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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Mainland ignorance: Okinawa and Japanese colonial unknowing	103
A social-ecological systems perspective on the impacts of armed conflict on water resources management: Case studies from the Middle East	76
(Dis)embedding humanitarianism: Trajectories of subordination and subversion within migrant-serving NGOs	71
Living the life of floods: Place-based learning in an Anthropocene harmscape	61
The shadow of urban greening initiatives: A Pluralistic Discursive Space approach to the High Line and the BeltLine	60
Slow withdrawal as managed retreat: Dismantling and rebuilding an Indigenous community controlled housing sector	57
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	52
Mining, geological imaginations, and the politics of subterranean knowledge in the colonial Andes	50
́We are the limitś performing climate justice commoning in the Czech Klimakemp	45
A Very British industrial policy: Green finance and the City-Bank-Treasury control of Net Zero	45
Struggles over value, access and positionality: Differentiated dis/association agency in humanitarian aid	44
Seeing self-help urban design as a social movement in the global south: A case in Accra, Ghana	40
Framing the flames: Addressing public disengagement through fear framings in Australian bushfire preparedness campaign videos	38
Blinded like a state: Water scarcity and the quantification dilemma in Morocco	36
Chinese-driven Ghana rosewood trade: Actors and access dynamics	36
Platform ecosystems and digital innovation in food retailing: Exploring the rise of Hema in China	35
Territorial narratives: Talking claims in open moments	32
Shared space: Negotiating sites of (un)sustainable mobility	32
Platform animal: (de)commodification of anthropomorphic giant panda through the digital platform	32
Innovation in the peripheries: Counter-flows of students to second tier cities in Portugal	31
Heated discussions: youth-led dialogue with older generations reveals unwitting silences and shared feelings about climate change	31
The Silicon Valley – Singapore connection: The role of institutional gateways in establishing knowledge pipelines	30
Upgrading through global, regional or national value chains? Firm-level evidence from the East African textiles & apparel sector	30
Sustainable developmentality: Interrogating the sustainability gaze and the cultivation of mountain subjectivities in the central Indian Himalayas	30
Development assistance and Boserupian intensification under geopolitical isolation: The political ecology of a crop-livestock integration project in Burundi	30

‘This country beyond the township’: Race, class and higher education mobilities in the post-apartheid city	29
Human–place–technology relations in the digital placemaking process	29
“Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland” or “Digital Ecosystem”? Postsocialist Ecological Imaginaries in Tallinn, Estonia	27
Afterword: Greeting the border externalization wave in four movements	27
Beyond connectivity: An exploration of expert perspectives on conservation corridors	27
‘Wall disease’: Unpacking the emotive geographies of post-conflict Nicosia	27
Unsettling humanitarian binaries: Civic humanitarianism and relational aid among South Sudanese refugees in Uganda	27