OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Economic History Review 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
An introduction to the history of infectious diseases, epidemics and the early phases of the long‐run decline in mortality†	31
Two worlds of female labour: gender wage inequality in western Europe, 1300–1800^†	23
Beyond the male breadwinner: Life‐cycle living standards of intact and disrupted English working families, 1260–1850	20
Flight‐to‐safety and the credit crunch: a new history of the banking crises in France during the Great Depression†	19
The Irish economy during the century after partition	16
Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution^†	16
Italy and the little divergence in wages and prices: evidence from stable employment in rural areas^†	15
Rethinking age heaping again for understanding its possibilities and limitations	15
Rethinking age heaping: a cautionary tale from nineteenth‐century Italy†	14
Augmented human development in the age of globalization^†	12
The German bank–growth nexus revisited: savings banks and economic growth in Prussia^†	11
The origination and distribution of money market instruments: sterling bills of exchange during the first globalization†	11
The growth pattern of British children, 1850–1975^†	11
Revising growth history: new estimates of GDP for Norway, 1816–2019†	10
‘Your flexible friend’: the bill of exchange in theory and practice in the fifteenth century^†	9
The Polish interbella puzzle: the biological standard of living in the Second Polish Republic, 1918–39 ^†	9
Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922^†	9
Perceptions of plague in eighteenth‐century Europe†	8
Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: The Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–1844	8
War and trade in the peaceful century: the impact of interstate wars on bilateral trade flows during the first wave of globalization, 1830–1913^†	8
Skills and human capital in eighteenth‐century Spain: wages and working lives in the construction of the Royal Palace of Madrid (1737–1805)^†	8
After the great inventions: technological change in UK cotton spinning, 1780–1835	7
Growth before birth: the relationship between placental weights and infant and maternal health in early twentieth‐century Barcelona^†	7
Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–1967	7
The hidden wealth of English dynasties, 1892–2016	7

Losing the thread: a response to Robert Allen^†	7
Regional inequalities and the West–East divide in Turkey since 1913	7
Origins of regional divergence: economic growth in socialist Yugoslavia^†	7
Evolving gaps: Occupational structure in southern and northern Italy, 1400–1861	7
Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico^†	7
Persistence of natural disasters on children's health: Evidence from the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923	6
Speedier delivery: coastal shipping times and speeds during the Age of Sail †	6
Financing the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666	6
The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 1934	6
Female teachers and the rise of primary education in Italy and Spain, 1861–1921: evidence from a new dataset†	6
The politics of last resort lending and the Overend & Gurney crisis of 1866	5
Between unfreedoms: The role of caste in decisions to repatriate among indentured workers	5
Indian cotton textiles and British industrialization: Evidence of comparative learning in the British cotton industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries	5
The pox in Boswell's London: an estimate of the extent of syphilis infection in the metropolis in the 1770s^†	5
Taxation and the stagnation of cotton exports in Brazil, 1800–60^†	5
Poverty, pollution, and mortality: The 1918 influenza pandemic in a developing German economy	5
From boom to gloom: Brazilian labour productivity in manufacturing relative to the United States, 1912–2019	5
Age heaping and its discontents: A response to Baten, Benati, and Ferber	5
Disentangling the effects of technological and organizational changes during the rise of the factory: the case of the Japanese weaving industry, 1905−14^†	4
How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?†	4
Cotton cultivation under colonial rule in India in the nineteenth century from a comparative perspective	4
Household consumption patterns and the consumer price index, England, 1260–1869	4
House prices in the Ottoman Empire: evidence from eighteenth‐century Edirne†	4
Baumol, Engel, and beyond: accounting for a century of structural transformation in Japan, 1885–1985^†	4
Elite directors, London finance, and British overseas expansion: Victorian railway networks, 1860–1900^†	4
Becoming a central bank: The development of the Bank of England's private sector lending policies during the Restriction	4
Industrialisation in a small grain economy during the First Globalisation: Bulgaria c. 1870–1910	4
Water theft as social insurance: south‐eastern Spain, 1851–1948^†	4
Land distribution and inequality in a black settler colony: the case of Sierra Leone, 1792–1831^†	4
Paesani versus paisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration^†	4
Serbia on the path to modern economic growth	4
History as heresy: Unlearning the lessons of economic orthodoxy	4
Unequal access to food during the nutritional transition: evidence from Mediterranean Spain^†	4
Ending Bretton Woods: evidence from the Nixon tapes^†	4
Colonizer identity and trade in Africa: Were the British more favourable to free trade?	4
Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonial markets, and commercial capitalism†	4
The rise of coffee in the Brazilian south‐east: tariffs and foreign market potential, 1827–40^†	3
British exports and foreign tariffs: Insights from the Board of Trade's foreign tariff compilation for 1902	3
Short‐ and medium‐run health and literacy impacts of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic in Brazil	3
Inflation and globalisation: The Tawney Lecture 2022	3
Scarlet fever and nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Romola Davenport	3
Height and the disease environment of children: The association between mortality and height in the Netherlands 1850–1940	3
Overcoming the Egyptian cotton crisis in the interwar period: the role of irrigation, drainage, new seeds, and access to credit†	3
Income inequality and famine mortality: Evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s	3
Business representation in an autocratic regime: Tariff policy and exchange committees in late Tsarist Russia	3
English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries	3
The evolution of wages in early modern Normandy (1600–1850)	3
Land, ladies, and the law: a case study on women's land rights and welfare in Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century†	3
Early inventory management practices in the foreign exchange market: Insights from sixteenth‐century Lyon	3
Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial Europe: What role did associational organizations have?	3

Missing girls in Liberal Italy, 1861–1921	3
Workplace accidents and workers’ solidarity: mutual health insurance in early twentieth‐century Sweden^†	2
Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial England: A long‐term view (late thirteenth to sixteenth centuries)	2
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions	2
Soils, scale, or elites? Biological innovation in Uruguayan cattle farming, 1880–1913	2
A new estimate of Chinese male occupational structure during 1734–1898 by sector, sub‐sector pattern, and region	2
Human capital transfer of German‐speaking migrants in eastern Europe, 1780s–1820s	2
The legacy of voluntarism: Charitable funding in the early NHS	2
Reputational recovery under political instability: Public debt in Portugal, 1641–83	2
Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940)	2
Mercantilist inequality: wealth and poverty in Stockholm, 1650–1750^†	2
The anatomy of a bubble company: The London Assurance in 1720	2
Credit risk in colonial India	2
The anatomy of Britain's interwar super‐rich: reconstructing the 1928/9 ‘millionaire’ population†	2
Cyberpunk Victoria: The credibility of computers and the first digital revolution, 1848–83	2
Fringe banking and financialization: Pawnbroking in pre‐famine and famine Ireland	2
Nineteenth‐century mortality trends: a reply to Szreter and Mooney^†	2
Factor prices and induced technical change in the industrial revolution	2
Imperial preference before the Ottawa Agreements: Evidence from New Zealand's Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act of 1903	2
Large‐scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census	2
An annual index of Irish industrial production, 1800–1913	2
Seeing credit and property rights from below: The experience of Catalan smallholders in the eighteenth century	2
Wiring China: The impact of telegraph construction on grain market integration in late imperial China, 1870–1911	2
The private mint in economics: evidence from the American gold rushes†	2