Area

1.8k papers and 38.0k indexed citations i.

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The 1.8k papers published in Area in the last decades have received a total of 38.0k indexed citations. Papers published in Area usually cover Sociology and Political Science (856 papers), Geography, Planning and Development (452 papers) and Urban Studies (215 papers) specifically the topics of Geographies of human-animal interactions (241 papers), Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (176 papers) and Rural development and sustainability (136 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Area are Rachel Pain, Ben Anderson, Deborah Thien, Divya P. Tolia‐Kelly, Jon Anderson, Manuel B. Aalbers, Peter Hopkins, Colin McFarlane, Maxwell Boykoff and Russell Hitchings.

In The Last Decade

Fields of papers published in Area

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Area. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Area.

Countries where authors publish in Area

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Area. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Area with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Area more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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