k 2.2× 3.9k 2.0× 253 20.7k
John Urry 15.1k 1.7× 2.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 3.5k 1.8× 3.6k 1.8× 208 26.8k
Michel Callon 9.0k 1.0× 2.4k 0.4× 2.3k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 123 24.6k
Mary Douglas 13.2k 1.5× 2.8k 0.4× 1.3k 0.3× 1.7k 0.8× 774 0.4× 187 27.7k
Scott Lash 8.8k 1.0× 2.4k 0.4× 837 0.2× 593 0.3× 1.4k 0.7× 97 16.2k
Anthony Giddens 27.1k 3.1× 9.6k 1.5× 2.7k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 2.6k 1.3× 236 57.0k
Peter L. Berger 15.6k 1.8× 3.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.3× 793 0.4× 615 0.3× 224 33.0k
Colin Gordon 10.3k 1.2× 4.4k 0.7× 672 0.2× 686 0.3× 922 0.5× 75 20.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ron Johnston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ron Johnston

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Johnston, Ron, S. Lee, J. C. Bernauer, et al.. (2020). Measurement of Møller scattering at 2.5 MeV. Physical review. D. 102(1). 4 indexed citations
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Wolf, Levi John, Sean Fox, Richard Harris, et al.. (2020). Quantitative geography III: Future challenges and challenging futures. Progress in Human Geography. 45(3). 596–608. 20 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron. (2019). On (auto)biography and the history of geography. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography. 73(4). 245–250. 9 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron, Todd K. Hartman, & Charles Pattie. (2018). Feelings about party leaders as a voter's heuristic – what happens when the leaders change? A note. Electoral Studies. 59. 164–170. 1 indexed citations
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Pattie, Charles, Adam Whitworth, & Ron Johnston. (2015). does campaign contact influence individuals’ vote choices? an alternative approach. European Political Science. 14(3). 279–297. 6 indexed citations
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Cloke, Paul & Ron Johnston. (2005). Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human Geography's Binaries. 93 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron, Kelvyn Jones, Simon Burgess, et al.. (2004). Scale, Factor Analyses, and Neighborhood Effects. Geographical Analysis. 36(4). 350–368. 35 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron, Kelvyn Jones, Simon Burgess, et al.. (2004). Scale, Factor Analyses, and Neighborhood Effects. Geographical Analysis. 36(4). 350–368. 40 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron, Michael Poulsen, & James Forrest. (2002). Rethinking the Analysis of Ethnic Residential Patterns: Segregation, Isolation, or Concentration Thresholds in Auckland, New Zealand?. Geographical Analysis. 34(3). 245–261. 15 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron. (2001). La geografÃa de las prácticas geográficas : contexto y salud de la disciplina. RACO (Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert) (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya). 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yingxu, Sunil Patel, & Ron Johnston. (2001). OOIS 2001 : 7th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems, 27-29 August 2001, Calgary, Canada : proceedings. Springer eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Pattie, Charles & Ron Johnston. (1998). Voter turnout at the british general election of 1992: Rational choice, social standing or political efficacy?. European Journal of Political Research. 33(2). 263–283. 1 indexed citations
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Pattie, Charles & Ron Johnston. (1995). “Its not like that round here”: Region, economic evaluations and voting at the 1992 British General Election. European Journal of Political Research. 28(1). 1–32. 39 indexed citations
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Fieldhouse, Edward, Charles Pattie, & Ron Johnston. (1995). Winning the Local Vote: Effectiveness of Constituency Campaign Spending in Great Britain. American Political Science Review. 89. 6 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron, Charles Pattie, & Andrew Russell. (1993). Dealignment, spatial polarisation and economic voting. European Journal of Political Research. 23(1). 67–90. 15 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron & Alan Hay. (1983). Voter Transition Probability Estimates: An Entropy-Maximizing Approach. European Journal of Political Research. 11(1). 93–98. 36 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron, et al.. (1983). Future tense? : technology in Australia. 9 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron. (1982). The Definition of Voting Regions in Multi-Party Contests. European Journal of Political Research. 10(3). 293–304. 3 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron & David Rossiter. (1982). Constituency building, political representation and electoral bias in urban England.. 113–155. 11 indexed citations
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Johnston, Ron. (1974). Geography and the Social Sciences.. 1 indexed citations

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