Will Straw

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 940 citations indexed

About

Will Straw is a scholar working on Music, Urban Studies and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Will Straw has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 940 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Music, 14 papers in Urban Studies and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Will Straw's work include Music History and Culture (17 papers), Cinema and Media Studies (8 papers) and Night-time city culture (7 papers). Will Straw is often cited by papers focused on Music History and Culture (17 papers), Cinema and Media Studies (8 papers) and Night-time city culture (7 papers). Will Straw collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Will Straw's co-authors include Alan E. Kehew, Luc Gwiazdzinski, William A. Webb, Paul Edwin Potter, Giuseppe Passarella, Jørgen Berge, A. Roger Ekirch, David Tomás, Dietrich Henckel and Sara B. Pritchard and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Will Straw

55 papers receiving 704 citations

Hit Papers

Systems of articulation, logics of change: Communities an... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 100 200 300 400
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. Systems of articulation, logics of change: Communities and scenes in popular music
    1991 408 citations Will Straw Cultural Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Will Straw Canada 13 419 390 266 99 87 64 940
Paul Oliver United Kingdom 12 120 0.3× 212 0.5× 118 0.4× 46 0.5× 23 0.3× 54 863
Philip Hayward Australia 14 110 0.3× 259 0.7× 35 0.1× 47 0.5× 19 0.2× 119 656
Ben Brewster United States 13 35 0.1× 292 0.7× 20 0.1× 47 0.5× 58 0.7× 43 1.0k
Scott R. Hutson United States 20 38 0.1× 106 0.3× 26 0.1× 53 0.5× 22 0.3× 50 1.3k
Bruce McConachie United States 13 167 0.4× 102 0.3× 16 0.1× 24 0.2× 9 0.1× 57 660
David Novák United States 20 26 0.1× 245 0.6× 14 0.1× 22 0.2× 82 0.9× 55 1.2k
Clayton R. Koppes United States 13 18 0.0× 259 0.7× 13 0.0× 69 0.7× 45 0.5× 39 879
Ben Goldsmith Australia 13 10 0.0× 102 0.3× 157 0.6× 34 0.3× 25 0.3× 65 517
Joanne Garde‐Hansen United Kingdom 11 12 0.0× 303 0.8× 21 0.1× 43 0.4× 70 0.8× 24 681
Cornelius Holtorf Sweden 21 12 0.0× 241 0.6× 77 0.3× 59 0.6× 8 0.1× 129 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Will Straw

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Fields of papers citing papers by Will Straw

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Will Straw

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Will Straw. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Will Straw 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 Will Straw. Will Straw 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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Straw, Will. (2023). Distance and Connection. Phonograph Records as Narrative Objects in 1940s Cinema. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 10(1). 36–52. 1 indexed citations
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Kyba, Christopher C. M., Sara B. Pritchard, A. Roger Ekirch, et al.. (2020). Night Matters—Why the Interdisciplinary Field of “Night Studies” Is Needed. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1–6. 28 indexed citations
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Gwiazdzinski, Luc, et al.. (2020). Night studies : Regards croisés sur les nouveaux visages de la nuit l'innovation autrement.
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Straw, Will. (2015). Media and the Urban Night. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 7 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (2015). Chrono-Urbanism and Single-Night Narratives in Film. 12(1). 46–56. 5 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (2015). Mediality and the Music Chart. SubStance. 44(3). 128–138. 3 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (2014). Some Things a Scene Might Be. Cultural Studies. 29(3). 476–485. 44 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (2009). Montreal and The Captive City. Quebec Studies. 48. 13–24. 1 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (2008). Scenes and Sensibilities. E-Compós. 6. 53 indexed citations
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Street, John, Will Straw, & Simon Frith. (2001). Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (2000). Exhausted Commodities: The Material Culture of Music. Canadian Journal of Communication. 25(1). 23 indexed citations
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Berland, Jody, Will Straw, & David Tomás. (1996). Theory Rules. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (1993). The Booth, The Floor and The Wall: Dance Music and the Fear of Falling. 7 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (1985). Teaching Critical Media Analysis. Canadian Journal of Communication. 11(1). 5–16. 5 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (1984). Characterizing Rock Music Cultures: The Case of Heavy Metal. Érudit (Université de Montréal). 104–104. 19 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (1970). Scenes and Sensibilities. E-Compós. 6. 16 indexed citations
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Straw, Will. (1967). The Upper Alluvial Terrace Along the Ohio River Valley in South-Central Indiana. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. 77. 231–235. 1 indexed citations

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