Vanessa Watson

177 total papers · 7.5k total citations
94 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Vanessa Watson is a scholar working on Urban Studies, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Vanessa Watson has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Urban Studies, 22 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Vanessa Watson's work include Urban and Rural Development Challenges (32 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (21 papers) and Local Economic Development and Planning (15 papers). Vanessa Watson is often cited by papers focused on Urban and Rural Development Challenges (32 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (21 papers) and Local Economic Development and Planning (15 papers). Vanessa Watson collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Australia and United Kingdom. Vanessa Watson's co-authors include Jane Battersby, Penelope Strauss, Sam Winter, Dani Wright Toussaint, Ashleigh Lin, Alison Todes, Angus Cook, Peter Wilkinson, Andrew D. Spiegel and Philip Harrison and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Hydrology and Psychological Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Vanessa Watson

91 papers receiving 4.1k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Seeing from the South: Refocusing Urban Planning on the Globe’s Central Urban Issues
    2009 532 citations Vanessa Watson Urban Studies profile →
  2. African urban fantasies: dreams or nightmares?
    2013 450 citations Vanessa Watson Environment and Urbanization profile →
  3. ‘The planned city sweeps the poor away…’: Urban planning and 21st century urbanisation
    2009 411 citations Vanessa Watson Progress in Planning profile →
  4. Co-production and collaboration in planning – The difference
    2014 238 citations Vanessa Watson Planning Theory & Practice profile →

Author Peers

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

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Vanessa Watson 2.5k 1.1k 931 471 338 94 4.5k
Mark Purcell 1.9k 0.8× 1.6k 1.4× 964 1.0× 366 0.8× 352 1.0× 62 4.7k
Nicholas Blomley 1.2k 0.5× 1.6k 1.4× 797 0.9× 259 0.5× 422 1.2× 96 4.1k
Edward W. Soja 2.4k 1.0× 3.2k 2.8× 999 1.1× 234 0.5× 386 1.1× 50 7.6k
Colin McFarlane 2.9k 1.2× 2.2k 2.0× 2.3k 2.5× 595 1.3× 544 1.6× 103 7.5k
Susan S. Fainstein 2.3k 0.9× 1.9k 1.6× 737 0.8× 381 0.8× 259 0.8× 83 4.5k
John Forester 1.2k 0.5× 1.3k 1.1× 658 0.7× 510 1.1× 246 0.7× 96 3.8k
Susan Parnell 2.3k 0.9× 1.5k 1.3× 948 1.0× 1.2k 2.5× 278 0.8× 112 5.2k
Jennifer Robinson 3.4k 1.4× 1.8k 1.6× 1.5k 1.6× 309 0.7× 216 0.6× 86 5.3k
Ivan Turok 2.3k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 541 1.1× 362 1.1× 179 5.1k
Derek Gregory 1.4k 0.6× 4.2k 3.7× 1.4k 1.5× 280 0.6× 406 1.2× 92 8.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Vanessa Watson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vanessa Watson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vanessa Watson

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

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