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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	11
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–1710	8
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa	8
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South	8
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies	7
A Thousand Years of Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Philippines since 1946	7
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism	7
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–1930	7
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	7
Hindu: A History	7
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy	6
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	6
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa	6
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry	5
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean	5
A Seven-Headed Public: Empire and Satire in Revolutionary Caucasus	5
The “Millet” Paradigm: On Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire	4
Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste	4
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa	4
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism	4
The Widowers’ Two Plights: Toward a Cultural History of Bereaved Husbands	4
Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of Displacement in the Middle East	4
Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East	4
Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen	4

The “Is” at Home, the “Ought” Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania	3
Editorial Foreword	3
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran—ERRATUM	3
The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: Wāsṭa and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan	3
Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa	3
Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering “DNA Fingerprinting” on Britain’s Borders	2
Balancing Hope and Fear: Muslim Modernists, Democracy, and the Tyranny of the Majority	2
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983	2
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism	2
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism	2
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands	2
The Archive of Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, Algeria	2
German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India	2
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State Archives in Egypt	2
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy	2
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation	2
Editorial Foreword	2
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States	2
The Ottoman Sarraf, Public Debt, and Usury Laws: Rethinking Capitalism and Empire beyond Anomalies	2
Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia	2
Alexander and the Elephants	2
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–1933	2
The Improvement Regime: Public Trusts, Real Estates, and India’s Urban Futurities	2
Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan	2