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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing	43
Fleeting joy, divergent expectations and reconfigured intimacies: The visits home of Filipino migrant care workers in Singapore	43
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One ocean one temple: Alternative Chinese temple networks in Southeast Asia	27
‘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	26
Reactive Transnationalism and the Ascent of Donald Trump: Evidence From the Latino Immigrant National Election Survey	24
Diaspora Voices Explored: Introducing a Representative Claims Framework to Analyse the Tibetan Diaspora Network Online	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
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration: Online attitudes towards Westerners and the west in China	22
From cosmopolitan convergences to situated religious cosmopolitanism: The early spread of the Bahá’í Faith in Singapore and Malaya (1950–1975)	21
Feelings of Guilt When Caring for Parents Across Borders: The Role of Gender and Country‐Specific Care Systems and Norms	21
Foreign Direct Investment and Democracy: A Global Network Analysis, 2 001–2017	20
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Digital Borders and Bordering Along the Vietnam–Australia Migration Corridor	19
Strawberries in Wintertime. Understanding Moldovan Transnational Family Lives by Unpacking the Senses and Memories of a Persistent Parcel‐Sending Practice	17
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas	15
Resilience Against All Odds: How Refugee Women From Ukraine Find Courage Through Transnational Families	14
The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Transnational Aging Experience of Older Hong Kongers	14
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Work as affective care: Visiting parents’ experiences of paid work abroad	13
How do emerging market suppliers reshape the governance of global value chains? Evidence from China	13
Who runs the show in digitalized manufacturing? Data, digital platforms and the restructuring of global value chains	12
Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home	12
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Commentary: East Asian Educational Migration as Narrative Quests	10
Digitally Mobile Swedes and Their Experiences: A Contribution to the De‐Exceptionalization of Migrants	10
The Digitally Mediated ‘Homeland’ Mobilities of West African Diaspora Youth: Diversifying Grounded Engagements, Peer Networks and Leisure Practices	10
Theorizing Transnational Class Formation: Novel Approaches to the Study of Transnational Inequalities and Class‐Making	10
A configurational approach to transnational families: Who and where is one's family in the case of mobile older adults?	10
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Migration as International Relations	9
Visiting here, there, and somewhere: Multi‐locality and the geographies of transnational family visiting	9
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain	9
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn	9
The globalization of production, national labour regulations and income inequality in the global North and South, 1980–2013	9
‘Pragmatists’ and ‘Rebels’: Ambivalent Success Frames of Chinese International Secondary School Graduates in the United States	9
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City networks and the multi‐level governance of migration	8
Mapping the structure and dynamics of global high‐tech aerospace trade	8
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion	8
An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era	8
A network analysis of international migration: Longitudinal trends and antecedent factors predicting migration	7
Childhood, Migration and the Pursuit of Happiness in MIDDLE‐CLASS EAST ASIA	7
Doing and Displaying Transnational Grandchildhood: Immigrant Children in Poland	7
Migrants as Agents of Local Development in Their Homeland: Practices of Transnational Solidarity From Tuscany to Senegal	7
Navigating Stepwise Lifestyle Mobilities via the Global South: Japanese Migrant Families’ Negotiation of Educational and Lifestyle Aspirations in Malaysia	7
Power and inequality in global value chains: Advancing the research agenda	7
The Cultivation of Transnational Cultural Capital in Childhood: Experiences of Chinese Global Multiple Migrants	7
Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora	6
Highly skilled (re‐)migrants in multinational enterprises: Facilitators of cross‐border knowledge transfers	6
French city networking: Drivers and rationale for national investment	6
Overcoming the mobility bias in transnational entrepreneurship	6
Reversing the Gaze: Gendered Experiences of Migrants in the UK IT Sector	6
Structural factors affecting global trends towards isolationism and expansionism – A BERGM analysis	6
Home visits, holy visits: Diasporic pilgrimage to the ‘Holy Land’ amongst Palestinian–Jordanian Christians from Amman	6
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How universities facilitate city network socialization through knowledge exchange on immigrant integration	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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Visiting ‘home’: Considering diasporic practices through assemblage dynamics	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
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
Transnational life and cross‐border immobility in pandemic times	5
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
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Exploring the imprint of the institutional context on the urban network in China: Comparative analyses between corporate‐based networks with different ownership structures	4
Uncertainties of Temporary Protection: Forcibly Displaced People From Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Visiting migrants: An introduction	4

The transformation of UK Chilean diaspora space: new Chilean migrants and encounters across time	4
Ageing, migration infrastructure and multi‐generational care dynamics in transnational families	4
Navigating Displacement: The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis in Europe	4
‘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	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
Navigating Displacement: The Intertemporal Migration and Settlement Experiences of Ukrainians in Latvia	4
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Middle‐aged migrants: Expanding an understanding of lifecourses and linked lives	4
Local migrant kin or floating grandmother? Reflections on mobility and informal childcare support strategies among Polish migrants in Ireland	4
Variegated forms of corporate capture: The state, MNCs, and the dark side of strategic coupling	4
‘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	4
Glocal Capitalist Class: How Same‐Nation Interlocks Facilitate Transnational Corporate Political Unity in Global Environmental Politics	4
Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration	3
Conceptualizing transnational disappearances: Polish missing abroad and the governance of the search	3
Reconciling emotional caregiving and self‐fulfilment: Peruvian migrants in Switzerland supporting parents in Peru	3
Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite?	3
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Exiled Scholars and New Organizational Strategies in Academic Humanitarianism in Europe in the Aftermath of the Syrian War	3
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Constructing and Analysing Global Corporate Networks With Wikidata: The Case of Electric Vehicle Industry	3
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks	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
Unpacking intercity competitive relations in the global corporate spatial organization of manufacturing	3
Assessing the efficiency and vulnerability of global liner shipping network	2
Are larger cities more central in urban networks: A meta‐analysis	2
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors	2
How cosmopolitan capital shapes the valuation of international credentials: A comparative analysis across cities in China and the United Arab Emirates	2
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European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue	2
How do Japanese and Chinese view each other? Understanding the meaning of low‐context culture in intercultural communication	2
Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy	2
Overcoming interruptions in educational trajectories: Youth in Ghana with international migrant parents	2
Calling multinational enterprises to account: CSOs, supranational institutions and business practices in the global south	2
Property investment and the making of the ambivalent elective Polish diaspora in Israel	2
The Role of Regional Demand in Pathways of Agro‐Industrialization: Evidence From Small Maize Milling Firms in Tanzania	2
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A Network of Networks: Building Resilience in the Globalised Era	2
Correction to “Message in a Bottleneck: Supply Chain Disruptions and Manufacturing Output in the United States”	2
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Intra‐company transfers: The government/corporate interface in the United Kingdom	2
The transnational engagement of Afghan diaspora organizations: Drivers of diaspora specialization	2
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective	2
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Cross‐border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia to China	2