ABSTRACT
Professor John Connell named Graeme Hugo as the most cited Australian geographer ever; he was also included in the list of geography's global ‘master weavers’, based on citations. Graeme was a highly prodigious and prolific scholar, producing over 200 peer-reviewed articles, over 30 books, more than 260 book chapters, around 30 book reviews and over 1000 conference papers. In a 2015 blog by Norwegian Professor Jorgen Carling on the ‘names worth knowing’ in international migration, he noted that the academic with the most publications in migration journals was Hugo. Graeme was unashamedly a migration moderate, seeking to expand the middle ground for the betterment of migrants and societies. Clearly Hugo was a master at being able to publish high-quality research and influence policy but many academics cannot, and for good reason. Graeme's unusual success provides an opportunity to reflect on aspects of his approach.
