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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies	14
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South	8
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Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	7
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa	7
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–1710	7
Hindu: A History	7
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa	6
A Thousand Years of Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Philippines since 1946	6
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism	5
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–1930	5
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism	4
Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South	4
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy	4
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean	4
Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa	4
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Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East	4
A Seven-Headed Public: Empire and Satire in Revolutionary Caucasus	4
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry	4
Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste	3
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy	3
Editorial Foreword	3

Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa	3
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran—ERRATUM	3
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
The “Is” at Home, the “Ought” Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania	3
Alexander and the Elephants	2
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–1933	2
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying State Archives in Egypt	2
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation	2
The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: Wāsṭa and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan	2
Editorial Foreword	2
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983	2
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands	2
Slavery and the “American Way of War,” 1607–1861	2
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism	2
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism	2
Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam	1
Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar	1
Breakbulk Pasts and Containerized Futures: Submergent Histories on a Saltwater Frontier	1
Making MalagasyZebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–1978	1
The Ottoman Sarraf, Public Debt, and Usury Laws: Rethinking Capitalism and Empire beyond Anomalies	1
Editorial Foreword–Corrigendum	1
The Improvement Regime: Public Trusts, Real Estates, and India’s Urban Futurities	1
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany	1
Editorial Foreword	1
The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov	1
CSS volume 64 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	1
Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906	1
Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope	1
Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana	1
The Politics of Colonial Lists: Conspiracies, Deportations, and Knowledge in 1790s Pondicherry	1
Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony	1
German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India	1
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States	1
Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia	1
Inventing Ancestors and Limited Empiricism in Chosŏn Korea: A Case of the Kigye Yu Lineage	1
Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador	1
Mussolini between Hero Worship and Demystification: Exemplary Anecdotes,Petite Histoire, and the Problem of Humanization	1
Editorial Foreword	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
Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan	1
The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism	1
Of Rule not Revenue: South Sudan’s Revenue Complex from Colonial, Rebel, to Independent Rule, 1899 to 2023	1
“Our Roots Are the Same”: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–1949	1
Law’s Logistical Media: The Installation of the File System in the Postwar Japanese Prosecutor’s Office	1
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1