OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Policing and justice in island communities	17
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	13
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	11
Electoral politics, party performance, and governance in Greenland: Parties, personalities, and cleavages in an autonomous subnational island jurisdiction	11
Teehuteatuaonoa aka ‘Jenny’, the most traveled woman on the Bounty: Chronicling female agency and island movements with Google Earth	9
Elite settlements in island territories: The road to a binding political status referendum in New Caledonia and Puerto Rico	9
The stunning birth of tourism on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera	8
1 Victims navigating justice in island communities: An exploration of victims’ experiences of the criminal justice system and quality of justice services provided in Trinidad and Tobago	8
The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism	8
Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland	8
Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: Police and public perceptions of enforcement of health protocols in the Fiji Islands	8
No future of island studies: Embracing island studies in plural	8
The price of freedom: Open access, editorial labour, and prestige in academic publishing	8
(Un)Making smallness: Islands, spatial ascription processes and (im)mobility	7
Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji	7
The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands	7
“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	7
Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands	6
Island Studies Journal, 17(1), Book Reviews	5
The Role of Air Transport Infrastructure Towards Breaking Seasonality in Emerging Tourism Destinations: A Qualitative Study of Akureyri, North Iceland	5
Analysis of the Ferry Service Network in Hong Kong	5
Systematic Literature Review on Alternative Governance Arrangements for Resource Deficient Situations: Small Island Community-Based Ecotourism	5
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	5
'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic	4
The Most Expensive Agricultural Land Prices in Europe: An Economic Analysis of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	4

Resilience and autonomy at stake: The public construct of the Paf gambling company in the Åland Islands community	4
Understanding Islandness Effects Through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands	4
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Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis	4
The impeded archipelago of Corsica and Sardinia	3
Disrupted identities and forced nomads: A post-disaster legacy of neocolonialism in the island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles	3
Lowland islands at the water-land nexus in Lixiahe, China: A boundary approach	3
Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene	3
Island, Identity, and Trauma: The Three Ecologies of Wu Ming-Yi’s ‘the Man With the Compound Eyes’	3
Seapower, geostrategic relations, and islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases deal	3
A South-South tango: China’s soft power relations with Fiji since 1975	3
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
Sustainable creative tourism on islands and the pandemic: The Creatour Azores project	3
Island-raised but foreign-made: Lived experiences, transnational relationships, and expressions of womanhood among Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon	3
Riverine Complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River (Eastern Australia)	3
Female migration in the Cape Verde islands: From islandness to transnationalism	3
Policy-oriented Research and Island Management Within Island Studies	2
To study island China	2
Book Reviews 18(1)	2
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	2
Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao)	2
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	2
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Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	2
Cainà: Islandscape and ‘islanderscope’ on screen	2
Factors influencing the internationalization of small-sized textile firms in a Small Island Developing State: A Mauritian study	2
A policy tool for island transport cost inequality: Exploration of the application of the Transport Equivalent Threshold on Greek islands	2
Island archaeology, identity and resilience in Menorca through the Roman Epoch	2
Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies	2
Factors influencing the level of Social Responsibility of marine tourism companies and restaurants: The island of Fuerteventura	2
Human resources and workforce shortages in Jeju Island due to islandness: The challenges faced by former hospitality and tourism professionals	2
Forgotten Islands of the Past: The Archaeology of the Northern Coast of the Arabian Sea	2
Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire	2
Island Studies Journal, 16(1), Book Reviews	2
Book Reviews, 17(2)	2
Marine biodiversity of a pristine coral reef in French Polynesia	2
Ferry services and the community development of peripheral island areas in Hong Kong: Evidence from Cheung Chau	1
‘St Helena, an island between’: Multiple migrations, small island resilience, and survival	1
Risk Perception of Small Islands Community on Climate Change: Evidence From Mepar and Baran Islands, Indonesia	1
Demographic carrying capacity model: A tool for decision-making in Rapa Nui	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
Vague and unworkable: The fuzziness of the archipelago as a concept and its unsuitability as model for a 21st century Palestinian nation	1
Island Transport Challenges: Four Island Jurisdictions; Seven Island Perspectives	1
Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	1
Small Island Developing States and climate securitisation in international politics: Towards a comprehensive conception	1
Critiquing ‘islandness’ as immunity to COVID-19: A case exploration of the Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique archipelago in the Caribbean region	1
Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana	1
Islanders Come Back to the Mainland: Social Identity in the People of Jeju in Mainland Korea	1
Politics of prevention in the periphery: The initial response to COVID-19 on Barbuda and Puerto Rico	1
The impact of CEO characteristics on the international entrepreneurship of small island-based firms	1

Worlds apart: Island identities and colonial configurations in the Dutch Caribbean	1
Sustainable tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in sub-national island jurisdictions: The case of Tobago	1
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	1
Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean	1
Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era	1
The Fourth Estate? The Experiences of Cape Verdean Journalists	1
Turning the Faroes Into One City. Demographic and Spatial Impacts of 60 Years of Transport Infrastructure Expansion.	1
Tourism imaginaries and the selective perception of visitors: Postcolonial heritage in Con Dao Islands, Vietnam	1
Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	1
Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists	1
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	1