OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Eurasian Geography and Economics is 4. 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
Early modernity and mobility: port cities and printers across the Armenian diaspora, 1512–1800	41
Building a green state? Environmental politics in Georgia	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
From eco-cities to sustainable city-regions: China’s uncertain quest for an ecological civilization	13
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
Russian energy chains: the remaking of technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union	12
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
Urban orchard in a megacity: formality and informality in China	11
The road to socialism. Transport infrastructure in socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945–1989)	10
Revisiting the post-socialist city from an empiricist’s perspective	10
Istanbul, open city: exhibiting anxieties of urban modernity	10
China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and manifestations	9
Geopolitics and the geographer: ethics and the everyday in times of global existential crisis	9
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
Humanitarian, linguistic and narrative bordering in Georgia: migrations in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	8
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
Where are Russia–China energy relations headed? A regime analysis	7
Nature’s evil: a cultural history of natural resources	7
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
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
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
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
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
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