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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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‘It's just a natural human thing to do, to go and visit your family… but it's not easy for us’: Gender and generation in Bangladeshis’ transnational visits between London and Sylhet	31
Fleeting joy, divergent expectations and reconfigured intimacies: The visits home of Filipino migrant care workers in Singapore	27
One ocean one temple: Alternative Chinese temple networks in Southeast Asia	26
Diaspora Voices Explored: Introducing a Representative Claims Framework to Analyse the Tibetan Diaspora Network Online	25
Feelings of Guilt When Caring for Parents Across Borders: The Role of Gender and Country‐Specific Care Systems and Norms	24
From cosmopolitan convergences to situated religious cosmopolitanism: The early spread of the Bahá’í Faith in Singapore and Malaya (1950–1975)	24
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration: Online attitudes towards Westerners and the west in China	23
Reactive Transnationalism and the Ascent of Donald Trump: Evidence From the Latino Immigrant National Election Survey	20
Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the Role of Information Communication Technologies. Edited by Maria C.Marchetti‐Mercer, LeslieSwartz and LorettaBaldassar. Wits University Press.	18
Foreign Direct Investment and Democracy: A Global Network Analysis, 2 001–2017	16
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Resilience Against All Odds: How Refugee Women From Ukraine Find Courage Through Transnational Families	15
Strawberries in Wintertime. Understanding Moldovan Transnational Family Lives by Unpacking the Senses and Memories of a Persistent Parcel‐Sending Practice	15
Digital Borders and Bordering Along the Vietnam–Australia Migration Corridor	15
Work as affective care: Visiting parents’ experiences of paid work abroad	14
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The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Transnational Aging Experience of Older Hong Kongers	12
Digitally Mobile Swedes and Their Experiences: A Contribution to the De‐Exceptionalization of Migrants	11
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Commentary: East Asian Educational Migration as Narrative Quests	11
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A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults?	10
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The Digitally Mediated ‘Homeland’ Mobilities of West African Diaspora Youth: Diversifying Grounded Engagements, Peer Networks and Leisure Practices	10
Migration as International Relations	9
‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Rebels’: Ambivalent Success Frames of Chinese International Secondary School Graduates in the United States	9
Visiting here, there, and somewhere: Multi‐locality and the geographies of transnational family visiting	9
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn	9
Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class‐Making	8
A network analysis of international migration: Longitudinal trends and antecedent factors predicting migration	7
Who Is Smuggler? Contradictory Positions and Unsettled Roles in Smuggling Assemblage on the Balkan Route	7
Navigating Stepwise Lifestyle Mobilities via the Global South: Japanese Migrant Families’ Negotiation of Educational and Lifestyle Aspirations in Malaysia	7
Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda	7
Childhood, Migration and the Pursuit of Happiness in MIDDLE‐CLASS EAST ASIA	7
The globalization of production, national labour regulations and income inequality in the global North and South, 1980–2013	7
The Cultivation of Transnational Cultural Capital in Childhood: Experiences of Chinese Global Multiple Migrants	7
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain	7
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion	7
Mapping the structure and dynamics of global high‐tech aerospace trade	7
City networks and the multi‐level governance of migration	7
An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era	7
Doing and Displaying Transnational Grandchildhood: Immigrant Children in Poland	7
Migrants as Agents of Local Development in Their Homeland: Practices of Transnational Solidarity From Tuscany to Senegal	7
Home visits, holy visits: Diasporic pilgrimage to the ‘Holy Land’ amongst Palestinian–Jordanian Christians from Amman	6
Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis	6
Overcoming the mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship	6
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Visiting ‘home’: Considering diasporic practices through assemblage dynamics	6
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Power in consensus: Legitimacy, global value chains and inequality in telecommunications standard‐setting	6
Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector	6
Refugee Integration Goes Transnational: Afghans and Ukrainians Prepare for Integration in Canada Before and After Arrival	6
Changed Reality, Changed Positions: The Case Study of Eritrean Women Refugees in Times of Global Pandemic	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
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Ageing, migration infrastructure and multi‐generational care dynamics in transnational families	5
The transformation of UK Chilean diaspora space: new Chilean migrants and encounters across time	5
