OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A transnational lens into international student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic	54
The networked character of migration and transnationalism	28
Digital value chain restructuring and labour process transformations in the fast‐fashion sector: Evidence from the value chains of Zara & H&M	25
Qualitative network analysis for migration studies: Beyond metaphors and epistemological pitfalls	22
Driving the digital value network: Economic geographies of global platform capitalism	18
Not necessarily a place: How mobile transnational online workers (digital nomads) construct and experience ‘home’	18
The networked refugee: The role of transnational networks in the journeys across the Mediterranean	17
Host state reactions to home state diaspora engagement policies: Rethinking state sovereignty and limits of diaspora governance	17
Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis	17
Global decisions versus local realities: Sustainability standards, priorities and upgrading dynamics in agricultural global production networks	16
Digital transformation and value chains: Introduction	15
Transnational life and cross‐border immobility in pandemic times	15
How white is the global elite? An analysis of race, gender and network structure	15
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas	15
On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic	14
Who runs the show in digitalized manufacturing? Data, digital platforms and the restructuring of global value chains	13
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks	13
Platform ecology: A user‐centric and relational conceptualization of online platforms	12
Segmented pathways of educational mobility: English language schools, working holidays, and divergent prospects among South Korea's global youth	12
The evolution of structural resilience of global oil and gas resources trade network	11
Global networks of money and information at the crossroads: Correspondent banking and SWIFT	11
Personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective: How to overcome ethnicity bias in migration research	11
Linking power and inequality in global value chains	10
City networks and the multi‐level governance of migration	9
Delineating the corporate elite: Inquiring the boundaries and composition of interlocking directorate networks	9

Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy	9
Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration	9
Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing	9
Internet and social media uses, digital divides, and digitally mediated transnationalism in forced migration: Syrians in Turkey	8
Deconstructing borders: Mobility strategies of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda	8
Cross‐border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia to China	8
Networking in contexts: qualitative social network analysis' insights into migration processes	8
Donating to the fight for democracy: The connective activism of overseas Hong Kongers and Taiwanese in the 2019 Anti‐extradition bill movement	8
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain	8
To see and be seen: Technological change and power in deforestation driving global value chains	8
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	8
European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue	7
New power configurations: City mobilization and policy change	7
‘Implicit’ remittances in family relationships: The case of Bangladeshis in Italy and beyond	7
An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era	7
Competing for seafaring labour: Social security and agency employment in Chinese shipping	7
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn	6
Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home	6
Divergence of the world city system from national economies	6
Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora	6
COVID‐19, (im)mobilities and blockages: Re‐thinking mobilities of migrant women in Northern Ireland	6
Networks do not float freely: (Dis)entangling the politics of Tamil diaspora inclusion in development governance	6
Local migrant kin or floating grandmother? Reflections on mobility and informal childcare support strategies among Polish migrants in Ireland	5
Home sweet home: Creating a sense of place in globally mobile working lives	5
Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam	5
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors	5
Young Europeans in Brexit Britain: Unsettling identities	5
Global human mobility and knowledge transfer: Highly skilled return migrants as agents of transnational learning	5
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective	5
Mapping the national web: Spaces, cultures and borders of diasporic mobilization in the digital age	5
Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite?	5
Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid‐19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi	5
Extraordinary everydayness: Young people's affective engagements with the country of origin through digital media and transnational mobility	5
How do emerging market suppliers reshape the governance of global value chains? Evidence from China	5