OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Geoforum is 27. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
(Dis)embedding humanitarianism: Trajectories of subordination and subversion within migrant-serving NGOs	109
Blinded like a state: Water scarcity and the quantification dilemma in Morocco	95
Understanding livelihood changes in the charcoal and baobab value chains during Covid-19 in rural Mozambique: The role of power, risk and civic-based stakeholder conventions	67
Necrospatial containment and slow violence in Harare’s informal settlements	67
Struggles over value, access and positionality: Differentiated dis/association agency in humanitarian aid	65
A Very British industrial policy: Green finance and the City-Bank-Treasury control of Net Zero	54
The shadow of urban greening initiatives: A Pluralistic Discursive Space approach to the High Line and the BeltLine	48
Chinese-driven Ghana rosewood trade: Actors and access dynamics	44
Framing the flames: Addressing public disengagement through fear framings in Australian bushfire preparedness campaign videos	39
́We are the limitś performing climate justice commoning in the Czech Klimakemp	37
Platform animal: (de)commodification of anthropomorphic giant panda through the digital platform	37
Slow withdrawal as managed retreat: Dismantling and rebuilding an Indigenous community controlled housing sector	37
Spatial intermediation and regional economic relationships: Platform influencers as live-streaming intermediaries	37
Performing the future of work: Examining discourses of the future of work and the ideal worker through event ethnographies	35
Expanding the concept of hybrid governance in the context of illicit extractivism: the case of the Venezuelan Amazon	35
Heated discussions: youth-led dialogue with older generations reveals unwitting silences and shared feelings about climate change	34
Rethinking geography and power in transboundary water relations: A critical reading and integration of physical, social and political geography	34
Mainland ignorance: Okinawa and Japanese colonial unknowing	33
Living the life of floods: Place-based learning in an Anthropocene harmscape	32
Seeing self-help urban design as a social movement in the global south: A case in Accra, Ghana	32
A social-ecological systems perspective on the impacts of armed conflict on water resources management: Case studies from the Middle East	31
Afterword: Greeting the border externalization wave in four movements	30
The Silicon Valley – Singapore connection: The role of institutional gateways in establishing knowledge pipelines	30
‘This country beyond the township’: Race, class and higher education mobilities in the post-apartheid city	29
Household targeting of social cash transfer programmes: transnational poverty alleviation and community subversion in Malawi and Lesotho	29

Upgrading through global, regional or national value chains? Firm-level evidence from the East African textiles & apparel sector	29
Resigned reductionism: Reconceptualising digital imaginaries of automated natural capital	28
‘It’s a love interest’ – Enthusiasts and regional industry cultures of practice	27
Imagining Poland: exploring geographical imaginaries in the Ukrainian war refugee narratives	27