OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Studies in Society and History 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies	13
CSS volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	8
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	8
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South	6
Hindu: A History	6
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa	6
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–1710	5
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa	5
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism	5
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	5
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–1930	5
A Thousand Years of Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Philippines since 1946	4
CSS volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	4
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean	3
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East	3
Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South	3
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism	3
Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa	3
Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa	3
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry	3
Editorial Foreword	3
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy	3
The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: Wāsṭa and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan	2

Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales	2
Alexander and the Elephants	2
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–1933	2
Editorial Foreword	2
Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste	2
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy	2
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran—ERRATUM	2
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation	2
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands	2
The “Is” at Home, the “Ought” Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania	2
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism	2
Slavery and the “American Way of War,” 1607–1861	2
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism	2
Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda	1
Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope	1
“Our Roots Are the Same”: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–1949	1
Breakbulk Pasts and Containerized Futures: Submergent Histories on a Saltwater Frontier	1
Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony	1
Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan	1
Editorial Foreword–Corrigendum	1
Making MalagasyZebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–1978	1
Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam	1
Mussolini between Hero Worship and Demystification: Exemplary Anecdotes,Petite Histoire, and the Problem of Humanization	1
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany	1
Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar	1
The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia	1
CSS volume 63 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983	1
German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India	1
Of Rule not Revenue: South Sudan’s Revenue Complex from Colonial, Rebel, to Independent Rule, 1899 to 2023	1
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906	1
Inventing Ancestors and Limited Empiricism in Chosŏn Korea: A Case of the Kigye Yu Lineage	1
Sinicizing China’s World Muslim City: Spatial Politics, National Narratives, and Ethnoreligious Assimilation in the PRC	1
Balancing Hope and Fear: Muslim Modernists, Democracy, and the Tyranny of the Majority	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering “DNA Fingerprinting” on Britain’s Borders	1
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States	1