Simon Rycroft

963 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 596 citations indexed

About

Simon Rycroft is a scholar working on Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Molecular Biology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Rycroft has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 596 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Simon Rycroft's work include Art, Politics, and Modernism (5 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers). Simon Rycroft is often cited by papers focused on Art, Politics, and Modernism (5 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (4 papers). Simon Rycroft collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany. Simon Rycroft's co-authors include David Matless, Denis Cosgrove, Vincent Smith, Stephen R. Daniels, Edward Baker, Ben Scott, David Roberts, Jon Hill, Benjamin Price and Laurence Livermore and has published in prestigious journals such as BMC Bioinformatics, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Environment and Planning D Society and Space.

In The Last Decade

Simon Rycroft

22 papers receiving 513 citations

Hit Papers

Landscape and Englishness 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 100 200 300
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. Landscape and Englishness
    2000 332 citations Simon Rycroft, David Matless Garden History profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Rycroft United Kingdom 10 204 173 71 64 60 24 596
Robert A. Rundstrom United States 8 466 2.3× 254 1.5× 37 0.5× 71 1.1× 57 0.9× 15 894
Juliet J. Fall Switzerland 14 125 0.6× 274 1.6× 11 0.2× 56 0.9× 48 0.8× 38 520
Thomas R. Dunlap United States 14 116 0.6× 151 0.9× 47 0.7× 7 0.1× 15 0.3× 55 676
Deborah Dixon United Kingdom 19 456 2.2× 451 2.6× 33 0.5× 109 1.7× 49 0.8× 60 1.1k
Mildred Berman United States 9 140 0.7× 149 0.9× 8 0.1× 29 0.5× 24 0.4× 18 378
Sally Gregory Kohlstedt United States 14 52 0.3× 102 0.6× 81 1.1× 7 0.1× 25 0.4× 59 602
Mark Griffiths United Kingdom 16 102 0.5× 387 2.2× 18 0.3× 27 0.4× 15 0.3× 41 593
Cristina Grasseni Netherlands 14 184 0.9× 195 1.1× 10 0.1× 49 0.8× 66 1.1× 62 786
Catherine Larrère France 10 43 0.2× 364 2.1× 38 0.5× 22 0.3× 21 0.3× 70 648
Laura Rival United Kingdom 15 177 0.9× 166 1.0× 166 2.3× 19 0.3× 75 1.3× 35 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Rycroft

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Rycroft

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Rycroft

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rycroft, Simon. (2016). Swinging City: A Cultural Geography of London 1950–1974. Figshare. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Edward, Benjamin Price, Simon Rycroft, & Martin H. Villet. (2015). Global Cicada Sound Collection I: Recordings from South Africa and Malawi by B. W. Price & M. H. Villet and harvesting of BioAcoustica data by GBIF. Biodiversity Data Journal. 3(3). e5792–e5792. 3 indexed citations
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Baker, Edward, Benjamin Price, Simon Rycroft, Jon Hill, & Vincent Smith. (2015). BioAcoustica: a free and open repository and analysis platform for bioacoustics. Database. 2015. bav054–bav054. 28 indexed citations
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Baker, Edward, Simon Rycroft, & Vincent Smith. (2014). Linking multiple biodiversity informatics platforms with Darwin Core Archives. ZooKeys. 2(2). e1039–e1039. 13 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon. (2013). Lightshows and the cultural politics of light: mid-century cosmologies. The Sixties. 6(1). 45–64. 1 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon, et al.. (2012). J.B. Priestley: Bradford and a provincial narrative of England, 1913–1933. Social & Cultural Geography. 13(8). 957–976. 3 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon. (2012). Art and micro-cosmos: kinetic art and mid-20th-century cosmology. Cultural Geographies. 19(4). 447–467. 6 indexed citations
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Brake, Irina, et al.. (2011). Who learns from whom? Supporting users and developers of a major biodiversity e-infrastructure. ZooKeys. 150(150). 177–192. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Vincent, Simon Rycroft, Irina Brake, et al.. (2011). Scratchpads 2.0: a Virtual Research Environment supporting scholarly collaboration, communication and data publication in biodiversity science. ZooKeys. 150(150). 53–70. 30 indexed citations
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Smith, Vincent, et al.. (2009). Scratchpads: a data-publishing framework to build, share and manage information on the diversity of life. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(S14). S6–S6. 31 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon. (2007). Towards an historical geography of nonrepresentation: making the countercultural subject in the 1960s. Social & Cultural Geography. 8(4). 615–633. 8 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon & Mark A. Tully. (2007). Building an information security Meta Standard. BT Technology Journal. 25(1). 37–40. 4 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon. (2005). The Nature of Op Art: Bridget Riley and the Art of Nonrepresentation. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 23(3). 351–371. 22 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon. (2003). Mapping underground London: the cultural politics of nature, technology and humanity. Cultural Geographies. 10(1). 84–111. 5 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon. (2002). The geographies of Swinging London. Journal of Historical Geography. 28(4). 566–588. 10 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon & David Matless. (2000). Landscape and Englishness. Garden History. 28(1). 168–168. 332 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rycroft, Simon. (1996). Changing Lanes: Textuality off and on the Road. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 21(2). 425–425. 4 indexed citations
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Rycroft, Simon & Denis Cosgrove. (1995). Mapping the Modern Nation: Dudley Stamp and the Land Utilisation Survey. History Workshop Journal. 40(1). 91–105. 21 indexed citations
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Daniels, Stephen R. & Simon Rycroft. (1993). Mapping the Modern City: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham Novels. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 18(4). 460–460. 38 indexed citations

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