OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Eurasian Geography and Economics 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Imagining Bosnian Muslims in central Europe: representations, transfers and exchanges	40
Balkan legacies: the long shadow of conflict and ideological experiment in Southeastern Europe	35
Citizens and the state in authoritarian regimes: comparing China and Russia	19
The (Geo)politics of the Belt and Road Initiative: economic corridors in Indonesia and the Philippines	15
30 Years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Turns and twists in economies, politics, and societies in the post-communist countries	12
Building a green state? Environmental politics in Georgia	12
On the determinants of regional government debt in Russia	11
The end of the village: planning the urbanization of rural China	11
Russian Politics and Society (5th Edition)	10
Ordering the frontiers: purification projects as a territorializing strategy in southwestern China	10
Russian energy chains: the remaking of technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union	10
Spatializing authoritarianism Spatializing authoritarianism , edited by Natalie Koch, New York, Syracuse Studies in Geography, Syracuse University Press, 2022, 416 pp.,	10
Urban orchard in a megacity: formality and informality in China	9
From eco-cities to sustainable city-regions: China’s uncertain quest for an ecological civilization	9
The road to socialism. Transport infrastructure in socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945–1989)	8
Geopolitics and the geographer: ethics and the everyday in times of global existential crisis	8
Visegrád four political regionalism as a critical reflection of Europeanization: deciphering the “Illiberal Turn”	8
Border humanitarians: gendered order and insecurity on the Thai-Burmese frontier Border humanitarians: gendered order and insecurity on the Thai-Burmese frontier by Adam	8
Russia and China between cooperation and competition at the regional and global level. Introduction	8
Revisiting the post-socialist city from an empiricist’s perspective	7
Post-Soviet borders: a kaleidoscope of shifting lives and lands Post-Soviet borders: a kaleidoscope of shifting lives and lands , edited by Sabine von Löwis and Beate Es	7
The Carpathian Basin as a ‘Hungarian Neighbourhood’: Imaginative Geographies of Regional Cooperation and National Exceptionalism	7
Environmental justice and ecological civilization in the Pearl River Delta, China	7
‘ We don’t eat those bananas ’: Chinese plantation expansions and bordering on Northern Myanmar’s Kachin borderlands	7
Destination choices of labor migrants in the urban hierarchy of China: the impact of Hukou place and differentiated effects of education attainment	7

Istanbul, open city: exhibiting anxieties of urban modernity	7
Governing through the NGO—community eldercare in Beijing and Shanghai	7
Where are Russia–China energy relations headed? A regime analysis	7
Questioning post-socialism in urban studies? Don’t shoot ourselves in the foot	6
Creating Chinese urbanism: urban revolution and governance changes,	6
Humanitarian, linguistic and narrative bordering in Georgia: migrations in the context of Russia’s war on Ukraine	6
Proximity and cross-border acquisitions of technology assets by firms in latecomer economies: a study of Chinese firms, 2001-2018	6
China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and manifestations	6
Territorialization and ethnic control in China’s borderlands: Aba prefecture in the People’s Republic, 1950–2020	5
“City of districts” as state project: socioeconomic unevenness and contested power relations in establishing Wansheng in Chongqing	5
Respatialising finance: power, politics and offshore renminbi market making in London	5
Nature’s evil: a cultural history of natural resources	5
Russian policy towards the economy of occupied Ukrainian territories: crawling de-modernization	5
Introduction: from universalism to fragmentation? The concept of “post-socialism” in urban studies and Human Geography	5
The horde: How the Mongols changed the world The horde: How the Mongols changed the world , by Marie Favereau, Cambridge, USA, Harvard University Press, 2021, 384 pp., $	5
Conflict and cooperation in the semiconductor industry: the global evolution of chip production	5
Constructing Qinghai province: Chinese state-making in a Tibetan-Mongol frontier region 1907–1957	5
Coexistence or competition for resources? Transboundary transformations of natural resource use in China’s neighborhood	5
秩序與混沌: 轉型中國的「社會奇蹟亅 (The Paradox of Order and Chaos: Social Stability in Transitional China)	5
Reversing the Bamboo Network: Chinese capital, geopolitics, and institutions in Southeast Asia	5
Financial citizenship and shadow banking in Pakistan: a study of two deposit-taking microfinance banks	5
Talking about security in the era of high-tech and green-tech: China’s empathy with Russia and the rare earths trade with the West	4
Studies on the history and culture along the continental silk road Studies on the history and culture along the continental silk road , edited by Xiao Li, Singapore, Spr	4
Londongrad, a post-socialist city?	4
Visions of Beirut: the urban life of media infrastructure Visions of Beirut: the urban life of media infrastructure by Hatim El-Hibri, USA, Duke University Press, 2021,	4
Rural–urban migration and urban identity differentiation in China	4
The Russian cold: histories of ice, frost, and snow	4
Towards nationalizing regimes: conceptualizing power and identity in the post-Soviet realm	4
Moving post-socialist publics: citizens, spaces, and practices	3
New frontier capitalism in China and the power to name: regional territorialization, petroleum development, and the concurrence of US-PRC relations at September 11 ^th	3
“Fence culture”: grounding global China in Kalimantan	3
Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East	3
To comply or not to comply? Migrants’ responses to educational barriers in large cities in China	3
Jungle passports: fences, mobility, and citizenship at the Northeast India–Bangladesh border	3
Soft power in Central Asia. The politics of influence and seduction	3
The governance of anti-corruption on the Polar Silk Road	3
Chinese investments as part of infrastructure-led development: multi-scalar contestations around Georgia’s flagship infrastructure projects	3
War memorialization and nation-building in Ukraine	3
The Russo-Ukrainian War	3
Rethinking peripheral geographies of innovation: towards an ordinary periphery approach	3
Unpacking the competitive relations among Chinese business actors in Africa	3
A research agenda for global rural development	3
Aligning aid with intent: examining official development finance flows to Southeast Asia	3
Soft power, public diplomacy, and modernity in China and Russia	3
On the edge: life along the Russia-China border On the edge: life along the Russia-China border , by Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvar	2
Following state-owned enterprises: the location strategies of Chinese private multinationals	2
Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography , edited by Loretta Lees and David Demeritt, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2023, 456 pp., £21	2
Ageing together: the symbiosis of gendered elderly bodies and old vehicles in a Ukrainian city	2
The Solidarity Economy The Solidarity Economy , by Jean-Louis Laville, Minneapolis, USA, University of Minnesota Press, 2023, 324 pp., $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-1	2
Research on poverty reduction in China	2

The role of indirect oil and natural gas revenues in the Russian government budget	2
Estimating the size of GDP loss in Southeast Asia due to the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Spatial revolution: Architecture and planning in the early Soviet Union	2
Regional infrastructure systems: the political economy of regional infrastructure Regional infrastructure systems: the political economy of regional infrastructure , by	2
Red Arctic: Russian strategy under Putin Red Arctic: Russian strategy under Putin , by Elizabeth Buchanan, Washington D.C, Brookings Institution Press, 2023, 208 pp., IS	2
Localized bargaining: the political economy of China’s high-speed railway program	2
The poverty of territorialism: a neo-medieval view of Europe and European planning	2
Catching China-Europe trains: local agency and Global China in the Polish borderland	2
Polarized pasts: heritage and belonging in times of political polarization Polarized pasts: heritage and belonging in times of political polarization , edited by Elisabe	2