OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Tracking, calculating, watching: Governing and delay in the Jakarta Smart City	64
Way‐finding agendas through Transactions	43
Spatialising happiness economics: Global metrics, urban politics, and embodied technologies	39
The rise of Chengdu between geopolitics and geo‐economics: City‐regional development under the Belt and Road Initiative and beyond	37
Immobilised by the pandemic: Filipino domestic workers and seafarers in the time of COVID‐19	34
From post‐political to authoritarian planning in England, a crisis of legitimacy	31
Data‐bility: Endogamous social intimacies on dating apps in Mumbai	30
Mobile Keynesianism: Linking policy mobility and state transformation in New Zealand, 1930–70	28
Geographies of supplementary education: Private tuition, classed and racialised parenting cultures, and the neoliberal educational playing field	28
An economy of immunity: The racial‐spatial lives of antibodies in the American blood plasma economy from 1960s prisons to COVID‐19	27
The (non‐)performance of the financial frontier: Building investment pipelines for the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana	25
Cariad [Love]	23
Humanitarian inversions:COVID‐19 as crisis	23
Here, there, everywhere: The relational geographies of chemsex	23
Tribute 2	23
The space of encounter and the making of difference: The entangled lives of Alevi and Sunni neighbours in Turkey	22
Biosecurity and more‐than‐human political economy: Veterinary interventions as productive economic forces in the ‘mozzarella landscape’ in Italy	22
A genealogy of the food bank: Historicising the rise of food charity in the UK	21
Annotating Black joy on the White City Estate	21
Troubling economic geography: New directions in the post‐pandemic world	20
Spaces of change: Everyday gender activism through near‐peer gender and sexuality workshops with young people in the UK	20
Generative tensions: Undergraduates' experience of Geography in US universities	19
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Locked out? Navigating the geographies of precarity on Britain's waterways	18
Losing control: REF 2029 and the downgrading of academic outputs	18

Exploring young trans people's everyday experiences of ‘out‐of‐placeness’ and socio‐bodily dysphoria	18
‘You're stuffed, bear!’: Geography's colonial legacies in the ‘Paddington Empire’	17
Beyond compliance: Good citizenship during the COVID‐19 pandemic	17
A geographer's place matters: Reflections from a ‘local scholar’ and the politics of North/South knowledge production	16
What does it mean to be present at work? Negotiating attention, distraction and presence in working from home	16
Mapping as a collective and southern practice	16
Legal geographies of medication abortion in the USA	15
Editorial: Geography in the world	15
HuManitarianism: Race and the overrepresentation of ‘Man’	15
Informality during migration, “conversion” within and across national spaces: Eliciting moral ambivalence among informal brokers	14
Making sense of the Ukraine war: Geographers should not be afraid of geography	14
Urbanisation and the shifting conditions of the state as a territorial‐political community: A study of the geographies of political efficacy	14
The geoeconomics of protecting profits from migrants in maritime distress	14
Reworking of care during workday outings: On migrant domestic workers' everyday negotiation of migration infrastructure in the global city of Hong Kong	13
Edward Curtis and the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899: Thinking beyond the portrait for land and landscape	13
Biosocial borders: Affective debilitation and resilience among women living in a violently bordered favela	13
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Land, property, and territory: Mutual embeddedness as understood by thetongbianphilosophy	13
Berlin's queer archipelago: Landscape, sexuality, and nightlife	13
Geography and legal expertise: The transgressive nature of research at the boundary of geography and law‐making	13
Contextualising embodied cognition: Towards a critical neuro‐geography of ageing	12
The wicked city: Genealogies of interdisciplinary hubris in urban thought	12
Seeing culture from below: Counter‐curating, counter‐ethnography, counter‐mapping	12
The new cold war and the rise of the 21st‐century infrastructure state	12
Viable lives: Life beyond survival in rural North India	12
From problematisation to propositionality: Advancing southern urban infrastructure debates	12
When planetary cosmopolitanism meets the Buddhist ethic: Recycling, karma and popular ecology in Singapore	12
Incontestable: Imagining possibilities through intimate Black geographies	12
Practising future‐making: Anticipation and translocal politics of Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai as assemblage	12
Unspectacular spaces of slow wounding in Palestine	11
Theorising liminal states of health: A spatio‐temporal analysis of undiagnosis and anticipatory diagnosis in the shadow of toxic pollution	11
Issue Information	11
Contemporary art and the geopolitics of extractivism in Turkey's Kurdistan	10
Critical geoeconomics: A genealogy of writing politics, economy and space	10
Geography and climate vulnerabilities	10
Revealing vertical geopolitics: Quantifying the volume of militarised restricted airspaces in the USA using GIS	10
Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry	10
Making a Subjective Atlas of Palestine: On participative design and situated mapping	10
Issue Information	9
Living on with Sellafield: Nuclear infrastructure, slow violence, and the politics of quiescence	9
Spectral ecologies: De/extinction in the Pyrenees	9
Digital twins and deep maps	9
Response	9
Breathing new futures in polluted environments (Taranto, Italy)	9
Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality	9
Post‐pandemic geographies of working from home: More of the same for spatial inequalities?	9
On being moved: Black joy and mobilities in (extra)ordinary times	9
An outlook multiple: The ontological multiplicity of the Met Office's 3‐month outlook	8
The disaster trap: Cyclones, tourism, colonial legacies, and the systemic feedbacks exacerbating disaster risk	8
Negotiating digital urban futures: The limits and possibilities of future‐making in Singapore	8

Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu	8
Mobilising a counterhegemonic idea: Empathy, evidence, and experience in the campaign for a Supervised Drug Injecting Facility (SIF) in Dublin, Ireland	8
Negative geographies of craft‐making in heritagisation: Dai women's paper‐cutting in southwestern rural China	8
Rage as a political emotion	8
Market‐based commons: Social agroforestry, fire mitigation strategies, and green supply chains in Indonesia’s peatlands	8
Conceptualising multispecies collaboration: Work, animal labour, and Nature‐based Solutions	7
On limit and love in times of environmental crises	7
Everyday digital dis/connection: Locating slow violence in (non)encounters with the UK asylum state	7
The ‘deer‐men’ and the ‘bowhead‐men’: The colonial co‐optation of Arctic Indigenous knowledge within the ‘origins of the Inuit’ debates	7
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Unbounding the future: New directions for climate‐changed geographies	7
Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London	7
The place where we live: Children, families, play, neighbourhoods and spaces of care during and after the pandemic	7
Remittance micro‐worlds and migrant infrastructure: Circulations, disruptions, and the movement of money	7
Uneven ambient futures: Intersecting heat and housing trajectories in England and Wales	7
On the natural border: A bio‐geo‐political reading	7
“That market has no quality”: Performative place frames, racialisation, and affective re‐inscriptions in an outdoor retail market in Amsterdam	7
Corrigendum and addendum	7
Smart oceans governance: Reconfiguring capitalist, colonial, and environmental relations	7
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Towards liminal balance: Unpacking the UK's urban canal space	7