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Papers

(The median citation count of Island Studies Journal is 1. 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
Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean	17
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within	13
Islands and the rise of correlational epistemology in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the trope of the ‘canary in the coalmine’	11
Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	11
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	9
'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic	9
Remoteness, islands and islandness	8
Sustainable tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in sub-national island jurisdictions: The case of Tobago	8
(Un)Making smallness: Islands, spatial ascription processes and (im)mobility	8
Rethinking destination success: An island perspective	8
Tourism imaginaries and the selective perception of visitors: Postcolonial heritage in Con Dao Islands, Vietnam	8
Critiquing ‘islandness’ as immunity to COVID-19: A case exploration of the Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique archipelago in the Caribbean region	8
Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies	8
Disrupted identities and forced nomads: A post-disaster legacy of neocolonialism in the island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles	7
Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji	7
255 Island tourism carrying capacity in the UNESCO Site Laurisilva of Madeira	7
The stunning birth of tourism on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera	7
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century	6
Optimisation of hybrid renewable energy systems on islands: A review	6
Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu	5
97 Hospitality and exchange: Identity relationships between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in Sardinia	5
Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	5
Embodying the Anthropocene: Embattled crustaceans, extractivism, and eco-tourism on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)	5
The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism	5
Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana	4

Future past I am a coolie-al…and I reside as an invisible island inside the ocean: Tidalectics, transoceanic crossings, coolitude and a Tamil identity	4
Utopian and insular spaces in Chinese literature: An island approach	4
Island studies and socio-economic development policies in East Asia	4
Commodification or the right to the island: The struggle against the construction of a hotel in La Tejita (Tenerife)	4
Movement from emerging economies to small island states: motivations of Nigerian educational tourists in North Cyprus	4
Typical islands, borrowed islands: Epistemological and intellectual decolonialization in island studies	3
The disregarded weight of the ancestors: Honouring the complexities and cultural subtleties of islandscape	3
Politics of prevention in the periphery: The initial response to COVID-19 on Barbuda and Puerto Rico	3
Seapower, geostrategic relations, and islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases deal	3
Islander migrations and the oceans: From hopes to fears?	3
‘St Helena, an island between’: Multiple migrations, small island resilience, and survival	3
Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao)	3
Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene	3
“It’s like Hawai’i”: Making a tourist utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985	3
Marine biodiversity of a pristine coral reef in French Polynesia	3
Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	3
The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands	3
Extreme weather, climate variability, and childhood: A historical analogue from the Orkney Islands (1903–1919)	2
Small Island Developing States and climate securitisation in international politics: Towards a comprehensive conception	2
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	2
Lowland islands at the water-land nexus in Lixiahe, China: A boundary approach	2
Resilience and autonomy at stake: The public construct of the Paf gambling company in the Åland Islands community	2
Measuring accessibility and island development in Ambon City	2
Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	2
Island narratives in the making of Japan: The Kojiki in geocultural context	2
Ferry services and the community development of peripheral island areas in Hong Kong: Evidence from Cheung Chau	2
Demographic carrying capacity model: A tool for decision-making in Rapa Nui	2
Riverine Complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River (Eastern Australia)	2
“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	2
Island as urban artifact/archipelago as urban model	2
Nomadic identities, archipelagic movements, and island diasporas	2
Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists	2
Mediate or litigate: An evaluation of citizen and police officer perspectives on the use of mediation to resolve citizen-police conflict in Trinidad and Tobago	2
Forgotten Islands of the Past: The Archaeology of the Northern Coast of the Arabian Sea	2
Female migration in the Cape Verde islands: From islandness to transnationalism	2
No future of island studies: Embracing island studies in plural	2
Shared routes of mammalian kinship: Race and migration in Long Island whaling diasporas	2
Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?	1
Social Psychological Perspectives on Islandness: Identities, Vulnerabilities and Precarities	1
Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland	1
The Bubble Metropolis: Manhattan Island Crises in Contemporary Science Fiction	1
The Fourth Estate? The Experiences of Cape Verdean Journalists	1
Supporting victims of domestic violence in rural and island communities during COVID-19: the impact of the pandemic on service providers in North East Scotland and Orkney	1
To study island China	1
Island-raised but foreign-made: Lived experiences, transnational relationships, and expressions of womanhood among Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon	1
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	1
1 Do you believe in Ram Setu? Adam’s Bridge, epistemic plurality and colonial legacy	1
The ‘other’ within: Striving for health equity in the Maldives Eva-Maria	1
Island Cities and Disaster Risk: A Study of San Juan’s Hurricane Early Warning System	1
Language management, discursive power, and English as lingua franca in island countries and territories	1

Risk Perception of Small Islands Community on Climate Change: Evidence From Mepar and Baran Islands, Indonesia	1
Island archaeology, identity and resilience in Menorca through the Roman Epoch	1
Factors influencing the internationalization of small-sized textile firms in a Small Island Developing State: A Mauritian study	1
The impeded archipelago of Corsica and Sardinia	1
Systematic Literature Review on Alternative Governance Arrangements for Resource Deficient Situations: Small Island Community-Based Ecotourism	1
Resilience-building in small island family-owned accommodation sector	1
Multiple Avalons: Place naming practices and a mythical Arthurian island	1
Is Rising Residential Land Prices a Consequence of Domestic or Foreign Land Demand? Evidence From Mauritius Island	1
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	1
Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire	1
Human resources and workforce shortages in Jeju Island due to islandness: The challenges faced by former hospitality and tourism professionals	1
Sustainable creative tourism on islands and the pandemic: The Creatour Azores project	1
Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands	1
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	1