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2023
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2022

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Political Science

D-Index
82
Citations
36581
World Ranking
22
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Ron Johnston was affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spanned multiple fields, notably Social Sciences and Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions across subfields such as Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Education, and Geography, Planning and Development.

Their publication record included a diverse range of topics, with a strong focus on Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies and School Choice and Performance. Other central research areas consisted of Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, High-Energy Particle Collisions Research, Geographic Information Systems Studies, and the Political and Economic history of the UK and US.

Ron Johnston's recent papers included:

  • Quantitative geography III: Future challenges and challenging futures (2020, Progress in Human Geography)
  • Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio (2022, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation)
  • Beam spin asymmetry measurements of deeply virtual π0 production with CLAS12 (2024, Physics Letters B)
  • Measurement of Møller scattering at 2.5 MeV (2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.)
  • Searching for New Physics with DarkLight at the ARIEL Electron-Linac (2022, Journal of Physics Conference Series)

Their frequent coauthors included Richard Harris, Charles Pattie, David Rossiter, S. Lee, and S. Diehl, highlighting collaboration across interdisciplinary domains.

Ron Johnston also contributed to book publications, particularly through Bristol University Press eBooks, publishing four books titled Ethnic Segregation Between Schools in 2020. Additional book publications were with Winchester University Press and Policy Press, including Representative democracy? in 2021 and another edition of Ethnic Segregation Between Schools in 2020.

Key venues for Ron Johnston's work were:

  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Manchester University Press eBooks
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Progress in Human Geography
  • Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

The combination of publications and coauthorships reflected a career engaged with both theoretical and applied research that bridged social sciences and physics, contributing to scholarly discourse across these multifaceted domains.

Best Publications

  • The Dictionary of Human Geography

    Derek Gregory;Ron Johnston;Geraldine Pratt;J. Michael Watts

  • Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography Since 1945

    R. J. Johnston

  • Confounding and collinearity in regression analysis: a cautionary tale and an alternative procedure, illustrated by studies of British voting behaviour.

    Ron Johnston;Kelvyn Jones;David Manley

  • Multivariate statistical analysis in geography : a primer on the general linear model

    Ronald John Johnston

  • Geography of Elections

    Peter J. Taylor;Ronald John Johnston

  • A Question of Place : Exploring the Practice of Human Geography

    R. J. Johnston

  • Winning the Local Vote: The Effectiveness of Constituency Campaign Spending in Great Britain, 1983–1992

    Charles J. Pattie;Ronald J. Johnston;Edward A. Fieldhouse

  • The Geography of Ethnic Residential Segregation: A Comparative Study of Five Countries

    Ron Johnston;Michael Poulsen;James Forrest

  • Are There Ethnic Enclaves/Ghettos in English Cities?.

    Ron Johnston;James Forrest;Michael Poulsen

  • On the Measurement of Power: Some Reactions to Laver

    R J Johnston

  • Self‐management education programmes for osteoarthritis

    Féline P.B. Kroon;Lennart R. A. van der Burg;Rachelle Buchbinder;Richard H. Osborne

  • ‘People Who Talk Together Vote Together’: An Exploration of Contextual Effects in Great Britain

    Charles Pattie;Ron Johnston

  • Political, Electoral, and Spatial Systems: An Essay in Political Geography

    R. J. Johnston

  • Dictionary of Human Geography

    R. J. Johnston;Derek Gregory

  • Putting Voters in Their Place

    Ron Johnston;Charles Pattie

  • A Nation Dividing?: The Electoral Map of Great Britain 1979-1987

    R. J. Johnston;C. J. Pattie;J. G. Allsopp

  • Class dealignment and the neighbourhood effect: Miller revisited

    I. Macallister;R.J. Johnston;C.J. Pattie;Helena Tunstall

  • From Votes To Seats: The Operation of the UK Electoral System since 1945

    R. J. Johnston

  • Geography and inequality

    Keith D. Harries;B. E. Coates;R. J. Johnston;P. L. Knox

  • The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost always do Better

    Ron Johnston

  • Voter turnout at the british general election of 1992: rational choice, social standing or political efficacy?

    Charles Pattie;Ron Johnston

  • Tactical Voting in Great Britain in 1983 and 1987: An Alternative Approach

    R. J. Johnston;C. J. Pattie

  • Ethnic and Racial Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1980-2000: The Dimensions of Segregation Revisited

    Ron Johnston;Michael Poulsen;James Forrest

  • Geographies of global change : remapping the world

    R. J. Johnston;Peter J. Taylor;Michael Watts

  • Split-Ticket Patterns in Mixed-Member Proportional Election Systems: Estimates and Analyses of Their Spatial Variation at the German Federal Election, 1998

    Thomas Gschwend;Ron Johnston;Charles Pattie

  • A NATION DIVIDING: ECONOMIC WELL-BEING, VOTER RESPONSE AND THE CHANGING ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY OF GREAT BRITAIN

    R. J. Johnston;C. J. Pattie

  • Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: East Meets West

    David J Manley;Ron Johnston;Kelvyn Jones;Dewi A Owen

  • Mixed‐Member electoral systems: The best of both worlds?

    Ron Johnston

  • The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq

    Ron Johnston

  • Human Geography: An Essential Anthology

    Ron Johnston

  • Performance Politics and the British Voter

    Ron Johnston

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Pattie
Charles Pattie University of Sheffield
Kelvyn Jones
Kelvyn Jones University of Bristol
James Forrest
James Forrest Macquarie University
Peter J. Taylor
Peter J. Taylor Northumbria University
Richard Harris
Richard Harris University of Bristol
Simon Burgess
Simon Burgess University of Bristol
Danny Dorling
Danny Dorling University of Oxford
Michael Watts
Michael Watts Brunel University London
Carol Propper
Carol Propper Imperial College London
Edward Fieldhouse
Edward Fieldhouse University of Manchester

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