OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of South African Geographical Journal 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Planning for health and wellbeing? Reflections on urban policy and practice in the City of Cape Town and Western Cape Province during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
The influence of satisfaction with life, social contribution and environmental well-being on conscientious consumer decision-making in the South African emerging economy	28
Can Social Impact Assessments (SIAs) be a sustainable strategy to address the skills development gap and community sustainability challenges in Just Energy Transition (JET) policy decision-making? Evi	22
Conservation corridors and ecological networks in South Africa: shortcomings of environmental legislation and policies	15
Fuel for regional income inequality in South Africa: redistribution effect of taxes	14
Spatial ordering of informal sector activities in African cities: perspectives and lessons from the development of informal sector in Nigeria	12
A comparative study of past and projected future dynamics of drought hazards across the districts of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa: analysis of CRU TS4 data and CORDEX-Africa RCM simulation	10
Cafés of connection: exploring the social role of third places in Global South universities	10
Nature-based solutions for coastal resilience in South Africa	9
Digitally mapping soil carbon of the uThukela headwater catchment in the Maloti-Drakensberg, a remote Afromontane mountain region	8
Factors motivating community participation in the Bushbuckridge municipality in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa	8
Toponymic renaming as a reflection of social cohesion and social justice in the City of Tshwane	7
Joint venture wildlife management of the Loliondo Game Controlled Area in Tanzania: a multi-criteria analysis	6
Socio-economic and demographic determinants of COVID-19 infections and spread at household level: case study from Nigeria	5
The urban materialities of disused quarries in Cape Town	5
Off-campus housing supply and utilization: perspectives of landlords and students in Chinhoyi	5
Multispectral remote sensing of potential groundwater dependent vegetation in the greater Floristic region of the Western Cape, South Africa	4
Barriers to municipal solid waste management policy implementation. A case study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	3
Disaster risk and development: employing postgraduate field projects to bring theory into practice	3
Making ends meet: spatial and socio-economic variations during the 2020-2021 COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa	3
Modification of the microclimate and fire danger by Berg winds in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal	3
National health insurance in the face of COVID-19: urban tendencies in South Africa	3
Identifying climatic risks and relevant adaptation strategies for selected smallholder farming regions, Limpopo Province, South Africa	3
Informal second-hand tyre dealers’ management of used and waste tyres in the context of the South African township economy	2
The importance of meaningful quality geography education in South African learning contexts	2

Spatial temporal analysis of burn severity using Sentinel-2 satellite data in Aberdare Afromontane forest ranges, Kenya	2
Broken bridges over troubled waters: COVID-19 and the urban poor residing in Dinaweng informal settlement, Bloemfontein, South Africa	2
The emotional toll of the ‘hard’ lockdown: an analysis of diary entries from Gauteng, South Africa	2
The relationship between a set of selected variables characterizing FET phase South African geography teachers and their self-directed learning abilities	2
Fostering responsibility and commitment as tools in Geographical environmental education to reduce plastic pollution in rural schools in a South African context	2
From species to pixels: monitoring rangeland quality & productivity by leveraging the NDVI-RCI relationship	2
For whom is the human geography discipline?	2
Parks, participation and the Parkrun ‘move-ment’ in South Africa	2
Women’s coping and adaptation strategies to climate change: a case of the Dodoma Region	2
Robustness of bandwidth selection for the generic spatial similarity test for point patterns	2
Relationships between geography teachers’ SDL skills, participation in self-directed professional development and the use of learner-centred instructional strategies	2
Spatiotemporal analysis of heavy summer rainfall events across the Free State Province, South Africa: 1981–2022	2
Health and wellbeing in urban South Africa: an overview	2
Reconstructing the timing of South Africa’s influenza season over the past century from newspaper records	2
A Feminist Political Ecology of household waste management in an urban township, South Africa	2
The parkrun and event attachment: a case study of the participants of three Johannesburg parkruns	2