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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Returning‐home fieldwork in China with a dear friend: Friendship, personal safety, and diversity	25
Making wardrobe space: The sustainable potential of minimalist‐inspired fashion challenges	21
The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens	20
Disability and gender in the history of geographical exploration: Understanding Isabella Bird Bishop as a disabled geographer	18
‘It's probably more about the people’: For a person‐centred approach to understanding benefits of nature‐based interventions	18
‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia	17
Compound impacts of extreme weather events and COVID‐19 on climate mobilities	17
Measuring capital with spatial media: How online popularity on Instagram shapes land value patterns in Seoul	15
Issue Information	14
Six simple steps towards making GEES fieldwork more accessible and inclusive	14
Kitchen phenomenologies: Antiromantic poetics of space and food in the Anthropocene	13
The fast and the victorious: Mobility, motorcyclists and political mobilisation in Uganda	12
Towards an agenda for oral history and geography: (Re)locating emotion in family narratives of domestic abuse in 1970s East Kilbride	12
Is the COVID‐19 pandemic accelerating the platformisation of the urban economy?	11
Classics Revisited: ‘Muddy glee’ ‐ What geography fieldwork means in the current moment	11
‘Finprint’ technopolitics and the corporatisation of global food governance	10
Navigating rural ruin: Infrastructural dynamics in Australia's New England North West	10
Issue Information	10
Gender, caste, and street vending in India: Towards an intersectional geography	9
The production of a geopolitical imaginary in the East Asian Cold War: The case of the Five West Sea Islands of South Korea	9
Rethinking the potential of collaboration for urban climate governance: The case of Hong Kong	9
Issue Information	9
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The epistemic politics of “northern‐led” humanitarianism: Case of Lebanon	8
The Geography and Education Research Group and school geography: Problematics and possibilities	8
Intimate extraction: Geological matter, extractive afterlives, and the denial of a Black sense of place in Southern Louisiana	8
Ethical mediation: Navigating research ethics and frictions in overseas fieldwork	8
Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID‐19 on smallholder farmers' commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia	8
Climate change sensing across work and home: A research diary experiment	8
A mixed‐methods approach to researching extreme heat: Insights from urban Ghana	8
Photo go‐alongs for researching the relations between people and place	7
What is Area to physical and environmental geography?	7
Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries	7
Issue Information	7
Use of graph theory to study connectivity and regionalisation of the Polish urban network	7
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Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate	7
Re‐naming and re‐framing: Evolving the “Higher Education Research Group” to the “Geography & Education Research Group”	7
Trading in troubled times: The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry	7
COVID‐19 crisis, Romanian Roma migrant women, and the temporary geographies of lockdown in the Spanish home	6
Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone	6
Decolonising ecological research: A generative discussion between Global North geographers and Global South field ecologists	6
A research broker for a third‐culture researcher: Experiences conducting field research in urban Pakistan	6
An articulation of geopolitics otherwise? Indigenous language‐use in spaces of Arctic geopolitics	6
Navigating the challenges of fieldwork and childcare: Revisiting ‘muddy glee’	6
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Landings: The moor and the ecological therapeutic practice of Richard Skelton	6
Adjective‐based qualitative comparative analysis: Relating immobility situations across contexts	6
Show me the money: Income inequality and segregation in UK cities	6
Stuck in the mud? Finding the glee in all fieldworking bodies	6
Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
From liminal spaces to the spatialities of liminality	6
‘Good farming’ in a polycrisis: What could arts‐led research offer?	5
Remote graphic elicitation: A critical reflection on the emotional affordance and disruption management in caregiver research	5
Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music	5
On the (im)possibilities of being a good enough researcher at a neoliberal university	5
Longitudinal reflections on the slow and fast crisis of domestic violence during COVID‐19	5
Hope as a practice in the face of existential crises: Resident‐activist research within and beyond the academy	5
‘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	5
Where next for managed retreat: Bringing in history, community and under‐researched places	5
The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper	5
Mapping hegemony in geography: A historical perspective from the periphery	5
Principles for delivering transformative co‐design methodologies with multiple stakeholders for achieving nature recovery in England	5
The architecture of whiteness	5
It takes a team to participate – Refining working participant observations through multiple researchers	5
Tracing young people's engagements with the diplomacy and geopolitics of a British Overseas Territory	5
Preparing surfaces for shredding: Skateboarding, repair, and care across scales	5
The ‘creative thesis’ in the academic ‘anxiety machine’	5
Climate variability induced livelihood vulnerability: A systematic review and future prospects	4
Pandemic lockdowns and their impacts on urban‐based agrarian livelihoods and food security in a Provincial City in the Philippines	4
Camp methodologies: The “how” of studying camps	4
Issue Information	4
Exploring men’s vulnerability in the global South: Methodological reflections	4

Studying and stimulating a sense of community through co‐productive zine‐making in public libraries	4
“Finding home”: Affective geographies of regional youth (im)mobilities	4
Sensation, spirituality, and Deleuze: Becoming‐colour through Katharina Grosse's explosive artworks	4
The spatial development of peripheralisation: The case of smart city projects in Romania	4
Fieldnotes as never really ‘raw’ data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank	4
Temple under the national flag: History, legitimacy, and everyday politics in a religious landscape of rural northwest China	4
Pedals and throttles: Ride‐along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cyclo and motorbike taxi drivers	4
Geography's lens, landscape architecture, and the green recovery	4
Reconciling impact and participation: Reflections on collaborating with specialist organisations for PhD research	4
Anticipatory state identity: Understanding the Finnish state's approach to the Arctic	4
Towards a critical‐conceptual analysis of ‘research culture’	4