Thom Davies

2.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
28 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Thom Davies is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology and Geography, Planning and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Thom Davies has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in Clinical Psychology and 6 papers in Geography, Planning and Development. Recurrent topics in Thom Davies's work include Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (6 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers). Thom Davies is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Refugees, and Integration (11 papers), Migration, Health and Trauma (6 papers) and Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 papers). Thom Davies collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and Ireland. Thom Davies's co-authors include Arshad Isakjee, Surindar Dhesi, Jelena Obradović‐Wochnik, Tom Disney, Abel Polese, Colin Lorne, Lucy Mayblin, Joe Turner, Steve Hinchliffe and Toni Gladding and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Progress in Human Geography and Geoforum.

In The Last Decade

Thom Davies

28 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Violent Inaction: The Necropolitical Experience of Refugees in Europe

2017 248 citations Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee et al. Antipode profile →
Slow violence and toxic geographies: ‘Out of sight’ to whom?

2019 213 citations Thom Davies profile →
Toxic Space and Time: Slow Violence, Necropolitics, and Petrochemical Pollution

2018 188 citations Thom Davies Annals of the American Association of Geographers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thom Davies United Kingdom	15	836	252	247	195	134	28	1.2k
Kevin Grove United States	20	869 1.0×	236 0.9×	226 0.9×	64 0.3×	137 1.0×	57	1.4k
Jouni Häkli Finland	21	902 1.1×	185 0.7×	349 1.4×	104 0.5×	98 0.7×	65	1.3k
Mary Gilmartin Ireland	19	602 0.7×	114 0.5×	159 0.6×	94 0.5×	139 1.0×	61	973
Caroline Faria United States	15	614 0.7×	187 0.7×	141 0.6×	53 0.3×	82 0.6×	44	965
Joseph Nevins United States	14	837 1.0×	65 0.3×	273 1.1×	168 0.9×	78 0.6×	50	1.1k
Lauren Martin United Kingdom	17	741 0.9×	114 0.5×	209 0.8×	171 0.9×	148 1.1×	39	1.1k
Alex Jeffrey United Kingdom	18	598 0.7×	143 0.6×	333 1.3×	44 0.2×	42 0.3×	50	969
Reece Jones United States	19	1.2k 1.5×	159 0.6×	799 3.2×	168 0.9×	80 0.6×	43	1.7k
Melissa W. Wright United States	20	883 1.1×	158 0.6×	242 1.0×	51 0.3×	122 0.9×	52	1.4k
Sharlene Mollett Canada	15	552 0.7×	210 0.8×	217 0.9×	25 0.1×	73 0.5×	27	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Thom Davies

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thom Davies

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thom Davies

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

Davies, Thom, et al.. (2025). Four seasons of border violence: The co-option of the seasons into the management of migration. Geoforum. 160. 104207–104207. 2 indexed citations

Davies, Thom, et al.. (2025). Necropolitics and geography. Progress in Human Geography. 49(5). 466–488. 1 indexed citations

Mayblin, Lucy, et al.. (2024). Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK's Post‐Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’. The Political Quarterly. 95(2). 253–262. 1 indexed citations

Davies, Thom, Arshad Isakjee, & Jelena Obradović‐Wochnik. (2024). The Politics of Injury: Debilitation and the Right to Maim at the EU Border. Geopolitics. 31(2). 531–559. 7 indexed citations

Davies, Thom, et al.. (2024). Eco-coloniality and the violent environmentalism of the UK–France border. Environment and Planning D Society and Space. 42(5-6). 776–802. 4 indexed citations

Mayblin, Lucy, et al.. (2024). ‘Bringing order to the border’: liberal and illiberal fantasies of border control in the English channel. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 50(16). 3894–3912. 7 indexed citations

Hinchliffe, Steve, et al.. (2022). The work of waste during COVID-19: logics of public, environmental, and occupational health. Critical Public Health. 32(5). 630–640. 3 indexed citations

Davies, Thom, Arshad Isakjee, Lucy Mayblin, & Joe Turner. (2021). Channel crossings: offshoring asylum and the afterlife of empire in the Dover Strait. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 44(13). 2307–2327. 16 indexed citations

Davies, Thom & Alice Mah. (2020). Toxic truths : Environmental justice and citizen science in a post-truth age. Manchester University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom, et al.. (2019). Instagram photography and the geography field course: snapshots from Berlin. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 43(3). 362–383. 20 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom & Arshad Isakjee. (2018). Ruins of Empire: Refugees, race and the postcolonial geographies of European migrant camps. Geoforum. 102. 214–217. 53 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom. (2018). Toxic Space and Time: Slow Violence, Necropolitics, and Petrochemical Pollution. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 108(6). 1537–1553. 188 indexed citations breakdown →

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Davies, Thom. (2018). Photography and Toxic Pollution: Exposing a Chemical Company. Science as Culture. 27(4). 543–551. 4 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom, et al.. (2017). Making Space for Failure in Geographic Research. The Professional Geographer. 70(2). 230–238. 73 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom. (2017). Clean and white: a history of environmental racism in the United States. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 40(8). 1360–1362. 3 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom, et al.. (2017). Towards nuclear geography: Zones, bodies, and communities. Geography Compass. 11(9). 32 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom, Arshad Isakjee, & Surindar Dhesi. (2017). Violent Inaction: The Necropolitical Experience of Refugees in Europe. Antipode. 49(5). 1263–1284. 248 indexed citations breakdown →

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Davies, Thom. (2015). Informalidad y supervivencia en Chernóbil: etnografía de un espacio nuclear. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 3 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom & Abel Polese. (2014). Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: Living with the risks of Chernobyl. Journal of Eurasian Studies. 6(1). 34–45. 44 indexed citations

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Davies, Thom. (2013). A Visual Geography of Chernobyl: Double Exposure. International Labor and Working-Class History. 84. 116–139. 29 indexed citations

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