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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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Making wardrobe space: The sustainable potential of minimalist‐inspired fashion challenges	23
Disability and gender in the history of geographical exploration: Understanding Isabella Bird Bishop as a disabled geographer	23
‘It's probably more about the people’: For a person‐centred approach to understanding benefits of nature‐based interventions	22
Compound impacts of extreme weather events and COVID‐19 on climate mobilities	22
‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia	18
Six simple steps towards making GEES fieldwork more accessible and inclusive	17
Returning‐home fieldwork in China with a dear friend: Friendship, personal safety, and diversity	17
Issue Information	16
Is the COVID‐19 pandemic accelerating the platformisation of the urban economy?	15
Rethinking the potential of collaboration for urban climate governance: The case of Hong Kong	15
Navigating rural ruin: Infrastructural dynamics in Australia's New England North West	15
Issue Information	15
Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene	14
The fast and the victorious: Mobility, motorcyclists and political mobilisation in Uganda	14
Gender, caste, and street vending in India: Towards an intersectional geography	13
Towards an agenda for oral history and geography: (Re)locating emotion in family narratives of domestic abuse in 1970s East Kilbride	13
Classics Revisited: ‘Muddy glee’ ‐ What geography fieldwork means in the current moment	13
‘Finprint’ technopolitics and the corporatisation of global food governance	12
Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID‐19 on smallholder farmers' commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia	11
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The production of a geopolitical imaginary in the East Asian Cold War: The case of the Five West Sea Islands of South Korea	10
The epistemic politics of “northern‐led” humanitarianism: Case of Lebanon	10
Afterword: Towards a political ecology of labour?	9

Use of graph theory to study connectivity and regionalisation of the Polish urban network	9
Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry	9
Issue Information	9
The Geography and Education Research Group and school geography: Problematics and possibilities	9
A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter	9
Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate	9
Intimate extraction: Geological matter, extractive afterlives, and the denial of a Black sense of place in Southern Louisiana	9
Issue Information	9
What is Area to physical and environmental geography?	9
Landings: The moor and the ecological therapeutic practice of Richard Skelton	8
A research broker for a third‐culture researcher: Experiences conducting field research in urban Pakistan	8
Area Prize: The Wiley Publisher's Area Prize for New Research in Geography	8
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’	8
Stuck in the mud? Finding the glee in all fieldworking bodies	8
Re‐naming and re‐framing: Evolving the “Higher Education Research Group” to the “Geography & Education Research Group”	8
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Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research	7
Show me the money: Income inequality and segregation in UK cities	7
An articulation of geopolitics otherwise? Indigenous language‐use in spaces of Arctic geopolitics	7
Hope as a practice in the face of existential crises: Resident‐activist research within and beyond the academy	7
From liminal spaces to the spatialities of liminality	7
Keeping bio‐alive in geography education	7
Decolonising ecological research: A generative discussion between Global North geographers and Global South field ecologists	7
Principles for delivering transformative co‐design methodologies with multiple stakeholders for achieving nature recovery in England	6
The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper	6
‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing‐in‐place in Ireland during COVID‐19	6
Reconciling impact and participation: Reflections on collaborating with specialist organisations for PhD research	6
COVID‐19 crisis, Romanian Roma migrant women, and the temporary geographies of lockdown in the Spanish home	6
It takes a team to participate – Refining working participant observations through multiple researchers	6
On the (im)possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university	6
The ‘creative thesis’ in the academic ‘anxiety machine’	6
Tracing young people's engagements with the diplomacy and geopolitics of a British Overseas Territory	6
Where next for managed retreat: Bringing in history, community and under‐researched places	6
Understanding the socio‐technical hybridisation of indoor–outdoor relations: Emergent, merged, and stretched	6
Longitudinal reflections on the slow and fast crisis of domestic violence during COVID‐19	5
Issue Information	5
Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps	5
Sensation, spirituality, and Deleuze: Becoming‐colour through Katharina Grosse's explosive artworks	5
Preparing surfaces for shredding: Skateboarding, repair, and care across scales	5
The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania	5
Capturing a moving target: Interviewing fintech experts via LinkedIn	5
Towards a critical‐conceptual analysis of ‘research culture’	5
Studying and stimulating a sense of community through co‐productive zine‐making in public libraries	5
The utility of Google Trends as a tool for evaluating flooding in data‐scarce places	5
Exploring men’s vulnerability in the global South: Methodological reflections	5
Mapping hegemony in geography: A historical perspective from the periphery	5
Fieldnotes as never really ‘raw’ data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank	5
Anticipatory state identity: Understanding the Finnish state's approach to the Arctic	5
Climate variability induced livelihood vulnerability: A systematic review and future prospects	4
Pedals and throttles: Ride‐along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cyclo and motorbike taxi drivers	4

Place, institutional spatiality, and the localisation of financial calculative practices	4
Populist ecologies	4
A generational perspective on rural livelihood change	4
Privacy challenges in geodata and open data	4
Emotions and transcripts after a while: An interview with a ‘parachute kid’	4
Making a podcast: Reflecting on creating a place‐based podcast	4
The city‐island‐state, wounding cascade, and multi‐level vulnerability explored through the lens of Malta	4
Pandemic lockdowns and their impacts on urban‐based agrarian livelihoods and food security in a Provincial City in the Philippines	4
Prospecting digital urban futures in practice	4
Resurrected analysis: Navigating time between two environmental projects in Finland	4
Pausing again: Reflecting on humility and possibility in pandemic times	4
“Finding home”: Affective geographies of regional youth (im)mobilities	4
Geography's lens, landscape architecture, and the green recovery	4
Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement	4
Crossing riverborderscapes and a view from in‐between: Passenger ferries in South West England	4
Refiguring habits of subjectivity, communication, and space in online video calls	4