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Gordon MacLeod publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Political Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gordon MacLeod sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 47 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

Gordon MacLeod D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gordon MacLeod sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 76 scientists 21 D-Index: 79 scientists 22 D-Index: 84 scientists 23 D-Index: 68 scientists 24 D-Index: 88 scientists 25 D-Index: 82 scientists 26 D-Index: 76 scientists 27 D-Index: 75 scientists 28 D-Index: 99 scientists 29 D-Index: 96 scientists 30 D-Index: 96 scientists 31 D-Index: 81 scientists 32 D-Index: 86 scientists 33 D-Index: 81 scientists 34 D-Index: 84 scientists 35 D-Index: 72 scientists 36 D-Index: 58 scientists 37 D-Index: 53 scientists 38 D-Index: 48 scientists 39 D-Index: 40 scientists 40 D-Index: 40 scientists 41 D-Index: 32 scientists 42 D-Index: 26 scientists 43 D-Index: 25 scientists 44 D-Index: 33 scientists 45 D-Index: 33 scientists 46 D-Index: 17 scientists 47 D-Index: 21 scientists 48 D-Index: 22 scientists 49 D-Index: 18 scientists 50 D-Index: 19 scientists 51 D-Index: 19 scientists 52 D-Index: 15 scientists 53 D-Index: 14 scientists 54 D-Index: 10 scientists 55 D-Index: 13 scientists 56 D-Index: 9 scientists 57 D-Index: 11 scientists 58 D-Index: 12 scientists 59 D-Index: 10 scientists 60 D-Index: 5 scientists 61 D-Index: 7 scientists 62+ D-Index: 100 scientists
20 D-Index 62+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gordon MacLeod was affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focused on physics and astronomy, with a significant concentration in astronomy and astrophysics. The breadth of their work included spectroscopy and nuclear and high energy physics, with additional contributions to atmospheric science and urban studies.

The scientist's scholarly output spanned various topics within astrophysics and planetary science. Their main areas of study included:

  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Astro and Planetary Science

MacLeod published frequently in several notable venues. The most common publication outlets were:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Astronomy
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

Their recent papers included:

  • A heatwave of accretion energy traced by masers in the G358-MM1 high-mass protostar (2020, Nature Astronomy)
  • Infrared observations of the flaring maser source G358.93-0.03 -- SOFIA confirms an accretion burst from a massive young stellar object (2021, arXiv [Cornell University])
  • New maser species tracing spiral-arm accretion flows in a high-mass young stellar object (2020, Nature Astronomy)
  • 13CH3OH Masers Associated With a Transient Phenomenon in a High-mass Young Stellar Object (2020, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
  • The Extraordinary Outburst in the Massive Protostellar System NGC 6334 I-MM1: Strong Increase in Mid-Infrared Continuum Emission (2021, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)

The scientist collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • C. L. Brogan
  • James O. Chibueze
  • Yoshinori Yonekura
  • T. R. Hunter
  • S. P. van den Heever

Best Publications

  • State/Space:A Reader

    Neil Brenner;Bob Jessop;Martin Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • Space, scale and state strategy: rethinking urban and regional governance

    Gordon Macleod;Mark Goodwin

  • From Urban Entrepreneurialism to a “Revanchist City”? On the Spatial Injustices of Glasgow’s Renaissance

    Gordon MacLeod

  • New Regionalism Reconsidered: Globalization and the Remaking of Political Economic Space

    Gordon MacLeod

  • TERRITORIAL, SCALAR, NETWORKED, CONNECTED:IN WHAT SENSE A `REGIONAL WORLD??

    Gordon Macleod;Martin Russell Jones

  • Regional spaces, spaces of regionalism: territory, insurgent politics and the English question

    Martin Russell Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • Urban Politics Reconsidered Growth Machine to Post-democratic City?

    Gordon MacLeod

  • Spaces of Utopia and Dystopia: Landscaping the Contemporary City

    Gordon MacLeod;Kevin Ward

  • Reconstructing an urban and regional political economy: on the state, politics, scale, and explanation

    Gordon MacLeod;Mark Goodwin

  • Renewing the Geography of Regions

    Gordon MacLeod;Martin Russell Jones

  • Beyond Soft Institutionalism: Accumulation, Regulation, and Their Geographical Fixes:

    Gordon MacLeod

  • Renewing urban politics.

    Gordon MacLeod;Martin Russell Jones

  • Towards a Regional Renaissance? Reconfiguring and Rescaling England's Economic Governance

    Martin Russell Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • Introduction: State Space in Question

    Neil Brenner;Bob Jessop;Martin Jones;Gordon MacLeod

  • Grappling with Smart City Politics in an Era of Market Triumphalism

    David Gibbs;Rob Krueger;Gordon MacLeod

  • Place, Politics and ‘Scale Dependence’

    Unknown

  • New Urbanism/Smart Growth in the Scottish Highlands: Mobile Policies and Post-politics in Local Development Planning:

    Gordon MacLeod

  • The learning region in an age of austerity: capitalizing on knowledge, entrepreneurialism, and reflexive capitalism

    Gordon MacLeod

  • In what sense a region? Place hybridity, symbolic shape, and institutional formation in (post-) modern Scotland

    Unknown

  • ‘Institutional thickness’ and industrial governance in Lowland Scotland

    Unknown

  • Negotiating the Contemporary City: Introduction

    Gordon MacLeod;Mike Raco;Kevin Ward

  • Enhancing urban autonomy : Towards a new political project for cities

    Harriet Bulkeley;Andrés Luque-Ayala;Colin McFarlane;Gordon MacLeod

  • Explaining ‘Brexit capital’: uneven development and the austerity state

    Gordon MacLeod;Martin Jones

  • Securing the City: Urban Renaissance, Policing and Social Regulation

    Gesa Helms;Rowland Atkinson;Gordon MacLeod

  • Introduction : grammars of urban injustice.

    Gordon MacLeod;Colin McFarlane

  • Editorial: New Times, Shifting Places

    Ivan Turok;David Bailey;Gillian Bristow;Jun Du

  • Connecting localism and community empowerment : research review and critical synthesis for the AHRC Connected Community Programme.

    J. Painter;A. Orton;G. Macleod;L. Dominelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Jones
Martin Jones Staffordshire University
Tom Slater
Tom Slater University of Edinburgh
Bob Jessop
Bob Jessop Lancaster University
Neil Brenner
Neil Brenner University of Chicago
Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward University of Manchester
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin University of Exeter
Ivan Turok
Ivan Turok University of the Free State
Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Lena Dominelli
Lena Dominelli University of Stirling

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