Steve Rolf

566 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 264 citations indexed

About

Steve Rolf is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve Rolf has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 264 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 5 papers in Strategy and Management and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Steve Rolf's work include China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 papers), Asian Industrial and Economic Development (3 papers) and State Capitalism and Financial Governance (3 papers). Steve Rolf is often cited by papers focused on China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 papers), Asian Industrial and Economic Development (3 papers) and State Capitalism and Financial Governance (3 papers). Steve Rolf collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Steve Rolf's co-authors include Seth Schindler, John Agnew, Ilias Alami, Jacqueline O’Reilly, Imogen T. Liu, Jessica DiCarlo, Tim Zajontz, Kevin Ward, Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ and Nicholas Jepson and has published in prestigious journals such as Research Policy, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space and Political Geography.

In The Last Decade

Steve Rolf

14 papers receiving 250 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.

The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks

2023 74 citations Seth Schindler, Ilias Alami et al. Geopolitics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steve Rolf United Kingdom	8	131	77	66	40	36	14	264
Álvaro Méndez United Kingdom	8	50 0.4×	31 0.4×	54 0.8×	49 1.2×	14 0.4×	30	189
Jan Knoerich United Kingdom	9	43 0.3×	30 0.4×	152 2.3×	65 1.6×	22 0.6×	17	247
Daniel C. K. Chow United States	8	68 0.5×	50 0.6×	59 0.9×	42 1.1×	9 0.3×	50	221
Mohammad Mohabbat Khan Bangladesh	9	132 1.0×	90 1.2×	45 0.7×	34 0.8×	16 0.4×	38	251
Santiago Pinto United States	9	59 0.5×	53 0.7×	65 1.0×	125 3.1×	18 0.5×	25	239
Dieter Kerwer Germany	10	135 1.0×	80 1.0×	132 2.0×	41 1.0×	65 1.8×	19	362
Darius Ornston Canada	11	207 1.6×	51 0.7×	79 1.2×	170 4.3×	36 1.0×	28	372
Michael Rochlitz Germany	9	155 1.2×	157 2.0×	35 0.5×	77 1.9×	5 0.1×	29	302
Bernard Musyck Cyprus	7	120 0.9×	35 0.5×	83 1.3×	153 3.8×	9 0.3×	12	272
Helen Shapiro United States	7	84 0.6×	44 0.6×	78 1.2×	105 2.6×	15 0.4×	12	287

Countries citing papers authored by Steve Rolf

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steve Rolf

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve Rolf

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Alami, Ilias, et al.. (2024). Quo vadis neoliberalism in an age of resurgent state capitalism?. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 1(1). 340–367. 9 indexed citations

2.

Schindler, Seth & Steve Rolf. (2024). Geostrategic globalization: US–China rivalry, corporate strategy, and the new global economy. Globalizations. 22(6). 897–914. 6 indexed citations

3.

Rolf, Steve, et al.. (2024). The geographies and geopolitics of industrial policy: Designing a data-driven UK semiconductor strategy. European Urban and Regional Studies. 32(2). 115–123. 1 indexed citations

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Rolf, Steve, et al.. (2024). A Chip War Made in Germany? US Techno‐Dependencies, China Chokepoints, and the German Semiconductor Industry. Politics and Governance. 12. 15 indexed citations

5.

Rolf, Steve. (2023). The revenge of multiplicity: Chinese capitalism under systemic competition. 2(1). 121–138. 4 indexed citations

6.

Schindler, Seth, Ilias Alami, Jessica DiCarlo, et al.. (2023). The Second Cold War: US-China Competition for Centrality in Infrastructure, Digital, Production, and Finance Networks. Geopolitics. 29(4). 1083–1120. 74 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rolf, Steve & Seth Schindler. (2023). The US–China rivalry and the emergence of state platform capitalism. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 55(5). 1255–1280. 58 indexed citations

8.

Nowak, Jörg, et al.. (2023). Leapfrog logistics: digital trucking platforms, infrastructure, and labor in Brazil and China. Review of International Political Economy. 31(3). 930–954. 6 indexed citations

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Rolf, Steve, et al.. (2023). A system of mutual dependence and antagonism: exploring the potential of uneven and combined development within Global Political Economy. 2(1). 2–16. 2 indexed citations

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Rolf, Steve, et al.. (2022). Towards privatized social and employment protections in the platform economy? Evidence from the UK courier sector. Research Policy. 51(5). 104492–104492. 18 indexed citations

11.

Rolf, Steve. (2021). Working in the end times. New Technology Work and Employment. 36(1). 114–117. 4 indexed citations

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Rolf, Steve. (2020). China’s Uneven and Combined Development. 32 indexed citations

13.

Rolf, Steve. (2019). National development through global production networks? The case of Dongguan, China. Political Geography. 73. 48–59. 12 indexed citations

14.

Rolf, Steve & John Agnew. (2016). Sovereignty regimes in the South China Sea: assessing contemporary Sino-US relations. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 57(2). 249–273. 23 indexed citations

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