2026 Allan Cochrane: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	37	618	564	95	89	213	10227

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Allan Cochrane is a researcher affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom, specializing in social sciences with a significant focus on urban studies. Their recent academic work reflects engagement with multiple interrelated fields including geography, political science, urban planning, and law.

Their research spans various subfields such as:

Urban Studies
Geography, Planning and Development
Political Science and International Relations
Finance
Law

Cochrane's scholarly output addresses core themes in urban planning and governance, housing finance and neoliberalism, and challenges of urban and rural development. They also explore historical and political-economic contexts, particularly relating to the UK and US, as well as legal issues pertinent to South Africa.

Main topics featured in their research include:

Urban Planning and Governance
Political and Economic history of UK and US
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Geographies of human-animal interactions
Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
Legal Issues in South Africa

Their recent publications demonstrate collaboration across diverse academic disciplines. Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

Colin Lorne
Matthew Thompson
Ross Beveridge
Romain Dittgen
Jennifer Robinson

The venues that have published Cochrane's work are multidisciplinary and focus primarily on urban and geographical themes. Key publication outlets are:

Dialogues in Human Geography
Antipode
City
sub\urban zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung
Urban Studies

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Cochrane include:

"Thinking conjuncturally, looking elsewhere" (2023, Dialogues in Human Geography)
"Exploring the Political Potential of the Local State: Building a Dialogue with Sheffield in the 1980s" (2023, Antipode)
"Towards the desired city of compromise: the politics of negotiating large-scale transformation across diversity in Johannesburg" (2024, City)
"Das Urbane konzeptualisieren" (2022, sub\urban zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung)
"Book review forum: Housing in the Margins" (2024, Urban Studies)

Best Publications

Rethinking the Region: Spaces of Neo-Liberalism

John Allen;Allan Cochrane;Gill Court

1220
Citations
Beyond the territorial fix: regional assemblages, politics and power

John Richard Allen;Allan Cochrane

885
Citations
Understanding Urban Policy: A Critical Approach

Allan Cochrane

628
Citations
Rethinking the region

John Allen;Doreen Massey;Allan Cochrane;Julie Charlesworth

553
Citations
Assemblages of State Power: Topological Shifts in the Organization of Government and Politics

John Allen;Allan Cochrane

506
Citations
Manchester Plays Games: Exploring the Local Politics of Globalisation:

Allan Cochrane;Jamie Peck;Adam Tickell

457
Citations
Managing social policy

John Clarke;Allan Cochrane;Eugene McLaughlin

440
Citations
Comparing Welfare States

Allan Cochrane;John Clarke;Sharon Gewirtz

365
Citations
Researching the Geographies of Policy Mobility: Confronting the Methodological Challenges

Allan Cochrane;Kevin Ward

307
Citations
Geographies and politics of localism: the localism of the United Kingdom's coalition government

Nick Clarke;Allan Cochrane

292
Citations
Living multiculture: understanding the new spatial and social relations of ethnicity and multiculture in England

Sarah Neal;Katy Bennett;Allan Cochrane;Giles Mohan

251
Citations
Whatever happened to local government

Allan Cochrane

236
Citations
Illusions of Power: Interviewing Local Elites:

Allan Cochrane

235
Citations
Multiculture and public parks: researching super-diversity and attachment in public green space.

Sarah Neal;Katy Bennett;Hannah Jones;Allan Cochrane

232
Citations
Reimagining Berlin World City, National Capital or Ordinary Place?

Allan Cochrane;Andrew Jonas

197
Citations
Ideologies of Welfare: From Dreams to Disillusion

John Clarke;Allan Cochrane;Carol Smart

150
Citations
THE CHANGING STATE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT: RESTRUCTURING FOR THE 1990s

Allan Cochrane

147
Citations
Urban Multiculture and Everyday Encounters in Semi-Public, Franchised Cafe Spaces

Hannah Jones;Sarah Neal;Giles Mohan;Kieran Connell

129
Citations
Redefining urban politics for the twenty-first century

Allan Cochrane

119
Citations
Modernisation, Managerialism and the Culture Wars: Reshaping the Local Welfare State in England

Allan Cochrane

85
Citations
Community and Conviviality? Informal Social Life in Multicultural Places:

Sarah Neal;Katy Bennett;Allan Cochrane;Giles Mohan

78
Citations
Comparing welfare states : Britain in international context

Allan Cochrane;John Clarke

41
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Giles Mohan The Open University

John Clarke The Open University

Clive Barnett University of Exeter

Janet Newman The Open University

Kevin Ward University of Manchester

Doreen Massey The Open University

Jamie Peck University of British Columbia

Eugene McLaughlin City, University of London

Nik Theodore University of Illinois at Chicago

Eric Sheppard University of California, Los Angeles

External Links

Personal website of Allan Cochrane

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