Simon Springer

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Simon Springer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Springer has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 10 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Simon Springer's work include Anarchism and Radical Politics (12 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (11 papers) and Cambodian History and Society (10 papers). Simon Springer is often cited by papers focused on Anarchism and Radical Politics (12 papers), Political Economy and Marxism (11 papers) and Cambodian History and Society (10 papers). Simon Springer collaborates with scholars based in Canada, New Zealand and United States. Simon Springer's co-authors include Philippe Le Billon, Vural Özdemir, Colin Garvey, Mustafa Bayram, Marcelo Lopes de Souza, Richard White, Gavin Brown, Jenny Pickerill, Adam J. Barker and Anthony Ince and has published in prestigious journals such as Australasian Journal of Paramedicine, Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography.

In The Last Decade

Simon Springer

58 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

2007 510 citations Simon Springer Journal of Peace Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Springer Canada	25	1.4k	728	268	244	239	62	2.4k
Matthew Sparke United States	26	1.2k 0.8×	681 0.9×	292 1.1×	161 0.7×	425 1.8×	70	2.3k
David Featherstone United Kingdom	22	1.1k 0.8×	527 0.7×	401 1.5×	227 0.9×	221 0.9×	67	1.9k
Silvia Federici Italy	16	1.3k 0.9×	477 0.7×	183 0.7×	276 1.1×	135 0.6×	75	2.6k
Katharyne Mitchell United States	29	1.9k 1.3×	623 0.9×	396 1.5×	227 0.9×	330 1.4×	72	2.9k
Alessandro Fontana	4	1.6k 1.1×	771 1.1×	137 0.5×	238 1.0×	148 0.6×	4	2.8k
Jenny Pickerill United Kingdom	22	866 0.6×	397 0.5×	333 1.2×	135 0.6×	321 1.3×	72	1.9k
Paul Routledge United Kingdom	27	1.7k 1.2×	757 1.0×	501 1.9×	135 0.6×	414 1.7×	62	3.0k
Michel Senellart France	14	1.9k 1.4×	898 1.2×	195 0.7×	254 1.0×	157 0.7×	46	3.4k
Joe Painter United Kingdom	21	927 0.7×	697 1.0×	387 1.4×	164 0.7×	213 0.9×	47	1.8k
Sandro Mezzadra Italy	22	2.3k 1.7×	857 1.2×	197 0.7×	145 0.6×	129 0.5×	110	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Springer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Springer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Springer

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Özdemir, Vural & Simon Springer. (2022). Decolonizing Knowledge Upstream: New Ways to Deconstruct and Fight Disinformation in an Era of COVID-19, Extreme Digital Transformation, and Climate Emergency. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 26(5). 247–269. 9 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon & Vural Özdemir. (2022). Disinformation as COVID-19's Twin Pandemic: False Equivalences, Entrenched Epistemologies, and Causes-of-Causes. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 26(2). 82–87. 11 indexed citations

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Özdemir, Vural, Simon Springer, Semra Şardaş, et al.. (2021). Thanatechnology and the Living Dead: New Concepts in Digital Transformation and Human-Computer Interaction. Australasian Journal of Paramedicine. 25(7). 401–407. 7 indexed citations

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Bayram, Mustafa, Simon Springer, Colin Garvey, & Vural Özdemir. (2020). COVID-19 Digital Health Innovation Policy: A Portal to Alternative Futures in the Making. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 24(8). 460–469. 58 indexed citations

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Özdemir, Vural, Simon Springer, Colin Garvey, & Mustafa Bayram. (2020). COVID-19 Health Technology Governance, Epistemic Competence, and the Future of Knowledge in an Uncertain World. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 24(8). 451–453. 8 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon, et al.. (2018). Violent Neoliberalism: Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia. Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. 33(3). 723–726. 14 indexed citations

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Özdemir, Vural & Simon Springer. (2018). What does “Diversity” Mean for Public Engagement in Science? A New Metric for Innovation Ecosystem Diversity. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 22(3). 184–189. 19 indexed citations

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Souza, Marcelo Lopes de, Richard White, & Simon Springer. (2016). Theories of Resistance.

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Springer, Simon. (2016). geografias anarquistas: uma breve genealogia.

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White, Richard, Simon Springer, & Marcelo Lopes de Souza. (2016). The practice of freedom : anarchism, geography and the spirit of revolt. 14 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2016). Discourse of Neoliberalism. 14 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2014). God dethroned: a reply to Nick Megoran. Space and Polity. 18(1). 106–109. 2 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2013). Anarchism and Geography: A Brief Genealogy of Anarchist Geographies. Geography Compass. 7(1). 46–60. 26 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2012). Neoliberalising violence: of the exceptional and the exemplary in coalescing moments. Area. 44(2). 136–143. 74 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2012). Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism. Critical Discourse Studies. 9(2). 133–147. 161 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2011). Violence sits in places? Cultural practice, neoliberal rationalism, and virulent imaginative geographies. Political Geography. 30(2). 90–98. 132 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2010). Neoliberal Discursive Formations: On the Contours of Subjectivation, Good Governance, and Symbolic Violence in Posttransitional Cambodia. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 28(5). 931–950. 40 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2009). Renewed authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Undermining democracy through neoliberal reform. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 50(3). 271–276. 23 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2008). Violence, Democracy, and the Neoliberal “Order”: The Contestation of Public Space in Posttransitional Cambodia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99(1). 138–162. 71 indexed citations

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Springer, Simon. (2007). A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Journal of Peace Research. 44(1). 126–127. 510 indexed citations breakdown →

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