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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	29
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	16
If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling With Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies	15
Climate Change in Chiloé (Chile): Trends, Coastal Zones and Socio-Ecological Conflicts	13
Book Reviews 18(1)	13
Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists	12
Language management, discursive power, and English as lingua franca in island countries and territories	12
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	12
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	11
The Correlation Between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses	11
Literary and cultural (re)productions of a utopian island: Performative geographies of colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the latter half of the 19th century	10
Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland	9
Measuring Accessibility Within Islands	9
Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland	8
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	7
Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction	7
Inhabiting Two Places at the Same Time: Layers of Isolation in Chiloé, Southern Chile	7
Islands in Speculative Fiction: The Functions of Islands in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film and Writing	6
“A Rusting Metal Behemoth, Within the Crumbling Masonry of Empire”: Addressing Sugar Plantations as Sites of Forgetting on the Island of Saint Lucia	6
Review of the Well-Being Agenda in Small Island States: Challenges to Measuring Tourism Employee Well-Being	6
Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	6
Polish Access to Island Studies: A Literary Perspective	6
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	5
Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire	5
Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	4

Islanders Come Back to the Mainland: Social Identity in the People of Jeju in Mainland Korea	4
The Role of Local Shops in Emergency Logistics and Island Resilience: A Case Study From Zhoushan Archipelago	4
Liquid Landscapes: Water Tunnels, Flamingos, and Radar Sounds in Contemporary Photography From Cyprus	4
Beyond the vulnerability/resilience dichotomy: Perceptions of and responses to the climate crisis on Emau, Vanuatu	4
Principles of Repopulation Initiatives for Community Resilience: Understandings Gleaned From the Proposed Scottish Government’s Islands Bond	4
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	4
Generation of Digital Sense of Place in a Mediatized Society: Reconstruction of Human-Island Relations on Shamian Island, Guangzhou	4
Analysis of the Ferry Service Network in Hong Kong	4
Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	4
Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?	4
“Not Your Climate Refugees”: A Maldivian Perspective on Migration and Adaptation	4
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Trends and Triggers of Environmental Change on Gidicho Island and Its Environs, Southern Ethiopia	3
Book Reviews, 17(2)	3
Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era	3
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
Politics of prevention in the periphery: The initial response to COVID-19 on Barbuda and Puerto Rico	3
Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana	3
Supporting Sustainable Island Tourism Through Infrastructuring Co-Design: A Case Study From Mayu Island	3
The disregarded weight of the ancestors: Honouring the complexities and cultural subtleties of islandscape	3
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	3
The Bubble Metropolis: Manhattan Island Crises in Contemporary Science Fiction	2
Rethinking destination success: An island perspective	2
Vulnerability to disaster in the Maldives: The Maamigili and Fenfushi island communities	2
Malapportionment as a Factor Associated With Islandness: Three Archipelagos Compared	2
Variations and Parallels in Climate Change-Induced Migration Models: Customary Land Tenure in Francophone Pacific Islands	2
Islandness of Sveti Stefan: A Collection of Particular Manifestations Through Time	2
“It’s like Hawai’i”: Making a tourist utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985	2
Generating an understanding of police brutality in the small island state of Trinidad and Tobago	2
“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	2
Island Studies Journal, 17(1), Book Reviews	2
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within	2
Chinese White Dolphins in the Anthropocene: Human-animal Relations Among the Islands of the Pearl River Delta	2
The Fourth Estate? The Experiences of Cape Verdean Journalists	2
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	2
Resilience-building in small island family-owned accommodation sector	2
Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands	2
Memory and Forgetfulness of the Flood: Meaning and Nostalgia in Thousand Island Lake (Qiandaohu), China	2
Is Rising Residential Land Prices a Consequence of Domestic or Foreign Land Demand? Evidence From Mauritius Island	2
Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	2
Island Cities and Disaster Risk: A Study of San Juan’s Hurricane Early Warning System	2