OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Eurasian Geography and Economics is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Building a green state? Environmental politics in Georgia	41
Early modernity and mobility: port cities and printers across the Armenian diaspora, 1512–1800	41
The (Geo)politics of the Belt and Road Initiative: economic corridors in Indonesia and the Philippines	21
Unsettling relationalities: migrant couples’ geographies of attachment	19
30 Years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Turns and twists in economies, politics, and societies in the post-communist countries	19
Who benefits? Unpacking heterogeneity in China’s upstream coffee value chain through the actor-profit-institution framework	18
Russian Politics and Society (5th Edition)	13
Spatializing authoritarianism Spatializing authoritarianism , edited by Natalie Koch, New York, Syracuse Studies in Geography, Syracuse University Press, 2022, 416 pp.,	13
From eco-cities to sustainable city-regions: China’s uncertain quest for an ecological civilization	13
Russian energy chains: the remaking of technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union	12
Urban orchard in a megacity: formality and informality in China	11
Border humanitarians: gendered order and insecurity on the Thai-Burmese frontier Border humanitarians: gendered order and insecurity on the Thai-Burmese frontier by Adam	11
Revisiting the post-socialist city from an empiricist’s perspective	10
Istanbul, open city: exhibiting anxieties of urban modernity	10
The road to socialism. Transport infrastructure in socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945–1989)	10
Questioning post-socialism in urban studies? Don’t shoot ourselves in the foot	9
Creating Chinese urbanism: urban revolution and governance changes,	9
‘ We don’t eat those bananas ’: Chinese plantation expansions and bordering on Northern Myanmar’s Kachin borderlands	9
Destination choices of labor migrants in the urban hierarchy of China: the impact of Hukou place and differentiated effects of education attainment	9
Post-Soviet borders: a kaleidoscope of shifting lives and lands Post-Soviet borders: a kaleidoscope of shifting lives and lands , edited by Sabine von Löwis and Beate Es	9
Environmental justice and ecological civilization in the Pearl River Delta, China	9
China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and manifestations	9
Geopolitics and the geographer: ethics and the everyday in times of global existential crisis	9
Humanitarian, linguistic and narrative bordering in Georgia: migrations in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	8
Where are Russia–China energy relations headed? A regime analysis	7

Nature’s evil: a cultural history of natural resources	7
Introduction: from universalism to fragmentation? The concept of “post-socialism” in urban studies and Human Geography	7
Proximity and cross-border acquisitions of technology assets by firms in latecomer economies: a study of Chinese firms, 2001-2018	7
Respatialising finance: power, politics and offshore renminbi market making in London	6
“Still never a local without a local hukou ”: hukou stickiness and rural–urban migrants’ lived experiences	6
Coexistence or competition for resources? Transboundary transformations of natural resource use in China’s neighborhood	6
Russian policy towards the economy of occupied Ukrainian territories: crawling de-modernization	6
“City of districts” as state project: socioeconomic unevenness and contested power relations in establishing Wansheng in Chongqing	6
Conflict and cooperation in the semiconductor industry: the global evolution of chip production	6
Rural–urban migration and urban identity differentiation in China	6
秩序與混沌: 轉型中國的「社會奇蹟亅 (The Paradox of Order and Chaos: Social Stability in Transitional China)	6
Londongrad, a post-socialist city?	6
Territorialization and ethnic control in China’s borderlands: Aba prefecture in the People’s Republic, 1950–2020	6
Talking about security in the era of high-tech and green-tech: China’s empathy with Russia and the rare earths trade with the West	6
Studies on the history and culture along the continental silk road Studies on the history and culture along the continental silk road , edited by Xiao Li, Singapore, Spr	5
Soft power in Central Asia. The politics of influence and seduction	5
Inside the Chinese Communist Party’s ‘black box’	5
Towards nationalizing regimes: conceptualizing power and identity in the post-Soviet realm	5
Decoupling growth from carbon: analysis of CO ₂ emissions and economic change in Uzbekistan (1990–2023)	5
The Russian cold: histories of ice, frost, and snow	5
Occupation: Russian rule in South-Eastern Ukraine,	4
Aligning aid with intent: examining official development finance flows to Southeast Asia	4
Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects	4
The Russo-Ukrainian War	4
Unpacking the competitive relations among Chinese business actors in Africa	4
Investigating the evolution of the logic of industry-specific trade sanctions against Russia, 2022–2024	4
“Fence culture”: grounding global China in Kalimantan	4
Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East	4
Moving post-socialist publics: citizens, spaces, and practices	4
Rethinking peripheral geographies of innovation: towards an ordinary periphery approach	4
Geographies of China’s global engagements: place, scale, and power	4
Ageing together: the symbiosis of gendered elderly bodies and old vehicles in a Ukrainian city	4
The poverty of territorialism: a neo-medieval view of Europe and European planning	3
War memorialization and nation-building in Ukraine	3
Following state-owned enterprises: the location strategies of Chinese private multinationals	3
Polarized pasts: heritage and belonging in times of political polarization	3
