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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Protecting Children’s Rights in Crises	22
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy	15
Unspoken Legacies of Fascism in Italy	14
When Health Is the Target	14
Medical Discrimination, Moral Panic, and the Politics of Sexuality in Cameroon	11
How Bangladeshi Students Toppled a Government	10
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role	10
African Nationalism and the United Nations	8
France’s Identity Crisis	8
Saving Nature and Ourselves	7
Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert	7
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment	6
Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War	6
Colombia Tries a Transformative Left Turn	6
Environmental Injustice in Iran’s Peripheral Regions	6
Huawei Is Quietly Dominating China’s Semiconductor Supply Chain	6
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	6
Art and Protest in Kazakhstan	5
How Syria’s Dynasty Collapsed	5
Namibia’s Intractable Land Question	5
The Democratic Challenges in Global Governance of AI	5
The Dark Arctic	5
Israel, Palestine, and the Road to October 7: Dead End or Deadly Detour?	5
Europe’s Energy Dilemma	5
Mexico’s Structures of Violence	5

The Legacies of the Stroessner Dictatorship in Paraguay	4
The Violent Remaking of Jeddah	4
Croatia’s Uneasy First Decade in the European Union	4
For a Fearless, Stirring, and Loving Climate Pessimism	4
Solar Power and the Struggle for Electrification in Africa	4
China’s Endless Frontier	4
What the Emergency Wrought	4
Maintaining the Illusion	3
Politicization Undermines the Military’s Nonpartisan Ethic	3
Guest Editor’s Note	3
Erratum	3
China’s Sin City	3
Surviving Under the Shadow of the Islamic State	3
China’s Ecological Engineering in the Anthropocene	3
How to Address the Roots of Gen Z Frustration	3
Pentecostalism and Power in Guatemala	3
The Trap of Wish Fulfillment	3
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies	3
The European Union’s Strategic Test in Ukraine	3
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	3
Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?	3
Chasing Extraterrestrial Intelligence	3
Will Nationalism, Illiberalism, and Climate Change Lead to Water Wars?	3
The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis	3
Europe’s Rearmament Dilemmas	2
Why Zimbabweans Choose to Migrate or Stay	2
Protesting for Europe in Georgia	2
Migrants in Waiting in Mexico	2
Walls and Cages	2
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	2
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	2
Portugal’s Legacies of Colonialism and Decolonization	2
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia	2
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship	2
Forgetting Atrocity in East Africa	2
Crisis and Institutional Collapse in Haiti	2
The Rebels Who Fought Mexican and US Oppression	2
May Nigeria Not Happen to You	2
Amazigh Indigeneity and the Remaking of Tamazgha	2
Egypt’s Adaptive Islamic Puritans	2
China’s Booming Fiction Industry	2
Reconstructing the Nuclear Peace	1
Can Gen Z Protests Transform Nepal’s Political Futures?	1
The Dominican National Pastime	1
Culture, Imperialism, and the Other Russias	1
Enzyme Power	1
Central European Thinkers Who Prophesied Our World	1
Africa in the World Arena	1
How Vegetarianism Went Global	1
Has Greece Gone from Basket Case to Poster Child?	1

How COVID-19 Has Redistributed Human Mobility	1
The Tragedy of Transition in Ethiopia and Sudan	1
Ireland Is Post-Catholic, But Religion Still Matters	1
Why Witchcraft Matters Now	1
Transitional Justice at 40	1
The Return of Inflation	1
Will AI Slay the Poverty Dragon?	1
Gen Z Aspiration, Hybrid Agency, and the Madagascar Uprising	1
Housing, Speculation, and Social Change in Albania	1
Half a Century of Post-Independence Strife in Angola and Mozambique	1
The Power and Politics of Popular Egyptian Music	1
Okinawa’s Unsettled Membership in Japan	1
The United States and a United West	1
The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics	1
How War Is Rebordering Ukraine	1
Misadventures of Soviet-Style Modernization	1
Green Extractivism’s New Frontiers	1
Machine Dreams of the Tech Barons	1
A Country in Abeyance	1
The Politics of Ethnography at a Tibetan Nunnery	1
The Climate Risk of Green Industrial Policy	1
Precarious Youth and Everyday Improvisation in Kinshasa	1
Brunei Faces Generational Change	1
Youth Mobilization and Democracy in Senegal	1
Re-engineering the Innovation Chain	1
Ferociously Cute	1
Visions and Mirages of Tourism in the Middle East	1
Women’s Struggles for Empowerment in Bangladesh	1
Tibetan Exiles in India Face Urgent Questions	1
Land Concessions and Postwar Conflict in Laos	1
The Elections that Unmade Turkey’s Democracy	1
The Rights of Nature Go from Theory to Reality	1
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana	1
China’s Zero-COVID Campaign and the Body Politic	1
The Ghostly Politics Haunting Yemen	1
A New Age of Empires?	1
The Politics of Indigenous Exclusion in Australia and New Zealand	1
How Family History Helps Ukrainians Face the War	1
Sustainability Spectacle in the Gulf	1