OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Historical Geography is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Review	13
Geopolitical enclaves: Space and social-political change in Cold War Taiwan's Military Dependent Villages	13
Book Review	11
Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience	11
Editorial Board	10
Book Review	10
Book Review	9
Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930	9
Between written law and lived experience: The Gay and Lesbian archive and the socio-spatial history of sexual regulation in South Africa	9
Governing the private scales of families and homes: Visiting nurses and Turkey's mobilization of consumptive care	9
The role of malaria, urbanism, and soil in the European Marriage Pattern of the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic	8
David Livingstone’s The Empire of Climate: A History of An Idea	8
Review	8
Book Review	8
Book Review	6
Commemorative vigilance between totalitarianisms: Slovakia’s 'Victims Warn' sculpture, from counter-monument to anti-monument	6
Map making as memory practice: The historical geography of East European shtetls as expressed in Jewish yizker bikher	6
Mapping a French Department in the northeastern Amazonia: The 1947 Oyapock mission in a context of Decolonization	6
Shifting terrains of risk: A history of natural hazards and displacement in three historic black communities of Central Austin, Texas	6
Dutch inspiration for an engaged pluralist historiography of geography	5
The spatial logic of health: Managing waste, water and infrastructure in later medieval Bologna	5
Timber, money, and shelter: The promotion of private tree planting in New Zealand during the 1920s	5
Book Review	5
Book Review	4
Book Review	4

Where military and fluvial geographies disastrously conjoined: The Huayuankou flood of 1938–1947 during the Sino-Japanese war	4
Exhibition review: ‘Classroom photographic journeys,’ CRASSH, University of Cambridge, U.K.	4
Editorial Board	4
After the fall, where?: Relocating the Colston statue in Bristol, from 2020 to imaginary futures	4
Where is the past? Time in historical geography	4
Editorial board	4
Critical Geography's nature problem and the Lefebvrian ecological dialectic	4
Cartographic Reproductions: The Franciscan Legacy in Amazonian Peru, 1830–1847	4
Book Review	4
The making of Atlas Maritimus (1728): A shift towards commercial geography	4
The Augustów Canal as the largest monument in Central and Eastern Europe	4
Review	3
Anticipatory historical geographies of violence: Imagining, mapping, and integrating Dersim into the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish state, 1866–1939	3
Review	3
Colonialism and the political economy of reconstruction: French policy in the reconstruction of Algerian inland cities, 1837–1900	3
Fenced open-fields in mixed-farming systems: spatial organisation and cooperation in southern Sweden during the seventeenth century	3
Timber colonialism in Labrador/Nitassinan: The case of the Labrador boundary	3
Obituary: Cole Harris	3
Ḥamāma: The historical geography of settlement continuity and change in Majdal ‘Asqālan's hinterland, 1270–1750 CE	3
Wastelanding Arabia: America's ‘Garden of Eden’ in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia	3
Review	3
Science in a crisis: Assembling volcanic knowledge in twentieth century Montserrat	3
Engineering indigenous dispossession and plantation slavery in the Southeast Gulf coast	3
Obituary: Joseph (Joe) Michael Powell, 1938–2022	3
Book Review	3
Practice, politics, and publics: Doing public historical geography in a Black archive	3
Multidisciplinary perspectives on nineteenth-century Paris	3
‘An aid to loveliness’: lavender, femininity and the affective economy of English beauty	3
Review	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
Climate, cartography, and the life and death of the ‘natural region’ in British geography	3
The Adriatic question revisited: Carlo Maranelli and the multifaceted geographies of the sea	3
Traditional environmental knowledge and transport efficiency of a communal canal network, Tafilalt oasis, Morocco: A historical GIS analytics perspective	3
Contested tradition: The canonicity of historical geography in China, 1921–1961	3
Book Review	3
Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–1868	3
Review	3
The Mediterranean metaphor and Léon Metchnikoff's Great Historical Rivers: anarchist geographies of water-land hybridity	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	2
Howardena Pindell's ‘A New Language’ Exhibition, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge	2
Book Review	2
Review	2
The evolution of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a maritime borderland	2
Review	2
Book Review	2
Book Review	2
Review	2
Habitability as a historical category for interpreting the Anthropocene	2
Where amenity and modernity collided: The Lake District national park and West Cumberland's atomic coast	2

The European North of Russia as a timber colony, 1890–1930	2
From ‘garbage dump’ to ‘true European town’: Geographically imagining the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla (1913-1917)	2
Overcoming the crisis: Social and ecological impacts of the 17th and 18th century Northern Wars on Kazuń village (Poland) and its surrounding area	2
An assemblage of urban water access: The geography of water marginalization in Amsterdam, 1690-1840	2
Review	2
‘Versailles: Science and splendour’ exhibition at the science museum, London, 12 December 2024–21 April 2025	2
Review	2
Protecting global wetlands: Ecosystems, migratory waterbirds, and the Ramsar Convention, 1962–1971	2
