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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Protecting Children’s Rights in Crises	24
Unspoken Legacies of Fascism in Italy	15
When Health Is the Target	15
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy	15
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role	11
Medical Discrimination, Moral Panic, and the Politics of Sexuality in Cameroon	11
How Bangladeshi Students Toppled a Government	11
France’s Identity Crisis	10
African Nationalism and the United Nations	9
Saving Nature and Ourselves	9
Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War	8
Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert	7
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment	7
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	7
Environmental Injustice in Iran’s Peripheral Regions	7
“Principled and Pragmatic: Canada’s Path”	7
Europe’s Energy Dilemma	6
Colombia Tries a Transformative Left Turn	6
Israel, Palestine, and the Road to October 7: Dead End or Deadly Detour?	6
Huawei Is Quietly Dominating China’s Semiconductor Supply Chain	6
How Syria’s Dynasty Collapsed	6
The Dark Arctic	5
Namibia’s Intractable Land Question	5
What the Emergency Wrought	5
The Democratic Challenges in Global Governance of AI	5

Mexico’s Structures of Violence	5
For a Fearless, Stirring, and Loving Climate Pessimism	5
The Legacies of the Stroessner Dictatorship in Paraguay	5
Art and Protest in Kazakhstan	5
Croatia’s Uneasy First Decade in the European Union	5
Solar Power and the Struggle for Electrification in Africa	5
The Violent Remaking of Jeddah	4
Chasing Extraterrestrial Intelligence	4
Will Nationalism, Illiberalism, and Climate Change Lead to Water Wars?	4
Pentecostalism and Power in Guatemala	4
China’s Endless Frontier	4
Erratum	4
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies	4
China’s Sin City	4
The Trap of Wish Fulfillment	4
The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis	4
Books in Brief	3
Surviving Under the Shadow of the Islamic State	3
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	3
Why Zimbabweans Choose to Migrate or Stay	3
Guest Editor’s Note	3
China’s Ecological Engineering in the Anthropocene	3
How to Address the Roots of Gen Z Frustration	3
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	3
Portugal’s Legacies of Colonialism and Decolonization	3
Maintaining the Illusion	3
The European Union’s Strategic Test in Ukraine	3
Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?	3
The Rebels Who Fought Mexican and US Oppression	3
Europe’s Rearmament Dilemmas	3
Politicization Undermines the Military’s Nonpartisan Ethic	3
May Nigeria Not Happen to You	2
Protesting for Europe in Georgia	2
How Shall We Look at Each Other Then?	2
Forgetting Atrocity in East Africa	2
The Ghostly Politics Haunting Yemen	2
Has Greece Gone from Basket Case to Poster Child?	2
Reflections on the State of the World	2
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	2
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia	2
Crisis and Institutional Collapse in Haiti	2
Amazigh Indigeneity and the Remaking of Tamazgha	2
The Tragedy of Transition in Ethiopia and Sudan	2
Migrants in Waiting in Mexico	2
Egypt’s Adaptive Islamic Puritans	2
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship	2
Walls and Cages	2
The Elections that Unmade Turkey’s Democracy	2
China’s Booming Fiction Industry	2
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana	2