OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Area is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“GET SMALLER”? Emerging geographies of micro‐living	28
Besides affirmationism? On geography and negativity	22
Forging volumetric methods	21
Geographies of education: A journey	20
Anti‐racist learning and teaching in British geography	20
Towards humble geographies	18
A regional geography of gentrification, displacement, and the suburbanisation of poverty: Towards an extended research agenda	18
A journey of emotions from a young environmental activist	17
Six simple steps towards making GEES fieldwork more accessible and inclusive	16
Who is worthy of a place on these walls? Postgraduate students, UK universities, and institutional racism	16
Revisiting geographies of social reproduction: Everyday life, the endotic, and the infra‐ordinary	15
Dune gardening? A critical view of the contemporary coastal dune management paradigm	15
Natives and aliens: Who and what belongs in nature and in the nation?	15
Should we pay research participants? Feminist political economy for ethical practices in precarious times	14
The utility of Google Trends as a tool for evaluating flooding in data‐scarce places	14
Poverty, adaptation and vulnerability: An assessment of women's work in Ghana's artisanal gold mining sector	14
Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism	13
Disintegrating labour relations and depoliticised adaptation to climate change in rural São Tomé and Príncipe	13
Globalising sustainable development: Decolonial disruptions and environmental justice in Bolivia	12
Trespassing on the Law: Critical legal engineering as a strategy for action research	12
Populist ecologies	12
Feeling the refugee camp: Affectual research, bodies, and suspicion	11
Experiencing the unfamiliar through mobile gameplay: Pokémon go as augmented tourism	11
Lives lived differently: Geography and the study of black women	11
The socio‐ecological imagination: Young environmental activists constructing transformation in an era of crisis	10

“Finding home”: Affective geographies of regional youth (im)mobilities	9
Precarious encampments in hostile border zones: The methodological challenges of and possibilities for studying contingent camps	9
Practising comparative urbanism: Methods and consequences	9
On the (im)possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university	9
Mining in Africa after the supercycle: New directions and geographies	9
Capturing a moving target: Interviewing fintech experts via LinkedIn	8
Cybersecurity’s grammars: A more‐than‐human geopolitics of computation	8
Thinking with method: qualitative research in human geography	8
Refuting “How the other half lives”: I am a woman’s rights	8
Practising legal geography	8
Stickin’ it to the man: The geographies of protest stickers	8
Can people talk about their past practices? Challenges, opportunities, and practical applications of biographic inquiry for geographic research on consumption	7
Concealing researcher identity in fieldwork and social media: Sexuality and speaking for participants	7
The values of open data	7
Shaping a global comparative imagination? Assessing the role of city rankings in the “global city” discourse	7
Inclusive LGBTQ+ fieldwork: Advancing spaces of belonging and safety	7
Afterword: Towards a political ecology of labour?	7
An optimal environment for our optimal selves? An autoethnographic account of self‐tracking personal exposure to air pollution	7
Geographies of labour in a changing climate	7
GeogEd: A new research group founded on the reciprocal relationship between geography education and the geographies of education	7
The Geography and Education Research Group and school geography: Problematics and possibilities	7
Looking ahead to the future of GeogEd: Creating spaces of exchange between communities of practice	7
A critique of the “socio‐ecological fix” and towards revolutionary rupture	7
Cooperation of firms yielding industrial clusters	6
The road to “local green recovery”: Signposts from COVID‐19 lockdown life in the UK	6
Spatialising illicit commodity chains: Comparing coffee and cocaine	6
Alternative education spaces and pathways: Insights from an international Christian school in China	6
Can TikTok promote a healthier ageing paradigm? A case study of older digital celebrities from China	6
The city‐island‐state, wounding cascade, and multi‐level vulnerability explored through the lens of Malta	6
Researcher self‐care and caring in the research community	6
A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter	6
Photography, composition, and the ephemeral city	6
Beyond ‘do no harm’? On the need for a dynamic approach to research ethics	6
Households, families, and structural inequalities: Reflections on “How the other half lives”	6
Coming together: The role of marriage in assorting household educational and geographical capital in rural lowland Nepal	6
When experts feel threatened: Strategies of depoliticisation in participatory river restoration projects	6
Practical engagements in legal geography: Collaborative feminist approaches to immigration advocacy in Denmark	6
From liminal spaces to the spatialities of liminality	5
Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy	5
The socio‐material practices of the transformation of urban food markets	5
Continuing conversations: Reflections on the role and future of Area from the new editorial team	5
Co‐producing impact‐in‐process with participatory audio‐visual research	5
Eastern Europe: The ‘other’ geographies in the colonial global economy	5
Reconsidering law at the edge: How and why do place‐managers balance thrill and compliance at outdoor attraction sites?	5
The territorial dimension of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals	5
‘After me, all this is over’: Exploring class‐entangled geographical agency in a shifting climate among tobacco farmers in South India	5
Makeshift camp methodologies along the Balkan Route	5
Fluid objects? An attempt to conceptualise the global rise of “coworking spaces”	5
Towards an agenda for oral history and geography: (Re)locating emotion in family narratives of domestic abuse in 1970s East Kilbride	5
Acknowledging, confronting, and transforming extra‐curricular spaces in geography	4

Towards framing the global in global development: Prospects for development geography	4
A less muddy glee? Perspectives from a disabled researcher in the era of virtual global south fieldwork	4
Witnessing the witnesses: Responding to the testimonial spaces of the camp	4
Cities of neurodiversity: New directions for an urban geography of neurodiversity	4
Legislating political space for LGBT families: The 2018 referendum on the definition of family in Romania	4
Rewilding: An emotional nature	4
Shifts to Global Development: Is this a reframing of power, agency, and progress?	4
Mud and glee at the crossroads: How can we consider intersectionality more holistically in academic fieldwork?	4
Towards a critical geopolitics of China–US rivalry: Pericentricity, regional conflicts and transnational connections	4
Inter‐ and intra‐racial/ethnic disparities in walking accessibility to grocery stores	4
Making a podcast: Reflecting on creating a place‐based podcast	4
Care, COVID‐19 and crisis: Area as a space for critical contributions	4
Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach	4
Grounding financialisation: Development, inclusion, and agency	4
Out in the field	4
The history of the Higher Education Research Group of the UK Royal Geographical Society: The changing status and focus of geography education in the academy	4
What next for courtroom special measures? Embodying legal geographies through “appreciative‐assemblage” methodology	4
Compound impacts of extreme weather events and COVID‐19 on climate mobilities	4
Tacit domains: The transference of practitioner know‐how in contemporary English planning practice	4
The possibilities and limits of impact and engagement in research on military institutions	4
More than a solo method: Netnography’s capacity to enhance offline research methods	4
Explaining the widening distribution of Body Mass Index: A decomposition analysis of trends for England, 2002–2004 and 2012–2014	4