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Papers

(The median citation count of Island Studies Journal 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
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	26
If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling With Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies	13
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	13
Climate Change in Chiloé (Chile): Trends, Coastal Zones and Socio-Ecological Conflicts	12
Book Reviews 18(1)	12
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	11
The impact of CEO characteristics on the international entrepreneurship of small island-based firms	11
Language management, discursive power, and English as lingua franca in island countries and territories	10
Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists	9
The Correlation Between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses	8
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century	7
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	7
Ferry services and the community development of peripheral island areas in Hong Kong: Evidence from Cheung Chau	7
Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland	6
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	6
Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland	6
Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction	5
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	5
Inhabiting Two Places at the Same Time: Layers of Isolation in Chiloé, Southern Chile	5
Islands in Speculative Fiction: The Functions of Islands in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film and Writing	5
The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands	5
Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire	5
Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	5
Islanders Come Back to the Mainland: Social Identity in the People of Jeju in Mainland Korea	4
Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	4

Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	4
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	4
Principles of Repopulation Initiatives for Community Resilience: Understandings Gleaned From the Proposed Scottish Government’s Islands Bond	4
Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu	3
Analysis of the Ferry Service Network in Hong Kong	3
Trends and Triggers of Environmental Change on Gidicho Island and Its Environs, Southern Ethiopia	3
1 Do you believe in Ram Setu? Adam’s Bridge, epistemic plurality and colonial legacy	3
Book Reviews, 17(2)	3
Supporting Sustainable Island Tourism Through Infrastructuring Co-Design: A Case Study From Mayu Island	3
Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?	3
Typical islands, borrowed islands: Epistemological and intellectual decolonialization in island studies	3
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
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“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	2
Malapportionment as a Factor Associated With Islandness: Three Archipelagos Compared	2
Chinese White Dolphins in the Anthropocene: Human-animal Relations Among the Islands of the Pearl River Delta	2
Rethinking destination success: An island perspective	2
Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	2
The Fourth Estate? The Experiences of Cape Verdean Journalists	2
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	2
The disregarded weight of the ancestors: Honouring the complexities and cultural subtleties of islandscape	2
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within	2
Vulnerability to disaster in the Maldives: The Maamigili and Fenfushi island communities	2
“It’s like Hawai’i”: Making a tourist utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985	2
Island Cities and Disaster Risk: A Study of San Juan’s Hurricane Early Warning System	2
Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana	2
Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era	2
Politics of prevention in the periphery: The initial response to COVID-19 on Barbuda and Puerto Rico	2
Variations and Parallels in Climate Change-Induced Migration Models: Customary Land Tenure in Francophone Pacific Islands	2
Generating an understanding of police brutality in the small island state of Trinidad and Tobago	2
The Bubble Metropolis: Manhattan Island Crises in Contemporary Science Fiction	2
Resilience-building in small island family-owned accommodation sector	2
Islandness of Sveti Stefan: A Collection of Particular Manifestations Through Time	2
Is Rising Residential Land Prices a Consequence of Domestic or Foreign Land Demand? Evidence From Mauritius Island	2
A policy tool for island transport cost inequality: Exploration of the application of the Transport Equivalent Threshold on Greek islands	2