Walter J. Nicholls

3.0k total citations
66 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Walter J. Nicholls is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter J. Nicholls has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 26 papers in Urban Studies and 18 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Walter J. Nicholls's work include Migration, Refugees, and Integration (31 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (22 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 papers). Walter J. Nicholls is often cited by papers focused on Migration, Refugees, and Integration (31 papers), Urban Planning and Governance (22 papers) and Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 papers). Walter J. Nicholls collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Walter J. Nicholls's co-authors include Justus Uitermark, Justin Beaumont, Byron Miller, Maarten Loopmans, Athina Arampatzi, Byron Miller, Marcel Maussen, Susan Bibler Coutin, Floris Vermeulen and Cecilia Menjívar and has published in prestigious journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Urban Studies and Social Problems.

In The Last Decade

Walter J. Nicholls

65 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Walter J. Nicholls Netherlands 25 1.0k 542 449 215 163 66 1.7k
Helga Leitner United States 18 1.3k 1.2× 377 0.7× 385 0.9× 211 1.0× 124 0.8× 23 1.8k
John Mollenkopf United States 18 1.1k 1.0× 269 0.5× 342 0.8× 154 0.7× 147 0.9× 52 1.6k
Nicholas R. Fyfe United Kingdom 23 1.3k 1.2× 299 0.6× 544 1.2× 454 2.1× 194 1.2× 78 2.0k
Christian Laval France 11 787 0.8× 263 0.5× 279 0.6× 224 1.0× 148 0.9× 73 1.3k
David Wilson United Kingdom 15 469 0.5× 321 0.6× 438 1.0× 69 0.3× 201 1.2× 56 1.2k
James DeFilippis United States 21 828 0.8× 453 0.8× 204 0.5× 441 2.1× 388 2.4× 49 1.6k
Margit Mayer Germany 17 646 0.6× 730 1.3× 419 0.9× 160 0.7× 322 2.0× 60 1.5k
Melissa W. Wright United States 20 883 0.8× 160 0.3× 242 0.5× 122 0.6× 51 0.3× 52 1.4k
Stefan Kipfer Canada 17 708 0.7× 519 1.0× 355 0.8× 156 0.7× 186 1.1× 35 1.5k
Pierre Dardot France 8 697 0.7× 231 0.4× 247 0.6× 135 0.6× 119 0.7× 25 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nicholls, Walter J., et al.. (2023). Representational Hierarchies in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement. American Journal of Sociology. 129(2). 485–529. 3 indexed citations
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Uitermark, Justus, et al.. (2022). The Swarm versus the Grassroots: places and networks of supporters and opponents of Black Lives Matter on Twitter. Social movement studies. 22(2). 171–189. 19 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J., et al.. (2021). Municipal institutions and local policy responses to immigrants: policies towards day labourers in California. Territory Politics Governance. 10(3). 445–464. 5 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J., Cecilia Menjívar, & Daniel Alvord. (2020). “No Tyson in Tongie!”: The Battle to Protect a Rural Way of Life in Kansas*. Sociological Forum. 36(1). 29–50. 3 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J., et al.. (2020). Undocumented Immigrant Activism and the Political: Disrupting the Order or Reproducing the Status Quo?. Antipode. 53(2). 319–330. 18 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J., et al.. (2020). Local Path Dependency and Scale Shift in Social Movements: The Case of the us Immigrant Rights Movement. Geographical Review. 111(2). 269–286. 5 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J.. (2019). The Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship. 7 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J. & Justus Uitermark. (2016). Migrant cities: place, power, and voice in the era of super diversity. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 42(6). 877–892. 45 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J. & Justus Uitermark. (2016). Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the Us, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 18 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J.. (2015). Policing Immigrants as Politicizing Immigration: The Paradox of Border Enforcement. Open Collections. 14(2). 512–521. 2 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J.. (2015). The Politics of Regional Development. Territory Politics Governance. 3(3). 227–234. 1 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J., et al.. (2014). Rights to the Neoliberal City: The Case of Urban Land Squatting in ‘Creative’ Berlin. Territory Politics Governance. 2(2). 173–193. 11 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J., Byron Miller, & Justin Beaumont. (2013). Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 31 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J., Byron Miller, & Justin Beaumont. (2013). Introduction: Conceptualizing the spatialities of social movements. 1–23. 19 indexed citations
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Uitermark, Justus & Walter J. Nicholls. (2012). How Local Networks Shape a Global Movement: Comparing Occupy in Amsterdam and Los Angeles. Social movement studies. 11(3-4). 295–301. 34 indexed citations
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Uitermark, Justus, Walter J. Nicholls, & Maarten Loopmans. (2012). Cities and Social Movements: Theorizing beyond the Right to the City. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 44(11). 2546–2554. 88 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J.. (2009). Book Review: Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality. Urban Studies. 46(10). 2239–2243. 1 indexed citations
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Beaumont, Justin & Walter J. Nicholls. (2008). Plural Governance, Participation and Democracy in Cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 32(1). 87–94. 59 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J.. (2006). Power to the Periphery: Suburban Empowerment in Toulouse, France. Environment and Planning A Economy and Space. 38(9). 1715–1737. 3 indexed citations
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Nicholls, Walter J. & Justin Beaumont. (2004). The urbanisation of justice movements? Possibilities and constraints for the city as a space of contentious struggle. Space and Polity. 8(2). 119–135. 25 indexed citations

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