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

Article	Citations
Recovering Hindustan and India	51
AMLO’s Mexican Time (Business Is Good!)	15
Space, Technology, and Visions of National Progress in India	11
The Pandemic Worsens Europe’s Housing Problems	9
Precarious Youth and Everyday Improvisation in Kinshasa	9
Bolivia’s Double Pandemic	8
The Politics of Parasite in South Korea	8
Protecting Children’s Rights in Crises	8
Transformations in Afghan Media and Culture Through Cycles of Upheaval	7
European Social Policy Embraces Solidarity in a Crisis	7
Gender and Sexual Politics in China’s Online Dating Scene	6
Whose Absolutism?	6
A Case for Extreme Climate Action	5
Party-State Capitalism in China	5
Pakistan’s Fragmented Megacity	5
Lithuania at the Frontier of the War in Ukraine	5
Will AI Slay the Poverty Dragon?	4
States of Emergency—The Apartheid Paranoia in South Africa’s Lockdown	4
Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?	4
The Nordic Countries Face a Colonial Reckoning	4
The European Union’s Strategic Test in Ukraine	4
Gangs, Deportees, and Haiti’s Troubles	4
REN PILL Politics in Poland	4
The Dominican National Pastime	4
The Vulnerability and Resilience of the Global Container Shipping Industry	3

Reconstructing the Nuclear Peace	3
Indonesia’s Economic Futures	3
Disability Rights in the Middle East	3
Unspoken Legacies of Fascism in Italy	3
India’s New Water Works	3
Khaki Capital and Coups in Thailand and Myanmar	3
The Power and Politics of Popular Egyptian Music	3
A Victory for Democracy in Brazil?	3
Central Asia Moves Beyond Russia	3
The Anatomy of Ethiopia’s Civil War	2
Philippine Traces of US Imperial Violence	2
Moldova’s Thirty-Year Search for Independence	2
Pilgrimage in a Globalizing World	2
Desinicizing Taiwan	2
Ferociously Cute	2
External Relations and Local Agency in the Horn of Africa	2
Religion and Climate Geopolitics	2
Global Music Politics	2
Transitional Justice at 40	2
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	2
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	2
COVID-19 in Ebola’s Wake	2
Can Affirmative Action Survive on the World’s Campuses?	2
Did the EU’s Crisis Response Meet the Moment?	2
Digital Currencies—More than a Passing Fad?	2
Niger’s Long Cycle of Poverty and Coups	1
Ideas Matter	1
The Ukrainian State under Russian Aggression	1
Misadventures of Soviet-Style Modernization	1
Living with Inflation in Argentina	1
Taking the Law into Their Own Hands?	1
France’s Identity Crisis	1
Crisis and Institutional Collapse in Haiti	1
Artificial Canon	1
Migrants in Waiting in Mexico	1
The Urban Geographies of Philippine Transnationalism	1
Saving Nature and Ourselves	1
The Exclusion of Roma and European Citizenship	1
The Pandemic and the Long Shadow of Austerity in Southern Europe	1
Why Have Progressive Schools?	1
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy	1
Spatial Injustice in Johannesburg in the Time of COVID-19	1
Disabled People’s Fight for Rights in South Korea and Japan	1
Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies	1
American Exceptionalism Redux	1
COVID-19 and Colonial Legacies in West Africa	1
Why Zimbabweans Choose to Migrate or Stay	1
China’s Booming Fiction Industry	1
The EU’s Stealthy Hegemony and Ambiguous Neighbors	1
China’s Zero-COVID Campaign and the Body Politic	1

Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert	1
How the Pandemic Made Sensory Power Visible	1
The Russian War Machine Fails the Tests of War	1
How COVID-19 Has Redistributed Human Mobility	1
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	1
The Rights of Nature Go from Theory to Reality	1
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	1
A Populist President Tests El Salvador’s Democracy	1
Who Is an African Jew?	1
As Oil Is Waning, the Times Are Changing	1
Brexit’s Hidden Costs for Britons Living in the EU	1
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role	1
Fighting for Africa	1
Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War	1
Chad after Idriss Déby	1
The Erosion of Health Data Privacy	1
How a New Sufi Movement Globalized	1
How Family History Helps Ukrainians Face the War	1
The Rebels Who Fought Mexican and US Oppression	1
Violent Silence	1
Bhutan’s Democratic Growing Pains	1
A New Age of Empires?	1
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship	1
Nicaraguan Exiles and the Urbanization of Refuge in Costa Rica	1