OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Island Studies Journal 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling With Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies	14
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	14
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	12
Medicinal Plant Knowledge and Practice in Island Ecologies: Back From the Brink?	12
Climate Change in Chiloé (Chile): Trends, Coastal Zones and Socio-Ecological Conflicts	11
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	10
Language management, discursive power, and English as lingua franca in island countries and territories	10
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	9
“Somos Todos Primos” (We’re All Cousins) in São Tomé & Príncipe: Islandness, Closeness, and Democracy in a Small Island State	9
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century	8
The Correlation Between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses	8
Measuring Accessibility Within Islands	7
Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland	7
Water Administration in Mayotte: Islandness in a French Overseas Department	6
Inhabiting Two Places at the Same Time: Layers of Isolation in Chiloé, Southern Chile	6
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	6
Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction	5
Review of the Well-Being Agenda in Small Island States: Challenges to Measuring Tourism Employee Well-Being	5
“A Rusting Metal Behemoth, Within the Crumbling Masonry of Empire”: Addressing Sugar Plantations as Sites of Forgetting on the Island of Saint Lucia	4
Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	4
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	4
Generation of Digital Sense of Place in a Mediatized Society: Reconstruction of Human-Island Relations on Shamian Island, Guangzhou	4
Polish Access to Island Studies: A Literary Perspective	4
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	4
The Role of Local Shops in Emergency Logistics and Island Resilience: A Case Study From Zhoushan Archipelago	4

Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	4
Principles of Repopulation Initiatives for Community Resilience: Understandings Gleaned From the Proposed Scottish Government’s Islands Bond	4
Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	4
Islands in Speculative Fiction: The Functions of Islands in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film and Writing	4
Islanders Come Back to the Mainland: Social Identity in the People of Jeju in Mainland Korea	4
Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?	4
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
Book Reviews, 17(2)	3
Islandness of Sveti Stefan: A Collection of Particular Manifestations Through Time	3
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	3
Analysis of the Ferry Service Network in Hong Kong	3
Trends and Triggers of Environmental Change on Gidicho Island and Its Environs, Southern Ethiopia	3
Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era	3
The Fourth Estate? The Experiences of Cape Verdean Journalists	3
Liquid Landscapes: Water Tunnels, Flamingos, and Radar Sounds in Contemporary Photography From Cyprus	3
Supporting Sustainable Island Tourism Through Infrastructuring Co-Design: A Case Study From Mayu Island	3
The disregarded weight of the ancestors: Honouring the complexities and cultural subtleties of islandscape	3
Island Cities and Disaster Risk: A Study of San Juan’s Hurricane Early Warning System	3
“Not Your Climate Refugees”: A Maldivian Perspective on Migration and Adaptation	3
Generating an understanding of police brutality in the small island state of Trinidad and Tobago	2
Is Rising Residential Land Prices a Consequence of Domestic or Foreign Land Demand? Evidence From Mauritius Island	2
Malapportionment as a Factor Associated With Islandness: Three Archipelagos Compared	2
Elite settlements in island territories: The road to a binding political status referendum in New Caledonia and Puerto Rico	2
SIDS and Sustainable Finance: A Systems Based Risk Approach to Improve Access to Private Investment	2
Vulnerability to disaster in the Maldives: The Maamigili and Fenfushi island communities	2
Variations and Parallels in Climate Change-Induced Migration Models: Customary Land Tenure in Francophone Pacific Islands	2
“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	2
The Most Expensive Agricultural Land Prices in Europe: An Economic Analysis of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	2
The Bubble Metropolis: Manhattan Island Crises in Contemporary Science Fiction	2
Resilience-building in small island family-owned accommodation sector	2
Chinese White Dolphins in the Anthropocene: Human-animal Relations Among the Islands of the Pearl River Delta	2
“It’s like Hawai’i”: Making a tourist utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985	2
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	2
Memory and Forgetfulness of the Flood: Meaning and Nostalgia in Thousand Island Lake (Qiandaohu), China	2