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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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Crystallising places: Towards geographies of ontogenesis and individuation	121
Carceral and military geographies: Prisons, the military and war	119
Political geography I: Blue geopolitics	94
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China	82
Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure	73
Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility	69
Children’s geographies II: Adults	68
Strategic geographies: Dialogues, totality and the modern prince	65
Children’s geographies I: Decoloniality	63
The agrarian question of climate change	57
Towards a statistical approach to humanistic-geographical place concepts	57
Legal geography I: Everyday law	47
Book Review: The contours of colonialism: A book review symposium	46
GIScience II: Disability GIS	45
The settler colonial city in three movements	43
The geographies of ‘stranded communities’ in energy transitions	42
Urban political ecologies of housing decarbonisation: Towards radical housing repair	42
Book Review: Rentier capitalism: A book review symposium	39
Risky energy geographies: From energy transition to disaster risk reduction	37
Political geography II: The end of territorial integrity	37
Vital mobilities: Integrating healthcare, climate change, and mobilities	35
Geographical imaginations of the global Vietnam War	35
Captive bodies, prison geographies, and the somatic carceral condition	32
Ambiguous spaces, empirical traces: Accounting for ignorance when researching around the illicit	32
Towards a “trauma-informed spaces of care” model: The example of services for homeless substance users	31

Social geography II: Space and Sociality	30
Empire, redux: Towards a new political geography of race war	29
A feminist politics of parody for geographical research	29
Indigenous peoples’ geographies I: Indigenous spatialities beyond place through relational, mobile and hemispheric & global approaches	28
Toward a geographical stack: Reworking state-less and scale-less conceptions of the digital in China and California	28
Towards a post-foundational geography: Spaces of negativity, contingency, and antagonism	28
Social geography I: Anti‐racism, implacable whiteness and decolonizing Anglo‐American geography	28
The work of fluid metaphors in migration research: Geographical imaginations and the politics of writing	26
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy	25
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and clusters: How can economic geographers advance debates for regional development?	25
Reimagining geographies of public finance	24
(Un)wanted bodies and the internationalisation of higher education	23
New geographies of crime? Cybercrime, southern criminology and diversifying research agendas	23
Classics in human geography revisited: Julie Guthman’s Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California	23
Techno-genesis: Reconceptualising geography’s technology from ontology to ontogenesis	23
From autonomous to autonomist geographies	21
Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities	21
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures	20
Geographies of race and ethnicity 1: Black geographies	20
Trajectories of translation	20
Geography’s abolitionist turn: Notes on freedom, property, and the state	20
Weeds in action: Vegetal political ecology of unwanted plants	19
Depth beyond 3D: The decolonial dimensions of volume	19
Geographical education II: Anti-racist, decolonial futures	19
Corrigendum to “Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism”	19
Progress in simulating human geography: Assemblage theory and the practice of multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling	18
Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship	18
Metabolic geographies: Work, shifts and politics	18
Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics	17
Animal geographies III: Relational and political	17
Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies	16
Geographical perspectives on loneliness: An agenda for research and action	16
Progress in historical geography II: Desperately seeking connections (again) – The mendacious, the micrological, and the mercurial	15
From the margins of Geographical Information Systems: Limitations, challenges, and proposals	15
Age inequality: Geography’s overlooked dimension of difference	15
Political ecology III: Praxis - doing, undoing, and being in radical political ecology research	15
A grammar for non-teleological geographies: Differentiating the divergence of intention and outcomes in the everyday	15
Geography, area studies and Chinese world-writing	15
Approaching “the expert” in times of (digital) disruptions: Towards a geography of expertise	15
What is wrong with gentrification-related displacement?	15
Development geography II: Community-based adaptation and locally-led adaptation	15
Critical observational drawing in geography: Towards a methodology for ‘vulnerable’ research	14
Geographies of reflection and radiance: Radiant worlds, speculative surfaces, and reflective media	14
Density as a politics of value: Regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism	14
Resource geography III: Rentier natures and the renewal of class struggle	14
Counter-mapping as praxis: Participation, pedagogy, and creativity	14
Aporias at the intersection of geography and feminist science and technology studies: Critical engagements with Black studies	13
Rethinking China’s urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions	13
Health geographies III – Landscapes of care	13
What should we do with bad feelings? Negative affects, impotential responses	13

Anthropocene ordinary: Emergent worlds with/in imaginaries of anthropogenic planetary crisis	13
Situational analysis and urban theory	12
The geontological time-spaces of late modern war	12
Gender and sexuality III: Reflections on, and new research questions regarding, emergent challenges to LGBT justice	12
Urban Geography III: Universities and their spaces	12
Qualitative research methods I: Emotionally engaged approaches to working with vulnerable participants	12
Economic geography II: The economic geographies of the COVID-19 pandemic	12
A century of integrated research on the human-environment system in Chinese human geography	12
Deconstructing and resisting coastal displacement: A research agenda	12
Towards an affective post-foundational political geography	12
Geographies of green industries: The interplay of firms, technologies, and the environment	12
Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies	11
Policing sounds	11
Energy justice beyond identity: Planting anarchist seeds towards total liberation	11
Unpacking pervasive heteronormativity in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities to embrace multiplicity of sexualities	10
Geographies of reproductive justice	10
Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity	10
Geographies of gender and sexuality II: Charting scholarship on health	10
Progress in environmental geography and progress in human geography: new siblings	10
Towards relational geographies of gambling harm: Orientation, affective atmosphere, and intimacy	9
GIScience III: Questions of time	9
Labour geography I: Labour agency, informal work, global south perspectives and the ontology of futures	9
Geographical education III: Changing climate, changing geographies, changing geographical education?	9
Critical climate geographies	9
Financial geography III: Research strategies, designs, methods and data	9
Migration I: Surplus, economies, value	9
Regional economic resilience: A scoping review	9
Decolonizing energy justice from the ground up: Political ecology, ontology, and energy landscapes	8
A change of editors and a thank you	8
Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism	8
Moving beyond the impasse in geographies of ‘alternative’ food networks	8
The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis	8
Queering as (un)knowing: Ambiguities of sociality and infrastructure	8
GIScience I: The rise, fragmentation, and future of VGI	8
Speculative designs: Making geographical concepts	8
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach	8
Makeshift camp geographies and informal migration corridors	8
Intimate technologies: Towards a feminist perspective on geographies of technoscience	8
Social geography II: Geographies of care, men and masculinities	8
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization	8
Geography and ethics III: Description as a matter of moral concern	7
Filling the hole? On new geographies of the subsurface	7
Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts	7
Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction	7
For feminist geographies of austerity	7
Putting Geographical Information Science in Place – Towards Theories of Platial Information and Platial Information Systems	7
The politics of pixels: A review and agenda for critical remote sensing	7
Health geographies II: Resilience, health and place	7