OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Island Studies Journal is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	14
If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling With Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies	14
Medicinal Plant Knowledge and Practice in Island Ecologies: Back From the Brink?	12
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	12
Climate Change in Chiloé (Chile): Trends, Coastal Zones and Socio-Ecological Conflicts	11
Language management, discursive power, and English as lingua franca in island countries and territories	10
Policing and Justice in Island Communities	10
Beyond Autarky: Discourses of Islandness-As-Heritage in Islands’ Energy Transitions	9
“Somos Todos Primos” (We’re All Cousins) in São Tomé & Príncipe: Islandness, Closeness, and Democracy in a Small Island State	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	8
Measuring Accessibility Within Islands	7
Regionalizing the Sustainable Development Goals for Island Societies: Lessons From Iceland and Newfoundland	7
Inhabiting Two Places at the Same Time: Layers of Isolation in Chiloé, Southern Chile	6
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	6
Water Administration in Mayotte: Islandness in a French Overseas Department	6
Review of the Well-Being Agenda in Small Island States: Challenges to Measuring Tourism Employee Well-Being	5
Homeland Consciousness in Chinese Maritime Island Science Fiction	5
The Role of Local Shops in Emergency Logistics and Island Resilience: A Case Study From Zhoushan Archipelago	4
Envisioning a ‘good’ utopia on a dystopian island: culinary and cultural conflicts in Lord of the Flies	4
Principles of Repopulation Initiatives for Community Resilience: Understandings Gleaned From the Proposed Scottish Government’s Islands Bond	4
Islandness in human rights, human rights in islandness: Missing voices	4
Islands in Speculative Fiction: The Functions of Islands in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Film and Writing	4
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

“A Rusting Metal Behemoth, Within the Crumbling Masonry of Empire”: Addressing Sugar Plantations as Sites of Forgetting on the Island of Saint Lucia	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
Generation of Digital Sense of Place in a Mediatized Society: Reconstruction of Human-Island Relations on Shamian Island, Guangzhou	4
Polish Access to Island Studies: A Literary Perspective	4
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	4