Thomas Smits

456 total citations
22 papers, 109 citations indexed

About

Thomas Smits is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, History and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Smits has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 109 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 4 papers in History and 3 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Smits's work include Digital Humanities and Scholarship (6 papers), Photography and Visual Culture (4 papers) and Visual Culture and Art Theory (3 papers). Thomas Smits is often cited by papers focused on Digital Humanities and Scholarship (6 papers), Photography and Visual Culture (4 papers) and Visual Culture and Art Theory (3 papers). Thomas Smits collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Thomas Smits's co-authors include Mike Kestemont, Benjamin P. Warner, Paul Fyfe and Samuel Merrill and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, New Media & Society and Journal of Historical Geography.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Smits

15 papers receiving 94 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Smits Netherlands 6 35 21 16 15 15 22 109
Julia Noordegraaf Netherlands 6 36 1.0× 12 0.6× 16 1.0× 32 2.1× 16 1.1× 35 160
Jonathan Prag United Kingdom 7 72 2.1× 11 0.5× 9 0.6× 8 0.5× 23 1.5× 32 228
Marilena Alivizatou United Kingdom 7 40 1.1× 4 0.2× 21 1.3× 39 2.6× 8 0.5× 15 179
Bethany Nowviskie United States 6 11 0.3× 55 2.6× 3 0.2× 11 0.7× 3 0.2× 19 118
Martin Warnke Germany 7 11 0.3× 12 0.6× 3 0.2× 22 1.5× 2 0.1× 35 142
Tula Giannini United States 10 30 0.9× 9 0.4× 21 1.3× 51 3.4× 2 0.1× 28 236
Martha Nell Smith United States 6 11 0.3× 101 4.8× 26 1.7× 2 0.1× 14 161
Miriam Ross New Zealand 9 44 1.3× 20 1.0× 1 0.1× 36 2.4× 21 173
Michael Segal Israel 6 59 1.7× 1 0.0× 11 0.7× 51 3.4× 4 0.3× 31 176
Steven C. Tracy United States 5 44 1.3× 46 2.2× 1 0.1× 49 3.3× 3 0.2× 17 152

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Smits

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Smits

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Smits. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Smits 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 Thomas Smits. Thomas Smits 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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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Coloring in the world of others: color use in visual orientalism, 1890–1920. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11(1).
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2024). A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11.
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Projecting the world: The mediated geography of the projection lantern in Belgium c.1900-c.1920. Journal of Historical Geography. 86. 403–421.
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Stochastic Remembering and Distributed Mnemonic Agency. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 1(2). 209–230. 1 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2023). A multimodal turn in Digital Humanities. Using contrastive machine learning models to explore, enrich, and analyze digital visual historical collections. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 38(3). 1267–1280. 11 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2022). The Great Unseen. Photojournalism and the archive: from analogue to digital. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 25(1). 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Distant reading 940,000 online circulations of 26 iconic photographs. New Media & Society. 25(12). 3543–3572. 6 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2021). The agency of computer vision models as optical instruments. Visual Communication. 21(2). 329–349. 14 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Does transnational contention lead to transnational memory? The online visual memory of the February 2003 anti-Iraq War protests. Social movement studies. 22(1). 23–45. 1 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas & Mike Kestemont. (2021). Towards Multimodal Computational Humanities. Using CLIP to Analyze Late-Nineteenth Century Magic Lantern Slides.. 149–158. 2 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Seeing History: The Visual Side of the Digital Turn. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Seeing History: Analyzing Large-Scale Historical Visual Datasets using Deep Neural Networks. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS).
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Smits, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Ubiquitous Learning Applied to Coding. 87–92. 1 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas. (2017). Illustrations to Photographs: using computer vision to analyse news pictures in Dutch newspapers, 1860-1940.. DH. 1 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas. (2016). Looking for The Illustrated London News in Australian Digital Newspapers. Media History. 23(1). 80–99. 4 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas. (2016). Making the News National: Using Digitized Newspapers to Study the Distribution of the Queen’s Speech by W. H. Smith & Son, 1846–1858. Victorian periodicals review. 49(4). 598–625. 2 indexed citations
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Smits, Thomas. (2014). Problems and possibilities of digital newspaper and periodical archives. 0(36). 139–139. 9 indexed citations

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