OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Progress in Human Geography is 15. 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
Urban political ecologies of housing decarbonisation: Towards radical housing repair	45
Book Review: The contours of colonialism: A book review symposium	45
GIScience II: Disability GIS	44
The settler colonial city in three movements	41
Political geography II: The end of territorial integrity	37
Book Review: Rentier capitalism: A book review symposium	37
Risky energy geographies: From energy transition to disaster risk reduction	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
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
Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures	19
Political geography III: International migration and geopolitics	18
Corrigendum to “Atmospheric geographies of (counter)terrorism”	18
Geographical education II: Anti-racist, decolonial futures	17
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
Insights from Antipodean legal geography: Building an environmental legal geography scholarship	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