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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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Crystallising places: Towards geographies of ontogenesis and individuation	108
Carceral and military geographies: Prisons, the military and war	101
Political geography I: Blue geopolitics	68
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China	65
Legal geography I: Everyday law	63
Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility	62
Children’s geographies II: Adults	61
Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality	55
Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure	52
The agrarian question of climate change	49
Geographies of production III: Global production in/through nature	49
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions	47
Book Review: The contours of colonialism: A book review symposium	42
Urban political ecologies of housing decarbonisation: Towards radical housing repair	38
The settler colonial city in three movements	36
Book Review: Rentier capitalism: A book review symposium	35
Vital mobilities: Integrating healthcare, climate change, and mobilities	33
Ambiguous spaces, empirical traces: Accounting for ignorance when researching around the illicit	33
Political geography II: The end of territorial integrity	31
Empire, redux: Towards a new political geography of race war	29
Indigenous peoples’ geographies I: Indigenous spatialities beyond place through relational, mobile and hemispheric & global approaches	29
Towards a post-foundational geography: Spaces of negativity, contingency, and antagonism	29
Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California	28
A feminist politics of parody for geographical research	27
Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model: The example of services for homeless substance users	27

Social geography II: Space and Sociality	25
Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics	25
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition	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
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy	24
Reimagining geographies of public finance	23
Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography	23
Classics in human geography revisited: Julie Guthman’s Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California	22
(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education	22
From autonomous to autonomist geographies	21
New geographies of crime? Cybercrime, southern criminology and diversifying research agendas	20
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures	18
Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis	18
Trajectories of translation	18
Geographies of race and ethnicity 1: Black geographies	18
Geography’s abolitionist turn: Notes on freedom, property, and the state	18
Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities	18
Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics	17
Corrigendum to “Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism”	17
Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants	17
Geographical education II: Anti-racist, decolonial futures	17
Progress in simulating human geography: Assemblage theory and the practice of multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling	16
Depth beyond 3D: The decolonial dimensions of volume	16
Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies	16
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics	16
Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship	16
Animal geographies III: Relational and political	15
Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research	14
From the margins of Geographical Information Systems: Limitations, challenges, and proposals	14
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement?	14
Geographical perspectives on loneliness: An agenda for research and action	14
Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research	13
Geographies of reflection and radiance: Radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media	13
Development geography II: Community-based adaptation and locally-led adaptation	13
Geography, area studies and Chinese world-writing	13
A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday	13
Rethinking China’s urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions	13
Density as a politics of value: Regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism	12
What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses	11
Anthropocene ordinary: Emergent worlds with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis	11
Health geographies III – Landscapes of care	11
Progress in historical geography II: Desperately seeking connections (again) – The mendacious, the micrological, and the mercurial	11
Resource geography III: Rentier natures and the renewal of class struggle	11
Counter-mapping as praxis: Participation, pedagogy, and creativity	10
A century of integrated research on the human-environment system in Chinese human geography	10
Urban Geography III: Universities and their spaces	10
Approaching “the expert” in times of (digital) disruptions: Towards a geography of expertise	10
Situational analysis and urban theory	10
Qualitative research methods I: Emotionally engaged approaches to working with vulnerable participants	10

Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies	10
Deconstructing and resisting coastal displacement: A research agenda	10
The geontological time-spaces of late modern war	10
Geographies of gender and sexuality II: Charting scholarship on health	9
Global production networks and the uneven development of regional training systems: Conceptualizing an approach and proposing a research agenda	9
Gender and sexuality III: Reflections on, and new research questions regarding, emergent challenges to LGBT justice	9
Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment	9
Economic geography II: The economic geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Energy justice beyond identity: Planting anarchist seeds towards total liberation	9
Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies	9
Policing sounds	9
Unpacking pervasive heteronormativity in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities to embrace multiplicity of sexualities	8
Labour geography I: Labour agency, informal work, global south perspectives and the ontology of futures	8
Progress in environmental geography and progress in human geography: new siblings	8
Financial geography III: Research strategies, designs, methods and data	8
Automated infrastructure: COVID-19 and the shifting geographies of supply chain capitalism	8
Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity	8
Geographies of reproductive justice	8
Geographical education III: Changing climate, changing geographies, changing geographical education?	8
The geopolitics of militarism and humanitarianism	8
Regional economic resilience: A scoping review	8
Towards relational geographies of gambling harm: Orientation, affective atmosphere, and intimacy	8
GIScience III: Questions of time	8
Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes	7
Moving beyond the impasse in geographies of ‘alternative’ food networks	7
Geography and ethics III: Description as a matter of moral concern	7
Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors	7
GIScience I: The rise, fragmentation, and future of VGI	7
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization	7
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction	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
A change of editors and a thank you	7
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism	7
Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions	7
Intimate technologies: Towards a feminist perspective on geographies of technoscience	7
The politics of pixels: A review and agenda for critical remote sensing	6
Rescaling: Change agency and the emerging geography of economic relationships	6
Why can’t we grasp gentrification? Or: Gentrification as a moving target	6
History and philosophy of geography II: In search of ‘a properly geographical theorist’	6
For feminist geographies of austerity	6
Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems	6
Infrastructuring zoonoses: Zoonoses, infrastructures, and the life giving and taking politics of pandemic prevention	6
Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts	6
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface	6
Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy: New directions in geographic research on confinement	6
Health geographies II: Resilience, health and place	6