OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Canadian smart cities: Are we wiring new citizen‐local government interactions?	24
When open data and data activism meet: An analysis of civic participation in Cape Town, South Africa	19
Analyzing disparities in transit‐based healthcare accessibility in the Chicago Metropolitan Area	17
Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia	16
The feminist economic geographies of working from home and “digital by default” in Canada before, during, and after COVID‐19	16
Indigenous learning on Turtle Island: A review of the literature on land‐based learning	13
Linking land displacement and environmental dispossession to Mi'kmaw health and well‐being: Culturally relevant place‐based interpretive frameworks matter	13
Street vendors in Lima in the time of COVID‐19: Guilty or oppressed?	12
Mapping the uneven geographies of digital phenomena: The case of blockchain	12
The importance of local characteristics: An examination of Canadian cities' resilience during the 2020 economic crisis	12
Ambitious deep energy retrofits of buildings to accelerate the 1.5°C energy transition in Canada	11
Supporting food security for Indigenous families through the restoration of Indigenous foodways	11
Coming into fashion: Expanding the entrepreneurial ecosystem concept to the creative industries through a Toronto case study	11
Governance through discipline in the neighbourhood: Syrian refugees and Turkish citizens in urban life	11
Assessing climate change adaptation progress in Canada's protected areas	10
Gwaabaw: Applying Anishinaabe harvesting protocols to energy governance	9
Gentrification and the an/aesthetics of digital spatial capital in Canadian “platform cities”	9
Montreal's environmental justice problem with respect to the urban heat island phenomenon	9
Pathways of crime: Measuring crime concentration along urban roadways	9
Producing consent: How environmental assessment enabled oil and gas extraction in the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut	8
An ecological systems analysis of food access barriers and coping strategies adopted by older adults in Ghana	7
Quantifying the prevalence of energy poverty across Canada: Estimating domestic energy burden using an expenditures approach	7
Governance matters: Regulating ride hailing platforms in Canada's largest city‐regions	7
Places of paid work and unpaid work: Caregiving and work‐from‐home during COVID‐19	6
The experiences of immigrant entrepreneurs in a medium‐sized Canadian city: The case of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada	6

After the downturn: Perceptions of crime and policing in the southeastern Saskatchewan oil patch	6
Scenarios of climate change and natural resource development: Complexity and uncertainty in the Nechako Watershed	6
Climate change adaptation in the Canadian wine industry: Strategies and drivers	6
A theatre of machines: Automata circuses and digital bread in the smart city of Toronto	6
Changes in outdoor physical activities among older people in Sweden: Exploring generational shifts in time spent in natural environments	6
A scoping review of the daily mobilities of older adults in the Global South	6
Canadian homeless mobilities: Tracing the inter‐regional movements of At Home/Chez Soi participants	5
What does community‐embedded care mean to aging‐in‐place in China? A relational approach	5
Introduction to special section: Geographies of Indigenous health and wellness	5
An examination of the impact of neighbourhood walking environments on the likelihood of residents of dense urban areas becoming overweight or obese	5
To leave or not to leave? An analysis of individual and neighbourhood characteristics shaping place attachment in Harare's selected informal settlements	5
Citizen and government co‐production of data: Analyzing the challenges to government adoption of VGI	5
Examining Indigenous perspectives on the health implications of large‐scale agriculture in Jalisco, Mexico	5
The coloniality of private forest lands: Harvesting levels, land grants, and neoliberalism on Vancouver Island	4
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017: A personal urban geography and a professional response	4
Wandering identities in energy transition discourses: Political leaders’ use of the “we” pronoun in Ontario, 2009–2019	4
Mobile applications to reduce food waste within Canada: A review	4
A missing link? Network analysis as an empirical approach for critical physical geography	4
Exposure, access, and inequities: Central themes, emerging trends, and key gaps in Canadian environmental justice literature from 2006 to 2017	4
Multiple food vulnerabilities of international students from India in Greater Toronto Area colleges: A pilot study	3
Textbook dune: Is there a representative and scale‐invariant beach‐dune profile?	3
Changing geographies of aging on a global scale: The knowledge to action gap	3
Surveillance, trust, and policing at music festivals	3
Workplace mobility in Canadian urban agglomerations, 1996 to 2016: Have workers really flown the coop?	3
The socioecology of fear: A critical geographical consideration of human‐wolf‐livestock conflict	3
Ethical consumption? There's an app for that. Digital technologies and everyday consumption practices	3
Navigating the housing crisis: A comparison of international students and other newcomers in a mid‐sized Canadian city	3
Reconstruction of past backyard skating seasons in the Original Six NHL cities from citizen science data	3
A comparison of young and older adults’ attitudes and preferences towards different travel modes and residential characteristics: A study in Hamilton, Ontario	3
Quantifying the carbon footprint of household food waste and associated GHGs in Oakville, Ontario, and a municipality's role in reducing both food waste and GHGs	3
Spatial variation in bicycling risk based on crowdsourced safety data	3
Introduction to the special section: Smart citizens creating smart cities: Locating citizen participation in the smart city	3
All‐world aging: A gero of all things under the material press in time	3
It's been a long time running: New understandings of crime severity and specialization in Canada's longest running crime capital, North Battleford	3
Public housing, market rentals, and neighbourhood characteristics	3
A not‐so‐green choice? The high carbon footprint of long‐distance passenger rail travel in Canada	2
Being genealogical in digital geographies	2
Partnerships in place: Facilitating rural local government entrepreneurialism in Newfoundland and Labrador	2
Ecosystem services: A new framework for old ideas, or advancing environmental decision‐making? Learning from Canadian forerunners to the ES concept	2
Higher education, international student mobility, and regional innovation in non‐core regions: International student start‐ups on “the rock”	2
Indigenous health organizations, Indigenous community resurgence, and the reclamation of place in urban areas	2
Site prioritization and the reproduction of inequity in the restoration of Biscayne Bay	2
Knowledge hierarchy and mechanisms of power in environmental impact assessment: Insights from the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project	2
Ecological livelihoods of farmers and pollinators in the Himalayas: Doing critical physical geography using citizen science	2
Rural futures? Mapping newcomers' hopes about potential resettlement in Canadian rural areas	2
“That is when you realize your age”—A spatial approach to age(ing)	2
Lessons learnt from multiple private land conservation programs in Canada to inform species at risk conservation	2
Revealing circumstances of epidemiologic transition among Indigenous peoples: The case of the Keg River (Alberta) Métis	2
A critical physical geography of no‐till agriculture: Linking degraded environmental quality to conservation policies in an Oregon watershed	2
Teaching creative geovisualization: Imagining the creative in/of GIS	2

Is it time to start worrying more about growing regional inequalities in Canada?	2
Tensions between municipal reform and outdated fiscal levers in rural British Columbia	2
The understated turn: Emerging interests and themes in Canadian posthumanist geography	2
On older person/place transformations: Towards a more‐than‐representational geography of aging in rural Canada	2
The spatial dimensions of temporary employment in Canada	2
Altering consumer practices, facing uncertainties, and seeking stability: Canadian news media framings of international retirement migrants during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Doing fieldwork the Ghanaian way: The dilemma of conducting research in rural Ghana	2
Who uses ride‐hailing? Policy implications and evidence from the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area	2