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The Welfare System in the Face of War Refugees From Ukraine: The Experience of Social Workers in Poland	5
‘I Kiss the Screen, But It Is Not the Same’ — Grandparenting in Geographically Dispersed Families	5
Globalisation and Network Resilience: A Special Issue Introduction	5
‘I Slashed My Mom's Car Tires So We Wouldn't Have to Go Back to Germany’: (Non)Belonging and Mobility Among Descendants of Poles in Germany	5
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Glocal Capitalist Class: How Same‐Nation Interlocks Facilitate Transnational Corporate Political Unity in Global Environmental Politics	5
Just Talk? International Migration, Cross‐Border Communication and Political Tolerance in Latin America	5
Message in a Bottleneck: Supply Chain Disruptions and Manufacturing Output in the United States	5
Doing Agency through Personal Networks: The Case of Ukrainian Forced Migrants in Romania	5
Navigating Displacement: The Intertemporal Migration and Settlement Experiences of Ukrainians in Latvia	5
Exploring the imprint of the institutional context on the urban network in China: Comparative analyses between corporate‐based networks with different ownership structures	5
Variegated forms of corporate capture: The state, MNCs, and the dark side of strategic coupling	4
Visiting migrants: An introduction	4
Uncertainties of Temporary Protection: Forcibly Displaced People From Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Navigating Displacement: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis in Europe	4

Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al‐Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge‐based economy’	4
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‘We need the activists to be more entrepreneurial’: Global versus local modes of thought on the development of social enterprise support systems in transitioning economies	4
Middle‐aged migrants: Expanding an understanding of lifecourses and linked lives	4
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks	4
Local migrant kin or floating grandmother? Reflections on mobility and informal childcare support strategies among Polish migrants in Ireland	4
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective	3
Constructing and Analysing Global Corporate Networks With Wikidata: The Case of Electric Vehicle Industry	3
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Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors	3
The transnational engagement of Afghan diaspora organizations: Drivers of diaspora specialization	3
Property investment and the making of the ambivalent elective Polish diaspora in Israel	3
Reconciling emotional caregiving and self‐fulfilment: Peruvian migrants in Switzerland supporting parents in Peru	3
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Unpacking intercity competitive relations in the global corporate spatial organization of manufacturing	3
Intra‐company transfers: The government/corporate interface in the United Kingdom	3
How cosmopolitan capital shapes the valuation of international credentials: A comparative analysis across cities in China and the United Arab Emirates	3
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Conceptualizing transnational disappearances: Polish missing abroad and the governance of the search	3
Exiled Scholars and New Organizational Strategies in Academic Humanitarianism in Europe in the Aftermath of the Syrian War	3
Overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents	3
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Calling multinational enterprises to account: CSOs, supranational institutions and business practices in the global south	3
Correction to “Message in a Bottleneck: Supply Chain Disruptions and Manufacturing Output in the United States”	2
Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy	2
Assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of global liner shipping network	2
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Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces	2
Social Networks and Agency in Forced Migration From Ukraine to Switzerland	2
Negotiating Everyday Transnationalism: A Qualitative Inquiry Into the Marital Lives of International Students in China and Their Chinese Partners	2
How do Japanese and Chinese view each other? Understanding the meaning of low‐context culture in intercultural communication	2
Hospitality and Agency in Young Refugees’ Everyday Relationships: A Study of Mutual Becoming	2
The Role of Regional Demand in Pathways of Agro‐Industrialization: Evidence From Small Maize Milling Firms in Tanzania	2
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Quod vadis? The effect of youth unemployment and demographic pressure on migration in the MENA region	2
COVID‐19, (im)mobilities and blockages: Re‐thinking mobilities of migrant women in Northern Ireland	2
A Network of Networks: Building Resilience in the Globalised Era	2
The construction, composition and rationale of immigrants’ network: The support strategies of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, Canada	2
Are larger cities more central in urban networks: A meta‐analysis	2
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Framing the Muslim subject, contesting the secular citizen: Tablighi Jamaat and the (trans)nationalization of Islam in Singapore	2
Transnational families: The experiences of Polish stayers from a lifelong perspective	2
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