Thomas Nail

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 802 citations indexed

About

Thomas Nail is a scholar working on Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Nail has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 802 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Philosophy, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 5 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Nail's work include Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (5 papers), Political theory and Gramsci (2 papers) and Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 papers). Thomas Nail is often cited by papers focused on Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (5 papers), Political theory and Gramsci (2 papers) and Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 papers). Thomas Nail collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Puerto Rico. Thomas Nail's co-authors include Nicolae Morar and Daniel Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, SubStance and Mobilities.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Nail

33 papers receiving 714 citations

Hit Papers

What is an Assemblage? 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 40 80 120
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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.

  1. What is an Assemblage?
    2017 136 citations Thomas Nail SubStance profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Nail United States 11 412 158 104 87 71 40 802
Brad Elliott Stone United States 5 480 1.2× 168 1.1× 61 0.6× 71 0.8× 67 0.9× 10 824
Carolyn Pedwell United Kingdom 14 414 1.0× 92 0.6× 45 0.4× 80 0.9× 55 0.8× 30 802
Yarimar Bonilla United States 10 601 1.5× 191 1.2× 57 0.5× 110 1.3× 30 0.4× 21 1.1k
Susan Ruddick Canada 10 502 1.2× 107 0.7× 149 1.4× 91 1.0× 32 0.5× 23 953
Carolin Schurr Switzerland 17 511 1.2× 117 0.7× 247 2.4× 74 0.9× 51 0.7× 47 1.1k
Diana Coole United Kingdom 14 480 1.2× 236 1.5× 67 0.6× 83 1.0× 47 0.7× 32 946
Mark Hearn Australia 9 614 1.5× 242 1.5× 79 0.8× 65 0.7× 81 1.1× 43 1.1k
Vikki Bell United Kingdom 14 488 1.2× 90 0.6× 35 0.3× 71 0.8× 76 1.1× 57 782
Ronald Bogue United States 11 541 1.3× 139 0.9× 146 1.4× 137 1.6× 48 0.7× 40 1.3k
Bjørn Thomassen Denmark 14 465 1.1× 186 1.2× 40 0.4× 41 0.5× 42 0.6× 57 763

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Nail

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Nail

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nail, Thomas, et al.. (2022). O que é o novo materialismo?. Cadernos de Linguística e Teoria da Literatura (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais). 2(2). 188–219. 1 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2022). We Have Always Been Planetary. Environmental Philosophy. 19(2). 191–202. 1 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2022). What is COVID capitalism?. Distinktion Journal of Social Theory. 23(2-3). 327–341. 3 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2020). Philosophy in the Time of COVID. Philosophy Today. 64(4). 889–893. 2 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2020). Borders, Migrants, and Writing. Scholars' Bank (University of Oregon). 11. 152–173.
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Nail, Thomas. (2020). Marx in Motion : A New Materialist Marxism. 2 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas, et al.. (2019). WHAT IS NEW MATERIALISM?. Angelaki. 24(6). 111–134. 119 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2019). Theory of the Image. Oxford University Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2018). Lucretius I. Edinburgh University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2018). The Nomadic Proletariat. Philosophy Today. 62(4). 1207–1211. 1 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2017). What is an Assemblage?. SubStance. 46(1). 21–37. 119 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2016). Theory of the Border. Oxford University Press eBooks. 106 indexed citations
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Morar, Nicolae, Thomas Nail, & Daniel Smith. (2016). Between Deleuze and Foucault. Edinburgh University Press eBooks.
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Nail, Thomas. (2014). Constructivism and the Future Anterior of Radical Politics.
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Morar, Nicolae, Thomas Nail, & Daniel Smith. (2014). Introduction. Foucault Studies. 4–10. 1 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2013). Deleuze, Occupy, and the Actuality of Revolution. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 5 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2012). Violence at the Borders. 15(1). 241–257. 5 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2012). Returning to Revolution. Edinburgh University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2010). A Post-Neoliberal Ecopolitics? Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo. Philosophy Today. 54(2). 179–190. 1 indexed citations
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Nail, Thomas. (2006). Deleuze and Environmental Damage. Environmental Philosophy. 3(2). 64–66. 9 indexed citations

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