OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards a new humanity: Belonging, embodiment, and Quantum Black creative geographies	39
Encounters with geography in 1960s Singapore and beyond	19
Landscapes of state capitalism: Reconciling the vernacular, national development imaginaries, and green capital accumulation	17
The Road to Nusantara: Process, Challenges and Opportunities. Julia M.Lau, Athiqah Nur Alami, Siwage Dharma Negara and Yanuar Nugroho (eds). ISEAS‐Yusof Ishak Institute, Singa	15
The Political Economy of Chinese FDI and Spillover Effects in Africa. KopińskiD, CarmodyP and TaylorI (eds). International Political Economy Series. Springer Nature, Cham, Swi	13
Rethinking ‘kampung’ or ‘village’ in the (re)making of Singapore and Singaporeans	13
No orchids for Mr. Raffles. A review of Syed Hussein Alatas' Thomas Stamford Raffles.	11
Reading signs and languages as historiography. A review of Syed Hussein Alatas’ Thomas Stamford Raffles.	10
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Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique. Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, USA, 2021, pp. xvii +162. ISBN 978	7
Raffles and the writing of Asia‐Centric history. A review of Syed Hussein Alatas’ Thomas Stamford Raffles.	7
Indigenous interpretations and engagement of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Peninsular Malaysia	6
510 not found: The reterritorialization of Sino‐Southeast Asian relations in the Chinese hinterland	6
Response to reviews of The Rohingya by Nasir Uddin	6
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Championing the voices of the displaced. A review of Nasir Uddin's The Rohingya.	6
Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities. Mary Lawhon with contributions from Lené Le Roux, Anesu Makina and Yaffa Truelove. Routledge, Abingdon, UK and New York, USA, 2020	6
Response to commentaries on Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's ‘Defiant scholarship: Dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies’.	5
Issue Information	5
Global Production Networks and Rural Development: Southeast Asia as a Fruit Supplier to China. Bill Pritchard (ed). Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, USA, 2021, pp. vii +	5
Locating the role of informality in global health security: Institutional responses to the International Health Regulations in Southeast Asia. A review of Sara E. Davies' Containing Contagion.	5
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Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders. AyşeZarakol. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022, pp. xv + 313. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐97167‐6 (pbk).	4
Tiger conservation, biopolitics and the future of Indian environmentalism	4
Peat fires in Brunei Darussalam: considerations for ASEAN haze cooperation and emerging regional infrastructure development	4

Long term (1901−2021) trends and prediction of climatic variability in selected agro‐ecological zones of Himachal Pradesh using coupled statistical and machine learning approaches	4
Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia. OliverTappe and SimonRowedder (eds). ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2022, pp. 271 + ix. ISBN 978‐9‐	4
Including the Caribbean. A commentary on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh's ‘Abyssal geography’.	4
Construing and constructing the South China Sea beyond state‐led environmentalism: Vernacularizing geographical, geopolitical and sociotechnical imaginaries of territory	3
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Seeing Like a Smuggler: Borders from Below. MahmoudKeshavarzandShahramKhosravi(eds). Pluto Press, London, UK, 2022, pp. x + 198. ISBN 978‐0‐745‐34161‐3 (pbk).	3
Guest Editorial: Geographies of engagement, livelihoods and possibility in South and Southeast Asian deltas	3
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Marine Spatial Planning and the loss of traditional power in Fiji and the Cook Islands	3
Impact of climate change on paddy crop failure under different water regimes in Sri Lanka	3
Geographies of settlement and participatory methods: from the rainforest to Jordan	3
Suburban dynamics: A study of migration and governance in suburban Kolkata	3
Fire governance research in the tropics: A configurative review and outline of a research agenda	3
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Abyssal geographies: an ethnographic reply. A commentary on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh's ‘Abyssal geography’.	2
Lion City Narratives: Singapore through Western Eyes. Victor R. Savage. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2021, pp. xxxii +421. ISBN 978‐9‐811‐22915‐2 (hbk).	2
A train reaction: the infrastructural politics and mobility injustices accompanying Hanoi's new urban railway Line 2A	2
Power, politics and a poo pump: Contestation over legitimacy, access and benefits of sanitation technology in Kampala	2
Multiscalar politics of development. A review of Johor: Abode of Development? by Francis. E Hutchinson and Serina Rahman (eds).	2
Book Review Forum on Sara E. Davies’ Containing Contagion. An Introduction.	2
Hydrological changes in the drought‐prone region of Maharashtra (India): Implications for sustainable water use	2
Editorial: Tropical Connections and Traumas	2
Issue Information	2
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Radical geography and the true spirit of liberation	2
Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India	2
The stakes of abyssal geography. Response to commentaries on David Chandler and Jonathan Pugh's ‘Abyssal geography’.	2
Editorial: Reimagining climate change responses—insights from the Tropics	2
(Re)placing the heteronormative family in global urbanism. A review of Natalie Oswin's Global City Futures.	2
Planning for current and future needs of mangroves and their accommodation space. Response to Ken Krauss and Catherine Lovelock.	2
Cross‐Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness. SimonRowedder. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022, pp. 259. ISBN 978‐9‐463‐72236‐0 (hbk).	2
Spaces of afterlife: A Lefebvrian lens on Singaporean Chinese remembrance practices	2
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. Olúfẹ́miTáíwò. C. Hurst & Co (in collaboration with the International African Institute), London, UK, 2022, pp. xvii + 270. ISBN	2
Resurfacing heat stress phenomena in Indian cities during the post‐COVID‐19 lockdown period	2
World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds. Pierpaolo De Giosa. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2021, pp. 306. ISBN 978‐9‐048‐550	2
Arc of the Journeyman: Afghan Migrants in England. NicholaKhan. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis MN, USA, 2021, pp. x + 293. ISBN 978‐1‐517‐90962‐8 (pbk).	2
Alatas, Raffles and the exposé of colonial myth making. Response to reviews of Syed Hussein Alatas’ Thomas Stamford Raffles.	2
Response to reviews of Containing Contagion by Sara E. Davies	2
Issue Information	2
Unsettling accounts: Voicing disquiet in other rainforests	2