OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Studies in Society and History is 2. 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
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–1710	11
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa	11
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	10
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism	9
Hindu: A History	8
Buffalo Politics: Sovereignty and Sacrificial Publics in the Highlands of East India – ADDENDUM	8
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa	8
A Thousand Years of Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Philippines since 1946	7
Palestine in the 1972 Egyptian Student Uprising: Arab Solidarities of Principle and Affect	7
A Seven-Headed Public: Empire and Satire in Revolutionary Caucasus	6
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry	6
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean	5
Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste	5
Death of the Gharīb : A Window towards a Regional Understanding of Displacement in the Middle East	5
Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa	5
Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa	5
The “Millet” Paradigm: On Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire	5
Editorial Foreword	5
Two Journeys into Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia	4
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran—ERRATUM	4
Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen	4
Citizenship Under the Plan: Managing Migrant Worker Inclusion in Late-Soviet Moscow	4
Stars, Kings, Pirates: The Nine Emperor Gods Festival and the Making of a Diasporic Religious Ecology in Postcolonial Southeast Asia	4
Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East	4
Constitutionalism of the Dispossessed: Land Occupations, Revolution, and the Political Economy of a Counter-Revolution in the Ottoman Empire	4

The “Is” at Home, the “Ought” Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania	4
The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands	4
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism	3
Alexander and the Elephants	3
Editorial Foreword	3
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation	3
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism	3
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–1933	3
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands	3
The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: Wāsṭa and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan	3
The Archive of Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, Algeria	2
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State Archives in Egypt	2
German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India	2
Buffalo Politics: Sovereignty and Sacrificial Publics in the Highlands of East India	2
Building an Ottoman National Economy	2
The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism	2
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983	2
The Improvement Regime: Public Trusts, Real Estates, and India’s Urban Futurities	2
Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering “DNA Fingerprinting” on Britain’s Borders	2
Breakbulk Pasts and Containerized Futures: Submergent Histories on a Saltwater Frontier	2
The Politics of Colonial Lists: Conspiracies, Deportations, and Knowledge in 1790s Pondicherry	2
Editorial Foreword	2
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States	2
Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan	2
The Ottoman Sarraf , Public Debt, and Usury Laws: Rethinking Capitalism and Empire beyond Anomalies	2
Balancing Hope and Fear: Muslim Modernists, Democracy, and the Tyranny of the Majority	2
Making MalagasyZebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–1978	2