OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers is 7. 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
Geographies of supplementary education: Private tuition, classed and racialised parenting cultures, and the neoliberal educational playing field	55
Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area	44
The rise of Chengdu between geopolitics and geo‐economics: City‐regional development under the Belt and Road Initiative and beyond	41
Immobilised by the pandemic: Filipino domestic workers and seafarers in the time of COVID‐19	40
Global China's spatial ambition and area studies with geography	39
Tracking, calculating, watching: Governing and delay in the Jakarta Smart City	31
Way‐finding agendas through Transactions	31
Data‐bility: Endogamous social intimacies on dating apps in Mumbai	30
Spatialising happiness economics: Global metrics, urban politics, and embodied technologies	28
High‐resolution property: Drone enclosures in digital India	27
The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey	26
An economy of immunity: The racial‐spatial lives of antibodies in the American blood plasma economy from 1960s prisons to COVID‐19	25
Here, there, everywhere: The relational geographies of chemsex	25
Beyond the Limpopo: Geography and the worlding of South(ern) Africa	23
The (non‐)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana	22
On the politics of movement: Borderscapes, choreopolicing and choreopolitics	21
Humanitarian inversions:COVID‐19 as crisis	20
The spatiality of encounters: Contesting planning decisions in Tehran	20
Mobile Keynesianism: Linking policy mobility and state transformation in New Zealand, 1930–70	18
Spaces of change: Everyday gender activism through near‐peer gender and sexuality workshops with young people in the UK	18
Biosecurity and more‐than‐human political economy: Veterinary interventions as productive economic forces in the ‘mozzarella landscape’ in Italy	18
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Troubling economic geography: New directions in the post‐pandemic world	17
Locked out? Navigating the geographies of precarity on Britain's waterways	17
A genealogy of the food bank: Historicising the rise of food charity in the UK	17

‘You're stuffed, bear!’: Geography's colonial legacies in the ‘Paddington Empire’	15
Generative tensions: Undergraduates' experience of Geography in US universities	15
Beyond compliance: Good citizenship during the COVID‐19 pandemic	15
Making sense of the Ukraine war: Geographers should not be afraid of geography	15
Losing control: REF 2029 and the downgrading of academic outputs	15
Exploring young trans people's everyday experiences of ‘out‐of‐placeness’ and socio‐bodily dysphoria	15
Urbanisation and the shifting conditions of the state as a territorial‐political community: A study of the geographies of political efficacy	14
The geoeconomics of protecting profits from migrants in maritime distress	14
HuManitarianism: Race and the overrepresentation of ‘Man’	14
Legal geographies of medication abortion in the USA	14
What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home	14
A geographer's place matters: Reflections from a ‘local scholar’ and the politics of North/South knowledge production	14
Mapping as a collective and southern practice	13
Land, property, and territory: Mutual embeddedness as understood by thetongbianphilosophy	13
Edward Curtis and the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Thinking beyond the portrait for land and landscape	13
Biosocial borders: Affective debilitation and resilience among women living in a violently bordered favela	12
Berlin's queer archipelago: Landscape, sexuality, and nightlife	12
Geography and legal expertise: The transgressive nature of research at the boundary of geography and law‐making	12
Reworking of care during workday outings: On migrant domestic workers' everyday negotiation of migration infrastructure in the global city of Hong Kong	12
Re‐spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism	11
Viable lives: Life beyond survival in rural North India	11
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Issue Information	11
Contextualising embodied cognition: Towards a critical neuro‐geography of ageing	11
When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore	11
Seeing culture from below: Counter‐curating, counter‐ethnography, counter‐mapping	10
Theorising liminal states of health: A spatio‐temporal analysis of undiagnosis and anticipatory diagnosis in the shadow of toxic pollution	10
Issue Information	10
Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry	10
Revealing vertical geopolitics: Quantifying the volume of militarised restricted airspaces in the USA using GIS	10
From problematisation to propositionality: Advancing southern urban infrastructure debates	10
Practising future‐making: Anticipation and translocal politics of Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai as assemblage	9
Geography and climate vulnerabilities	9
Post‐pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities?	9
Critical geoeconomics: A genealogy of writing politics, economy and space	9
Living on with Sellafield: Nuclear infrastructure, slow violence, and the politics of quiescence	9
Breathing new futures in polluted environments (Taranto, Italy)	9
Response	9
Digital twins and deep maps	9
Making a Subjective Atlas of Palestine: On participative design and situated mapping	9
The disaster trap: Cyclones, tourism, colonial legacies, and the systemic feedbacks exacerbating disaster risk	8
Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London	8
Negative geographies of craft‐making in heritagisation: Dai women's paper‐cutting in southwestern rural China	8
Conceptualising multispecies collaboration: Work, animal labour, and Nature‐based Solutions	8
Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality	8
Negotiating digital urban futures: The limits and possibilities of future‐making in Singapore	8
Rage as a political emotion	8
Issue Information	8
Smart oceans governance: Reconfiguring capitalist, colonial, and environmental relations	7
“That market has no quality”: Performative place frames, racialisation, and affective re‐inscriptions in an outdoor retail market in Amsterdam	7

Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu	7
The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic	7
An outlook multiple: The ontological multiplicity of the Met Office's 3‐month outlook	7
Corrigendum and addendum	7
Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales	7
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Mobilising a counterhegemonic idea: Empathy, evidence, and experience in the campaign for a Supervised Drug Injecting Facility (SIF) in Dublin, Ireland	7
Everyday digital dis/connection: Locating slow violence in (non)encounters with the UK asylum state	7
On limit and love in times of environmental crises	7
The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates	7