OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Island Studies Journal is 3. 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
Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	11
Islands and the rise of correlational epistemology in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the trope of the ‘canary in the coalmine’	11
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	9
'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic	9
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
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
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
Disrupted identities and forced nomads: A post-disaster legacy of neocolonialism in the island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles	7
Optimisation of hybrid renewable energy systems on islands: A review	6
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century	6
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
Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu	5
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
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
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
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