OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Area 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
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‘It's probably more about the people’: For a person‐centred approach to understanding benefits of nature‐based interventions	24
‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia	24
Disability and gender in the history of geographical exploration: Understanding Isabella Bird Bishop as a disabled geographer	19
Returning‐home fieldwork in China with a dear friend: Friendship, personal safety, and diversity	18
Compound impacts of extreme weather events and COVID‐19 on climate mobilities	17
The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens	17
Six simple steps towards making GEES fieldwork more accessible and inclusive	16
Making wardrobe space: The sustainable potential of minimalist‐inspired fashion challenges	16
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Towards an agenda for oral history and geography: (Re)locating emotion in family narratives of domestic abuse in 1970s East Kilbride	14
Is the COVID‐19 pandemic accelerating the platformisation of the urban economy?	14
The fast and the victorious: Mobility, motorcyclists and political mobilisation in Uganda	14
‘Finprint’ technopolitics and the corporatisation of global food governance	13
Rethinking the potential of collaboration for urban climate governance: The case of Hong Kong	13
Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene	12
Classics Revisited: ‘Muddy glee’ ‐ What geography fieldwork means in the current moment	12
Gender, caste, and street vending in India: Towards an intersectional geography	11
Navigating rural ruin: Infrastructural dynamics in Australia's New England North West	11
The Geography and Education Research Group and school geography: Problematics and possibilities	10
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The production of a geopolitical imaginary in the East Asian Cold War: The case of the Five West Sea Islands of South Korea	10
Ethical mediation: Navigating research ethics and frictions in overseas fieldwork	10

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Afterword: Towards a political ecology of labour?	10
A mixed‐methods approach to researching extreme heat: Insights from urban Ghana	9
Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID‐19 on smallholder farmers' commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia	9
What is Area to physical and environmental geography?	9
The epistemic politics of “northern‐led” humanitarianism: Case of Lebanon	9
Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate	9
Intimate extraction: Geological matter, extractive afterlives, and the denial of a Black sense of place in Southern Louisiana	9
Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry	8
A research broker for a third‐culture researcher: Experiences conducting field research in urban Pakistan	8
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Use of graph theory to study connectivity and regionalisation of the Polish urban network	8
Stuck in the mud? Finding the glee in all fieldworking bodies	8
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Re‐naming and re‐framing: Evolving the “Higher Education Research Group” to the “Geography & Education Research Group”	8
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Landings: The moor and the ecological therapeutic practice of Richard Skelton	7
‘Good farming’ in a polycrisis: What could arts‐led research offer?	7
Keeping bio‐alive in geography education	7
Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID‐19 pandemic	7
Decolonising ecological research: A generative discussion between Global North geographers and Global South field ecologists	7
From liminal spaces to the spatialities of liminality	7
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’	7
Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries	7
Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research	7
Hope as a practice in the face of existential crises: Resident‐activist research within and beyond the academy	6
The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper	6
Tracing young people's engagements with the diplomacy and geopolitics of a British Overseas Territory	6
It takes a team to participate – Refining working participant observations through multiple researchers	6
An articulation of geopolitics otherwise? Indigenous language‐use in spaces of Arctic geopolitics	6
Principles for delivering transformative co‐design methodologies with multiple stakeholders for achieving nature recovery in England	6
The ‘creative thesis’ in the academic ‘anxiety machine’	6
Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music	6
Show me the money: Income inequality and segregation in UK cities	6
COVID‐19 crisis, Romanian Roma migrant women, and the temporary geographies of lockdown in the Spanish home	6
‘Somewhere old, somewhere new, somewhere green’: An exploration of health enabling places from the perspective of people ageing‐in‐place in Ireland during COVID‐19	6
Where next for managed retreat: Bringing in history, community and under‐researched places	6
Anticipatory state identity: Understanding the Finnish state's approach to the Arctic	5
Longitudinal reflections on the slow and fast crisis of domestic violence during COVID‐19	5
The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania	5
Towards a critical‐conceptual analysis of ‘research culture’	5
Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps	5
Studying and stimulating a sense of community through co‐productive zine‐making in public libraries	5
Reconciling impact and participation: Reflections on collaborating with specialist organisations for PhD research	5
Issue Information	5
Mapping hegemony in geography: A historical perspective from the periphery	5
Capturing a moving target: Interviewing fintech experts via LinkedIn	5
Sensation, spirituality, and Deleuze: Becoming‐colour through Katharina Grosse's explosive artworks	5
On the (im)possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university	5
Preparing surfaces for shredding: Skateboarding, repair, and care across scales	5

Fieldnotes as never really ‘raw’ data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank	5
Exploring men’s vulnerability in the global South: Methodological reflections	5
Pedals and throttles: Ride‐along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cyclo and motorbike taxi drivers	5
Pandemic lockdowns and their impacts on urban‐based agrarian livelihoods and food security in a Provincial City in the Philippines	4
Pausing again: Reflecting on humility and possibility in pandemic times	4
Making a podcast: Reflecting on creating a place‐based podcast	4
Prospecting digital urban futures in practice	4
Climate variability induced livelihood vulnerability: A systematic review and future prospects	4
Populist ecologies	4
Mediating atmospheric bordering: Migratory journeys in hostile environments	4
Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement	4
“Finding home”: Affective geographies of regional youth (im)mobilities	4
Geography's lens, landscape architecture, and the green recovery	4
Emotions and transcripts after a while: An interview with a ‘parachute kid’	4
Refiguring habits of subjectivity, communication, and space in online video calls	4
A generational perspective on rural livelihood change	4