OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Human Geography is 6. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Carceral and military geographies: Prisons, the military and war	98
Crystallising places: Towards geographies of ontogenesis and individuation	87
Political geography I: Blue geopolitics	59
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China	58
Children’s geographies II: Adults	55
Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality	55
Geographies of production III: Global production in/through nature	52
Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure	51
Legal geography I: Everyday law	46
The agrarian question of climate change	43
Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility	43
Book Review: The contours of colonialism: A book review symposium	39
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions	37
The settler colonial city in three movements	36
Geography and sexuality II: Homonormativity and heteroactivism	36
Ambiguous spaces, empirical traces: Accounting for ignorance when researching around the illicit	35
Vital mobilities: Integrating healthcare, climate change, and mobilities	32
Book Review: Rentier capitalism: A book review symposium	31
Political geography II: The end of territorial integrity	31
Empire, redux: Towards a new political geography of race war	29
Towards a post-foundational geography: Spaces of negativity, contingency, and antagonism	29
Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model: The example of services for homeless substance users	29
Indigenous peoples’ geographies I: Indigenous spatialities beyond place through relational, mobile and hemispheric & global approaches	28
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition	28
The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing	26

Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy	26
Social geography II: Space and Sociality	26
Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics	26
Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography	25
(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education	24
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?	24
Reimagining geographies of public finance	24
Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis	23
Classics in human geography revisited: Julie Guthman’s Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California	23
From autonomous to autonomist geographies	22
New geographies of crime? Cybercrime, southern criminology and diversifying research agendas	21
Visionary geographies and European Studies	21
Geographies of race and ethnicity 1: Black geographies	21
Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities	20
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures	18
Trajectories of translation	18
Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants	17
Geography’s abolitionist turn: Notes on freedom, property, and the state	17
Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship	16
Historical geography I: Doom, danger, disregard – Towards political historical geographies	16
Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics	16
Depth beyond 3D: The decolonial dimensions of volume	16
Closing camps	16
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics	16
Corrigendum to “Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism”	16
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement?	15
Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies	15
Geography, area studies and Chinese world-writing	15
Geographical education II: Anti-racist, decolonial futures	15
Animal geographies III: Relational and political	15
Development geography II: Community-based adaptation and locally-led adaptation	15
Progress in simulating human geography: Assemblage theory and the practice of multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling	15
From the margins of Geographical Information Systems: Limitations, challenges, and proposals	14
Density as a politics of value: Regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism	13
Progress in historical geography II: Desperately seeking connections (again) – The mendacious, the micrological, and the mercurial	13
Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research	13
Geographies of reflection and radiance: Radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media	13
Health geographies III – Landscapes of care	13
Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research	13
A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday	13
‘Everyday droning’: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home	12
Approaching “the expert” in times of (digital) disruptions: Towards a geography of expertise	12
Resource geography III: Rentier natures and the renewal of class struggle	12
What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses	12
Rethinking China’s urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions	11
Qualitative research methods I: Emotionally engaged approaches to working with vulnerable participants	11
Political ecology II: Conjunctures, crises, and critical publics	11
Deconstructing and resisting coastal displacement: A research agenda	11
Urban Geography III: Universities and their spaces	11
Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies	11

Situational analysis and urban theory	11
The geontological time-spaces of late modern war	11
Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment	10
Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies	10
A century of integrated research on the human-environment system in Chinese human geography	10
Policing sounds	10
Economic geography II: The economic geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Energy justice beyond identity: Planting anarchist seeds towards total liberation	9
Geographies of infrastructure III: Infrastructure with Chinese characteristics	9
Global production networks and the uneven development of regional training systems: Conceptualizing an approach and proposing a research agenda	9
Geographies of gender and sexuality II: Charting scholarship on health	9
Unpacking pervasive heteronormativity in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities to embrace multiplicity of sexualities	9
Progress in environmental geography and progress in human geography: new siblings	8
Labour geography I: Labour agency, informal work, global south perspectives and the ontology of futures	8
Towards relational geographies of gambling harm: Orientation, affective atmosphere, and intimacy	8
The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis	8
The geopolitics of militarism and humanitarianism	8
Financial geography III: Research strategies, designs, methods and data	8
Automated infrastructure: COVID-19 and the shifting geographies of supply chain capitalism	8
Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity	8
Regional economic resilience: A scoping review	8
Geographical education III: Changing climate, changing geographies, changing geographical education?	8
Psychogeography: Walking through strategy, nature and narrative	8
GIScience III: Questions of time	8
Moving beyond the impasse in geographies of ‘alternative’ food networks	7
Intimate technologies: Towards a feminist perspective on geographies of technoscience	7
Remittance-scapes: The contested geographies of remittance management	7
A change of editors and a thank you	7
Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors	7
Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes	7
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization	7
Queering as (un)knowing: Ambiguities of sociality and infrastructure	7
GIScience I: The rise, fragmentation, and future of VGI	7
Alienating assemblages: Working the carbonscape in times of transformation	6
Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems	6
Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts	6
Health geographies II: Resilience, health and place	6
Infrastructuring zoonoses: Zoonoses, infrastructures, and the life giving and taking politics of pandemic prevention	6
The politics of pixels: A review and agenda for critical remote sensing	6
Geography and ethics III: Description as a matter of moral concern	6
For feminist geographies of austerity	6
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface	6
Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy: New directions in geographic research on confinement	6
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism	6
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction	6
Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions	6
Why can’t we grasp gentrification? Or: Gentrification as a moving target	6
Rescaling: Change agency and the emerging geography of economic relationships	6