OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Eurasian Geography and Economics 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Limited at best? Changing discourses on China in Russia’s identity structure before and after the 2014 crisis	32
30 Years of transition in Europe: looking back and looking beyond in CESEE countries	30
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in central Europe: representations, transfers and exchanges	22
Under the sign of the cross: the People’s Salvation Cathedral and the church-building industry in postsocialist Romania	15
Balkan legacies: the long shadow of conflict and ideological experiment in Southeastern Europe	10
Citizens and the state in authoritarian regimes: comparing China and Russia	10
Urban restructuring and the location dynamics of P-KIBS in postsocialist Belgrade	9
Conflict and cooperation in the semiconductor industry: the global evolution of chip production	9
Localized bargaining: the political economy of China’s high-speed railway program	9
Everyday belonging in the post-soviet borderlands: Russian speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan,	8
Reversing the Bamboo Network: Chinese capital, geopolitics, and institutions in Southeast Asia	8
Periphery, uncertainty, and legacy: networks of global service firms within the former Soviet Union space	8
China’s new urbanization: inequality and the new Chinese dream	8
The horde: How the Mongols changed the world The horde: How the Mongols changed the world , by Marie Favereau, Cambridge, USA, Harvard University Press, 2021, 384 pp., $	7
Bound to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia	6
Cities of dragons and elephants: urbanization and urban development in China and India	6
Lost in transformation: comparative analysis of healthcare provision dynamics within urban systems of European Russia and France	6
Promises and perils of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: agriculture and export prospects in northern Pakistan	6
Respatialising finance: power, politics and offshore renminbi market making in London	6
The changing geography of interprovincial migration in China: history and new trends	6
The role of indirect oil and natural gas revenues in the Russian government budget	6
Global finance, local control: corruption and wealth in contemporary Russia Global finance, local control: corruption and wealth in contemporary Russia , by Igor O. Logv	6
Rural–urban migration and urban identity differentiation in China	5
On the edge: life along the Russia-China border On the edge: life along the Russia-China border , by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvar	5
A behavioral theory of economic development: the uneven evolution of cities and regions A behavioral theory of economic development: the uneven evolution of cities and regions	5

Navigating in-between the EU and Russia	5
Arctic triumph: Northern innovation and persistence	5
Macroeconomics after Kalecki and Keynes: Post-Keynesian foundations	5
Micro-level incentives and the mechanism of import substitution in Russian public procurement	5
Risk or opportunity? The Belt and Road Initiative and the role of debt in the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor	4
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	4
Territorialization and ethnic control in China’s borderlands: Aba prefecture in the People’s Republic, 1950–2020	4
Building a green state? Environmental politics in Georgia	4
The Eurasian Economic Union and the challenge of the BRI: a comparison of their respective impacts on economic development and Russia’s regional leadership	4
The Armenian experience: From ancient times to independence	4
Growing localization and fragmentation of patronal politics: Ukrainian local elections since 2010	4
“City of districts” as state project: socioeconomic unevenness and contested power relations in establishing Wansheng in Chongqing	4
The economics of financial services in emerging markets: measuring the output of the banking and insurance industries	4
Coexistence or competition for resources? Transboundary transformations of natural resource use in China’s neighborhood	4
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)	4
Language or ideology? Studying the sources of the ethnic gap in geopolitical preferences in the Association Agreement countries. Evidence from Georgia (2015-2021)	4
Chinese initiatives in Central Asia: claim for regional leadership?	4
Housing names to suit every taste: neoliberal place-making and toponymic commodification in Kyiv, Ukraine	4
On the determinants of regional government debt in Russia	3
Soft power in Central Asia. The politics of influence and seduction	3
The politics of bad governance in contemporary Russia	3
Rentier capitalism and its discontents. Crime and Punishment in a Neoliberalised Era Rentier capitalism and its discontents. Crime and Punishment in a Neoliberalised Era	3
Handbook on planning and PowerHandbook on planning and Power edited by Michael Gunder, Kristina Grange and Tanja Winkler, Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, 448	3
The end of the village: planning the urbanization of rural China	3
Rethinking peripheral geographies of innovation: towards an ordinary periphery approach	3
Ukrainian, Russophone, (other) Russian: hybrid identities and narratives in post-Soviet culture and politics	3
Is prefecture-level city a “city” in China: a critical review	3
Putin’s people: how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West Putin’s people: how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West , by Catherine Belton, Dubl	3
Jungle passports: fences, mobility, and citizenship at the Northeast India–Bangladesh border	3
Peripheral centers: vertical politics and the geography of Chinese cross-border opium replacement in Southeast Asia’s “New Golden Triangle”	3
Visions of Beirut: the urban life of media infrastructure Visions of Beirut: the urban life of media infrastructure by Hatim El-Hibri, USA, Duke University Press, 2021,	3
Handbook on decentralization, devolution and the state Handbook on decentralization, devolution and the state , edited by Ignacio Lago, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publ	3
Borderland infrastructures: trade, development, and control in Western China (open access)	3
Towards nationalizing regimes: conceptualizing power and identity in the post-Soviet realm	2
Hotbeds of climate vulnerability: marginalization, informality, and invisibilization of Roma slums in Romania	2
Unpacking the competitive relations among Chinese business actors in Africa	2
Climate futures: re-imagining global climate justice	2
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	2
Dynamics or Dilemma: Assessing the Innovation Systems of Three Satellite Platform Regions (Singapore, Dublin and Penang)	2
Russian modernization. A new paradigm	2
Handbook on geopolitics and security in the Arctic: the high North between cooperation and confrontation	2
30 Years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Turns and twists in economies, politics, and societies in the post-communist countries	2
The Russian cold: histories of ice, frost, and snow	2
How nations remember: a narrative approach	2
Book review essay: how socialist market economy accentuates settler colonialism in Xinjiang and results in state terror	2
Formalizing ambiguous property rights as a panacea? Informal urban regeneration in Shanghai	2
Multi-infrastructure studies: ethnographic and historical explorations - Liviu Chelcea	2
Uzbekistan’s cotton clusters in the context of the industrial policy debate	2
Shareholder cities: land transformations along urban corridors in India	2
The socio-spatial making and breaking of the rural commons in Hong Kong	2

When the “subaltern empire” speaks. On recognition, Eurasian integration, and the Russo-Georgian war	2
Oil in Putin’s Russia. The contest over rents and economic policy	2