OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Geografiska Annaler Series B-Human Geography is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting the green geographies of welfare planning: an introduction	40
The four dimensions of metropolitanization: a case study of Warsaw, Wrocław and Lublin	36
‘I was born here, I will die here’: climate change and migration decisions from coastal and insular Guinea-Bissau	25
What types of cultural cooperation exist in European cross-border areas?	23
Logics of competition: the forming of opinion in the bid for a green mega investment	20
Clouds in the normally sunny sky? The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Dutch lifestyle entrepreneurs in the Algarve	15
Wake up: the urgent appeal of Allan Pred	13
The everyday spaces of public transportation: the ‘driving’ case of the city bus in Hong Kong	12
Situating spatial justice in counter-urban lifestyle mobilities: relational rural theory in a time of crisis	11
The effect of COVID-19 on cross-border mobilities of people and functional border regions: the Nordic case study from Twitter data	10
Whose visions for what land? Planning, power and property in a ‘new inner city’, Malmö 2004–2023	10
Blurring the lines: precarious lives and social reproduction in labour geography	9
If we can make it there, we can make it everywhere: grassroots social innovations for post- capitalistic futures	8
Evolving Regional Economies: Resources, Specialization, Globalization	8
The geography of innovation in times of crisis: a comparison of rural and urban RDI patterns during COVID-19	8
Discursive displacement and semantic diffusion of sense of place: revisiting Tuan	7
Between authenticity and belonging: residents’ and tourists’ perception of the Cinque Terre (Italy) in Pixar-Disney’s Luca	6
Introduction: ‘Occupations and the occupied: agency, expertise, and patronage in wartime and postwar political cartographies'	6
Radiant scars: fallout, trauma, ghosts, and (re)worlding in Fukushima	6
Weight, relief and overcoming: a safe space for racialized women learning to swim in Sweden	6
Travelling in time, between places, and jobs: exploring temporal dimensions of academics’ international trajectories	6
Visualizing the European migrant crisis on social media: the relation of crisis visualities to migrant visibility	5
Discursive-technical landscaping and policing the body (politic) in Azerbaijan: a case study of Talysh activists	5
Balancing participatory planning and planning for resilience in nature-based solutions. A case of transformative agency?	5
Austerity through rescaling and layering in the Swedish welfare state	5

Municipalities and communities enabling social innovations in peripheral areas – case studies from Ostrobothnia, Finland	5
Understanding demographic and economic patterns in sparsely populated areas – a global typology approach	5
Ideological productions in human geography as an apparatus of the state/power	5
Residential segregation in a radically changing urban context: experiences from Belgrade	4
Legitimizing a world-class hospital: policy mobility and narratives in megaproject planning	4
Unpacking smart specialization strategies: how collective policy-making processes shape the direction of regional strategies	4
Politics of public interest: Finnish forest capital’s strategy in the Kaipola paper mill shutdown	4
Taking territory seriously in a fluid, topologically varied world: reflections in the wake of the populist turn and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Failed development in global networks, exemplified by extractive industries in Bolivia and Ghana	4
Examining the relationship between social context and community attachment through the daily social context averaging effect	4
An exploration of spatial differences and influencing factors of migrant attainment in Chinese cities	4
Start-up competitions as anchor events in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: first findings from two German regions	3
The socio-spatial distribution of migrants in German cities between 2014 and 2017	3
Present checkpoint futures: the relaunch of checkpoint 300 in Bethlehem in the occupied Palestinian territories	3
New Nordicities for Northern communities: exploring synergies between spatial planning and place branding in Edmonton, Alberta	3
Spatiotemporal variations in ambulance demand: towards equitable emergency services in Sweden	3
Patterns of knowledge bases in large city regions in Germany: comparison of cores and their surrounding areas	3
Finding the pulse of the welfare landscape: reframing green space provision in modernist planning	3
Border timespaces: understanding the regulation of international mobility and migration	3
Interstitial expertise and international governance: cultivating diplomatic practitioners in Europe	2
Lifting the fog of oil? Exploring the framing of ambitious local climate politics in an oil city	2
Achieving the goals – an analysis of irregular migrants’ possibilities to transform their space-times in Finland	2
For a ‘new new regional geography’: plastic regions and more-than-relational regionality	2
‘Rescuing Ukrainian agency, expertise, and patronage: on the historical cartography of Ukraine and maps in times of war'	2
Negotiating sustainability and place: migration to an ecovillage and local community	2
MNEs and knowledge creation in Medellín’s emerging ICT hub	2
Interrogating and re-conceptualizing development theories from a learning perspective: towards pragmatic and reflective global development	2
Assessing roles and strategies of public sector stakeholders in an evolving (lifestyle) migration industry: the case of the Dutch Emigration Expo	2
Geography as a vocation? Becoming a geographer under neoliberalism	2
Here. Again. Anti-Asian violence in the city	2
The academic left, human geography, and the rise of authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Austerity and sustainability: ‘common-sense' neoliberalism in a Finnish city	2
Therapeutic landscapes of stillness: creating affective sanctuary through practices of cocooning and immersing	2
Antifascist geopoetics, anticolonial dissidence and feminism: engaging with Joyce Lussu’s transnational stories	2
‘Conditions in landscape which the public as a whole wishes to see and enjoy’ – electricity generation, amenity and welfare in post-war Britain	2
Public transport provision and social sustainability in Sweden	2
Mothers gather: the fractured temporalities of Palestinian motherhood	2
Between the city and the sea: the welfare landscape of Køge Bay seaside park and the urbanization of nature in post-war Denmark	2
A new theorization of non-binary urban geographies: introducing the ‘urban grotesque’	2
Consumption and place: the phenomenology of relational economic geography	2
Small regions hosting large firms: when, how and why can local agency (not) shape regional development paths?	2
Homeland’s future in the Kurdish freedom movement: openness, prefiguration, legitimization	2