OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Black Studies 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
Withdrawal Due to Administrative Error: Inadvertent Publication	21
The Women of Operation Breadbasket: A Lost Chapter in the Chicago Civil Rights Movement	12
Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography: Reflections of a Collaborative Teaching Experience of Two Black Women in Higher Education	12
Painting the Experience of Black Elementary School Teachers: A Portraiture Perspective Case Study	10
Re-Conceptualizing Kaepernick’s Kneeling Protests and His Banishment From the NFL as an Infringement on His “Right to Work”	10
African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy: African Deep Thought in Africana Studies	8
Recognition and Recognizability in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined	8
Stops: How Race, Space, and Policing Shape Who is Human and Who is Not	8
The Impact of Colorism on Criminal Justice System Outcomes: A Scoping Study	8
Black Philosophical Condition From Pre-Colony to Post-Colony	7
“It’s Not a System of Care”: Black Youth’s Stories of Family Separation and Anti-Black Racism in Ontario’s Child Welfare System	5
A Sociocultural Exploration of the Impact Body Image Has on Black College-Aged Women’s Mental Health	5
The Suppression and Othering of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Tear Gas	5
A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”	5
“The Most Livable City in America”? Reparations Model Implementation, Progressive Mindsets, and Post-Racialism in Evanston, Illinois	5
Africanisms in the Caribbean Region: African Descendants’ Resistance to Enslavement and Subjugation in Post-Emancipation	5
Framing Cuba: U.S. Media and Cuba’s Black Lives Matter Protests	4
“You’ve Got to Be the Medicine to Heal the Community”: Capoeira and the Art of Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit	4
Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage	4
Toward a Decolonized Moral Education for Social Justice in Africa	3
Locating Du Bois, a Product of His Time, Ahead of his Time: Du Bois’ Contributions to Development of an Afrocentric Discipline	3
“Verbs are a Tragedy”: Poetics of Refusal From the Black Diaspora	3
Calling on Hope: Examining the Protective Nature of Hope on Mental Health Risk Factors in Black Women	3
African Renaissance as a Premise for Reimagined Disability Studies in Africa	3
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents	3

“Darkening the Dark”: Assessing the Impact of Banditry on Educational and Socio-Economic Development in Northern Nigeria	3
Polychronous and Existential Mode of Time in Africa: A Critique of Mbiti’s Concept of Time	3
Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa:Vanhucracyas an Afrocentric Model for Politics	3
The Race-Gender-Equity-Leadership Matrix: Intersectionality and Its Application in Higher Education Literature	2
Black Faculty Happiness: A Qualitative Ode to Black Faculty Voices, Success, and Retention at Predominantly White Research Universities	2
I’m Helping My Son Get Into College; He Is My First Priority	2
FRAMING A BLACK PACIFIC ETHNOSPHERE: Beyoncé and Indigenous Māori Dance Evolution in Aotearoa/New Zealand	2
American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South	2
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa	2
Black Measurement: The Contributions of People Racialized as Black to the Field of Psychometrics	2
Africana Intellectual/Pedagogical Work: Teaching to Answer the Call to the African Renaissance in the African Diaspora Context	2
Power and Prestige in Black Diplomacy	2
“Is it Okay Not to be Okay?”: A Critical Literature Review of Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Black Men	2
“A Natural Right to the Soil”: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Freedom	2
Preventive Epidemiology of PrEP Use in African American Women With a Perceived HIV Risk	2