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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	17
Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji	17
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	16
Island-raised but foreign-made: Lived experiences, transnational relationships, and expressions of womanhood among Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon	13
Lowland islands at the water-land nexus in Lixiahe, China: A boundary approach	13
Book Reviews 18(1)	11
The impeded archipelago of Corsica and Sardinia	11
Critiquing ‘islandness’ as immunity to COVID-19: A case exploration of the Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique archipelago in the Caribbean region	11
Ferry services and the community development of peripheral island areas in Hong Kong: Evidence from Cheung Chau	10
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	10
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	10
Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists	9
The impact of CEO characteristics on the international entrepreneurship of small island-based firms	9
Language management, discursive power, and English as lingua franca in island countries and territories	8
The Correlation Between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses	8
Islands and the rise of correlational epistemology in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the trope of the ‘canary in the coalmine’	7
Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland	7
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century	7
The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands	6
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	6
Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland	6
The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism	5
Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction	5
Islands in Speculative Fiction: The Functions of Islands in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film and Writing	5
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	5

Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	5
Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	4
The ‘other’ within: Striving for health equity in the Maldives Eva-Maria	4
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	4
Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire	4
Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean	4
Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	4
Islanders Come Back to the Mainland: Social Identity in the People of Jeju in Mainland Korea	4
Island Studies Journal 16(2), Book Reviews	4
Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?	4
Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao)	3
Island archaeology, identity and resilience in Menorca through the Roman Epoch	3
Trends and Triggers of Environmental Change on Gidicho Island and Its Environs, Southern Ethiopia	3
1 Do you believe in Ram Setu? Adam’s Bridge, epistemic plurality and colonial legacy	3
Disrupted identities and forced nomads: A post-disaster legacy of neocolonialism in the island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles	3
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
Book Reviews, 17(2)	3
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	3
Nomadic identities, archipelagic movements, and island diasporas	3
Analysis of the Ferry Service Network in Hong Kong	3
Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu	3
Demographic carrying capacity model: A tool for decision-making in Rapa Nui	3
Politics of prevention in the periphery: The initial response to COVID-19 on Barbuda and Puerto Rico	3
Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies	3
Typical islands, borrowed islands: Epistemological and intellectual decolonialization in island studies	3
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A policy tool for island transport cost inequality: Exploration of the application of the Transport Equivalent Threshold on Greek islands	3
Island Studies Journal, 16(1), Book Reviews	3
The Fourth Estate? The Experiences of Cape Verdean Journalists	2
Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	2
Embodying the Anthropocene: Embattled crustaceans, extractivism, and eco-tourism on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)	2
Resilience-building in small island family-owned accommodation sector	2
“It’s like Hawai’i”: Making a tourist utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985	2
97 Hospitality and exchange: Identity relationships between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in Sardinia	2
The disregarded weight of the ancestors: Honouring the complexities and cultural subtleties of islandscape	2
Island narratives in the making of Japan: The Kojiki in geocultural context	2
Island Cities and Disaster Risk: A Study of San Juan’s Hurricane Early Warning System	2
Generating an understanding of police brutality in the small island state of Trinidad and Tobago	2
Movement from emerging economies to small island states: motivations of Nigerian educational tourists in North Cyprus	2
Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana	2
Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era	2
Is Rising Residential Land Prices a Consequence of Domestic or Foreign Land Demand? Evidence From Mauritius Island	2
Variations and Parallels in Climate Change-Induced Migration Models: Customary Land Tenure in Francophone Pacific Islands	2
Vulnerability to disaster in the Maldives: The Maamigili and Fenfushi island communities	2
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within	2
Chinese White Dolphins in the Anthropocene: Human-animal Relations Among the Islands of the Pearl River Delta	1
Extreme weather, climate variability, and childhood: A historical analogue from the Orkney Islands (1903–1919)	1
Resilience and autonomy at stake: The public construct of the Paf gambling company in the Åland Islands community	1
Elite settlements in island territories: The road to a binding political status referendum in New Caledonia and Puerto Rico	1
The Sea Unites Us but It Is Governed to Keep Us Apart: Restoring the Creole Afro-Indigenous Sea Mobilities in the Southwestern Caribbean.	1

The Roundabout at the Edge of the World: Subsea Tunnels, the Sea and the Islands	1
(Un)Making smallness: Islands, spatial ascription processes and (im)mobility	1
‘St Helena, an island between’: Multiple migrations, small island resilience, and survival	1
Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands	1
“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	1
Tourism imaginaries and the selective perception of visitors: Postcolonial heritage in Con Dao Islands, Vietnam	1
Island Studies Journal, 17(1), Book Reviews	1
'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic	1
Social Psychological Perspectives on Islandness: Identities, Vulnerabilities and Precarities	1
Understanding Islandness Effects Through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands	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
The stunning birth of tourism on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera	1
Rethinking destination success: An island perspective	1
Marine biodiversity of a pristine coral reef in French Polynesia	1
The Bubble Metropolis: Manhattan Island Crises in Contemporary Science Fiction	1
Seapower, geostrategic relations, and islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases deal	1
Factors influencing the internationalization of small-sized textile firms in a Small Island Developing State: A Mauritian study	1
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	1
To study island China	1
The Most Expensive Agricultural Land Prices in Europe: An Economic Analysis of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	1
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Memory and Forgetfulness of the Flood: Meaning and Nostalgia in Thousand Island Lake (Qiandaohu), China	1
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	1
Factors influencing the level of Social Responsibility of marine tourism companies and restaurants: The island of Fuerteventura	1