The Journal of Historical Geography at 50	2
The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City	2
Harnessing the flow: Mining, water, and energy in the Loa River basin (Chile, 1879–1956)	2
Modeling the transformation of France's postal exchange space (1632–1833) through multipolar anamorphoses	2
Diversifying the historical geography of exploration: Subaltern body work on British-led expeditions c.1850–1914	2
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	2
Place and displacement: Historical geographies of Israel's largest landfill	2
Review	2
Deforestation processes and (re)forestation practices in southern Brazil in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	2
Historical geographies of a Damascan population crisis: Jawlān and Ḥawrān in the late Mamluk - early Ottoman periods	2
Conservation policies, scientific research and the production of Lake Pátzcuaro's naturecultures in Postrevolutionary México (1920–1940)	2
Cartographic knowledge, colonialized-colonizer spaces: Egyptian maps of Harar, 1875–1885	1
Confederacy, colonialism, controversy: How history serves the present in the Alabama Department of Archives and History	1
Obituary: P. Thankappan Nair (1933–2024)	1
Book Review	1
Tiny traces: African & Asian children at London's Foundling Hospital, Foundling Museum, London	1
Review	1
Housing colonialism: Regulating low density communities in 1950s Hong Kong	1
Geographical biobibliographies: Finding a niche	1
‘Aircraft and pencraft’: Between tradition and modernity in arctic varsity exploration	1
“A new power: Photography in Britain, 1800–1850” 1 February – 7 May 2023 ST Lee Gallery, Bodleian Weston Library, Oxford	1
Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction	1
Reflections on the first decade of the HPGRG undergraduate dissertation prize: The geography and politics of reward	1
Rural adaptation and settlement change in the late Islamic Jabal al-Khalīl (Judean Foothills)	1
Strabo's lived-in worlds: A conversation piece	1
Historical boundary struggles in the construction of the non-human world: Nature conservation and tourism in Swedish national parks	1
Fieldwork nearby and far away: Student-geographers and the expanded field in the history of geography	1
From sacred place to outer space: Collective creativity and the iconographies of mid-twentieth century English modernity in Guildford Cathedral's kneelers	1
Reconstructing of historical land cover based on contemporary cartographical materials	1
Spatial dimensions of religious practice in multi-confessional Eastern Europe, circa 1760–1820	1
‘Piling up a treasury of knowledge’: Archiving as knowledge production and professional practice in the Stevenson engineering firm	1
Signs related to the safety of navigation on late medieval and early modern nautical charts of the Adriatic Sea, circa 1270 - 1824	1
Book Review	1
Heritage assemblages, maintenance and futures: Stories of entanglement on Hampstead Heath, London	1
Exhibition review: Visages de L'Exploration au XIXe siècle: Du mythe à l'histoire at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France	1
(Post)colonial worlding in Jordan's nature reserves: Conservation, racial science, and national identity	1
The history of environmental Turanism in the Pannonian basin in the early twentieth century	1
From idea to urban form: The evolution of Howard's concept and typology of historical garden cities in Poland	1
Archives as worldmaking	1
Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States	1
Traffic logic, state strategies and free speech in an urban park: The Park Lane Road Improvement Scheme, London, 1955–1962	1
A Dynamic Timber Frontier: An Archaeological Perspective on Lumbering in Algonquin Provincial Park (1836–1930)	1
Rumors of War: Towards the unsettling of the Confederate monumental landscape	1
The great leap outwards: Intoxicant consumption, space and the expansion of ‘urbanity’ in eighteenth-century Hamburg	1
‘Not a true cyclone’: Colonial officials' discursive tactics and responses to the 1952 cyclone in Southern Province and intra-territorial competition in Tanganyika	1
Representing Freetown: Photographs, maps and postcards in the urban cartography of colonial Sierra Leone	1
Surviving the agricultural periphery: Climatic resilience and livestock production in pre-industrial central Scandinavia	1
Sir William Jones's Indian botany: Visual archive, natural history collections, and worldmaking in the British empire	1
Commemorating Picton in Wales and Trinidad: Colonial legacies and the production of memorial publics	1
Review	1
Situating knowledges, making kin and telling stories: Geographical encounters with Donna J Haraway	1
Landscapes on the move: The travel journals of Celia Fiennes (1685-c.1712)	1
Reexamining reclamation: A comparative analysis of agricultural transformation in nineteenth century Sweden	1
Why the history and philosophy of geography matter: Louise Michel's radical, anticolonial, and pluralist geographies	1
Russian views of the unknown coast: Shvetsov's accounts of the Oregon and northern California coastline during the sea otter trade, 1808-09	1
Communist literary internationalism and worldmaking in the twentieth century: Kerala and the Soviet Union	1
The 18th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Shanghai, July, 2025	1
Review	1
The beginnings of forest management on Polish lands (late-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries)	1
Editorial Board	1
Book Review	1
History and philosophy of geography: Looking back and looking forward	1
Review	1
Where was Dien Bien Phu? Oey Hong Lee's eventful geography of decolonization	1