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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Withdrawal Due to Administrative Error: Inadvertent Publication	22
The Women of Operation Breadbasket: A Lost Chapter in the Chicago Civil Rights Movement	13
Re-Conceptualizing Kaepernick’s Kneeling Protests and His Banishment From the NFL as an Infringement on His “Right to Work”	12
Painting the Experience of Black Elementary School Teachers: A Portraiture Perspective Case Study	10
African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy: African Deep Thought in Africana Studies	8
Black Philosophical Condition From Pre-Colony to Post-Colony	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
The Suppression and Othering of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Tear Gas	6
A Sense of Place: African Americans, Ethnogenesis and the Search for a “Black Mecca”	6
“The Most Livable City in America”? Reparations Model Implementation, Progressive Mindsets, and Post-Racialism in Evanston, Illinois	5
“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
Africanisms in the Caribbean Region: African Descendants’ Resistance to Enslavement and Subjugation in Post-Emancipation	5
A Sociocultural Exploration of the Impact Body Image Has on Black College-Aged Women’s Mental Health	5
“You’ve Got to Be the Medicine to Heal the Community”: Capoeira and the Art of Healing Mind, Body, and Spirit	4
“Even in Poverty, We’re Still Dancing”: Helpful Coping Strategies in Response to Anti-Black Racism and Its Impact on Well-Being	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
“Darkening the Dark”: Assessing the Impact of Banditry on Educational and Socio-Economic Development in Northern Nigeria	4
Framing Cuba: U.S. Media and Cuba’s Black Lives Matter Protests	4
Toward a Decolonized Moral Education for Social Justice in Africa	3
Conceptualizing Gentrification-Induced Social and Cultural Displacement and Place Identity Among Longstanding Black Residents	3
African Renaissance as a Premise for Reimagined Disability Studies in Africa	3
American Defender of One Nigeria: James Meredith, the Nigerian Civil War and the Politics of American Intervention in the Global South	3
“Verbs are a Tragedy”: Poetics of Refusal From the Black Diaspora	3

Coloniality of Democracy and Algocracy in Africa:Vanhucracyas an Afrocentric Model for Politics	3
Locating Du Bois, a Product of His Time, Ahead of his Time: Du Bois’ Contributions to Development of an Afrocentric Discipline	3
Polychronous and Existential Mode of Time in Africa: A Critique of Mbiti’s Concept of Time	3
Calling on Hope: Examining the Protective Nature of Hope on Mental Health Risk Factors in Black Women	3
Purging the Lingering Shadow of Colonialism? Zimbabwe’s Third Chimurenga and the Struggle Over School Names	2
“Is it Okay Not to be Okay?”: A Critical Literature Review of Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Black Men	2
Chisi Chako Masimba Mashoma/Kunzi Pakata Sandi Kunzi Ridza: Anthropological Musings on the Coloniality of Dispossession in Africa	2
Africana Intellectual/Pedagogical Work: Teaching to Answer the Call to the African Renaissance in the African Diaspora Context	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
Black Faculty Happiness: A Qualitative Ode to Black Faculty Voices, Success, and Retention at Predominantly White Research Universities	2
Black Measurement: The Contributions of People Racialized as Black to the Field of Psychometrics	2
The Race-Gender-Equity-Leadership Matrix: Intersectionality and Its Application in Higher Education Literature	2
Power and Prestige in Black Diplomacy	2
Hussle and Motivate: An Afrocentric Understanding of Constitutive Rhetoric Toward Economic Empowerment in Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap Album	1
Fanonian Art Practices: Toward A Decolonial Grammar of Being	1
“We Out Here”: Black Women, Well-Being, and #blackgirlsrun on Instagram	1
Gendered Framing of Agribusiness Under USAID’s Feed the Future Initiative in Liberia: A Colonial Sequel?	1
Mangaliso Sobukwe’s Linkages to Pan-Africanist Struggles for a Decolonized and Afrocentric “African University”	1
Youth Invasion: The Dramatic Surge in Drug Abuse and Criminal Behaviors in Southwest Nigeria	1
Book Review: The History of Black Studies	1
Leading While Black Amid a Failed Racial Reckoning	1
Trailblazing: A Historical Overview of the Advocacy Work of Four Legendary Black Golf Professionals	1
Coloniality as Appropriation of Indigenous Ontologies: Insights From South Africa and Ethiopia	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
When We Know Better, We Do Better: Educators’ Storied Reflections on Black Teacher Attrition and Retention	1
Voter Suppression Laws and the Racial Turnout Gap in America	1
African-Centred Mediation in Zulu Marriages: Challenging Western Dominance in Family Law	1
We Are STEM: Examining the Significance and Influence of Counterspaces in the Development of Black Girls’ STEM Identity	1
Book Review: Resurrecting the Black Body: Race and the Digital Afterlife	1
Missing the Mark: The Cost of Overlooking Black Students’ Cultural Capital	1
Land and Identity in Afrikan Tradition: The Origins of the Ancestral Land Complex	1
Examining Adaptive Behaviors as Resistance Strategies for African American College Students in Adverse University Contexts	1
It’s Giving Black Power: A Case Study of One Black Student Union in California and the Historical Framework for Structural Change They Used	1
African American Redemption in the Pan-African Metropolis: Africanized Identities, Pan-African Lives and the African World Festival in Detroit	1
COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa, “Copy-and-Paste” Policies, and the Biomedical Hegemony of “Cure”	1
Indigenizing, and Developing Africa: The Role of Indigenous Cultural Norms and Values	1
Symbolic Annihilation: Analyzing Associated Press’s Erasure of Vanessa Nakate and Marginalization of Black Women Activists	1
Black Fathers Matter: Messages of Hope in Black Father-Themed Instagram Memes	1
Book Review: Being Black In The Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism In Higher Education Being Black In The Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism In Higher Education. DavisShar	1
Book Review: Greater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama MausD. C.DonahueJ. J. (2024). Greater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama. University Press of Mississippi. 314 pp. $110 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-149	1
Blackness, Koreanness, and Han: Unmasking Race in Korean Hip Hop	1
Book Review: Black cyclists: The race for inclusion TurpinRobert J. (2024). Black cyclists: The race for inclusion. University of Illinois Press. 248pp. ISBN: 978-0252087851.	1
Immersing Undergraduate Students in Diasporic Experiences: Black Studies, Study Away, and Afro-Puerto Rico	1
Book Review: Do you remember? Celebrating 50 years of Earth, Wind, & Fire BaileyT. (2023). Do you remember? Celebrating 50 years of earth, wind, & fire. The University Press of Mississippi, 26	1
The Roles of Riddles, Puzzles, and Narratives as Pedagogy in Video Games: A Case of African-Themed Video Games	1
FRAMING A BLACK PACIFIC ETHNOSPHERE: Beyoncé and Indigenous Māori Dance Evolution in Aotearoa/New Zealand	1