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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Carceral and military geographies: Prisons, the military and war	102
Crystallising places: Towards geographies of ontogenesis and individuation	91
Political geography I: Blue geopolitics	61
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China	59
Geographies of production III: Global production in/through nature	59
The agrarian question of climate change	59
Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure	59
Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility	52
Legal geography I: Everyday law	47
Children’s geographies II: Adults	46
Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality	44
Book Review: The contours of colonialism: A book review symposium	41
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions	40
The settler colonial city in three movements	37
Ambiguous spaces, empirical traces: Accounting for ignorance when researching around the illicit	36
Vital mobilities: Integrating healthcare, climate change, and mobilities	34
Book Review: Rentier capitalism: A book review symposium	33
Political geography II: The end of territorial integrity	33
Empire, redux: Towards a new political geography of race war	30
Towards a post-foundational geography: Spaces of negativity, contingency, and antagonism	29
Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model: The example of services for homeless substance users	29
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition	28
Indigenous peoples’ geographies I: Indigenous spatialities beyond place through relational, mobile and hemispheric & global approaches	27
Social geography II: Space and Sociality	27
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy	26

The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing	26
Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography	26
Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics	26
Reimagining geographies of public finance	25
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?	24
Classics in human geography revisited: Julie Guthman’s Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California	24
(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education	24
New geographies of crime? Cybercrime, southern criminology and diversifying research agendas	22
From autonomous to autonomist geographies	22
Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis	22
Visionary geographies and European Studies	21
Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities	20
Geographies of race and ethnicity 1: Black geographies	19
Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants	18
Trajectories of translation	18
Geography’s abolitionist turn: Notes on freedom, property, and the state	17
Corrigendum to “Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism”	17
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures	17
Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship	17
Progress in simulating human geography: Assemblage theory and the practice of multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling	16
Geographical education II: Anti-racist, decolonial futures	16
Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics	16
Depth beyond 3D: The decolonial dimensions of volume	16
Animal geographies III: Relational and political	16
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics	16
Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies	16
A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday	15
From the margins of Geographical Information Systems: Limitations, challenges, and proposals	15
Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research	15
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement?	15
Geography, area studies and Chinese world-writing	14
Development geography II: Community-based adaptation and locally-led adaptation	14
Resource geography III: Rentier natures and the renewal of class struggle	14
Geographical perspectives on loneliness: An agenda for research and action	14
Geographies of reflection and radiance: Radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media	13
Health geographies III – Landscapes of care	13
Density as a politics of value: Regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism	13
Approaching “the expert” in times of (digital) disruptions: Towards a geography of expertise	13
Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research	13
Progress in historical geography II: Desperately seeking connections (again) – The mendacious, the micrological, and the mercurial	13
What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses	13
Rethinking China’s urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions	12
‘Everyday droning’: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home	12
Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies	12
A century of integrated research on the human-environment system in Chinese human geography	11
Urban Geography III: Universities and their spaces	11
Deconstructing and resisting coastal displacement: A research agenda	11
Policing sounds	10
Situational analysis and urban theory	10
Political ecology II: Conjunctures, crises, and critical publics	10

Global production networks and the uneven development of regional training systems: Conceptualizing an approach and proposing a research agenda	10
Qualitative research methods I: Emotionally engaged approaches to working with vulnerable participants	10
Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment	10
Economic geography II: The economic geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The geontological time-spaces of late modern war	10
Geographies of gender and sexuality II: Charting scholarship on health	9
Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity	9
Energy justice beyond identity: Planting anarchist seeds towards total liberation	9
Geographies of infrastructure III: Infrastructure with Chinese characteristics	9
Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies	9
The geopolitics of militarism and humanitarianism	8
Financial geography III: Research strategies, designs, methods and data	8
Towards relational geographies of gambling harm: Orientation, affective atmosphere, and intimacy	8
GIScience I: The rise, fragmentation, and future of VGI	8
Psychogeography: Walking through strategy, nature and narrative	8
Progress in environmental geography and progress in human geography: new siblings	8
Geographies of reproductive justice	8
Geographical education III: Changing climate, changing geographies, changing geographical education?	8
Automated infrastructure: COVID-19 and the shifting geographies of supply chain capitalism	8
Queering as (un)knowing: Ambiguities of sociality and infrastructure	8
Labour geography I: Labour agency, informal work, global south perspectives and the ontology of futures	8
Regional economic resilience: A scoping review	8
Unpacking pervasive heteronormativity in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities to embrace multiplicity of sexualities	8
GIScience III: Questions of time	8
Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors	8
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
Moving beyond the impasse in geographies of ‘alternative’ food networks	7
Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes	7
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization	7
Intimate technologies: Towards a feminist perspective on geographies of technoscience	7
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism	7
Alienating assemblages: Working the carbonscape in times of transformation	6
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction	6
For feminist geographies of austerity	6
Rescaling: Change agency and the emerging geography of economic relationships	6
Health geographies II: Resilience, health and place	6
Remittance-scapes: The contested geographies of remittance management	6
Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems	6
The politics of pixels: A review and agenda for critical remote sensing	6
Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts	6
Reassessing the camp/prison dichotomy: New directions in geographic research on confinement	6
Geography and ethics III: Description as a matter of moral concern	6
Critical insurance studies: Some geographic directions	6
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface	6
Why can’t we grasp gentrification? Or: Gentrification as a moving target	6