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Papers

(The median citation count of Progress in Human Geography is 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Carceral and military geographies: Prisons, the military and war	118
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China	117
Crystallising places: Towards geographies of ontogenesis and individuation	83
Political geography I: Blue geopolitics	78
Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality	74
Legal geography I: Everyday law	69
Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility	67
The agrarian question of climate change	65
Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure	62
Children’s geographies II: Adults	59
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions	55
Strategic geographies: Dialogues, totality and the modern prince	55
Book Review: The contours of colonialism: A book review symposium	45
Urban political ecologies of housing decarbonisation: Towards radical housing repair	45
GIScience II: Disability GIS	44
The settler colonial city in three movements	41
Risky energy geographies: From energy transition to disaster risk reduction	37
Political geography II: The end of territorial integrity	37
Book Review: Rentier capitalism: A book review symposium	37
Ambiguous spaces, empirical traces: Accounting for ignorance when researching around the illicit	34
Vital mobilities: Integrating healthcare, climate change, and mobilities	34
Indigenous peoples’ geographies I: Indigenous spatialities beyond place through relational, mobile and hemispheric & global approaches	33
Geographical imaginations of the global Vietnam War	33
Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model: The example of services for homeless substance users	32
Social geography II: Space and Sociality	31

Towards a post-foundational geography: Spaces of negativity, contingency, and antagonism	29
Empire, redux: Towards a new political geography of race war	28
A feminist politics of parody for geographical research	27
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition	27
Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California	27
The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing	27
Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics	26
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy	25
Reimagining geographies of public finance	25
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?	24
Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography	24
Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis	23
Classics in human geography revisited: Julie Guthman’s Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California	23
(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education	22
New geographies of crime? Cybercrime, southern criminology and diversifying research agendas	22
From autonomous to autonomist geographies	21
Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities	20
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures	19
Geographies of race and ethnicity 1: Black geographies	19
Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants	19
Trajectories of translation	19
Geography’s abolitionist turn: Notes on freedom, property, and the state	19
Corrigendum to “Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism”	18
Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics	18
Geographical education II: Anti-racist, decolonial futures	17
Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship	16
Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies	16
Depth beyond 3D: The decolonial dimensions of volume	16
Progress in simulating human geography: Assemblage theory and the practice of multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling	16
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics	15
Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research	15
From the margins of Geographical Information Systems: Limitations, challenges, and proposals	15
Geography, area studies and Chinese world-writing	15
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement?	15
A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday	15
Animal geographies III: Relational and political	15
Geographical perspectives on loneliness: An agenda for research and action	15
Development geography II: Community-based adaptation and locally-led adaptation	15
Health geographies III – Landscapes of care	14
Anthropocene ordinary: Emergent worlds with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis	14
Progress in historical geography II: Desperately seeking connections (again) – The mendacious, the micrological, and the mercurial	13
Approaching “the expert” in times of (digital) disruptions: Towards a geography of expertise	13
Resource geography III: Rentier natures and the renewal of class struggle	13
Density as a politics of value: Regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism	12
Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research	12
Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies	12
Rethinking China’s urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions	12
Counter-mapping as praxis: Participation, pedagogy, and creativity	12
The geontological time-spaces of late modern war	12
Geographies of reflection and radiance: Radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media	12

What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses	12
Urban Geography III: Universities and their spaces	12
Global production networks and the uneven development of regional training systems: Conceptualizing an approach and proposing a research agenda	11
Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment	11
Towards an affective post-foundational political geography	11
Qualitative research methods I: Emotionally engaged approaches to working with vulnerable participants	11
A century of integrated research on the human-environment system in Chinese human geography	11
Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies	11
Deconstructing and resisting coastal displacement: A research agenda	11
Situational analysis and urban theory	11
Policing sounds	10
Economic geography II: The economic geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Gender and sexuality III: Reflections on, and new research questions regarding, emergent challenges to LGBT justice	10
Energy justice beyond identity: Planting anarchist seeds towards total liberation	10
Migration I: Surplus, economies, value	9
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
GIScience III: Questions of time	9
Progress in environmental geography and progress in human geography: new siblings	9
Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity	9
Regional economic resilience: A scoping review	9
Geographies of reproductive justice	9
Geographies of gender and sexuality II: Charting scholarship on health	9
Geographical education III: Changing climate, changing geographies, changing geographical education?	8
Queering as (un)knowing: Ambiguities of sociality and infrastructure	8
Towards relational geographies of gambling harm: Orientation, affective atmosphere, and intimacy	8
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach	8
Financial geography III: Research strategies, designs, methods and data	8
GIScience I: The rise, fragmentation, and future of VGI	8
Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes	8
Social geography II: Geographies of care, men and masculinities	8
Intimate technologies: Towards a feminist perspective on geographies of technoscience	8
Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors	8
A change of editors and a thank you	8
The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis	8
Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems	7
Moving beyond the impasse in geographies of ‘alternative’ food networks	7
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization	7
Geography and ethics III: Description as a matter of moral concern	7
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism	7
For feminist geographies of austerity	7
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface	7
Speculative designs: Making geographical concepts	7