OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Island Studies Journal is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
“I’m Sorry, but That’s Bribery”: A Decolonial Perspective From Which to Study Moral Economies in the ‘Chinese Pacific’	17
Policing and justice in island communities	16
Legal socialization, perceptions of the police, and delinquency in three Caribbean nations	13
Growing hope: Island agriculture and refusing catastrophe in climate change adaptation in Fiji	12
Teehuteatuaonoa aka ‘Jenny’, the most traveled woman on the Bounty: Chronicling female agency and island movements with Google Earth	11
Electoral politics, party performance, and governance in Greenland: Parties, personalities, and cleavages in an autonomous subnational island jurisdiction	11
Elite settlements in island territories: The road to a binding political status referendum in New Caledonia and Puerto Rico	10
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	10
The price of freedom: Open access, editorial labour, and prestige in academic publishing	9
Firm local embeddedness in an insular region: The Åland Islands compared to Finland	9
Small Islands and Islets: Laboratories or Key Sensors for Environmental Policies in the Mediterranean Basin?	8
The Role of Air Transport Infrastructure Towards Breaking Seasonality in Emerging Tourism Destinations: A Qualitative Study of Akureyri, North Iceland	8
Analysis of the Ferry Service Network in Hong Kong	8
No future of island studies: Embracing island studies in plural	7
Memory and Forgetfulness of the Flood: Meaning and Nostalgia in Thousand Island Lake (Qiandaohu), China	7
The stunning birth of tourism on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera	7
The making of art islands: A comparative analysis of translocal assemblages of contemporary art and tourism	7
Island Studies Journal, 17(1), Book Reviews	6
The potential of disruptive transport infrastructure for tourism development in emerging island destinations: Research project in the Faroe Islands	6
Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: Police and public perceptions of enforcement of health protocols in the Fiji Islands	5
(Un)Making smallness: Islands, spatial ascription processes and (im)mobility	5
The Most Expensive Agricultural Land Prices in Europe: An Economic Analysis of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain	5
Systematic Literature Review on Alternative Governance Arrangements for Resource Deficient Situations: Small Island Community-Based Ecotourism	5
Spaces of resistance and transformation: Caribbean islands between dystopia and creolotopia in Wide Sargasso Sea	5
'Splendid isolation': Embracing islandness in a global pandemic	4

Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis	4
Resilience and autonomy at stake: The public construct of the Paf gambling company in the Åland Islands community	4
Understanding Islandness Effects Through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands	4
Female migration in the Cape Verde islands: From islandness to transnationalism	4
Mollusk loves: Becoming with native and introduced land snails in the Hawaiian Islands	4
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Trends and Triggers of Environmental Change on Gidicho Island and Its Environs, Southern Ethiopia	3
‘Burn Like Hot Stones’: Children’s Perceptions of Environmental Change in Samoa	3
Factors influencing the internationalization of small-sized textile firms in a Small Island Developing State: A Mauritian study	3
The impeded archipelago of Corsica and Sardinia	3
Riverine Complexity: Islandness, socio-spatial perceptions and modification—a case study of the lower Richmond River (Eastern Australia)	3
Sustainable creative tourism on islands and the pandemic: The Creatour Azores project	3
Forgotten Islands of the Past: The Archaeology of the Northern Coast of the Arabian Sea	3
Book Reviews 18(1)	3
A South-South tango: China’s soft power relations with Fiji since 1975	3
Cannibalizing paradise: Suzanne Césaire’s ecofeminist critique of tourist literature	3
Mining for Greenlandic self-government: Fractal islands in the Anthropocene	3
Seapower, geostrategic relations, and islandness: The World War II Destroyers for Bases deal	3
Disrupted identities and forced nomads: A post-disaster legacy of neocolonialism in the island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles	3
Island-raised but foreign-made: Lived experiences, transnational relationships, and expressions of womanhood among Cape Verdean migrant women in Greater Lisbon	3
Lowland islands at the water-land nexus in Lixiahe, China: A boundary approach	3