OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Black Studies 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Withdrawal Due to Administrative Error: Inadvertent Publication	16
Critical Co-Constructed Autoethnography: Reflections of a Collaborative Teaching Experience of Two Black Women in Higher Education	14
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
Black Philosophical Condition From Pre-Colony to Post-Colony	8
“It’s Not a System of Care”: Black Youth’s Stories of Family Separation and Anti-Black Racism in Ontario’s Child Welfare System	8
African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy: African Deep Thought in Africana Studies	8
The Suppression and Othering of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Tear Gas	7
A Sociocultural Exploration of the Impact Body Image Has on Black College-Aged Women’s Mental Health	6
A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”	6
Africanisms in the Caribbean Region: African Descendants’ Resistance to Enslavement and Subjugation in Post-Emancipation	5
Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism in Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage	4
Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa:Vanhucracyas an Afrocentric Model for Politics	4
Framing Cuba: U.S. Media and Cuba’s Black Lives Matter Protests	4
“I am an African”: A Philosophical Enquiry of Identity and Culture	4
“You’ve Got to Be the Medicine to Heal the Community”: Capoeira and the Art of Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit	4
Toward a Decolonized Moral Education for Social Justice in Africa	3
“Where I Can Breathe”: Examining the Impact of the Current Racial Climate on Black Students’ Choice to Attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities	3
African Renaissance as a Premise for Reimagined Disability Studies in Africa	3
Calling on Hope: Examining the Protective Nature of Hope on Mental Health Risk Factors in Black Women	3
Locating Du Bois, a Product of His Time, Ahead of his Time: Du Bois’ Contributions to Development of an Afrocentric Discipline	3
“Darkening the Dark”: Assessing the Impact of Banditry on Educational and Socio-Economic Development in Northern Nigeria	3
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents	2
Preventive Epidemiology of PrEP Use in African American Women With a Perceived HIV Risk	2
Race, Gender, and Perceived Employment Discrimination	2

American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South	2
Black Faculty Happiness: A Qualitative Ode to Black Faculty Voices, Success, and Retention at Predominantly White Research Universities	2
Power and Prestige in Black Diplomacy	2
The Race-Gender-Equity-Leadership Matrix: Intersectionality and Its Application in Higher Education Literature	2
“Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown”: A Critical Race Analysis of the CROWN Act	2
Soldier and Scholar: Abdias Nascimento and the Origins of Afro-Latin American Studies	2
Polychronous and Existential Mode of Time in Africa: A Critique of Mbiti’s Concept of Time	2
Decolonizing Cultural Probes in Ethnographic Research: Perspective of African Scholars	2
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa	2
“Verbs are a Tragedy”: Poetics of Refusal From the Black Diaspora	2
FRAMING A BLACK PACIFIC ETHNOSPHERE: Beyoncé and Indigenous Māori Dance Evolution in Aotearoa/New Zealand	1
“A Natural Right to the Soil”: Black Abolitionists and the Meaning of Freedom	1
The (Ir)Representability of the Belated Traumatic Wound in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun	1
RAGE!, Retaliation, and Retribution: Recurring Themes in August Wilson’s Work	1
The Roles of Riddles, Puzzles, and Narratives as Pedagogy in Video Games: A Case of African-Themed Video Games	1
African American Redemption in the Pan-African Metropolis: Africanized Identities, Pan-African Lives and the African World Festival in Detroit	1
Exploring Parental Identities: How Single Black Males Understand Fatherhood in the Absence of Their Fathers	1
Fanonian Art Practices: Toward A Decolonial Grammar of Being	1
Book Review: The History of Black Studies	1
Indigenizing, and Developing Africa: The Role of Indigenous Cultural Norms and Values	1
Coloniality as Appropriation of Indigenous Ontologies: Insights From South Africa and Ethiopia	1
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names	1
The Vicarious Intersectional Trauma (VIT) Conceptual Model: A Framework for Studying the Health-Related Impact of Exposure to Intersectional Violence on Social-Media	1
Africana Intellectual/Pedagogical Work: Teaching to Answer the Call to the African Renaissance in the African Diaspora Context	1
Trailblazing: A Historical Overview of the Advocacy Work of Four Legendary Black Golf Professionals	1
Phenotypic Proximity: Colorism and Intraracial Discrimination among Blacks in the United States and Brazil, 1928 to 1988	1
Symbolic Annihilation: Analyzing Associated Press’s Erasure of Vanessa Nakate and Marginalization of Black Women Activists	1
Book Review: Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife	1
Blackness, Koreanness, and Han: Unmasking Race in Korean Hip Hop	1
Land and Identity in Afrikan Tradition: The Origins of the Ancestral Land Complex	1
Hussle and Motivate: An Afrocentric Understanding of Constitutive Rhetoric Toward Economic Empowerment in Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap Album	1
COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, “Copy-and-Paste” Policies, and the Biomedical Hegemony of “Cure”	1
I’m Helping My Son Get Into College; He Is My First Priority	1
Black Measurement: The Contributions of People Racialized as Black to the Field of Psychometrics	1
Book Review: Ama Mazama: The Ogunic Presence in Africology	1
Immersing Undergraduate Students in Diasporic Experiences: Black Studies, Study Away, and Afro-Puerto Rico	1
“We Out Here”: Black Women, Well-Being, and #blackgirlsrun on Instagram	1
Youth Invasion: The Dramatic Surge in Drug Abuse and Criminal Behaviors in Southwest Nigeria	1
When We Know Better, We Do Better: Educators’ Storied Reflections on Black Teacher Attrition and Retention	1
Examining Adaptive Behaviors as Resistance Strategies for African American College Students in Adverse University Contexts	1
“Is it Okay Not to be Okay?”: A Critical Literature Review of Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Black Men	1