OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Networks-A Journal of Transnational Affairs 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Fleeting joy, divergent expectations and reconfigured intimacies: The visits home of Filipino migrant care workers in Singapore	44
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‘It's just a natural human thing to do, to go and visit your family… but it's not easy for us’: Gender and generation in Bangladeshis’ transnational visits between London and Sylhet	31
Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing	27
One ocean one temple: Alternative Chinese temple networks in Southeast Asia	26
Diaspora Voices Explored: Introducing a Representative Claims Framework to Analyse the Tibetan Diaspora Network Online	24
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration: Online attitudes towards Westerners and the west in China	23
Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the Role of Information Communication Technologies. Edited by Maria C.Marchetti‐Mercer, LeslieSwartz and LorettaBaldassar. Wits University Press.	23
Reactive Transnationalism and the Ascent of Donald Trump: Evidence From the Latino Immigrant National Election Survey	23
From cosmopolitan convergences to situated religious cosmopolitanism: The early spread of the Bahá’í Faith in Singapore and Malaya (1950–1975)	22
Foreign Direct Investment and Democracy: A Global Network Analysis, 2 001–2017	21
Feelings of Guilt When Caring for Parents Across Borders: The Role of Gender and Country‐Specific Care Systems and Norms	21
Digital Borders and Bordering Along the Vietnam–Australia Migration Corridor	19
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Strawberries in Wintertime. Understanding Moldovan Transnational Family Lives by Unpacking the Senses and Memories of a Persistent Parcel‐Sending Practice	17
The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Transnational Aging Experience of Older Hong Kongers	16
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas	15
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Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home	14
Work as affective care: Visiting parents’ experiences of paid work abroad	14
Resilience Against All Odds: How Refugee Women From Ukraine Find Courage Through Transnational Families	14
Who runs the show in digitalized manufacturing? Data, digital platforms and the restructuring of global value chains	12
Commentary: East Asian Educational Migration as Narrative Quests	12
How do emerging market suppliers reshape the governance of global value chains? Evidence from China	12

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A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults?	11
The Digitally Mediated ‘Homeland’ Mobilities of West African Diaspora Youth: Diversifying Grounded Engagements, Peer Networks and Leisure Practices	11
Migration as International Relations	10
‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Rebels’: Ambivalent Success Frames of Chinese International Secondary School Graduates in the United States	10
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn	10
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Digitally Mobile Swedes and Their Experiences: A Contribution to the De‐Exceptionalization of Migrants	10
Visiting here, there, and somewhere: Multi‐locality and the geographies of transnational family visiting	10
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain	9
Doing and Displaying Transnational Grandchildhood: Immigrant Children in Poland	9
Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class‐Making	9
City networks and the multi‐level governance of migration	9
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion	9
The globalization of production, national labour regulations and income inequality in the global North and South, 1980–2013	9
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Childhood, Migration and the Pursuit of Happiness in MIDDLE‐CLASS EAST ASIA	8
Navigating Stepwise Lifestyle Mobilities via the Global South: Japanese Migrant Families’ Negotiation of Educational and Lifestyle Aspirations in Malaysia	8
Mapping the structure and dynamics of global high‐tech aerospace trade	8
The Cultivation of Transnational Cultural Capital in Childhood: Experiences of Chinese Global Multiple Migrants	8
An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era	8
Migrants as Agents of Local Development in Their Homeland: Practices of Transnational Solidarity From Tuscany to Senegal	7
Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora	7
Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda	7
A network analysis of international migration: Longitudinal trends and antecedent factors predicting migration	7
How universities facilitate city network socialization through knowledge exchange on immigrant integration	6
Highly skilled (re‐)migrants in multinational enterprises: Facilitators of cross‐border knowledge transfers	6
Transnational life and cross‐border immobility in pandemic times	6
Visiting ‘home’: Considering diasporic practices through assemblage dynamics	6
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Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis	6
French city networking: Drivers and rationale for national investment	6
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Home visits, holy visits: Diasporic pilgrimage to the ‘Holy Land’ amongst Palestinian–Jordanian Christians from Amman	6
Overcoming the mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship	6
Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector	6
Changed Reality, Changed Positions: The Case Study of Eritrean Women Refugees in Times of Global Pandemic	5
