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Papers

(The median citation count of Island Studies Journal is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	17
Policing and justice in island communities	16
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	13
Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji	12
Electoral politics, party performance, and governance in Greenland: Parties, personalities, and cleavages in an autonomous subnational island jurisdiction	11
Teehuteatuaonoa aka ‘Jenny’, the most traveled woman on the Bounty: Chronicling female agency and island movements with Google Earth	11
1 Victims navigating justice in island communities: An exploration of victims’ experiences of the criminal justice system and quality of justice services provided in Trinidad and Tobago	10
Elite settlements in island territories: The road to a binding political status referendum in New Caledonia and Puerto Rico	10
Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland	9
The price of freedom: Open access, editorial labour, and prestige in academic publishing	9
The Role of Air Transport Infrastructure Towards Breaking Seasonality in Emerging Tourism Destinations: A Qualitative Study of Akureyri, North Iceland	8
Analysis of the Ferry Service Network in Hong Kong	8
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	8
Memory and Forgetfulness of the Flood: Meaning and Nostalgia in Thousand Island Lake (Qiandaohu), China	7
The stunning birth of tourism on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera	7
The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism	7
No future of island studies: Embracing island studies in plural	7
The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands	6
Island Studies Journal, 17(1), Book Reviews	6
The Most Expensive Agricultural Land Prices in Europe: An Economic Analysis of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	5
Systematic Literature Review on Alternative Governance Arrangements for Resource Deficient Situations: Small Island Community-Based Ecotourism	5
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	5
Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: Police and public perceptions of enforcement of health protocols in the Fiji Islands	5
(Un)Making smallness: Islands, spatial ascription processes and (im)mobility	5
Resilience and autonomy at stake: The public construct of the Paf gambling company in the Åland Islands community	4

Understanding Islandness Effects Through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands	4
Female migration in the Cape Verde islands: From islandness to transnationalism	4
Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands	4
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'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic	4
Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis	4
Forgotten Islands of the Past: The Archaeology of the Northern Coast of the Arabian Sea	3
Book Reviews 18(1)	3
A South-South tango: China’s soft power relations with Fiji since 1975	3
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene	3
Seapower, geostrategic relations, and islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases deal	3
Disrupted identities and forced nomads: A post-disaster legacy of neocolonialism in the island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles	3
Island-raised but foreign-made: Lived experiences, transnational relationships, and expressions of womanhood among Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon	3
Lowland islands at the water-land nexus in Lixiahe, China: A boundary approach	3
Trends and Triggers of Environmental Change on Gidicho Island and Its Environs, Southern Ethiopia	3
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	3
Factors influencing the internationalization of small-sized textile firms in a Small Island Developing State: A Mauritian study	3
The impeded archipelago of Corsica and Sardinia	3
Riverine Complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River (Eastern Australia)	3
Sustainable creative tourism on islands and the pandemic: The Creatour Azores project	3
To study island China	2
Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	2
Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire	2
Cainà: Islandscape and ‘islanderscope’ on screen	2
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Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	2
Demographic carrying capacity model: A tool for decision-making in Rapa Nui	2
Island archaeology, identity and resilience in Menorca through the Roman Epoch	2
Human resources and workforce shortages in Jeju Island due to islandness: The challenges faced by former hospitality and tourism professionals	2
A policy tool for island transport cost inequality: Exploration of the application of the Transport Equivalent Threshold on Greek islands	2
Book Reviews, 17(2)	2
Supporting victims of domestic violence in rural and island communities during COVID-19: the impact of the pandemic on service providers in North East Scotland and Orkney	2
Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao)	2
Tourism imaginaries and the selective perception of visitors: Postcolonial heritage in Con Dao Islands, Vietnam	2
Policy-oriented Research and Island Management Within Island Studies	2
Island, Identity, and Trauma: The Three Ecologies of Wu Ming-Yi’s ‘the Man With the Compound Eyes’	2
Factors influencing the level of Social Responsibility of marine tourism companies and restaurants: The island of Fuerteventura	2
Marine biodiversity of a pristine coral reef in French Polynesia	2
Politics of prevention in the periphery: The initial response to COVID-19 on Barbuda and Puerto Rico	2
Turning the Faroes Into One City. Demographic and Spatial Impacts of 60 Years of Transport Infrastructure Expansion.	2
Island Studies Journal, 16(1), Book Reviews	2
Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies	1
Critiquing ‘islandness’ as immunity to COVID-19: A case exploration of the Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique archipelago in the Caribbean region	1
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	1
Mediate or litigate: An evaluation of citizen and police officer perspectives on the use of mediation to resolve citizen-police conflict in Trinidad and Tobago	1
Worlds apart: Island identities and colonial configurations in the Dutch Caribbean	1
Extreme weather, climate variability, and childhood: A historical analogue from the Orkney Islands (1903–1919)	1
Island Studies Journal 16(2), Book Reviews	1
Vague and unworkable: The fuzziness of the archipelago as a concept and its unsuitability as model for a 21st century Palestinian nation	1

Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	1
The disregarded weight of the ancestors: Honouring the complexities and cultural subtleties of islandscape	1
Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists	1
The impact of CEO characteristics on the international entrepreneurship of small island-based firms	1
The Entrepreneurial Process in a Remote Island Context: The Case of Madeira	1
‘St Helena, an island between’: Multiple migrations, small island resilience, and survival	1
Notes on an archipelagic ethnography: Ships, seas, and islands of relation in the Indian Ocean	1
Islanders Come Back to the Mainland: Social Identity in the People of Jeju in Mainland Korea	1
Risk Perception of Small Islands Community on Climate Change: Evidence From Mepar and Baran Islands, Indonesia	1
Sustainable tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in sub-national island jurisdictions: The case of Tobago	1
Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana	1
Optimisation of hybrid renewable energy systems on islands: A review	1
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	1
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	1
Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era	1