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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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	19
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	19
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)	11
Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji	11
Ferry services and the community development of peripheral island areas in Hong Kong: Evidence from Cheung Chau	10
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	10
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	10
The Correlation Between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses	9
The impact of CEO characteristics on the international entrepreneurship of small island-based firms	9
Measuring destination image of an Italian island: An analysis of online content generated by local operators and tourists	8
Language management, discursive power, and English as lingua franca in island countries and territories	8
Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland	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
Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland	6
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	6
The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism	5
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	5
Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction	5
The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands	5
Island Studies Journal 16(2), Book Reviews	4
Playing with the Anthropocene: Board game imaginaries of islands, nature, and empire	4
Belonging in an aquapelago: Island mobilities and emotions	4
Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	4
“we are still here holding fast”: Stillness in the wake of Hurricane Irma in Richard Georges’ Epiphaneia	4

Islanders Come Back to the Mainland: Social Identity in the People of Jeju in Mainland Korea	4
Islands in Speculative Fiction: The Functions of Islands in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film and Writing	4
Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	3
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
A policy tool for island transport cost inequality: Exploration of the application of the Transport Equivalent Threshold on Greek islands	3
Book Reviews, 17(2)	3
The ‘other’ within: Striving for health equity in the Maldives Eva-Maria	3
1 Do you believe in Ram Setu? Adam’s Bridge, epistemic plurality and colonial legacy	3
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
Island archaeology, identity and resilience in Menorca through the Roman Epoch	3
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Secessionism in Nevis: Why Have Tensions Eased?	3
Typical islands, borrowed islands: Epistemological and intellectual decolonialization in island studies	3
Trends and Triggers of Environmental Change on Gidicho Island and Its Environs, Southern Ethiopia	3
Demographic carrying capacity model: A tool for decision-making in Rapa Nui	3
Island Cities and Disaster Risk: A Study of San Juan’s Hurricane Early Warning System	2
Generating an understanding of police brutality in the small island state of Trinidad and Tobago	2
Politics of prevention in the periphery: The initial response to COVID-19 on Barbuda and Puerto Rico	2
Rethinking utopian and dystopian imagination in island literature and culture	2
The Fourth Estate? The Experiences of Cape Verdean Journalists	2
97 Hospitality and exchange: Identity relationships between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in Sardinia	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
Paradiplomacy of Jersey: Opportunities and challenges in the post-Brexit era	2
Decolonial thinking: A critical perspective on positionality and representations in island studies	2
The disregarded weight of the ancestors: Honouring the complexities and cultural subtleties of islandscape	2
Is Rising Residential Land Prices a Consequence of Domestic or Foreign Land Demand? Evidence From Mauritius Island	2
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies: Interrogating the scholar within	2
Island narratives in the making of Japan: The Kojiki in geocultural context	2
Geopolitics of the colonial prison island: The case of Poulo Condor (Con Dao)	2
Toxic colonialism: Between sickness and sanctuary on Ilet la Mère, French Guiana	2
Determinants of tourism attractiveness for Taiwan’s offshore islands	2
Elite settlements in island territories: The road to a binding political status referendum in New Caledonia and Puerto Rico	1
The Bubble Metropolis: Manhattan Island Crises in Contemporary Science Fiction	1
Chinese White Dolphins in the Anthropocene: Human-animal Relations Among the Islands of the Pearl River Delta	1
SIDS and Sustainable Finance: A Systems Based Risk Approach to Improve Access to Private Investment	1
The Roundabout at the Edge of the World: Subsea Tunnels, the Sea and the Islands	1
Factors influencing the level of Social Responsibility of marine tourism companies and restaurants: The island of Fuerteventura	1
Factors influencing the internationalization of small-sized textile firms in a Small Island Developing State: A Mauritian study	1
(Un)Making smallness: Islands, spatial ascription processes and (im)mobility	1
Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands	1
Rethinking destination success: An island perspective	1
“It’s like Hawai’i”: Making a tourist utopia in Jeju Island, 1963-1985	1
“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	1
Understanding Islandness Effects Through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands	1
Extreme weather, climate variability, and childhood: A historical analogue from the Orkney Islands (1903–1919)	1
Social Psychological Perspectives on Islandness: Identities, Vulnerabilities and Precarities	1
Resilience and autonomy at stake: The public construct of the Paf gambling company in the Åland Islands community	1
The Most Expensive Agricultural Land Prices in Europe: An Economic Analysis of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	1

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	1
Resilience-building in small island family-owned accommodation sector	1
Memory and Forgetfulness of the Flood: Meaning and Nostalgia in Thousand Island Lake (Qiandaohu), China	1
Island Studies Journal, 17(1), Book Reviews	1
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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
To study island China	1
'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic	1
The stunning birth of tourism on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera	1