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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic and lockdown: a territorial approach to COVID-19 in China, Italy and the United States	146
The smart city as time-space cartographer in COVID-19 control: the South Korean strategy and democratic control of surveillance technology	71
Responses to the COVID-19 crisis in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus	63
Unequal pain: a sketch of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on migrants’ employment in China	57
Green development or greenwashing? A political ecology perspective on China’s green Belt and Road	54
Spatial and functional dimensions of the COVID-19 epidemic in Poland	52
COVID-19 in Romania: transnational labour, geopolitics, and the Roma ‘outsiders’	52
The impact of COVID-19 on migrant women workers in India	51
State power and the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Finland	39
Contesting post-communist economic development: gold extraction, local community, and rural decline in Romania	28
Italian mayors and the management of COVID-19: adaptive leadership for organizing local governance	27
The Global Easts in global urbanism: views from beyond North and South	27
It’s déjà vu all over again: COVID-19, the global energy market, and the Russian economy	27
A part of the world or apart from the world? The postsocialist Global East in the geopolitics of knowledge	25
COVID-19 geopolitics: silence and erasure in Cambodia and Myanmar in times of pandemic	25
Serbia in the time of COVID-19: between “corona diplomacy”, tough measures and migration management	24
An inevitable pandemic: geographic insights into the COVID-19 global health emergency	21
Agricultural policies and European Union accession processes in the Western Balkans: aspirations versus reality	20
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Infrastructure, Social Savings, Spillovers, and Economic Growth in Pakistan	19
Spaces of care and resistance in China: public engagement during the COVID-19 outbreak	18
What is informality? (Mapping) “the art of bypassing the state” in Eurasian spaces - and beyond	17
Decreasing labor intensity in agriculture and the accessibility of major cities shape the rural population decline in postsocialist Russia	16
“Smart” quarantine and “blanket” quarantine: the Czech response to the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Covid-19 and inter-provincial migration in China	16
The geopolitical ramifications of COVID-19: the Taiwanese exception	13

China’s belt and road initiative in Russian media: politics of narratives, images, and metaphors	13
Constructing a Eurasian higher education region: “Points of correspondence” between Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia	11
The politics of securitization: China’s competing security agendas and their impacts on securitizing shared rivers	11
Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East	11
The belt and road initiative: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	11
Housing allocation with Chinese characteristics: the case of talent workers in Shenzhen and Guangzhou	11
Clashing geopolitical self-images? The strange co-existence of Christian bulwark and Eurasianism (Turanism) in Hungary	10
How does spatial proximity to the high-speed railway system affect inter-city market segmentation in China: a spatial panel analysis	10
Changing trends in China’s inequality: evidence, analysis, and prospects	9
On the determinants of regional government debt in Russia	9
The great pause: a minor theory exploration of COVID-19 response in Switzerland	9
More than viral: outsiders, Others, and the illusions of COVID-19	9
Not so global climate change? Representations of post-socialist cities in the academic writings on climate change and urban areas	8
Mind the gap: role expectations and perceived performance of the EU in the South Caucasus	8
Pandemopolitics. How a public health problem become a geopolitical and geoeconomic issue	8
Navigating de facto statehood: trade, trust, and agency in Abkhazia’s external economic relations	8
Governing the city through im/mobilities during COVID-19 – technological self-governance	7
Russian policy towards the economy of occupied Ukrainian territories: crawling de-modernization	7
The new silk road heads north: implications of the China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor for Mongolian agency within Eurasian power shifts	7
The geopolitics of knowledge circulation: the situated agency of mimicking in/beyond China	7
From traditional infrastructure to new infrastructure: a new focus of China’s Belt and Road Initiative diplomacy?	7
Can self-sufficiency policy improve food security? An inter-temporal assessment of the wheat value-chain in Uzbekistan	7
“More-than-viral” Eurasian geographies of the covid-19 pandemic: interconnections, inequalities, and geopolitics	7
The Eurasian Economic Union and the challenge of the BRI: a comparison of their respective impacts on economic development and Russia’s regional leadership	6
The ambiguous politics of improvisation: utopia to revanchism in Belgrade	6
Reconnecting Eurasia: a new logistics state, the China–Europe freight train, and the resurging ancient city of Xi’an	5
Institutional adaptability: its relevance for enhancing resilience and smart specialization capacity of the European Union’s lagging regions	5
A double paradox of plenty: renewable energy deployment in Central Asia	5
The fragility of Russia’s agricultural production and implications for food security	4
The Carpathian Basin as a ‘Hungarian Neighbourhood’: Imaginative Geographies of Regional Cooperation and National Exceptionalism	4
