OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary Pacific is 0. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Timor-Leste	6
Northern Mariana Islands	6
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by Sophie Chao (review)	5
"Music Helps a West Papuan Feeling": West Papuan Musicians Mobilizing Affect and Communitas in Melbourne	3
Mata Austronesia: Stories from an Ocean World; An (Ethno)graphic Novel by Tuki Drake (review)	2
Bougainville	2
Guåhan (Guam)	2
Toward Cognitive Justice: Reconstructions of Climate Finance Governance in Fiji	2
French Polynesia	2
Bougainville	1
Pacific Possessions: The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts by Chris J Thomas	1
Waikiki dir. by Christopher Kahunahana	1
Kanaky New Caledonia	1
Kalama: Oceanian Countercurrents of US Imperialism	1
Papua New Guinea	1
Guåhan (Guam)	1
Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences by Jessica A Schwartz (review)	1
Papua New Guinea	1
Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Sāmoa by JoAnna Poblete	1
Contributors	1
Tuvalu	1
Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures ed. by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, and Craig Santos Perez (review)	1
Kiribati	0
Kalaupapa Place Names: Waikolu to Nihoa by John R K Clark	0
A Different Kind of Vā: Spiraling through Time and Space	0

Sāmoa	0
Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of "Our Ocean"	0
Niue	0
Papua	0
Marshallese Women and Oral Traditions: Navigating a Future for Pacific History	0
Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific by Nicholas Thomas	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0
Editor's Note	0
The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands by Pierre Maranda, James Tuita Dede, and Ben Burt (review)	0
Tuvalu	0
Cartooning History: Lai's Fiji and the Misadventures of the Scrawny Black Cat (review)	0
Tokelau	0
Kiribati	0
There's No Such Place as "Away": Flawed Metaphors of Waste Disposal for Criminal Deportation to the Pacific Islands	0
About the Artist: Monica Dolores Baza	0
Toward an Understanding of Patron-Client Politics and Corruption in Papua New Guinea: A Narrative Review	0
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru by Julia Caroline Morris (review)	0
The Compensation Page: News Narratives of Public Kinship in Papua New Guinea Print Journalism	0
Margaret Mead by Paul Shankman	0
Tokelau	0
Timor-Leste	0
Contributors	0
Niue	0
The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2022	0
Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023	0
About the Artist: Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu	0
Fiji	0
Navigating Secularism: Pacific Communities, Intersectional Identities, and the New Zealand State	0
The Indigénat and France's Empire in New Caledonia: Origins, Practices and Legacies by Isabelle Merle and Adrian Muckle (review)	0
Toward Cognitive Justice: Reconstructions of Climate Finance Governance in Fiji	0
Contributors	0
Navigating CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization by Craig Santos Perez (review)	0
The Healer and the Psychiatrist by Mike Poltorak (review)	0
Kanaky New Caledonia	0
Papua	0
Moving Islands: Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific by Diana Looser (review)	0
About the Artist: Yuki Kihara	0
Papua New Guinea	0
Federated States of Micronesia	0
Contemporary Moana Mobilities: Settler-Colonial Citizenship, Upward Mobility, and Transnational Pacific Identities	0
Refocusing Ethnographic Museums through Oceanic Lenses by Philipp Schorch	0
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i by Candace Fujikane (review)	0
Pacific Island Pride: How We Navigate Australia	0
Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa by Jeff Evans	0
"Kaneka Is Our Reggae": The Soundtrack of the Kanak Political Claim	0
About the Artists: The Veiqia Project	0
Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel, and the Reimagining of History by Ryōta Nishino (review)	0
Solomon Islands	0
"It Will Be Like a Town Here, Things Are Really Coming Up!": Inequality in Village-Based Cruise Ship Tourism in the Trobriand Islands	0
Tonga	0

Solomon Islands	0
The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2021	0
Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods by Michael Fabinyi and Kate Barclay	0
Papua	0
The Kula of the Gospels: Christianity, Magic, and Exchange in the Trobriand Islands	0
Cook Islands	0
Kapaemahu: Toward Story Sovereignty of a Hawaiian Tradition of Healing and Gender Diversity	0
About the Artist: Edith Amituanai	0
Pitcairn	0
Pitcairn	0
Solomon Islands	0
Editor's Note: Interdisciplinarity Reimagined	0
American Sāmoa and Sāmoa	0
Making Sartorial Sense of Empire: Contested Meanings of Aloha Shirt Aesthetics	0
Kanaky New Caledonia	0
One Salt Water: The Storied Work of Trans-Indigenous Decolonial Imagining with West Papua	0
There’s No Such Place as “Away”: Flawed Metaphors of Waste Disposal for Criminal Deportation to the Pacific Islands	0
"We Are So Happy EPF Came": Transformations of Gender in Port Moresby Schools	0
Professor Brij V Lal Award	0
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa by Holger Droessler (review)	0
E Hina e! E Hine e! Mana Waahine Maaori/Maoli of Past, Present and Future	0
Oceania in Review Editor's Note	0
Kai Piha: Nā Loko I'a	0
Māori Issues	0
Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam by Christine Taitano DeLisle (review)	0
CHamoru Legends: A Gathering of Stories / Lihenden CHamoru: Rinikohen Hemplo Siha by Teresita Lourdes Perez (review)	0
'Uvea (Wallis) and Futuna	0
“It Will Be Like a Town Here, Things Are Really Coming Up!”: Inequality in Village-Based Cruise Ship Tourism in the Trobriand Islands	0
Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio	0
Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future by Albert J Schütz	0
Māori Issues	0
Fiji	0
Hawai‘i	0
Desire, Obligation, and Familial Love: Mothers, Daughters, and Communication Technology in the Tongan Diaspora by Makiko Nishitani (review)	0
Marshallese Women and Oral Traditions: Navigating a Future for Pacific History	0
Our Islands, Our Refuge: Response to Craig Santos Perez's "Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of 'Our Ocean'"	0
The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2023	0
Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i by Christen T Sasaki (review)	0
Northern Mariana Islands	0
A Whakapapa of Tradition: 100 Years of Ngāti Porou Carving, 1830–1930 by Ngarino Ellis	0
Pacific People Navigating the Sacred Vā to Frame Relational Care: A Conversation between Friends across Space and Time	0
Kiribati	0
Navigating Secularism: Pacific Communities, Intersectional Identities, and the New Zealand State	0
Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania ed. Hilary Howes, Tristin Jones, and Matthew Spriggs (review)	0
Polynesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023	0
The Healer Stones of Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, and Daniel Sousa, and: Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, and Daniel Sousa, and: The Healer	0
Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology ed. by Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen	0
Leveling Wind: Remembering Fiji by Brij V Lal (review)	0
Pitcairn	0
Rapa Nui	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Hawai'i	0
Moana Nui Rising: A Response to "Blue-Washing the Colonization and Militarization of 'Our Ocean'"	0