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D-Index
49
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9159
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2965
National Ranking
510

Chris Philo 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 Chris Philo sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 216 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Chris Philo 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 Chris Philo sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 49 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Chris Philo is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies within the broad domain of Social Sciences, with a concentration on Geography, Planning and Development. Additional subfields of study include Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Demography, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's research engages with several thematic topics, including:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • Data Analysis and Archiving
  • History of Science and Natural History

Philo has contributed to a range of academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Scottish Geographical Journal
  • The AAG Review of Books
  • International Journal of Social Psychiatry
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Geographische Zeitschrift

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Philo include:

  • Nothing-much geographies, or towards micrological investigations (2021) published in Geographische Zeitschrift
  • 'In the critical department': refreshing the Scottish Geographical Journal (2022) published in Scottish Geographical Journal

Other recent relevant publications associated with Philo's research environment are:

  • Lockdown under lockdown? Pandemic, the carceral and COVID-19 in British prisons (2022) published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond (2020) published in The AAG Review of Books
  • "Hanging Around in Their Brokenness": On Mental Ill-Health Geography, Asylums and Camps, Artworks and Salvage (2023) published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Philo frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Martin D. Hurst
  • Emma Laurie
  • Rhian Thomas
  • Cheryl McGeachan
  • Hester Parr

Philo holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom, which indicates recognition within their professional community.

Best Publications

  • Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present.

    Chris Philo;Gerard Kearns

  • Neglected rural geographies: A review

    Chris Philo

  • Animal Spaces, Beastly Places : New Geographies of Human-Animal Relations

    Chris Philo;Chris Wilbert

  • Cold shoulders and napkins handed: gestures of responsibility

    Eric Laurier;Chris Philo

  • Possible geographies: a passing encounter in a cafe

    Eric Laurier;Chris Philo

  • Spaces of citizenship: an introduction

    Unknown

  • Body Cultures Essays on Sport, Space and Identity

    Henning Eichberg;John Bale;Chris Philo;Susan Brownell

  • Foucault's Geography:

    C Philo

  • Social geographies of rural mental health: experiencing inclusions and exclusions

    Hester Parr;Chris Philo;Nicola Burns

  • Institutional geographies: introductory remarks

    Chris Philo;Hester Parr

  • Rural mental health and social geographies of caring

    Hester Parr;Chris Philo

  • To Go Back up the Side Hill': Memories, Imaginations and Reveries of Childhood

    Chris Philo

  • Rural madness: a geographical reading and critique of the rural mental health literature

    Chris Philo;Hester Parr;Nicola Burns

  • From distributions of deviance to definitions of difference: past and future mental health geographies.

    Jennifer Wolch;Chris Philo

  • Guest Editorial: Political geographies of children and young people

    Chris Philo;Fiona M. Smith

  • THE NORMALITY OF DOING THINGS DIFFERENTLY: BODIES, SPACES AND DISABILITY GEOGRAPHY

    Nancy Hansen;Chris Philo

  • Playful spaces? a social geography of children's play in Livingston, Scotland

    Joanne L. Thomson;Chris Philo

  • Natural problems of naturalistic video data

    Eric Laurier;C. Philo

  • Security of geography/geography of security

    Chris Philo

  • X-Morphising: Review Essay of Bruno Latour's Aramis, or the Love of Technology:

    Eric Laurier;Chris Philo

  • Geographies of exclusion.

    Chris Philo;Hester Parr;Nicola Burns

  • “Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present”: session held by the Historical Geography Research Group and the Social and Cultural Geography Study Group at the Annual Conference of the Institute of British Geographers, Glasgow, 5–6 January 1990

    Chris Philo

Frequent Co-Authors

Noel Castree
Noel Castree University of Technology Sydney
Sally-Ann Cooper
Sally-Ann Cooper University of Glasgow
Sarah Elwood
Sarah Elwood University of Washington
Jennifer Wolch
Jennifer Wolch University of California, Berkeley
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Mimi Sheller
Mimi Sheller Drexel University
Zoe K. Shipton
Zoe K. Shipton University of Strathclyde
Keith Richards
Keith Richards University of Cambridge
Kevin J. Edwards
Kevin J. Edwards University of Aberdeen
Terry Marsden
Terry Marsden Cardiff University

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