OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A transnational lens into international student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic	39
Studying multinational migrations, speaking back to migration theory	36
Revolving doors in international financial governance	34
Elite professionals in transnational tax governance	25
The networked character of migration and transnationalism	22
How do migrants’ processes of social embedding unfold over time?	22
Suspending, settling, sponsoring: the intimate chronomobilities of young Asian migrants in Australia	21
Digital value chain restructuring and labour process transformations in the fast‐fashion sector: Evidence from the value chains of Zara & H&M	20
Elites in transnational policy networks	19
Host state reactions to home state diaspora engagement policies: Rethinking state sovereignty and limits of diaspora governance	17
Telling network stories: researching migrants' changing social relations in places over time	16
Driving the digital value network: Economic geographies of global platform capitalism	15
Qualitative network analysis for migration studies: Beyond metaphors and epistemological pitfalls	15
Digital transformation and value chains: Introduction	13
How white is the global elite? An analysis of race, gender and network structure	13
The networked refugee: The role of transnational networks in the journeys across the Mediterranean	13
Global decisions versus local realities: Sustainability standards, priorities and upgrading dynamics in agricultural global production networks	12
Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis	12
The social order of transnational migration markets	12
Not necessarily a place: How mobile transnational online workers (digital nomads) construct and experience ‘home’	12
Segmented pathways of educational mobility: English language schools, working holidays, and divergent prospects among South Korea's global youth	12
How to govern mixed migration in Europe: transnational expert networks and knowledge creation in international organizations	11
Global value chains and supplier perceptions of corporate social responsibility: a case study of garment manufacturers in Myanmar	11
‘Give me my pathway!‘: multinational migration, transnational skills regimes and migrant subjectification	11
Bus stops, triple wins and two steps: nurse migration in and out of Asia	11

Who runs the show in digitalized manufacturing? Data, digital platforms and the restructuring of global value chains	10
Personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective: How to overcome ethnicity bias in migration research	10
Transnational life and cross‐border immobility in pandemic times	10
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas	9
Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy	9
Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing	9
Beyond structural determinism: advantages and challenges of qualitative social network analysis for studying social capital of migrants	9
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks	9
City networks and the multi‐level governance of migration	8
Transnational mobility networks and academic social capital among early‐career academics: beyond common‐sense assumptions	7
Delineating the corporate elite: Inquiring the boundaries and composition of interlocking directorate networks	7
Platform ecology: A user‐centric and relational conceptualization of online platforms	7
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain	6
Internet and social media uses, digital divides, and digitally mediated transnationalism in forced migration: Syrians in Turkey	6
Competing for seafaring labour: Social security and agency employment in Chinese shipping	6
Donating to the fight for democracy: The connective activism of overseas Hong Kongers and Taiwanese in the 2019 Anti‐extradition bill movement	6
Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration	6
The interaction of elite networks in the Pinochet regime's macroeconomic policies	6
To see and be seen: Technological change and power in deforestation driving global value chains	6
Reframing human rights: the global network of moral conservative homeschooling activists	6
The varying use of online supplier portals in auto parts‐automotive value chains and its implications for learning and upgrading: The case for the Mexican and Turkish suppliers	6
New power configurations: City mobilization and policy change	6
Cross‐border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia to China	6
The evolution of structural resilience of global oil and gas resources trade network	6
Deconstructing borders: Mobility strategies of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda	6
Linking power and inequality in global value chains	6
Special theme introduction: methodological cosmopolitanism across the socio‐cultural sciences	5
Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid‐19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi	5
Divergence of the world city system from national economies	5
Networks do not float freely: (Dis)entangling the politics of Tamil diaspora inclusion in development governance	5
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn	5
Networking in contexts: qualitative social network analysis' insights into migration processes	5
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective	5
Global networks of money and information at the crossroads: Correspondent banking and SWIFT	5
Home sweet home: Creating a sense of place in globally mobile working lives	5
On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home	5
Young Europeans in Brexit Britain: Unsettling identities	5
An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era	4
Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam	4
Mapping the national web: Spaces, cultures and borders of diasporic mobilization in the digital age	4
Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite?	4
The construction, composition and rationale of immigrants’ network: The support strategies of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, Canada	4
Transnational families and return in the age of deportation: The case of indigenous Ecuadorian migrants	4
How do emerging market suppliers reshape the governance of global value chains? Evidence from China	4
Labour market integration and transnational lived citizenship: Aspirations and belonging among refugees in Germany	4
Extraordinary everydayness: Young people's affective engagements with the country of origin through digital media and transnational mobility	4
‘Implicit’ remittances in family relationships: The case of Bangladeshis in Italy and beyond	4
Highly skilled (re‐)migrants in multinational enterprises: Facilitators of cross‐border knowledge transfers	4
Framing the Muslim subject, contesting the secular citizen: Tablighi Jamaat and the (trans)nationalization of Islam in Singapore	3

Capitalizing on translocal affiliations: configuring capital in returnee entrepreneurship	3
Scaling migration network governance? City networks and civil society in multilevel policymaking dynamics	3
Following the ‘hype’: The role of leisure practices during ‘homeland’ visits in transnational youth's way of relating to Ghana	3
A post‐national EU diaspora? Political mobilization of EU citizens in the UK post‐Brexit	3
COVID‐19, (im)mobilities and blockages: Re‐thinking mobilities of migrant women in Northern Ireland	3
Navigating labels, seeking recognition for victimhood: Diaspora activism after mass‐atrocities	3
European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue	3
Mixed‐method social network analysis for multi‐sited transnational migration research	3
Impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on the transnationalization of LGBT* activism in Japan and beyond	3
Ageing, migration infrastructure and multi‐generational care dynamics in transnational families	3
Understanding the structures of transnational youth im/mobility: A qualitative network analysis	3
The distribution of national urban hierarchies of connectivity within global city networks	3
Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora	3
Local migrant kin or floating grandmother? Reflections on mobility and informal childcare support strategies among Polish migrants in Ireland	3
Watching them grow: Intergenerational video‐calling among transnational families in the age of smartphones	2
Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al‐Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge‐based economy’	2
Variegated forms of corporate capture: The state, MNCs, and the dark side of strategic coupling	2
Migrants’ transnational social positioning strategies in the middle classes	2
Transnational halal networks: INHART and the Islamic cultural economy in Malaysia and beyond	2
Intra‐company transfers: The government/corporate interface in the United Kingdom	2
Doing family: Nicaraguan transnational families’ narratives on motherhood	2
One ocean one temple: Alternative Chinese temple networks in Southeast Asia	2
Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces	2
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion	2
Infrastructure of mobility: navigating borders, cities and markets	2
Power in consensus: Legitimacy, global value chains and inequality in telecommunications standard‐setting	2
Covid‐19 and Global Networks: Reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism	2
Transnationalism unstuck: Precarious work and the transnational geographies of failed migration of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore	2
Joined by remoteness: An exploratory comparison of regional board networks in Sweden	2
How career hubs shape the global corporate elite	2
Global human mobility and knowledge transfer: Highly skilled return migrants as agents of transnational learning	2
A cautionary tale: Bazaar trade and limitations to growth in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	2
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors	2
Ambivalent returns: Dhaqan celis and counter‐diasporic migration among second‐generation Somalis	2