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

Article	Citations
Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji	17
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	17
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	16
Lowland islands at the water-land nexus in Lixiahe, China: A boundary approach	13
Island-raised but foreign-made: Lived experiences, transnational relationships, and expressions of womanhood among Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon	13
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
Book Reviews 18(1)	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
“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
Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	4
The ‘other’ within: Striving for health equity in the Maldives Eva-Maria	4
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
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