OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Protecting Children’s Rights in Crises	18
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy	13
When Health Is the Target	12
Unspoken Legacies of Fascism in Italy	12
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role	11
How Bangladeshi Students Toppled a Government	11
France’s Identity Crisis	9
Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert	8
African Nationalism and the United Nations	8
Saving Nature and Ourselves	8
Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War	7
The Democratic Challenges in Global Governance of AI	6
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	6
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment	6
Environmental Injustice in Iran’s Peripheral Regions	6
Europe’s Energy Dilemma	5
Colombia Tries a Transformative Left Turn	5
Huawei Is Quietly Dominating China’s Semiconductor Supply Chain	5
The Mobile Fortress	5
Art and Protest in Kazakhstan	5
Israel, Palestine, and the Road to October 7: Dead End or Deadly Detour?	5
How Syria’s Dynasty Collapsed	4
Mexico’s Structures of Violence	4
The Violent Remaking of Jeddah	4
China’s Sin City	4

The Elusive Dream of Democracy, Security, and Well-Being in Mozambique	4
Namibia’s Intractable Land Question	4
Croatia’s Uneasy First Decade in the European Union	4
The Legacies of the Stroessner Dictatorship in Paraguay	4
Chasing Extraterrestrial Intelligence	4
The Dark Arctic	4
China’s Endless Frontier	4
Solar Power and the Struggle for Electrification in Africa	4
Erratum	4
The Trap of Wish Fulfillment	3
Pentecostalism and Power in Guatemala	3
Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?	3
Digital Currencies—More than a Passing Fad?	3
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies	3
Surviving Under the Shadow of the Islamic State	3
The European Union’s Strategic Test in Ukraine	3
Transformations in Afghan Media and Culture Through Cycles of Upheaval	3
Guest Editor’s Note	3
The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis	3
China’s Ecological Engineering in the Anthropocene	3
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	3
Maintaining the Illusion	3
Egypt’s Adaptive Islamic Puritans	2
Crisis and Institutional Collapse in Haiti	2
Walls and Cages	2
The Rebels Who Fought Mexican and US Oppression	2
Why Zimbabweans Choose to Migrate or Stay	2
Migrants in Waiting in Mexico	2
Amazigh Indigeneity and the Remaking of Tamazgha	2
Why Latin America Has Embraced Ecotourism	2
Chad after Idriss Déby	2
Protesting for Europe in Georgia	2
Portugal’s Legacies of Colonialism and Decolonization	2
As Oil Is Waning, the Times Are Changing	2
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia	2
The Ghostly Politics Haunting Yemen	2
How War Is Rebordering Ukraine	2
The Elections that Unmade Turkey’s Democracy	2
May Nigeria Not Happen to You	2
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	2
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship	2
Forgetting Atrocity in East Africa	2
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	2
China’s Booming Fiction Industry	2
Misadventures of Soviet-Style Modernization	1
A New Age of Empires?	1
Transitional Justice at 40	1
The Dominican National Pastime	1
Okinawa’s Unsettled Membership in Japan	1
The Return of Inflation	1

A Country in Abeyance	1
Culture, Imperialism, and the Other Russias	1
Women’s Struggles for Empowerment in Bangladesh	1
Why Witchcraft Matters Now	1
Africa in the World Arena	1
The Tragedy of Transition in Ethiopia and Sudan	1
Enzyme Power	1
China’s Zero-COVID Campaign and the Body Politic	1
The Politics of Indigenous Exclusion in Australia and New Zealand	1
The Politics of Ethnography at a Tibetan Nunnery	1
Machine Dreams of the Tech Barons	1
States of Emergency—The Apartheid Paranoia in South Africa’s Lockdown	1
Ferociously Cute	1
The Evolving Terrorism Threat in Europe	1
COVID-19, Poverty, and Inequality in Bangladesh	1
The Climate Risk of Green Industrial Policy	1
Forging Nationalism Through Heritage in Oman	1
The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics	1
Land Concessions and Postwar Conflict in Laos	1
Tibetan Exiles in India Face Urgent Questions	1
An Eruption of History in Peru’s Bicentenary	1
How Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Are Fighting for Decision-Making Rights	1
Youth Mobilization and Democracy in Senegal	1
Ireland Is Post-Catholic, But Religion Still Matters	1
Sustainability Spectacle in the Gulf	1
How COVID-19 Has Redistributed Human Mobility	1
Will AI Slay the Poverty Dragon?	1
Precarious Youth and Everyday Improvisation in Kinshasa	1
Reconstructing the Nuclear Peace	1
Visions and Mirages of Tourism in the Middle East	1
Brunei Faces Generational Change	1
Re-engineering the Innovation Chain	1
How Vegetarianism Went Global	1
Central European Thinkers Who Prophesied Our World	1
Neglect and Resistance in Brazil’s Pandemic	1
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana	1
Green Extractivism’s New Frontiers	1
The Rights of Nature Go from Theory to Reality	1
The Power and Politics of Popular Egyptian Music	1
How Family History Helps Ukrainians Face the War	1