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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The (Geo)politics of the Belt and Road Initiative: economic corridors in Indonesia and the Philippines	41
Early modernity and mobility: port cities and printers across the Armenian diaspora, 1512–1800	21
Building a green state? Environmental politics in Georgia	16
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in central Europe: representations, transfers and exchanges	13
Balkan legacies: the long shadow of conflict and ideological experiment in Southeastern Europe	11
The end of the village: planning the urbanization of rural China	11
Citizens and the state in authoritarian regimes: comparing China and Russia	11
Ordering the frontiers: purification projects as a territorializing strategy in southwestern China	10
On the determinants of regional government debt in Russia	10
30 Years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Turns and twists in economies, politics, and societies in the post-communist countries	10
Spatializing authoritarianism Spatializing authoritarianism , edited by Natalie Koch, New York, Syracuse Studies in Geography, Syracuse University Press, 2022, 416 pp.,	9
From eco-cities to sustainable city-regions: China’s uncertain quest for an ecological civilization	9
Russian Politics and Society (5th Edition)	9
Urban orchard in a megacity: formality and informality in China	8
Russia and China between cooperation and competition at the regional and global level. Introduction	8
Russian energy chains: the remaking of technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union	8
Istanbul, open city: exhibiting anxieties of urban modernity	7
Geopolitics and the geographer: ethics and the everyday in times of global existential crisis	7
Revisiting the post-socialist city from an empiricist’s perspective	7
Border humanitarians: gendered order and insecurity on the Thai-Burmese frontier Border humanitarians: gendered order and insecurity on the Thai-Burmese frontier by Adam	7
Governing through the NGO—community eldercare in Beijing and Shanghai	7
The road to socialism. Transport infrastructure in socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945–1989)	7
Environmental justice and ecological civilization in the Pearl River Delta, China	7
Creating Chinese urbanism: urban revolution and governance changes,	6
Humanitarian, linguistic and narrative bordering in Georgia: migrations in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	6

‘ We don’t eat those bananas ’: Chinese plantation expansions and bordering on Northern Myanmar’s Kachin borderlands	6
The Carpathian Basin as a ‘Hungarian Neighbourhood’: Imaginative Geographies of Regional Cooperation and National Exceptionalism	6
Destination choices of labor migrants in the urban hierarchy of China: the impact of Hukou place and differentiated effects of education attainment	6
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	6
Where are Russia–China energy relations headed? A regime analysis	6
China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and manifestations	6
Constructing Qinghai province: Chinese state-making in a Tibetan-Mongol frontier region 1907–1957	5
Questioning post-socialism in urban studies? Don’t shoot ourselves in the foot	5
Londongrad, a post-socialist city?	5
Nature’s evil: a cultural history of natural resources	5
Proximity and cross-border acquisitions of technology assets by firms in latecomer economies: a study of Chinese firms, 2001-2018	5
Territorialization and ethnic control in China’s borderlands: Aba prefecture in the People’s Republic, 1950–2020	5
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)	5
Introduction: from universalism to fragmentation? The concept of “post-socialism” in urban studies and Human Geography	5
Russian policy towards the economy of occupied Ukrainian territories: crawling de-modernization	5
Conflict and cooperation in the semiconductor industry: the global evolution of chip production	5
Coexistence or competition for resources? Transboundary transformations of natural resource use in China’s neighborhood	5
Rural–urban migration and urban identity differentiation in China	4
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., $	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
Respatialising finance: power, politics and offshore renminbi market making in London	4
“City of districts” as state project: socioeconomic unevenness and contested power relations in establishing Wansheng in Chongqing	4
Reversing the Bamboo Network: Chinese capital, geopolitics, and institutions in Southeast Asia	4
Soft power in Central Asia. The politics of influence and seduction	3
Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects	3
Aligning aid with intent: examining official development finance flows to Southeast Asia	3
To comply or not to comply? Migrants’ responses to educational barriers in large cities in China	3
A research agenda for global rural development	3
The Russian cold: histories of ice, frost, and snow	3
Rethinking peripheral geographies of innovation: towards an ordinary periphery approach	3
Unpacking the competitive relations among Chinese business actors in Africa	3
Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East	3
The Russo-Ukrainian War	3
Ageing together: the symbiosis of gendered elderly bodies and old vehicles in a Ukrainian city	3
Towards nationalizing regimes: conceptualizing power and identity in the post-Soviet realm	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
Jungle passports: fences, mobility, and citizenship at the Northeast India–Bangladesh border	3
New frontier capitalism in China and the power to name: regional territorialization, petroleum development, and the concurrence of US-PRC relations at September 11 ^th	3
“Fence culture”: grounding global China in Kalimantan	3
Estimating the size of GDP loss in Southeast Asia due to the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Spatial revolution: Architecture and planning in the early Soviet Union	3
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	3
Moving post-socialist publics: citizens, spaces, and practices	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	2
The poverty of territorialism: a neo-medieval view of Europe and European planning	2
Catching China-Europe trains: local agency and Global China in the Polish borderland	2
Contextualizing state–market relations in urban financialization: the growth and uneven geography of urban investment bonds in Chinese cities	2
Following state-owned enterprises: the location strategies of Chinese private multinationals	2
War memorialization and nation-building in Ukraine	2
Regional infrastructure systems: the political economy of regional infrastructure Regional infrastructure systems: the political economy of regional infrastructure , by	2

Polarized pasts: heritage and belonging in times of political polarization Polarized pasts: heritage and belonging in times of political polarization , edited by Elisabe	2
Research on poverty reduction in China	2
Soft power, public diplomacy, and modernity in China and Russia	2
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	2
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	2
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	2