Extraordinary everydayness: Young people's affective engagements with the country of origin through digital media and transnational mobility	5
On not ‘being there’: Making sense of the potent urge for physical proximity in transnational families at the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
‘I Slashed My Mom's Car Tires So We Wouldn't Have to Go Back to Germany’: (Non)Belonging and Mobility Among Descendants of Poles in Germany	5
Glocal Capitalist Class: How Same‐Nation Interlocks Facilitate Transnational Corporate Political Unity in Global Environmental Politics	5
Power in consensus: Legitimacy, global value chains and inequality in telecommunications standard‐setting	5
A cautionary tale: Bazaar trade and limitations to growth in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	5
Just Talk? International Migration, Cross‐Border Communication and Political Tolerance in Latin America	5
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The transformation of UK Chilean diaspora space: new Chilean migrants and encounters across time	5
‘I Kiss the Screen, But It Is Not the Same’ — Grandparenting in Geographically Dispersed Families	5
The Welfare System in the Face of War Refugees From Ukraine: The Experience of Social Workers in Poland	5
Message in a Bottleneck: Supply Chain Disruptions and Manufacturing Output in the United States	5
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Navigating Displacement: The Intertemporal Migration and Settlement Experiences of Ukrainians in Latvia	5
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Visiting migrants: An introduction	4
Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite?	4
Exploring the imprint of the institutional context on the urban network in China: Comparative analyses between corporate‐based networks with different ownership structures	4
Navigating Displacement: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis in Europe	4
Variegated forms of corporate capture: The state, MNCs, and the dark side of strategic coupling	4
Local migrant kin or floating grandmother? Reflections on mobility and informal childcare support strategies among Polish migrants in Ireland	4
Ageing, migration infrastructure and multi‐generational care dynamics in transnational families	4
Middle‐aged migrants: Expanding an understanding of lifecourses and linked lives	4
Uncertainties of Temporary Protection: Forcibly Displaced People From Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al‐Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge‐based economy’	4
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Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration	3
Exiled Scholars and New Organizational Strategies in Academic Humanitarianism in Europe in the Aftermath of the Syrian War	3
Conceptualizing transnational disappearances: Polish missing abroad and the governance of the search	3
How cosmopolitan capital shapes the valuation of international credentials: A comparative analysis across cities in China and the United Arab Emirates	3
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks	3
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Constructing and Analysing Global Corporate Networks With Wikidata: The Case of Electric Vehicle Industry	3
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Intra‐company transfers: The government/corporate interface in the United Kingdom	3
‘We need the activists to be more entrepreneurial’: Global versus local modes of thought on the development of social enterprise support systems in transitioning economies	3
The varying use of online supplier portals in auto parts‐automotive value chains and its implications for learning and upgrading: The case for the Mexican and Turkish suppliers	3
Reconciling emotional caregiving and self‐fulfilment: Peruvian migrants in Switzerland supporting parents in Peru	3
Calling multinational enterprises to account: CSOs, supranational institutions and business practices in the global south	3
Unpacking intercity competitive relations in the global corporate spatial organization of manufacturing	3
Cross‐border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia to China	2
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How do Japanese and Chinese view each other? Understanding the meaning of low‐context culture in intercultural communication	2
Property investment and the making of the ambivalent elective Polish diaspora in Israel	2
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Overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents	2
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors	2
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The construction, composition and rationale of immigrants’ network: The support strategies of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, Canada	2
A Network of Networks: Building Resilience in the Globalised Era	2
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective	2
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European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue	2
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Correction to “Message in a Bottleneck: Supply Chain Disruptions and Manufacturing Output in the United States”	2
Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy	2
Are larger cities more central in urban networks: A meta‐analysis	2
Assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of global liner shipping network	2
The transnational engagement of Afghan diaspora organizations: Drivers of diaspora specialization	2
The Role of Regional Demand in Pathways of Agro‐Industrialization: Evidence From Small Maize Milling Firms in Tanzania	2