Most cited papers in Travel Writing and Literature

Travel Writing and Literature

What are the most cited papers in Travel Writing and Literature?

The most cited paper in Travel Writing and Literature is "Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation." (Moira Ferguson, Mary Louise Pratt, 1993), with 4,995 citations. Next come "Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century" (2,330) and "Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking" (843).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 107 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Moira Ferguson, Mary Louise Pratt · Eighteenth-Century Studies	1993	4,995
2	Routes: Travel and Translation In the Late Twentieth Century Richard Handler · American Ethnologist	Feb 1998	2,330
3	Wet Ontologies, Fluid Spaces: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking Philip E. Steinberg, Kimberley Peters · Environment and Planning D Society and Space Open access	10 Mar 2015	843
4	If Mobility is Everything Then it is Nothing: Towards a Relational Politics of (Im)mobilities Peter Adey · Mobilities	14 Feb 2006	740
5	Guided by the dark: From thanatopsistothanatourism A. V. Seaton · International Journal of Heritage Studies	Dec 1996	705
6	Authenticity and sincerity in tourism John Patrick Taylor · Annals of Tourism Research	2001	674
7	The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism Craig Jackson Calhoun · South Atlantic Quarterly	Oct 2002	638
8	THIS TRIP REALLY CHANGED ME Chaim Noy · Annals of Tourism Research	2004	560
9	Touring cultures: Transformations of travel and theory Pauline Marne · Journal of Transport Geography	Jun 1998	554
10	Colonial fantasies towards a feminist reading of Orientalism Meyda Yeğenoğlu	1998	551
11	Edward Said, Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. $15. Irene A. Bierman · Middle East Studies Association Bulletin	Jul 1979	542
12	Geopolitics and discourse Gearóid Ó Tuathail, John A. Agnew · Political Geography	Mar 1992	540
13	The Golden Hordes: International Tourism and the Pleasure Periphery S. Medlik · International Affairs	Oct 1975	500
14	The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth Century Fiction Carol Maloney, Rosemary Marangoly George · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States	1999	429
15	Risk creation in traveling Torun Elsrud · Annals of Tourism Research	2001	402
16	Researching pilgrimage Noga Collins‐Kreiner · Annals of Tourism Research	16 Jan 2010	400
17	Travel photography Patricia C. Albers, William Ryan James · Annals of Tourism Research	1988	374
18	Engineering affective atmospheres on the moving geographies of the 1897 Andrée expedition Derek P. McCormack · Cultural Geographies Open access	Oct 2008	357
19	German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship Bradley Naranch · German History	Nov 2010	338
20	Mundane mobilities, performances and spaces of tourism Tim Edensor · Social & Cultural Geography	Apr 2007	330
21	The Routledge Handbook of mobilities Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje · Annals of Tourism Research	20 Nov 2014	316
22	Caribbean cruise tourism Robert E. Wood · Annals of Tourism Research	Apr 2000	307
23	A tail of two src's: Mutatis mutandis Tony R. Hunter · Cell	Apr 1987	282
24	At Day's Close: Night in Times Past Lisa M. Stepanski · The Journal of Popular Culture	7 Nov 2006	280
25	Origins of sightseeing Judith E. Adler · Annals of Tourism Research	1989	263
26	Submarine Futures of the Anthropocene Elizabeth DeLoughrey · Comparative Literature	27 Feb 2017	260
27	WORLDS, TIMES AND SELVES G.J. Williams · Philosophical Books	May 1978	249
28	The Politics of Tour Guiding Heidi Dahles · Annals of Tourism Research	Jul 2002	248
29	TRANSPORTING EPITHELIA Michael John Berridge, James L. Oschman · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter	1972	239
30	Tourist agency Dean MacCannell · Tourist Studies	Jun 2001	237
31	The ocean in excess: Towards a more-than-wet ontology Kimberley Peters, Philip E. Steinberg · Dialogues in Human Geography Open access	9 Sep 2019	235
32	Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape Patricia Nelson Limerick, Barry Holstun Lopez · Western Historical Quarterly	1987	222
33	Tourists as Pilgrims: Commercial Fashioning of Transatlantic Politics Paulla A. Ebron · American Ethnologist	Nov 1999	222
34	The Balkans: From Discovery to Invention Maria Todorova · Slavic Review	1994	215
35	THE TOURIST MOMENT Stephanie Hom Cary · Annals of Tourism Research	2004	212
36	Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture Ernest R. Somerville · ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment	Jul 2006	204
37	Introduction: What Is Reenactment? Vanessa Agnew · Criticism	2004	202
38	The self and the other Vasilikí Galaní-Moutáfi · Annals of Tourism Research	2000	201
39	An Experiment in Autobiography Gregory J. Chaitin · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks Book chapter	Feb 2020	195
40	Urban atmospheres Matthew Gandy · Cultural Geographies Open access	Jul 2017	193
41	Material Cultures of Tourism Michael Haldrup, Jonas Larsen · Leisure Studies	22 Jun 2006	192
42	AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF ENGLISHNESS Catherine A. Palmer · Annals of Tourism Research	2005	190
43	Mobility, Space and Power: On the Multiplicities of Seeing Mobility Anne Jensen · Mobilities	23 Mar 2011	189
44	Gallipoli thanatourism Peter W. Slade · Annals of Tourism Research	Oct 2003	182
45	A mobilities approach to tourism from emerging world regions Erik Cohen, Scott Cohen · Current Issues in Tourism	24 Mar 2014	180
46	Tourism Mobilities and the Travel Glance: Experiences of Being on the Move Jonas Larsen · Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism	Dec 2001	177
47	Travel as transition Naomi Rosh White, Peter B. White · Annals of Tourism Research	2004	177
48	Toward a Blue Cultural Studies: The Sea, Maritime Culture, and Early Modern English Literature Steven Mentz · Literature Compass	24 Aug 2009	173
49	Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 David John Baker · The English Historical Review	17 Sep 2009	171
50	Reconsidering global mobility – distancing from mass cruise tourism in the aftermath of COVID-19 Luc Renaud · Tourism Geographies	12 May 2020	168

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