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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of COVID-19 on migrant women workers in India	63
Contesting post-communist economic development: gold extraction, local community, and rural decline in Romania	30
Italian mayors and the management of COVID-19: adaptive leadership for organizing local governance	28
What is informality? (Mapping) “the art of bypassing the state” in Eurasian spaces - and beyond	27
The belt and road initiative: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	19
The politics of securitization: China’s competing security agendas and their impacts on securitizing shared rivers	14
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
From traditional infrastructure to new infrastructure: a new focus of China’s Belt and Road Initiative diplomacy?	10
On the determinants of regional government debt in Russia	10
Navigating de facto statehood: trade, trust, and agency in Abkhazia’s external economic relations	8
Russian policy towards the economy of occupied Ukrainian territories: crawling de-modernization	8
Where is the populist radical right successful? Spatial analysis of populist radical right parties in Slovakia and Czechia	7
Postmemory sits in places: the relationship of young Romanians to the communist past	7
Governing the city through im/mobilities during COVID-19 – technological self-governance	7
The locally managed agrarian transition in China: Land shareholding cooperatives and the agricultural co-management system in Chongzhou, Sichuan	6
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
Forever young: China’s migration regime and age patterns	6
Reconnecting Eurasia: a new logistics state, the China–Europe freight train, and the resurging ancient city of Xi’an	6
Institutional adaptability: its relevance for enhancing resilience and smart specialization capacity of the European Union’s lagging regions	5
Is the regional divide in Ukraine an identity divide?	5
“Where you live determines how you are treated”: E-commerce geography and digital inequality in China	5
Changing trends in China’s inequality: evidence, analysis, and prospects	5
Dynamics or Dilemma: Assessing the Innovation Systems of Three Satellite Platform Regions (Singapore, Dublin and Penang)	5
The Carpathian Basin as a ‘Hungarian Neighbourhood’: Imaginative Geographies of Regional Cooperation and National Exceptionalism	5
The grid process: spatializing local governance in China	5

Career trajectories of regional officials: Russia and China before and after 2012	5
Visualizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative on RT (Russia Today): from infrastructural project to human development	4
Going out and going green: NGOs in the environmental governance of Global China	4
Prediction on freight function structure of China’s coastal ports under the Polar Silk Road: a cargo attraction potential perspective	4
Ruins in the making: socio-spatial struggles over extraction and export in the Sino-Mongolian Borderlands	4
Navigating in-between the EU and Russia	4
The collective hukou in urban China	4
‘ We don’t eat those bananas ’: Chinese plantation expansions and bordering on Northern Myanmar’s Kachin borderlands	4
Russia and China between cooperation and competition at the regional and global level. Introduction	4
When the “subaltern empire” speaks. On recognition, Eurasian integration, and the Russo-Georgian war	4
Spatial aspects of labor force formation: the interrelation of cohort turnover and net migration in Serbia	4
Reactive to domestic constraints: dynamic operations of a China-backed copper mine in Myanmar, 2011-2021	4
Old stereotypes and new openness: discourses and practices of trans-border re- and disconnection in south-eastern Kazakhstan’s agricultural sector	4
…“And they lived (un)happily ever after”… State institutions, public enterprises in the energy sector and the value of environment in Romania	4
Historicizing the asynchronous modernity in the Global East	4
Rural–urban migration and urban identity differentiation in China	4
Penumbras of the planetary mine: experiencing (post-)mining transformations in the Western Carpathians of Romania	3
Coexistence or competition for resources? Transboundary transformations of natural resource use in China’s neighborhood	3
Financial citizenship and shadow banking in Pakistan: a study of two deposit-taking microfinance banks	3
Russia’s cultural diplomacy in post-Soviet space: the making of “one people”	3
“There are no cities in China” and the paradox of urban theory	3
Rhythmanalysis and reproduction of space in a brownfield regeneration process: the case of Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic	3
On the (geo)political salience of geographical imaginations: a central European perspective	3
Building a green state? Environmental politics in Georgia	3
Inward FDI, outward FDI, and firm-level performance in India	3
Industrial policy and automotive development: a comparative study of Thailand and Czechia	3
Pluriverse: a post-development dictionary	3
Post-Soviet agrarian transformations in the Russian Far East. Does China matter?	3
Ordering the frontiers: purification projects as a territorializing strategy in southwestern China	3
Visegrád four political regionalism as a critical reflection of Europeanization: deciphering the “Illiberal Turn”	3
Chinese initiatives in Central Asia: claim for regional leadership?	3
Regional integration and economic performance: evidence from the Eurasian Economic Union	3
The fragility of Russia’s agricultural production and implications for food security	3
Integration and investment development paths of CEE countries. Does EU-membership make a difference?	3
Multiscalar entanglements in the post-socialist city: monotown restructuring, spatial re-ordering and urban inequality in Russia	3
Insecurity, incoherence, and imagined geographies in Central Europe	3
Re-framing Russia’s soft power in post-accession Latvia: education reform and naturalization for stateless children	2
To comply or not to comply? Migrants’ responses to educational barriers in large cities in China	2
Simulating territory: the rise and demise of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as an imaginary regional formation	2
Jungle passports: fences, mobility, and citizenship at the Northeast India–Bangladesh border	2
Promises and perils of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: agriculture and export prospects in northern Pakistan	2
Risk or opportunity? The Belt and Road Initiative and the role of debt in the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor	2
East-west or up the urban hierarchy? Internal migration patterns in Slovakia since post-socialist transformation to COVID-19 pandemic	2
As “robots are moving out of the cages” – toward a geography of robotization	2
Development aid and domestic regional inequality: the case of Myanmar	2
Environmental justice and ecological civilization in the Pearl River Delta, China	2
Trade policies in Central Asia after EAEU enlargement and after Russian WTO accession: regionalism and integration into the world economy revisited	2
Geocultural power: China’s quest to revive the silk roads for the twenty-first century	2
Limited at best? Changing discourses on China in Russia’s identity structure before and after the 2014 crisis	2
Building urban lives: female migrant workers emotional counter-topographies in China	2

The soft power of hard tech—The “Shenzhen Model” as an ideological device	2
Nostalgic Voting? Explaining the Electoral Support for the Political Left in Post-Soviet Moldova	2
Conceptualizing “Green economy” in Russian academic debate	2
Borderland infrastructures: trade, development, and control in Western China (open access)	2
Growing localization and fragmentation of patronal politics: Ukrainian local elections since 2010	2
Informal transportation and social embedding of the railroad: the case of okurki on the Baikal-Amur Mainline	2
Competing for space in Tbilisi: transforming residential courtyards to parking in an increasingly car-dependent city	2