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Alan Latham publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Latham sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 98 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Alan Latham D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Latham sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 31 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alan Latham is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies, and Transportation.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Geography Education and Pedagogy

Recent papers authored by Alan Latham include:

  • Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it, 2022, Urban Geography
  • Thinking with method: qualitative research in human geography, 2020, Area

In addition to these works, notable papers in related fields published around the same time include:

  • Social infrastructure and public life - notes on Finsbury Park, London, 2021, Urban Geography
  • Qualitative methods III: On different ways of describing our work, 2020, Progress in Human Geography
  • Working and dwelling in a global city: going-out, public worlds, and the intimate lives of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, 2021, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Alan Latham has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Area (7 publications)
  • Urban Geography (2 publications)
  • Progress in Human Geography (1 publication)
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (1 publication)
  • Cultural Geographies (1 publication)

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Russell Hitchings
  • Jack Layton
  • Julian Leyland
  • Sarah Marie Hall
  • Lauren Wagner

Best Publications

  • “Research, Performance, and doing Human Geography: Some Reflections on the Diary–Photograph, Diary–Interview Method”

    Alan Latham

  • Transnational urbanism: Attending to everyday practices and mobilities

    David Conradson;Alan Latham

  • Moving cities: rethinking the materialities of urban geographies

    Alan Latham;Derek P. McCormack

  • Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city: Antipodean transmigrants in London

    David Conradson;Alan Latham

  • Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces

    Alan Latham;Jack Layton

  • Urbanity, lifestyle and making sense of the new urban cultural economy: Notes from Auckland, New Zealand

    Alan Latham

  • The Affective Possibilities of London: Antipodean Transnationals and the Overseas Experience

    David Conradson;Alan Latham

  • Thinking with images in non-representational cities: vignettes from Berlin

    Alan Latham;Derek P McCormack

  • On the Hard Work of Domesticating a Public Space

    Regan Koch;Alan Latham

  • Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it

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  • Key Concepts in Urban Geography

    Alan Latham;Derek McCormack;Kim McNamara;Donald McNeill

  • Rethinking urban public space: accounts from a junction in West London

    Regan Koch;Alan Latham

  • Researching and writing everyday accounts of the city: an introduction to the diary-photo diary-interview method

    A Latham

  • Inhabiting Infrastructure: Exploring the Interactional Spaces of Urban Cycling:

    Alan Latham;Peter R H Wood

  • The possibilities of performance

    Alan Latham;David Conradson

  • The history of a habit: jogging as a palliative to sedentariness in 1960s America

    Alan Latham

  • Retheorizing the Scale of Globalization: Topologies, Actor‐Networks, and Cosmopolitanism

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  • Qualitative methods I: On current conventions in interview research:

    Russell Hitchings;Alan Latham

  • Escalator London? A Case Study of New Zealand Tertiary Educated Migrants in a Global City

    David Conradson;Alan Latham

  • The Power of Distraction: Distraction, Tactility, and Habit in the Work of Walter Benjamin

    Alan Latham

  • How 'social' is recreational running? Findings from a qualitative study in London and implications for public health promotion

    Russell Hitchings;Alan Latham

  • Indoor versus outdoor running: understanding how recreational exercise comes to inhabit environments through practitioner talk

    Russell Hitchings;Alan Latham

  • Globalization: The Human Consequences

    Alan Latham

  • Moving Cities: rethinking the materialities of urban geographies

    AM Latham

  • Urban Outcasts: A comparative sociology of advanced marginality

    A Latham

  • Key Methods in Geography

    AR Latham

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Edensor
Tim Edensor Manchester Metropolitan University
Michael F. Goodchild
Michael F. Goodchild University of California, Santa Barbara
Jason Dittmer
Jason Dittmer University College London
David Bissell
David Bissell University of Melbourne

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