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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A transnational lens into international student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic	38
Studying multinational migrations, speaking back to migration theory	36
Revolving doors in international financial governance	33
Elite professionals in transnational tax governance	25
The networked character of migration and transnationalism	21
Suspending, settling, sponsoring: the intimate chronomobilities of young Asian migrants in Australia	21
How do migrants’ processes of social embedding unfold over time?	21
Digital value chain restructuring and labour process transformations in the fast‐fashion sector: Evidence from the value chains of Zara & H&M	19
Elites in transnational policy networks	18
Host state reactions to home state diaspora engagement policies: Rethinking state sovereignty and limits of diaspora governance	17
Telling network stories: researching migrants' changing social relations in places over time	15
Driving the digital value network: Economic geographies of global platform capitalism	15
Qualitative network analysis for migration studies: Beyond metaphors and epistemological pitfalls	14
Digital transformation and value chains: Introduction	12
The social order of transnational migration markets	12
Not necessarily a place: How mobile transnational online workers (digital nomads) construct and experience ‘home’	12
Segmented pathways of educational mobility: English language schools, working holidays, and divergent prospects among South Korea's global youth	12
Global decisions versus local realities: Sustainability standards, priorities and upgrading dynamics in agricultural global production networks	12
The networked refugee: The role of transnational networks in the journeys across the Mediterranean	12
‘Give me my pathway!‘: multinational migration, transnational skills regimes and migrant subjectification	11
Bus stops, triple wins and two steps: nurse migration in and out of Asia	11
Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis	11
Global value chains and supplier perceptions of corporate social responsibility: a case study of garment manufacturers in Myanmar	11
How to govern mixed migration in Europe: transnational expert networks and knowledge creation in international organizations	11
How white is the global elite? An analysis of race, gender and network structure	11

Transnational life and cross‐border immobility in pandemic times	10
Who runs the show in digitalized manufacturing? Data, digital platforms and the restructuring of global value chains	10
Going after the family: Transnational repression and the proxy punishment of Middle Eastern diasporas	9
Personal network analysis from an intersectional perspective: How to overcome ethnicity bias in migration research	9
Unpaid labour and territorial extraction in digital value networks	8
Digitized diaspora governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: China's diaspora mobilization and Chinese migrant responses in Italy	8
Beyond structural determinism: advantages and challenges of qualitative social network analysis for studying social capital of migrants	8
Platform ecology: A user‐centric and relational conceptualization of online platforms	7
Digital technological upgrading in manufacturing global value chains: The impact of additive manufacturing	7
City networks and the multi‐level governance of migration	7
Transnational mobility networks and academic social capital among early‐career academics: beyond common‐sense assumptions	7
The interaction of elite networks in the Pinochet regime's macroeconomic policies	6
Donating to the fight for democracy: The connective activism of overseas Hong Kongers and Taiwanese in the 2019 Anti‐extradition bill movement	6
Bangladeshi women migrants amidst the COVID‐19 pandemic: Revisiting globalization, dependency and gendered precarity in South–South labour migration	6
To see and be seen: Technological change and power in deforestation driving global value chains	6
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	6
Delineating the corporate elite: Inquiring the boundaries and composition of interlocking directorate networks	6
Internet and social media uses, digital divides, and digitally mediated transnationalism in forced migration: Syrians in Turkey	6
Competing for seafaring labour: Social security and agency employment in Chinese shipping	6
Linking power and inequality in global value chains	6
New power configurations: City mobilization and policy change	6
Networks do not float freely: (Dis)entangling the politics of Tamil diaspora inclusion in development governance	5
Young Europeans in Brexit Britain: Unsettling identities	5
Migrant visits over time: Ethnographic returning and the technological turn	5
Home sweet home: Creating a sense of place in globally mobile working lives	5
Networking in contexts: qualitative social network analysis' insights into migration processes	5
Deconstructing borders: Mobility strategies of South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda	5
Reframing human rights: the global network of moral conservative homeschooling activists	5
Commodities, merchants, and refugees: inter‐Asian circulations and Afghan mobility	5
Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain	5
Transnational lived citizenship turns local: Covid‐19 and Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora in Nairobi	5
