OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Island Studies Journal is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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?	13
If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling With Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies	12
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	11
Climate Change in Chiloé (Chile): Trends, Coastal Zones and Socio-Ecological Conflicts	11
Language management, discursive power, and English as lingua franca in island countries and territories	10
The Correlation Between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses	9
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	8
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century	7
“Somos Todos Primos” (We’re All Cousins) in São Tomé & Príncipe: Islandness, Closeness, and Democracy in a Small Island State	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	6
Measuring Accessibility Within Islands	6
Review of the Well-Being Agenda in Small Island States: Challenges to Measuring Tourism Employee Well-Being	5
Islands in Speculative Fiction: The Functions of Islands in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film and Writing	4
“A Rusting Metal Behemoth, Within the Crumbling Masonry of Empire”: Addressing Sugar Plantations as Sites of Forgetting on the Island of Saint Lucia	4
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	4
“Not Your Climate Refugees”: A Maldivian Perspective on Migration and Adaptation	4
Polish Access to Island Studies: A Literary Perspective	4
Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	4
Principles of Repopulation Initiatives for Community Resilience: Understandings Gleaned From the Proposed Scottish Government’s Islands Bond	4
Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	4

Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	4
Islanders Come Back to the Mainland: Social Identity in the People of Jeju in Mainland Korea	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
Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?	4