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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia	14
Sovereignty as Care: Acquaintances, Mutuality, and Scale in the Wa State of Myanmar	7
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa	7
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation	6
Whose Museum Is It? Jewish Museums and Indigenous Theory	6
Between Global History and Microhistory: Rethinking Histories of “Small Spaces” and Cities	6
CSS volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	5
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–1933	5
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	5
The Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies	4
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–1710	4
Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries	4
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–1930	4
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South	4
A Slippery Sovereignty: International Law and the Development of British Cochin	3
The Iconic Paths of La Verge de Montserrat in Catalonia and Beyond: A Comparative Approach from History and Anthropology	3
The Subterranean Unsettling of Science, Race, and Religion: Obeah, Petroleum Geology, and Risk in Trinidad	3
Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope	3
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	3
Editorial Foreword	3
Hindu: A History	3
“Why don’t I forgive? They didn’t ask for forgiveness!”: Manich Msamah and Tunisia’s Politics of Unforgiveness	3
Editorial Foreword	3
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism	2
The Decay-Life of Things	2

Editorial Foreword	2
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany	2
Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador	2
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism	2
Style on Trial: The Gendered Aesthetics of Appearance, Corruption, and Piety in Indonesia	2
Purifying Istanbul: The Greek Revolution, Population Surveillance, and Non-Muslim Religious Authorities in the Early Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire	2
Editorial Foreword	2
A Tale of Two Coffee Colonies: Environment and Slavery in Suriname and Saint-Domingue, ca. 1750–1790	2
Popular Theopolitics and the Last Russian Tsar’s Intangible Remains	2
Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries	2
Hitler, for Example: Registers of National Socialist Exemplarity in Contemporary Germany	2
The Paradox of Black Incomes in Puerto Rico in the Early Decades of U.S. Colonialism	2
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa	2
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States	2
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy	2
The Architecture of Politics and the Politics of Architecture: A Comparative Approach to Parish Church Building and Civic Government in Late-Medieval Europe	1
The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov	1
CSS volume 63 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Law’s Logistical Media: The Installation of the File System in the Postwar Japanese Prosecutor’s Office	1
“Child of Koevoet”: Counterinsurgency, Crisis, and the Rise of Private Security in South Africa	1
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean	1
CSS volume 64 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
CSS volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South	1
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism	1
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran	1
Holy Infrastructures: Catholicism, Detroit Borderlands, and the Elements	1
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983	1
Runes and Rye: Administration in Denmark and the Emergence of the Younger Futhark, 500–800	1
The Political Force of Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Brexit as an Event	1
The Sufi and the Sickle: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan	1
Global Territorialization and Mining Frontiers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Capitalist Anxieties and the Circulation of Knowledge between British and Habsburgian Imperial Spaces, ca. 1820–1850	1
CSS volume 63 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa	1
Editorial Foreword–Corrigendum	1
Botánica Sephardica	1
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry	1
The Ottoman Model: Basra and the Making of Qajar Reform, 1881–1889	1
Editorial Foreword	1
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Mussolini between Hero Worship and Demystification: Exemplary Anecdotes,Petite Histoire, and the Problem of Humanization	1