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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Crystallising places: Towards geographies of ontogenesis and individuation	94
Corrigendum	90
Socio-ecological precarity at the juncture of multiple crises	78
Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions	58
(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education	55
Geographies of gender and sexuality I: Engaging the shift towards Southern urbanism	52
Beyond subject-making: Conflicting humanisms, class analysis, and the “dark side” of Gramscian political ecology	52
Geography and ethics III: Description as a matter of moral concern	51
Carceral and military geographies: Prisons, the military and war	50
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction	44
Agency, capabilities and geographical politics: A book review symposium	44
Policing sounds	43
Quantitative methods I: Reckoning with uncertainty	39
Rent and financialisation as concrete totality: The case for provisioning approaches as method of abstraction	38
Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities	38
Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis	36
Classics in human geography revisited: Julie Guthman’s Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California	36
Alienating assemblages: Working the carbonscape in times of transformation	35
From autonomous to autonomist geographies	35
Geographies of night work	32
Elite capture and urban geography: Analyzing geographies of privilege	31
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China	30
Visionary geographies and European Studies	29
Global production networks and the uneven development of regional training systems: Conceptualizing an approach and proposing a research agenda	29
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface	25

Political geography II: Violence	25
Distribution, dis-sumption and dis-appointment: The negative geographies of city logistics	25
Economic geography II: The economic geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Regional opportunity structures: A research agenda to link spatial and social inequalities in rural areas	24
Social geography I: Time and temporality	24
Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems	24
Political geography I: Blue geopolitics	24
Unresolved issues in regional economic resilience: Conceptual ways forward	23
The multiple geographies of constrained labour agency	23
Racialized geographies of housing financialization	23
Geographies of race and ethnicity 1: Black geographies	22
Participatory art and geography: Politics, publics, and space	22
New geographies of crime? Cybercrime, southern criminology and diversifying research agendas	21
For feminist geographies of austerity	21
Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies	21
The politics of pixels: A review and agenda for critical remote sensing	20
Revocalising human geography: Decolonial language geographies beyond the nation-state	19
Creating cities of care: Towards a new radical care framework for geographical research with urban migrants and refugees	19
Multispecies homescapes	18
Energy justice beyond identity: Planting anarchist seeds towards total liberation	17
Geographies of migration III: The digital migrant	16
Cultural Geography I: Mediums	16
Why can’t we grasp gentrification? Or: Gentrification as a moving target	16
Trajectories of translation	16
Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure	15
Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility	15
Toward an expanded approach on Black mobilities	15
Geographies of gender and sexuality II: Charting scholarship on health	15
Urban geography 1: ‘Big tech’ and the reshaping of urban space	15
Cultural geographies III: What if…? Imagination, worldly relations and doing research otherwise	14
Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality	14
Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts	14
Rescaling: Change agency and the emerging geography of economic relationships	14
Children’s geographies II: Adults	13
Geography’s abolitionist turn: Notes on freedom, property, and the state	13
Geographies of infrastructure III: Infrastructure with Chinese characteristics	13
Unpacking pervasive heteronormativity in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities to embrace multiplicity of sexualities	13
Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity	13
Geographies of production III: Global production in/through nature	13
Rethinking d/Development	12
The agrarian question of climate change	12
Towards a cultural political economy of the illicit	12
Legal geography I: Everyday law	11
Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy: New directions in geographic research on confinement	11
Conjunctural urban geographies: Modes, methods, and meso-level concepts	11
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures	11
Geographies of marketization: Studying markets in postneoliberal times	11
Algorithmic epistemologies and methodologies: Algorithmic harm, algorithmic care and situated algorithmic knowledges	11
Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants	11
Health geographies II: Resilience, health and place	11

The politics and science of climate change – revisiting Demeritt (2001)	10
Labour geography I: Labour agency, informal work, global south perspectives and the ontology of futures	10
Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus	10
Maritime borders: A reconsideration of state power and territorialities over the ocean	10
Animal geographies III: Relational and political	10
History and philosophy of geography II: In search of ‘a properly geographical theorist’	10
Living digitally like a migrant: Everyday smartphone practices and the (Re)mediation of hostile state-affects	10
Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies	9
Depth beyond 3D: The decolonial dimensions of volume	9
Time for change: Corporate conventions, space–time and uneven development	9
History and philosophy of geography I: Heterodox progress, critical scepticism and intellectual voluminosity	9
Progress in simulating human geography: Assemblage theory and the practice of multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling	9
Progress in environmental geography and progress in human geography: new siblings	8
Undoing settler imaginaries: (Re)imagining digital knowledge politics	8
The geopolitics of militarism and humanitarianism	8
Quantitative methods II: Big theory	8
The settler colonial city in three movements	8
Towards geographies of privileged migration: An intersectional perspective	8
Decolonizing energy justice: Identity politics, attachment to land, and warfare	8
Is my vulnerability so different from your’s? A call for compassionate climate change research	8
Urban geography I: Conceptualisation with and beyond the global-local dialectic	8
Editors’ announcement: Departures and arrivals	7
Infrastructuring zoonoses: Zoonoses, infrastructures, and the life giving and taking politics of pandemic prevention	7
GIScience II: Newness and imminence	7
Ageing in networks: The unbounded geographies of non-migrant and migrant older adults	7
Closing camps	7
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions	7
Historical geography I: Doom, danger, disregard – Towards political historical geographies	7
‘Our citizenship is being prostituted’: The everyday geographies of economic citizenship regimes	7
Book Review: The contours of colonialism: A book review symposium	7
Assemblage theory and disaster risk management	6
Regional economic resilience: A scoping review	6
Corrigendum	6
Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship	6
Viable geographies	6
History and philosophy of geography III: Global histories of geography, statues that must fall and a radical and multilingual turn	6
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics	6
Corrigendum to “Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism”	6
Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics	6
Innovating urban governance: A research agenda	6
Overcoming the dualism between “society and space”, with and beyond Bourdieu	6
Geographies of war and violence I: Decolonising war	6
Geographical education II: Anti-racist, decolonial futures	6