Tim Zajontz

850 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 309 citations indexed

About

Tim Zajontz is a scholar working on Development, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Zajontz has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 309 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Development, 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 7 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Tim Zajontz's work include International Development and Aid (12 papers), China's Global Influence and Migration (6 papers) and China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 papers). Tim Zajontz is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (12 papers), China's Global Influence and Migration (6 papers) and China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 papers). Tim Zajontz collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United Kingdom and Germany. Tim Zajontz's co-authors include Ian Taylor, Pádraig Carmody, Julie Tian Miao, Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ, Seth Schindler, Jessica DiCarlo, Meredith J. DeBoom, Kevin Ward, Nicholas Jepson and Ilias Alami and has published in prestigious journals such as Third World Quarterly, The Journal of Modern African Studies and Oxford Development Studies.

In The Last Decade

Tim Zajontz

16 papers receiving 290 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
Tim Zajontz South Africa	9	149	141	72	67	52	16	309
Nicolás Pinaud France	6	140 0.9×	100 0.7×	40 0.6×	56 0.8×	97 1.9×	13	269
Nicholas Jepson United Kingdom	7	45 0.3×	89 0.6×	10 0.1×	54 0.8×	40 0.8×	13	222
Jonathan Holslag China	10	163 1.1×	213 1.5×	42 0.6×	98 1.5×	33 0.6×	43	339
Morris L. Bian United States	6	30 0.2×	122 0.9×	8 0.1×	102 1.5×	41 0.8×	10	233
Lucy Corkin South Africa	10	256 1.7×	86 0.6×	71 1.0×	105 1.6×	20 0.4×	27	341
Marek Hanusch United States	9	46 0.3×	73 0.5×	11 0.2×	50 0.7×	132 2.5×	37	254
Michele Alacevich Italy	10	50 0.3×	43 0.3×	7 0.1×	75 1.1×	77 1.5×	34	192
Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ Türkiye	8	15 0.1×	130 0.9×	13 0.2×	71 1.1×	36 0.7×	15	243
Andrew Mold Ethiopia	10	68 0.5×	28 0.2×	7 0.1×	35 0.5×	90 1.7×	29	228
Agata Antkiewicz Canada	7	95 0.6×	77 0.5×	8 0.1×	43 0.6×	37 0.7×	12	193

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Zajontz

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Zajontz

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

All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

Zajontz, Tim. (2025). Locating Africa in the Second Cold War: the geopolitical economy of Kenyan polyalignment. Third World Quarterly. 1–21. 1 indexed citations

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 →

Zajontz, Tim, et al.. (2023). From Loan-Financed to Privatised Infrastructure? Tracing China's Turn Towards Public–Private Partnerships in Africa. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. 52(3). 434–463. 11 indexed citations

Zajontz, Tim. (2023). The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa. 2 indexed citations

Zajontz, Tim, et al.. (2023). Africa’s Railway Renaissance. 3 indexed citations

Zajontz, Tim, et al.. (2022). Infrastructure and the Politics of African State Agency: Shaping the Belt and Road Initiative in East Africa. Chinese Political Science Review. 8(1). 105–131. 35 indexed citations

Zajontz, Tim, et al.. (2022). Correction to: Infrastructure and the Politics of African State Agency: Shaping the Belt and Road Initiative in East Africa. Chinese Political Science Review. 5 indexed citations

Zajontz, Tim. (2022). Seamless imaginaries, territorialized realities: the regional politics of corridor governance in Southern Africa. Territory Politics Governance. 12(8). 1073–1094. 8 indexed citations

Zajontz, Tim. (2022). ‘Win-win’ contested: negotiating the privatisation of Africa's Freedom Railway with the ‘Chinese of today’. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 60(1). 111–134. 10 indexed citations

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Carmody, Pádraig, et al.. (2022). From ‘debt diplomacy’ to donorship? China’s changing role in global development. 1(2). 198–217. 8 indexed citations

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Carmody, Pádraig, Ian Taylor, & Tim Zajontz. (2021). China’s spatial fix and ‘debt diplomacy’ in Africa: constraining belt or road to economic transformation?. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 56(1). 57–77. 54 indexed citations

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Zajontz, Tim. (2021). Debt, distress, dispossession: towards a critical political economy of Africa’s financial dependency. Review of African Political Economy. 49(171). 24 indexed citations

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Zajontz, Tim. (2020). The Chinese infrastructural fix in Africa: lessons from the Sino-Zambian ‘road bonanza’. Oxford Development Studies. 50(1). 14–29. 24 indexed citations

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Taylor, Ian & Tim Zajontz. (2020). In a fix: Africa’s place in the Belt and Road Initiative and the reproduction of dependency. South African Journal of International Affairs. 27(3). 277–295. 38 indexed citations

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Zajontz, Tim, et al.. (2015). Regionalism Revised: A Critical-reflectivist Framework for Engaging the Changing Nature of Developing Regionalisms in Africa. Politikon. 42(3). 299–323. 7 indexed citations

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Zajontz, Tim, et al.. (2015). Civil Society in Southern Africa – Transformers from Below?. Journal of Southern African Studies. 41(4). 887–904. 5 indexed citations

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