Emerging positions of German firms in the industrial internet of things: A global technological ecosystem perspective	5
Of home‐comings and home‐scales: Reframing return migration through a multiscalar understanding of home	5
Global networks of money and information at the crossroads: Correspondent banking and SWIFT	5
Special theme introduction: methodological cosmopolitanism across the socio‐cultural sciences	5
Cross‐border expansion of digital platforms and transformation of the trade and distribution networks of imported fresh fruits from Southeast Asia to China	5
Divergence of the world city system from national economies	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
The evolution of structural resilience of global oil and gas resources trade network	4
‘Implicit’ remittances in family relationships: The case of Bangladeshis in Italy and beyond	4
Labour market integration and transnational lived citizenship: Aspirations and belonging among refugees in Germany	4
An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era	4
How do emerging market suppliers reshape the governance of global value chains? Evidence from China	4
Mapping the national web: Spaces, cultures and borders of diasporic mobilization in the digital age	4
Global networks on the way up and the way down: lessons from the rise and fall of the Seychelles as an offshore financial centre	4
Beyond blue ocean? The roles of intermediaries in the cross‐border labour market between Japan and Vietnam	4
Transnational families and return in the age of deportation: The case of indigenous Ecuadorian migrants	4
Highly skilled (re‐)migrants in multinational enterprises: Facilitators of cross‐border knowledge transfers	4
Capitalizing on translocal affiliations: configuring capital in returnee entrepreneurship	3
Scaling migration network governance? City networks and civil society in multilevel policymaking dynamics	3

Diaspora governance and religion: The (re)production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora	3
Where is the backbone of the transnational corporate elite?	3
Ageing, migration infrastructure and multi‐generational care dynamics in transnational families	3
Navigating labels, seeking recognition for victimhood: Diaspora activism after mass‐atrocities	3
Extraordinary everydayness: Young people's affective engagements with the country of origin through digital media and transnational mobility	3
A post‐national EU diaspora? Political mobilization of EU citizens in the UK post‐Brexit	3
COVID‐19, (im)mobilities and blockages: Re‐thinking mobilities of migrant women in Northern Ireland	3
Introduction to the special issue: after trust	3
Understanding the structures of transnational youth im/mobility: A qualitative network analysis	3
Mixed‐method social network analysis for multi‐sited transnational migration research	3
Local migrant kin or floating grandmother? Reflections on mobility and informal childcare support strategies among Polish migrants in Ireland	3
Framing the Muslim subject, contesting the secular citizen: Tablighi Jamaat and the (trans)nationalization of Islam in Singapore	3
Impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on the transnationalization of LGBT* activism in Japan and beyond	2
Variegated forms of corporate capture: The state, MNCs, and the dark side of strategic coupling	2
Introduction to the special theme: theorizing transnational labour markets	2
Transnational halal networks: INHART and the Islamic cultural economy in Malaysia and beyond	2
Infrastructure of mobility: navigating borders, cities and markets	2
Intra‐company transfers: The government/corporate interface in the United Kingdom	2
Ambivalent returns: Dhaqan celis and counter‐diasporic migration among second‐generation Somalis	2
How career hubs shape the global corporate elite	2
Watching them grow: Intergenerational video‐calling among transnational families in the age of smartphones	2
Merchants and missionaries: Chinese evangelical networks and the transnational resacralization of European urban spaces	2
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion	2
Global human mobility and knowledge transfer: Highly skilled return migrants as agents of transnational learning	2
Migrants’ transnational social positioning strategies in the middle classes	2
A cautionary tale: Bazaar trade and limitations to growth in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	2
Power in consensus: Legitimacy, global value chains and inequality in telecommunications standard‐setting	2
Transnationalism unstuck: Precarious work and the transnational geographies of failed migration of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Singapore	2
One ocean one temple: Alternative Chinese temple networks in Southeast Asia	2
Joined by remoteness: An exploratory comparison of regional board networks in Sweden	2
The construction, composition and rationale of immigrants’ network: The support strategies of Ghanaian immigrants in Toronto, Canada	2
European city network on migrants with irregular status: Exploring functions and outcomes on a sensitive policy issue	2
The distribution of national urban hierarchies of connectivity within global city networks	2
Power, governance and distributional skew in global value chains: Exchange theoretic and exogenous factors	2
Covid‐19 and Global Networks: Reframing our understanding of globalization and transnationalism	2
Doing family: Nicaraguan transnational families’ narratives on motherhood	2