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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Besides affirmationism? On geography and negativity	25
Forging volumetric methods	25
A journey of emotions from a young environmental activist	22
Geographies of education: A journey	21
A regional geography of gentrification, displacement, and the suburbanisation of poverty: Towards an extended research agenda	19
Six simple steps towards making GEES fieldwork more accessible and inclusive	18
Natives and aliens: Who and what belongs in nature and in the nation?	17
Should we pay research participants? Feminist political economy for ethical practices in precarious times	17
Dune gardening? A critical view of the contemporary coastal dune management paradigm	17
Feeling the refugee camp: Affectual research, bodies, and suspicion	15
The utility of Google Trends as a tool for evaluating flooding in data‐scarce places	15
Trespassing on the Law: Critical legal engineering as a strategy for action research	14
Populist ecologies	14
Courtwatching: Visibility, publicness, witnessing, and embodiment in legal activism	13
On the (im)possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university	12
Mining in Africa after the supercycle: New directions and geographies	11
Practising legal geography	11
The socio‐ecological imagination: Young environmental activists constructing transformation in an era of crisis	11
From liminal spaces to the spatialities of liminality	10
Beyond ‘do no harm’? On the need for a dynamic approach to research ethics	10
“Finding home”: Affective geographies of regional youth (im)mobilities	10
Stickin’ it to the man: The geographies of protest stickers	10
Precarious encampments in hostile border zones: The methodological challenges of and possibilities for studying contingent camps	10
Geographies of labour in a changing climate	9
Practising comparative urbanism: Methods and consequences	9

Can people talk about their past practices? Challenges, opportunities, and practical applications of biographic inquiry for geographic research on consumption	9
Capturing a moving target: Interviewing fintech experts via LinkedIn	9
Cybersecurity’s grammars: A more‐than‐human geopolitics of computation	8
Shaping a global comparative imagination? Assessing the role of city rankings in the “global city” discourse	8
Afterword: Towards a political ecology of labour?	8
The values of open data	8
Eastern Europe: The ‘other’ geographies in the colonial global economy	8
Thinking with method: qualitative research in human geography	8
Co‐producing impact‐in‐process with participatory audio‐visual research	8
Inclusive LGBTQ+ fieldwork: Advancing spaces of belonging and safety	8
Shifts to Global Development: Is this a reframing of power, agency, and progress?	7
Towards a critical geopolitics of China–US rivalry: Pericentricity, regional conflicts and transnational connections	7
Spatialising illicit commodity chains: Comparing coffee and cocaine	7
The Geography and Education Research Group and school geography: Problematics and possibilities	7
Can TikTok promote a healthier ageing paradigm? A case study of older digital celebrities from China	7
Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy	7
Makeshift camp methodologies along the Balkan Route	7
Concealing researcher identity in fieldwork and social media: Sexuality and speaking for participants	7
When experts feel threatened: Strategies of depoliticisation in participatory river restoration projects	7
Compound impacts of extreme weather events and COVID‐19 on climate mobilities	7
The road to “local green recovery”: Signposts from COVID‐19 lockdown life in the UK	7
Coming together: The role of marriage in assorting household educational and geographical capital in rural lowland Nepal	7
The territorial dimension of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals	7
Looking ahead to the future of GeogEd: Creating spaces of exchange between communities of practice	7
Cemeteries and crematoria, forgotten public space in multicultural Europe. An agenda for inclusion and citizenship	6
Fluid objects? An attempt to conceptualise the global rise of “coworking spaces”	6
The socio‐material practices of the transformation of urban food markets	6
The city‐island‐state, wounding cascade, and multi‐level vulnerability explored through the lens of Malta	6
Cities of neurodiversity: New directions for an urban geography of neurodiversity	6
Photography, composition, and the ephemeral city	6
Researcher self‐care and caring in the research community	6
A research agenda for geographies of everyday intergenerational encounter	6
Privacy challenges in geodata and open data	6
Mud and glee at the crossroads: How can we consider intersectionality more holistically in academic fieldwork?	5
Out in the field	5
A less muddy glee? Perspectives from a disabled researcher in the era of virtual global south fieldwork	5
Rewilding: An emotional nature	5
Inter‐ and intra‐racial/ethnic disparities in walking accessibility to grocery stores	5
Questioning quotation: Writing about interview experiences without using quotes	5
COVID‐19, commuter territories and the e‐bike boom	5
Towards an agenda for oral history and geography: (Re)locating emotion in family narratives of domestic abuse in 1970s East Kilbride	5
Towards framing the global in global development: Prospects for development geography	5
‘After me, all this is over’: Exploring class‐entangled geographical agency in a shifting climate among tobacco farmers in South India	5
Stuck in the mud? Finding the glee in all fieldworking bodies	5
Legislating political space for LGBT families: The 2018 referendum on the definition of family in Romania	5
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’	4
Care, COVID‐19 and crisis: Area as a space for critical contributions	4
Decolonising spaces of geographical knowledge production: ‘Thinking geographically’ with undergraduate geographers in the RGS‐IBG at Kensington Gore	4
Climate change migration in the post‐conflict state: Understanding Cambodian migration narratives through geopolitical history and land struggles	4
Beyond‐human ethics: The animal question in institutional ethical reviews	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
Working with community interviewers in social and cultural research	4
Aligning green infrastructure to sustainable development: A geographical contribution to an ongoing debate	4
Grounding financialisation: Development, inclusion, and agency	4
The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania	4
Is the COVID‐19 pandemic accelerating the platformisation of the urban economy?	4
A constructivism of desire: Conceptualising the politics of assemblage with Deleuze and Guattari	4
Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research	4
Witnessing the witnesses: Responding to the testimonial spaces of the camp	4
Value capture by companies of different ownership, tier, size, and distance to market: A cross‐sectoral analysis	4
More than a solo method: Netnography’s capacity to enhance offline research methods	4
Mapping hegemony in geography: A historical perspective from the periphery	4
Explaining the widening distribution of Body Mass Index: A decomposition analysis of trends for England, 2002–2004 and 2012–2014	4
An articulation of geopolitics otherwise? Indigenous language‐use in spaces of Arctic geopolitics	4