Where is the populist radical right successful? Spatial analysis of populist radical right parties in Slovakia and Czechia	4
Lofty ideals in aerial connectivity: ideology in the urban cable car network of Tbilisi, Georgia	4
The dragon dithers: assessing the cautious implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Iran	4
Integration and investment development paths of CEE countries. Does EU-membership make a difference?	4
…“And they lived (un)happily ever after”… State institutions, public enterprises in the energy sector and the value of environment in Romania	4
Is the regional divide in Ukraine an identity divide?	4
Postmemory sits in places: the relationship of young Romanians to the communist past	4
“Where you live determines how you are treated”: E-commerce geography and digital inequality in China	4
The locally managed agrarian transition in China: Land shareholding cooperatives and the agricultural co-management system in Chongzhou, Sichuan	4
Russia and China between cooperation and competition at the regional and global level. Introduction	4
Working with the past, re-discovering cities of Central and Eastern Europe: cultural urbanism and new representations of modernist urban areas	4
Historicizing the asynchronous modernity in the Global East	4
Ruins in the making: socio-spatial struggles over extraction and export in the Sino-Mongolian Borderlands	3
Dynamics or Dilemma: Assessing the Innovation Systems of Three Satellite Platform Regions (Singapore, Dublin and Penang)	3
Rural–urban migration and urban identity differentiation in China	3
The collective hukou in urban China	3
‘ We don’t eat those bananas ’: Chinese plantation expansions and bordering on Northern Myanmar’s Kachin borderlands	3
Multiscalar entanglements in the post-socialist city: monotown restructuring, spatial re-ordering and urban inequality in Russia	3
The grid process: spatializing local governance in China	3
Sino-Russian relations through the lens of Russian border history museums: the Nerchinsk treaty and its problematic representations	3

Career trajectories of regional officials: Russia and China before and after 2012	3
Chinese initiatives in Central Asia: claim for regional leadership?	3
Russia’s cultural diplomacy in post-Soviet space: the making of “one people”	3
Reactive to domestic constraints: dynamic operations of a China-backed copper mine in Myanmar, 2011-2021	3
Old stereotypes and new openness: discourses and practices of trans-border re- and disconnection in south-eastern Kazakhstan’s agricultural sector	3
Writing anthropandemics – the strangely connected social geographies of COVID-19, plastic waste, and obesity	3
Insecurity, incoherence, and imagined geographies in Central Europe	3
Visegrád four political regionalism as a critical reflection of Europeanization: deciphering the “Illiberal Turn”	3
Penumbras of the planetary mine: experiencing (post-)mining transformations in the Western Carpathians of Romania	3
The Russian World as a legitimation strategy outside Russia: the case of Gagauzia	3
Visualizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative on RT (Russia Today): from infrastructural project to human development	3
Development aid and domestic regional inequality: the case of Myanmar	3
“There are no cities in China” and the paradox of urban theory	3
Post-Soviet agrarian transformations in the Russian Far East. Does China matter?	3
Prediction on freight function structure of China’s coastal ports under the Polar Silk Road: a cargo attraction potential perspective	3
Inward FDI, outward FDI, and firm-level performance in India	2
Nostalgic Voting? Explaining the Electoral Support for the Political Left in Post-Soviet Moldova	2
Ordering the frontiers: purification projects as a territorializing strategy in southwestern China	2
Simulating territory: the rise and demise of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as an imaginary regional formation	2
Borderland infrastructures: trade, development, and control in Western China (open access)	2
Between the West and Russia: Moldova’s international brokers in a two-level game	2
Building a green state? Environmental politics in Georgia	2
Worlds apart? The World Bank’s business rankings and small entrepreneurship in Tajikistan	2
Industrial policy and automotive development: a comparative study of Thailand and Czechia	2
To comply or not to comply? Migrants’ responses to educational barriers in large cities in China	2
On the (geo)political salience of geographical imaginations: a central European perspective	2
When the “subaltern empire” speaks. On recognition, Eurasian integration, and the Russo-Georgian war	2
When neighborhood goes to war. Exploring the effect of belonging on violent mobilization in Ukraine	2
Informal transportation and social embedding of the railroad: the case of okurki on the Baikal-Amur Mainline	2
Promises and perils of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: agriculture and export prospects in northern Pakistan	2
Competing for space in Tbilisi: transforming residential courtyards to parking in an increasingly car-dependent city	2
The handbook of diverse economies	2
Trade policies in Central Asia after EAEU enlargement and after Russian WTO accession: regionalism and integration into the world economy revisited	2
Rhythmanalysis and reproduction of space in a brownfield regeneration process: the case of Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic	2
Spatial aspects of labor force formation: the interrelation of cohort turnover and net migration in Serbia	2
The perfect storm: extreme weather events and speculation along cardamom commodity chains in Southwest China	2
Limited at best? Changing discourses on China in Russia’s identity structure before and after the 2014 crisis	2
Navigating in-between the EU and Russia	2