OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Geography Compass 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The geopolitics of energy system transformation: A review	82
Towards more inclusive smart cities: Reconciling the divergent realities of data and discourse at the margins	41
Spatial implications of digitization: State of the field and research agenda	40
Geographies of care work: The commodification of care, digital care futures and alternative caring visions	29
The financialization of everyday life: Caring for debts	27
Whither corporate financialization? A literature review	26
New cities: Power, profit, and prestige	23
Using ethnography and assemblage theory in political geography	20
Disciplining migration aspirations through migration‐information campaigns: A systematic review of the literature	19
‘What is industrial culture anyway?’ Theoretical framing of the concept in economic geography	19
Geographies of peri‐urbanization in the global south	16
Multifunctional agriculture: Policies and implementation in China	16
Logistical geographies	16
Geographies of purpose built student accommodation: Exclusivity, precarity and (im)mobility	16
Potential rebound effects of teleworking on residential and daily mobility	15
Toward healthier futures in post‐pandemic times: Political ecology, racial capitalism, and black feminist approaches to care	15
The aesthetic turn in border studies: Visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion	14
Distancing animal death: Geographies of killing and making killable	13
Machine learning in geography–Past, present, and future	13
Sand geographies: Disentangling the material foundations of the built environment	13
Social Reproduction Theory: State of the field and new directions in geography	12
“No queers out there”? Metronormativity and the queer suburban	12
Assemblages and complex adaptive systems: A conceptual crossroads for integrative research?	12
Exploring trans people's lives in Britain, trans studies, geography and beyond: A review of research progress	11
Peace geographies and the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies: Integrating parallel conversations through spatial practices	11

Political ecology of milk: Contested futures of a lively food	11
Mind the gap: Advancing evolutionary approaches to regional development with progressive empirical strategies	10
The virtues of insularity: Pondering a new chapter in the historical geography of islands	10
Bridging the geospatial gap: Data about space and indigenous knowledge of place	10
The anti‐geopolitical cinematic eye: Documentary film and critical geopolitics	10
The mainstreaming of “vulgar territory” and popular visions of hyper‐bordered and feminized territory	10
Police and policing in geography: From methods, to theory, to praxis	10
Reconsidering movement and exposure: Towards a more dynamic health geography	9
Emerging research methods in environmental displacement and forced migration research	9
Complex spatial networks: Theory and geospatial applications	8
Wellbeing and blue‐green space in post‐pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures	8
Approaches to energy transitions: Carbon pricing, managed decline, and/or green new deal?	8
Geopolitical encounters and entanglements along the belt and road initiative	8
Remaking the obsolete: Critical geographies of contemporary adaptive reuse	7
The death of the author in place names: A Barthesian intervention into critical toponymy	7
(Re)visiting the neighbourhood	7
Geographies of cultural industries across the global urban system	7
Bricks in the wall: A review of the issues that affect children of in‐country seasonal migrant workers in the brick kilns of Nepal	6
Spatialities of entrepreneurial ecosystems	6
Autonomous vehicles, human agency and the potential of urban life	6
Energy geographies in/of the Anthropocene: Where now?	6
Geographies of the public library: Institutions, architectures, interactions	6
21st‐century transnational real estate development: What, where, who, how and why?	6
The missing subject: Enabling a postcolonial future for climate conflict research	6
Gangs, gang members, and geography	5
On geopolitics and education: Interventions, possibilities, and future directions	5
Why geographic data science is not a science	5
Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US	5
Good, homely, troublesome or improving? Historical geographies of drinking places, c. 1850–1950	5
Youth citizenship: Expanding conceptions of the young citizen	5
Re‐thinking urban infrastructures as spaces of learning	5
Creating fairer futures for sustainability transitions	5
Embodied virtual geographies: Linkages between bodies, spaces, and digital environments	5
Gentrification as (settler) colonialism? Moving beyond metaphorical linkages	5
Geographies of climate change opinion	5
Geopolitics as an ethnographic object and agenda	4
Unravelling material/digital shopping space: An assemblage approach	4
Community gardens as feminist spaces: A more‐than‐gendered approach to their transformative potential	4
Geography and virtual reality	4
The digitalisation of consumption and its geographies	4
Geographies of running cultures and practices	4
Transformative perspectives on labour geographies – The role of labour agency in processes of socioecological transformations	4
Where is justice in geography? A review of justice theorizing in the discipline	4
Critical geographies of transport and mobility: Studying power relations through practice, academia, and activism	4
Policy diffusion, policy transfer, and policy mobilities revisited: A call for more interdisciplinary approaches in human geography	4
Advancing children’s geographies through ‘grey areas’ of age and childhood	4
Revisiting economic geography and foreign direct investment in less developed regions	4