Catching China-Europe trains: local agency and Global China in the Polish borderland	3
Spatial revolution: Architecture and planning in the early Soviet Union	3
Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography , edited by Loretta Lees and David Demeritt, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2023, 456 pp., £21	3
Red Arctic: Russian strategy under Putin Red Arctic: Russian strategy under Putin , by Elizabeth Buchanan, Washington D.C, Brookings Institution Press, 2023, 208 pp., IS	3
Localized bargaining: the political economy of China’s high-speed railway program	3
Soft power, public diplomacy, and modernity in China and Russia	3
Estimating the size of GDP loss in Southeast Asia due to the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Research on poverty reduction in China	3
Contextualizing state–market relations in urban financialization: the growth and uneven geography of urban investment bonds in Chinese cities	3
The Solidarity Economy The Solidarity Economy , by Jean-Louis Laville, Minneapolis, USA, University of Minnesota Press, 2023, 324 pp., $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1	3
Penumbras of the planetary mine: experiencing (post-)mining transformations in the Western Carpathians of Romania	2
Lost in transformation: comparative analysis of healthcare provision dynamics within urban systems of European Russia and France	2
Multi-dimensional proximity in global production networks: nearshoring to Central and Eastern Europe	2
Urban wage premium and informal agglomeration in Vietnam	2

Where is the populist radical right successful? Spatial analysis of populist radical right parties in Slovakia and Czechia	2
Stalin’s quest for gold: the torgsin hard-currency shops and Soviet industrialization Stalin’s quest for gold: the torgsin hard-currency shops and Soviet industrialization	2
The role of indirect oil and natural gas revenues in the Russian government budget	2
Formalizing ambiguous property rights as a panacea? Informal urban regeneration in Shanghai	2
Correction	2
Simulating territory: the rise and demise of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as an imaginary regional formation	2
Southeast Asia’s multipolar future: averting a new cold war Southeast Asia’s multipolar future: averting a new cold war , by Thomas Parks, London, New York, Oxford, New	2
Going out and going green: NGOs in the environmental governance of Global China	2
How nations remember: a narrative approach	2
Multi-infrastructure studies: ethnographic and historical explorations	2
The Soviet passport: the history, nature and uses of the internal passport in the USSR	2
How the west lost the peace: the great transformation since the Cold War	2
Have China’s internal migrants been more settled since 2010? A contribution based on migrants’ age profiles	2
Intergenerational mobility and emigration willingness and intentions in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia	2
Russia’s regional museums. Representing and misrepresenting knowledge about nature, history and society	2
On Russian soil: myth and materiality On Russian soil: myth and materiality by Mieka Erley, Ithaca and London, Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of C	2
Uzbekistan’s cotton clusters in the context of the industrial policy debate	2
The Armenian experience: From ancient times to independence	1
The politics of bad governance in contemporary Russia	1
Rethinking the nexus between urban amenities and migrants’ hukou transfer intentions in China: the role of the hukou value	1
Handbook on decentralization, devolution and the state	1
Ruins in the making: socio-spatial struggles over extraction and export in the Sino-Mongolian Borderlands	1
Housing names to suit every taste: neoliberal place-making and toponymic commodification in Kyiv, Ukraine	1
Trade, trust, and geopolitics: soy exports to China from Uruguay and Argentina, 2000–2020	1
Global aesthetics as an (im)perfect shelter: atmospheres of belonging and Russian migration in Tbilisi, Georgia	1
The political economy of China’s impact on sustainable development in Africa	1
The decline of the West? The authoritarian challenges from China, Russia, and North Korea China after Mao: the rise of a superpower , by Frank Dikötter, London, Oxford,	1
The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) after a decade: public perception in Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan	1
Everyday belonging in the post-soviet borderlands: Russian speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan,	1
Introduction: fragmented mobilities, stratified belonging – rethinking internal migration in China	1
“It didn’t feel like a mall”: networks, spaces, and communities of Kraków’s repurposed mall-shelter	1
Russian modernization. A new paradigm	1
Language or ideology? Studying the sources of the ethnic gap in geopolitical preferences in the Association Agreement countries. Evidence from Georgia (2015-2021)	1
Who’s afraid of postsocialist theory?	1
Arctic triumph: Northern innovation and persistence	1
Why has China built a “multi-level” city in the South China sea? The case of Sansha	1
International rivers as national borders: the functional complexity of border river governance with a case study of the Khorgos river	1
Urban restructuring and the location dynamics of P-KIBS in postsocialist Belgrade	1
China’s new urbanization: inequality and the new Chinese dream	1
The socio-spatial making and breaking of the rural commons in Hong Kong	1
Is prefecture-level city a “city” in China: a critical review	1
The changing geography of interprovincial migration in China: history and new trends	1
Living together or apart? International migrants and family coresidence in Yiwu, China	1
Émigré, exile, diaspora, and transnational movements of the Crimean Tatars: Preserving the eternal flame of Crimea	1
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions	1