OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography is 4. 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
Revisiting the green geographies of welfare planning: an introduction	42
The four dimensions of metropolitanization: a case study of Warsaw, Wrocław and Lublin	39
Logics of competition: the forming of opinion in the bid for a green mega investment	25
What types of cultural cooperation exist in European cross-border areas?	23
‘I was born here, I will die here’: climate change and migration decisions from coastal and insular Guinea-Bissau	16
Clouds in the normally sunny sky? The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Dutch lifestyle entrepreneurs in the Algarve	14
Wake up: the urgent appeal of Allan Pred	12
The everyday spaces of public transportation: the ‘driving’ case of the city bus in Hong Kong	12
Whose visions for what land? Planning, power and property in a ‘new inner city’, Malmö 2004–2023	10
Situating spatial justice in counter-urban lifestyle mobilities: relational rural theory in a time of crisis	9
Blurring the lines: precarious lives and social reproduction in labour geography	9
The effect of COVID-19 on cross-border mobilities of people and functional border regions: the Nordic case study from Twitter data	9
Evolving Regional Economies: Resources, Specialization, Globalization	8
The geography of innovation in times of crisis: a comparison of rural and urban RDI patterns during COVID-19	8
Discursive displacement and semantic diffusion of sense of place: revisiting Tuan	7
Radiant scars: fallout, trauma, ghosts, and (re)worlding in Fukushima	6
If we can make it there, we can make it everywhere: grassroots social innovations for post- capitalistic futures	6
Urban planning responses to population decline in Japan’s shrinking cities: growth strategies vs. decline management	6
Introduction: ‘Occupations and the occupied: agency, expertise, and patronage in wartime and postwar political cartographies'	6
Travelling in time, between places, and jobs: exploring temporal dimensions of academics’ international trajectories	6
Discursive-technical landscaping and policing the body (politic) in Azerbaijan: a case study of Talysh activists	5
Balancing participatory planning and planning for resilience in nature-based solutions. A case of transformative agency?	5
Between authenticity and belonging: residents’ and tourists’ perception of the Cinque Terre (Italy) in Pixar-Disney’s Luca	5
Municipalities and communities enabling social innovations in peripheral areas – case studies from Ostrobothnia, Finland	5
Understanding demographic and economic patterns in sparsely populated areas – a global typology approach	5

Austerity through rescaling and layering in the Swedish welfare state	5
Weight, relief and overcoming: a safe space for racialized women learning to swim in Sweden	5
Visualizing the European migrant crisis on social media: the relation of crisis visualities to migrant visibility	5
An exploration of spatial differences and influencing factors of migrant attainment in Chinese cities	4
Legitimizing a world-class hospital: policy mobility and narratives in megaproject planning	4
Taking territory seriously in a fluid, topologically varied world: reflections in the wake of the populist turn and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The socio-spatial distribution of migrants in German cities between 2014 and 2017	4
Ideological productions in human geography as an apparatus of the state/power	4
Examining the relationship between social context and community attachment through the daily social context averaging effect	4
Patterns of knowledge bases in large city regions in Germany: comparison of cores and their surrounding areas	4
Politics of public interest: Finnish forest capital’s strategy in the Kaipola paper mill shutdown	4
Residential segregation in a radically changing urban context: experiences from Belgrade	4
Unpacking smart specialization strategies: how collective policy-making processes shape the direction of regional strategies	4
Start-up competitions as anchor events in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: first findings from two German regions	4