Tom Conley

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Tom Conley is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Conley has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Tom Conley's work include French Literature and Criticism (7 papers), French Literature and Critical Theory (6 papers) and Cinema and Media Studies (6 papers). Tom Conley is often cited by papers focused on French Literature and Criticism (7 papers), French Literature and Critical Theory (6 papers) and Cinema and Media Studies (6 papers). Tom Conley collaborates with scholars based in United States and Australia. Tom Conley's co-authors include Fredric Jameson, Ian Buchanan, Peggy Kamuf, Marc Augé, Lesley B. Cormack, Stephen Melville, Svetlana Alpers, Paul Hernadi, Emily Apter and Dalia Judovitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Modern Language Journal, The Modern Language Review and The William and Mary Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Tom Conley

47 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Political Unconscious... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 1994 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
    1982 1.4k citations Tom Conley et al. profile →
  2. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
    1994 542 citations Tom Conley et al. SubStance profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Tom Conley 788 751 398 247 226 62 2.4k
Marita Sturken 1.1k 1.3× 278 0.4× 355 0.9× 249 1.0× 217 1.0× 65 2.4k
Robert Hurley 1.3k 1.7× 404 0.5× 470 1.2× 448 1.8× 318 1.4× 20 2.9k
Andreas Huyssen 1.3k 1.7× 753 1.0× 436 1.1× 350 1.4× 371 1.6× 89 3.4k
Dana Polan 626 0.8× 396 0.5× 237 0.6× 160 0.6× 179 0.8× 71 2.0k
Harold Bloom 834 1.1× 1.6k 2.1× 618 1.6× 200 0.8× 234 1.0× 347 3.6k
Helen Lane 853 1.1× 349 0.5× 293 0.7× 318 1.3× 203 0.9× 24 2.0k
Susan Buck‐Morss 1.3k 1.6× 385 0.5× 512 1.3× 263 1.1× 524 2.3× 56 2.8k
Teresa de Lauretis 1.5k 1.9× 942 1.3× 445 1.1× 390 1.6× 303 1.3× 83 4.1k
Jean‐Luc Nancy 1.3k 1.6× 550 0.7× 1.1k 2.8× 263 1.1× 417 1.8× 297 3.2k
Martin Jay 1.1k 1.4× 261 0.3× 357 0.9× 151 0.6× 378 1.7× 88 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Conley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Conley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Conley

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tom Conley. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tom Conley 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 Tom Conley. Tom Conley 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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Conley, Tom. (2017). The stretched rubber band: banks, houses, debt and vulnerability in Australia. Australian Journal of Political Science. 53(1). 40–56. 5 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom. (2017). A Suckling of Cities: Montaigne in Paris and Rome. Classiques GARNIER. 1997. 169–188.
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Conley, Tom. (2011). Deleuze and the Filmic Diagram. Deleuze Studies. 5(2). 163–176. 2 indexed citations
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Heazle, Michael, Martin Griffiths, & Tom Conley. (2009). Foreign Policy Challenges in the 21st Century. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 9 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom & Mitchell Greenberg. (2004). Baroque Bodies: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of French Absolutism. Comparative Literature. 56(2). 198–198. 4 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom. (2001). The Re-Globalisation of the Australian Economy. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 36(2). 199–231. 1 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom. (2001). The Domestic Politics of Globalisation. Australian Journal of Political Science. 36(2). 223–246. 19 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom. (1999). Civil war and French Better Homes & Gardens.. PubMed. 98(4). 725–70.
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Conley, Tom. (1998). Friendship in a Local Vein: Montaigne’s Servitude to La Boétie. South Atlantic Quarterly. 97(1). 65–90. 1 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom. (1998). Algeria Off-Map. Parallax. 4(2). 99–112. 1 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom, et al.. (1998). The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France. The Modern Language Review. 93(2). 498–498. 3 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom, et al.. (1998). Modes of representation in Spanish cinema. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 9 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom. (1986). Documentary Surrealism: On Land without Bread. Iowa Research Online (The University of Iowa). 15(1). 176–198. 3 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom. (1985). Samuel Beckett: Color, Letter, and Line.. Visible Language. 19(4). 1 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom & Paul Hernadi. (1983). What Is Criticism?. SubStance. 12(3). 99–99. 5 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom, et al.. (1982). Sexuality/Textuality: A Study of the Fabric of Montaigne's "Essais". SubStance. 11(3). 82–82. 4 indexed citations
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Conley, Tom. (1977). Montaigne's Gascoingne: Textual Regionalism in 'Des Boyteux'. MLN. 92(4). 710–710. 2 indexed citations

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