OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current History is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Protecting Children’s Rights in Crises	20
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy	18
Unspoken Legacies of Fascism in Italy	15
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role	13
How Bangladeshi Students Toppled a Government	12
African Nationalism and the United Nations	11
France’s Identity Crisis	11
Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War	8
Saving Nature and Ourselves	8
Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert	8
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	8
The Mobile Fortress	6
The Democratic Challenges in Global Governance of AI	6
Colombia Tries a Transformative Left Turn	6
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment	6
Art and Protest in Kazakhstan	5
Huawei Is Quietly Dominating China’s Semiconductor Supply Chain	5
Europe’s Energy Dilemma	5
Climate Disaster Risk, Disability, and Resilience	5
Israel, Palestine, and the Road to October 7: Dead End or Deadly Detour?	5
Croatia’s Uneasy First Decade in the European Union	4
The Legacies of the Stroessner Dictatorship in Paraguay	4
Namibia’s Intractable Land Question	4
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies	4
Pentecostalism and Power in Guatemala	4

The Dark Arctic	4
China’s Endless Frontier	4
The Violent Remaking of Jeddah	4
Chasing Extraterrestrial Intelligence	4
The Trap of Wish Fulfillment	4
China’s Sin City	4
Mexico’s Structures of Violence	4
The Elusive Dream of Democracy, Security, and Well-Being in Mozambique	4
Solar Power and the Struggle for Electrification in Africa	4
Erratum	4
The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis	4
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	3
Maintaining the Illusion	3
A Case for Extreme Climate Action	3
Digital Currencies—More than a Passing Fad?	3
Guest Editor’s Note	3
China’s Ecological Engineering in the Anthropocene	3
Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?	3
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	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
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia	2
Why Zimbabweans Choose to Migrate or Stay	2
As Oil Is Waning, the Times Are Changing	2
Walls and Cages	2
The Tragedy of Transition in Ethiopia and Sudan	2
Green Extractivism’s New Frontiers	2
Forgetting Atrocity in East Africa	2
Why Latin America Has Embraced Ecotourism	2
Migrants in Waiting in Mexico	2
May Nigeria Not Happen to You	2
Portugal’s Legacies of Colonialism and Decolonization	2
Violent Silence	2
The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics	2
The Ghostly Politics Haunting Yemen	2
Amazigh Indigeneity and the Remaking of Tamazgha	2
How War Is Rebordering Ukraine	2
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	2
Crisis and Institutional Collapse in Haiti	2
The Rebels Who Fought Mexican and US Oppression	2
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship	2
Ideas Matter	2
The Elections that Unmade Turkey’s Democracy	2
China’s Booming Fiction Industry	2
Chad after Idriss Déby	2
Protesting for Europe in Georgia	2