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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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji	21
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	21
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	14
If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling With Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies	13
Book Reviews 18(1)	12
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	12
Climate Change in Chiloé (Chile): Trends, Coastal Zones and Socio-Ecological Conflicts	12
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
The Correlation Between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses	10
Ferry services and the community development of peripheral island areas in Hong Kong: Evidence from Cheung Chau	10
Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists	9
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	8
Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland	8
Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland	7
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century	7
Inhabiting Two Places at the Same Time: Layers of Isolation in Chiloé, Southern Chile	6
Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction	6
The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands	6
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	6
Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire	5
Islands in Speculative Fiction: The Functions of Islands in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film and Writing	5
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	5
The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism	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
Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?	4
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	4
Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	4
Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu	4
Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	4
Island Studies Journal 16(2), Book Reviews	4
The ‘other’ within: Striving for health equity in the Maldives Eva-Maria	4
Book Reviews, 17(2)	3
A policy tool for island transport cost inequality: Exploration of the application of the Transport Equivalent Threshold on Greek islands	3
1 Do you believe in Ram Setu? Adam’s Bridge, epistemic plurality and colonial legacy	3
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Politics of prevention in the periphery: The initial response to COVID-19 on Barbuda and Puerto Rico	3
Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao)	3
Typical islands, borrowed islands: Epistemological and intellectual decolonialization in island studies	3
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
Island archaeology, identity and resilience in Menorca through the Roman Epoch	3
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	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
Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	2
Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies	2
Demographic carrying capacity model: A tool for decision-making in Rapa Nui	2
Variations and Parallels in Climate Change-Induced Migration Models: Customary Land Tenure in Francophone Pacific Islands	2
Vulnerability to disaster in the Maldives: The Maamigili and Fenfushi island communities	2
Resilience-building in small island family-owned accommodation sector	2
Elite settlements in island territories: The road to a binding political status referendum in New Caledonia and Puerto Rico	2
97 Hospitality and exchange: Identity relationships between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in Sardinia	2
Island narratives in the making of Japan: The Kojiki in geocultural context	2
The Fourth Estate? The Experiences of Cape Verdean Journalists	2
Island Cities and Disaster Risk: A Study of San Juan’s Hurricane Early Warning System	2
Island Studies Journal, 17(1), Book Reviews	2
“It’s like Hawai’i”: Making a tourist utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985	2
Chinese White Dolphins in the Anthropocene: Human-animal Relations Among the Islands of the Pearl River Delta	2
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within	2
Is Rising Residential Land Prices a Consequence of Domestic or Foreign Land Demand? Evidence From Mauritius Island	2
Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era	2
Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana	2
The disregarded weight of the ancestors: Honouring the complexities and cultural subtleties of islandscape	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
Rethinking destination success: An island perspective	2
Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands	2