OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Historical Geography is 1. 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
Review	11
Appropriating disasters. A framework for cultural historical research on catastrophes in Europe, 1500–1900	10
Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience	9
Commemorative vigilance between totalitarianisms: Slovakia’s 'Victims Warn' sculpture, from counter-monument to anti-monument	8
Editorial Board	7
Review	7
Landed estates and the place of public houses: Agricultural and industrial change in the English East Midlands, c.1860–1930	6
Governing the private scales of families and homes: Visiting nurses and Turkey's mobilization of consumptive care	6
Book Review	6
Mapping a French Department in the northeastern Amazonia: The 1947 Oyapock mission in a context of Decolonization	5
Where military and fluvial geographies disastrously conjoined: The Huayuankou flood of 1938–1947 during the Sino-Japanese war	5
Review	5
Shifting terrains of risk: A history of natural hazards and displacement in three historic black communities of Central Austin, Texas	4
Dutch inspiration for an engaged pluralist historiography of geography	4
After the fall, where?: Relocating the Colston statue in Bristol, from 2020 to imaginary futures	4
Timber, money, and shelter: The promotion of private tree planting in New Zealand during the 1920s	4
Book Review	4
Fenced open-fields in mixed-farming systems: spatial organisation and cooperation in southern Sweden during the seventeenth century	4
Map making as memory practice: The historical geography of East European shtetls as expressed in Jewish yizker bikher	4
Historical geographies of Korea's incorporation: The rise of underdeveloped and modernized colonial port cities	4
Critical Geography's nature problem and the Lefebvrian ecological dialectic	4
The spatial logic of health: Managing waste, water and infrastructure in later medieval Bologna	4
Editorial board	3
The making of Atlas Maritimus (1728): A shift towards commercial geography	3
Exhibition review: ‘Classroom photographic journeys,’ CRASSH, University of Cambridge, U.K.	3

Where is the past? Time in historical geography	3
Review	3
Tourists and meteorologists in the Italian Riviera: The Journal de Bordighera (1883–1935) as a source for the study of the local climate	3
Review	3
Traditional environmental knowledge and transport efficiency of a communal canal network, Tafilalt oasis, Morocco: A historical GIS analytics perspective	2
Review	2
The Adriatic question revisited: Carlo Maranelli and the multifaceted geographies of the sea	2
Book Review	2
Climate, cartography, and the life and death of the ‘natural region’ in British geography	2
Editorial board	2
Diversifying the historical geography of exploration: Subaltern body work on British-led expeditions c.1850–1914	2
‘An aid to loveliness’: lavender, femininity and the affective economy of English beauty	2
Review article	2
Anticipatory historical geographies of violence: Imagining, mapping, and integrating Dersim into the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish state, 1866–1939	2
Ḥamāma: The historical geography of settlement continuity and change in Majdal ‘Asqālan's hinterland, 1270–1750 CE	2
Review	2
Science and imperialism: Setting the maritime sovereignty at the periphery of the French Empire through the survey of the Adriatic Sea (1806–1809)	2
Review article	2
Eastern isles, western isles: Geographical imaginaries and trans-island identities in British conceptions of Japan, 1800–1868	2
Obituary: Joseph (Joe) Michael Powell, 1938–2022	2
Obituary: Cole Harris	2
Engineering indigenous dispossession and plantation slavery in the Southeast Gulf coast	2
Review	2
Wastelanding Arabia: America's ‘Garden of Eden’ in Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia	2
Review	2
Review	1
Surviving the agricultural periphery: Climatic resilience and livestock production in pre-industrial central Scandinavia	1
Place and displacement: Historical geographies of Israel's largest landfill	1
The evolution of the Gulf of St. Lawrence as a maritime borderland	1
Review	1
History and philosophy of geography: Looking back and looking forward	1
“A new power: Photography in Britain, 1800–1850” 1 February – 7 May 2023 ST Lee Gallery, Bodleian Weston Library, Oxford	1
Habitability as a historical category for interpreting the Anthropocene	1
Recognising our collective labours: publishing JHG through a global pandemic	1
Why the history and philosophy of geography matter: Louise Michel's radical, anticolonial, and pluralist geographies	1
Sir William Jones's Indian botany: Visual archive, natural history collections, and worldmaking in the British empire	1
Review	1
Exhibition review: Visages de L'Exploration au XIXe siècle: Du mythe à l'histoire at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France	1
Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States	1
On the plurality of words: The portmanteau word of geosophy and its persistence in the disciplinary baggage of geography	1
Review	1
The color of preservation: Black historic placemaking in New York City	1
From sacred place to outer space: Collective creativity and the iconographies of mid-twentieth century English modernity in Guildford Cathedral's kneelers	1
A retrogressive approach to reconstructing the sixteenth-century forest landscapes of western Poland	1
An assemblage of urban water access: The geography of water marginalization in Amsterdam, 1690-1840	1
Historical boundary struggles in the construction of the non-human world: Nature conservation and tourism in Swedish national parks	1
Contesting monuments: Heritage and historical geographies of inequality, an introduction	1
Review	1
Review article	1
Fieldwork nearby and far away: Student-geographers and the expanded field in the history of geography	1

Review	1
Review article	1
‘Piling up a treasury of knowledge’: Archiving as knowledge production and professional practice in the Stevenson engineering firm	1
Conservation policies, scientific research and the production of Lake Pátzcuaro's naturecultures in Postrevolutionary México (1920–1940)	1
Representing Freetown: Photographs, maps and postcards in the urban cartography of colonial Sierra Leone	1
Geographical biobibliographies: Finding a niche	1
Review	1
Review	1
Review	1
The Journal of Historical Geography at 50	1
Overcoming the crisis: Social and ecological impacts of the 17th and 18th century Northern Wars on Kazuń village (Poland) and its surrounding area	1
The Mediterranean metaphor and Léon Metchnikoff's Great Historical Rivers: anarchist geographies of water-land hybridity	1
‘Not a true cyclone’: Colonial officials' discursive tactics and responses to the 1952 cyclone in Southern Province and intra-territorial competition in Tanganyika	1
‘Aircraft and pencraft’: Between tradition and modernity in arctic varsity exploration	1
Review	1
Communist literary internationalism and worldmaking in the twentieth century: Kerala and the Soviet Union	1
Where amenity and modernity collided: The Lake District national park and West Cumberland's atomic coast	1
Landscapes on the move: The travel journals of Celia Fiennes (1685-c.1712)	1
Howardena Pindell's ‘A New Language’ Exhibition, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge	1
Reconstructing of historical land cover based on contemporary cartographical materials	1
Confederacy, colonialism, controversy: How history serves the present in the Alabama Department of Archives and History	1
Historical geographies of a Damascan population crisis: Jawlān and Ḥawrān in the late Mamluk - early Ottoman periods	1
Review article	1