OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Historical Geography 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Review	15
Book Review	14
Geopolitical enclaves: Space and social-political change in Cold War Taiwan's Military Dependent Villages	14
Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience	12
Book Review	11
Book Review	10
Editorial Board	10
David Livingstone’s The Empire of Climate: A History of An Idea	10
Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930	10
Book Review	10
Review	9
Book Review	8
The role of malaria, urbanism, and soil in the European Marriage Pattern of the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic	8
Governing the private scales of families and homes: Visiting nurses and Turkey's mobilization of consumptive care	7
Commemorative vigilance between totalitarianisms: Slovakia’s 'Victims Warn' sculpture, from counter-monument to anti-monument	7
Shifting terrains of risk: A history of natural hazards and displacement in three historic black communities of Central Austin, Texas	6
The spatial logic of health: Managing waste, water and infrastructure in later medieval Bologna	6
Mapping a French Department in the northeastern Amazonia: The 1947 Oyapock mission in a context of Decolonization	6
Between written law and lived experience: The Gay and Lesbian archive and the socio-spatial history of sexual regulation in South Africa	6
Map making as memory practice: The historical geography of East European shtetls as expressed in Jewish yizker bikher	6
Book Review	5
Timber, money, and shelter: The promotion of private tree planting in New Zealand during the 1920s	5
Book Review	5
Book Review	5
Critical Geography's nature problem and the Lefebvrian ecological dialectic	5

Where is the past? Time in historical geography	4
Cartographic Reproductions: The Franciscan Legacy in Amazonian Peru, 1830–1847	4
After the fall, where?: Relocating the Colston statue in Bristol, from 2020 to imaginary futures	4
Where military and fluvial geographies disastrously conjoined: The Huayuankou flood of 1938–1947 during the Sino-Japanese war	4
Timber colonialism in Labrador/Nitassinan: The case of the Labrador boundary	4
Obituary: Cole Harris	4
Book Review	4
Editorial Board	4
Dutch inspiration for an engaged pluralist historiography of geography	4
Fenced open-fields in mixed-farming systems: spatial organisation and cooperation in southern Sweden during the seventeenth century	4
Book Review	4
Contested tradition: The canonicity of historical geography in China, 1921–1961	4
Editorial Board	4
The Augustów Canal as the largest monument in Central and Eastern Europe	4
The making of Atlas Maritimus (1728): A shift towards commercial geography	4
Multidisciplinary perspectives on nineteenth-century Paris	4
Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive	4
Exhibition review: ‘Classroom photographic journeys,’ CRASSH, University of Cambridge, U.K.	4
Book Review	3
Traditional environmental knowledge and transport efficiency of a communal canal network, Tafilalt oasis, Morocco: A historical GIS analytics perspective	3
The Adriatic question revisited: Carlo Maranelli and the multifaceted geographies of the sea	3
Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–1868	3
Review	3
Book Review	3
Diversifying the historical geography of exploration: Subaltern body work on British-led expeditions c.1850–1914	3
Place and displacement: Historical geographies of Israel's largest landfill	3
Book Review	3
Climate, cartography, and the life and death of the ‘natural region’ in British geography	3
Engineering indigenous dispossession and plantation slavery in the Southeast Gulf coast	3
‘An aid to loveliness’: lavender, femininity and the affective economy of English beauty	3
Colonialism and the political economy of reconstruction: French policy in the reconstruction of Algerian inland cities, 1837–1900	3
Review	3
Anticipatory historical geographies of violence: Imagining, mapping, and integrating Dersim into the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish state, 1866–1939	3
Exhibition review: ‘Más tierra de que antes se sabía. Hacia el quinto centenario del descubrimiento y conquista del Perú (1524–2024)’ at the Military Historical Museum of Seville, Spain. 22 November -	3
Deforestation processes and (re)forestation practices in southern Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	3
The evolution of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a maritime borderland	3
Overcoming the crisis: Social and ecological impacts of the 17th and 18th century Northern Wars on Kazuń village (Poland) and its surrounding area	3
Review	3
Review	3
Science in a crisis: Assembling volcanic knowledge in twentieth century Montserrat	3
Ḥamāma: The historical geography of settlement continuity and change in Majdal ‘Asqālan's hinterland, 1270–1750 CE	3
Obituary: Joseph (Joe) Michael Powell, 1938–2022	3
Science and imperialism: Setting the maritime sovereignty at the periphery of the French Empire through the survey of the Adriatic Sea (1806–1809)	3
Review	3
To archive it like it is: Alice Walker's autobiography project and the preservation of Black women's history in the Mississippi freedom movement, 1968–1970	3
The Mediterranean metaphor and Léon Metchnikoff's Great Historical Rivers: anarchist geographies of water-land hybridity	3
An assemblage of urban water access: The geography of water marginalization in Amsterdam, 1690-1840	3
Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds, and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971	2
‘Not a true cyclone’: Colonial officials' discursive tactics and responses to the 1952 cyclone in Southern Province and intra-territorial competition in Tanganyika	2
Review	2

The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City	2
The Journal of Historical Geography at 50	2
Communist literary internationalism and worldmaking in the twentieth century: Kerala and the Soviet Union	2
Review	2
A Dynamic Timber Frontier: An Archaeological Perspective on Lumbering in Algonquin Provincial Park (1836–1930)	2
Book Review	2
The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg	2
Modeling the transformation of France's postal exchange space (1632–1833) through multipolar anamorphoses	2
‘Versailles: Science and splendour’ exhibition at the science museum, London, 12 December 2024–21 April 2025	2
Howardena Pindell's ‘A New Language’ Exhibition, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge	2
Review	2
Review	2
Habitability as a historical category for interpreting the Anthropocene	2
From sacred place to outer space: Collective creativity and the iconographies of mid-twentieth century English modernity in Guildford Cathedral's kneelers	2
Historical geographies of a Damascan population crisis: Jawlān and Ḥawrān in the late Mamluk - early Ottoman periods	2
Book Review	2
From ‘garbage dump’ to ‘true European town’: Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)	2
History and philosophy of geography: Looking back and looking forward	2
Review	2
Review	2
Historical boundary struggles in the construction of the non-human world: Nature conservation and tourism in Swedish national parks	2
Where amenity and modernity collided: The Lake District national park and West Cumberland's atomic coast	2
Fieldwork nearby and far away: Student-geographers and the expanded field in the history of geography	2
Geographical biobibliographies: Finding a niche	2
Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction	2
Harnessing the flow: Mining, water, and energy in the Loa River basin (Chile, 1879–1956)	2
Rural adaptation and settlement change in the late Islamic Jabal al-Khalīl (Judean Foothills)	2
The European North of Russia as a timber colony, 1890–1930	2