OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Human Geography is 6. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Crystallising places: Towards geographies of ontogenesis and individuation	153
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China	130
Political geography I: Blue geopolitics	104
The agrarian question of climate change	85
Towards a statistical approach to humanistic-geographical place concepts	70
Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility	70
Strategic geographies: Dialogues, totality and the modern prince	61
Legal geography I: Everyday law	57
Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality	54
Children’s geographies II: Adults	50
Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure	49
Book Review: The contours of colonialism: A book review symposium	43
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions	40
Urban political ecologies of housing decarbonisation: Towards radical housing repair	40
GIScience II: Disability GIS	40
Book Review: Rentier capitalism: A book review symposium	39
The settler colonial city in three movements	39
Geographical imaginations of the global Vietnam War	37
Risky energy geographies: From energy transition to disaster risk reduction	36
Financial geography III – Everyday lives of finance	33
Vital mobilities: Integrating healthcare, climate change, and mobilities	33
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition	31
Political geography II: The end of territorial integrity	31
Governing by debasing migrant lives. Reconceptualising biopolitics and extractivism in migration geography	28
Social geography II: Space and Sociality	27

Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model: The example of services for homeless substance users	27
Towards a post-foundational geography: Spaces of negativity, contingency, and antagonism	26
Empire, redux: Towards a new political geography of race war	26
Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California	25
A feminist politics of parody for geographical research	25
The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing	24
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?	24
Indigenous peoples’ geographies I: Indigenous spatialities beyond place through relational, mobile and hemispheric & global approaches	24
Human geography and the occult: Weird walks, writing, and re-enchanting the landscape	24
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy	23
Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography	23
Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis	22
Indigenous Peoples’ geographies II: Indigenous environmental politics, or land matters	22
Classics in human geography revisited: Julie Guthman’s Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California	22
More than a supplement: Muslim geographies and rethinking human geography	22
(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education	21
Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities	21
From autonomous to autonomist geographies	20
New geographies of crime? Cybercrime, southern criminology and diversifying research agendas	20
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures	19
Trajectories of translation	19
Geographical education II: Anti-racist, decolonial futures	19
Geography’s abolitionist turn: Notes on freedom, property, and the state	19
Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics	18
Animal geographies III: Relational and political	18
Corrigendum to “Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism”	18
On gravity and geography	17
Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies	17
Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship	16
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics	16
A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday	16
Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research	15
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement?	15
Development geography II: Community-based adaptation and locally-led adaptation	15
Geographical perspectives on loneliness: An agenda for research and action	15
Age inequality: Geography’s overlooked dimension of difference	15
From the margins of Geographical Information Systems: Limitations, challenges, and proposals	14
Geography, area studies and Chinese world-writing	14
Value capture amidst crisis? A geographical political economy perspective on value chain resilience	13
Progress in historical geography II: Desperately seeking connections (again) – The mendacious, the micrological, and the mercurial	13
Geographies of reflection and radiance: Radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media	13
Counter-mapping as praxis: Participation, pedagogy, and creativity	13
Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research	13
Anthropocene ordinary: Emergent worlds with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis	12
Density as a politics of value: Regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism	12
What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses	12
Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment	12
Health geographies III – Landscapes of care	12
Approaching “the expert” in times of (digital) disruptions: Towards a geography of expertise	12
Economic geography II: The economic geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic	11

Situational analysis and urban theory	11
Gender and sexuality III: Reflections on, and new research questions regarding, emergent challenges to LGBT justice	11
Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies	11
Deconstructing and resisting coastal displacement: A research agenda	11
Gibson–Graham, J.K. 1996: The end of capitalism (as we knew it): A feminist critique of political economy. Oxford: Blackwell	11
Urban Geography III: Universities and their spaces	11
Policing sounds	10
Energy justice beyond identity: Planting anarchist seeds towards total liberation	10
Towards an affective post-foundational political geography	10
Geographies of gender and sexuality II: Charting scholarship on health	10
Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies	10
Geographies of interpersonal relationships	10
Labour geography I: Labour agency, informal work, global south perspectives and the ontology of futures	9
Unpacking pervasive heteronormativity in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities to embrace multiplicity of sexualities	9
Critical climate geographies	9
Toward ‘multiplied displacement’: Theorizing at the intersections of migration and urban studies	9
Geographies of reproductive justice	9
Progress in environmental geography and progress in human geography: new siblings	9
Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity	9
GIScience III: Questions of time	8
Towards relational geographies of gambling harm: Orientation, affective atmosphere, and intimacy	8
Between endings and beginnings: ‘Detachment’ and (non)relations in contemporary human geography	8
Migration I: Surplus, economies, value	8
Regional economic resilience: A scoping review	8
Geographical education III: Changing climate, changing geographies, changing geographical education?	8
Legal geographies of health	7
Queering as (un)knowing: Ambiguities of sociality and infrastructure	7
The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis	7
Intimate technologies: Towards a feminist perspective on geographies of technoscience	7
GIScience I: The rise, fragmentation, and future of VGI	7
Editorial: New editors and a change to “classics in human geography”	7
Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes	7
Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors	7
Moving beyond the impasse in geographies of ‘alternative’ food networks	6
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization	6
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach	6
Geography and ethics III: Description as a matter of moral concern	6
Speculative designs: Making geographical concepts	6
Territories, Boundaries and Consciousness: Paasi’s enduring lessons on spatial socialization and social spatialization	6
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction	6
Social geography II: Geographies of care, men and masculinities	6
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism	6