OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Pacific History is 0. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The 2019 Bougainville Referendum and the Question of Independence: From Conflict to Consensus	5
Sāmoan Custom, Individual Rights, and the Three 2020 Acts: Reorganizing the Land and Titles Court	3
The 2020 New Caledonia Referendum: The Slow March to Independence?	2
Storying Manus Women and Girls into Asylum Seeker and PNG Women’s Rights Discourses Surrounding the Manus Regional Processing Centre, 2012–19	2
Antares as the Older Brother of Wakea in Pre-Contact Hawaiian Cultural Astronomy	2
‘The Natives Freely Spoke of the Custom’: Sex-Selective Infanticide and Māori Depopulation, 1815–58	2
From Hindustani to (Fiji) Hindi and Back to Fiji Baat? Metalinguistic Reconstructions of the National Variety of Hindi in Fiji	2
In the Grip of Calamity: Tahiti and the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic	2
On Two Different Personalities from Old Rapa Nui: Personal Effects of ‘ariki mau Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and ‘Prophetess’ María Angata Veri Tahi (ca. 1853–1914) – Part I: The Pistol of Nga‘ara	2
Of Ruptures and Recuperations: Fiji’s Fifty Years of Independence	1
Tomorrow’s Woman?	1
Paradox and Pity: What We Can Learn From Fiji’s Urban Squatter Settlements	1
Currents and Oceanic Geographies of Japan’s Unending Frontier	1
Are Sāmoa’s Political Institutions Democratic? A Critical Examination of the Fa‘amatai and the 2021 General Election	1
MANUSCRIPT XXXV: Why Miklouho-Maclay Chose New Guinea	1
‘Between Two Worlds’: The Origins, Operation, and Future of the 2013 Fiji Constitution	1
MANUSCRIPT XLII: The Cry of Mata‘afa	1
The Persistence of Sung History-Making in Oceania	1
Interrogating Shipping Data to Illustrate Patterns of External Connectivity and the Rise of European Influence in the Tongan Archipelago (1770–1885)	1
The Anatomy of Frank Bainimarama’s Defeat at the Fiji December 2022 Election	1
Reframing Suffrage Narratives: Pacific Women, Political Voice, and Collective Empowerment	1
Fluid Frontiers: Oceania and Asia in Historical Perspective	1
‘This Mountain Is It’: How Hawai‘i’s Mauna Kea was ‘Discovered’ for Astronomy (1959–79)	1
US-Pacific Engagement and the Biden Presidency: The Limits of a China-Centred Approach	1
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison	1

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania; Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai‘i	1
Naming ‘Polynesia’: Cartography, Geography, and Toponymy of the ‘Fifth Part of the World’	1
Media review essay	0
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear and Science at Sea	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIII: Petition to the United Nations Trusteeship Council from the Marshallese People, 20 April 1954	0
Eight Months in the Cook Islands	0
‘Pity the Fishing People’: Taiwan’s Legal and Illegal Fishing in the 20th-century Pacific	0
Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa	0
‘If It Wasn’t For Us … ’: Peripheral Narratives of the Pacific War	0
The Philippines (and Chile) in Martínez de Zúñiga's 19th-Century Ideas about pre-Columbian trans-Pacific Contact	0
From Copra Sequestration to Outboard Engine Trawling: Changes in the Carbon Footprint of Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands	0
Maisin Recollections of the Kokoda Campaign, 1942-3	0
Select List of Histories and Biographies of Pacific Islander Missionaries	0
The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik	0
E Vaine Toa, E Rangatira: Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe (D.Litt), 1930–2022	0
Levelling Wind: Remembering Fiji	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXVII: Personal Narratives and Letters of Cook Islands ‘Orometua Trained at Takamoa College	0
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment . By Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani	0
Corrections: An Update to ‘The Making of Tupaia’s Map’	0
Island Encounters: Timor-Leste from the Outside In	0
Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Eastern Pacific	0
Remembering Deryck Anthony Scarr (7 September 1939–29 March 2024)	0
Leading from the Frontline: A History of Pacific Climate Diplomacy	0
Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXVI: A Lasting Memorial to the Pacific Islander Missionaries: A Brief History of the Islander Missionaries Memorial Chapel, PTC	0
Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam	0
South Seas Encounters: Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America	0
The Indigenous Rights Challenge to Common and Equal Citizenship in the ‘New’ Fiji	0
Nungon, Patrol Officers, and Missionaries: Differing Narratives about Two Key Events in the History of Nungon People of New Guinea	0
Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain	0
Etched in Bone	0
The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers	0
‘Why Do Not the Britaniata Come to Us?’ Locating Papuan Settlement Discourses Within 19th-Century Annexation Sketch Maps	0
Isaac Qölöni: Personal Reflections on an Important Actor in Post-Colonial Solomon Islands	0
Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXVIII: Rau's Report on the Work of the Cook Islands ‘Orometua in Papua, 18 June 1872–14 June 1877	0
Guardians of the Constitution: Upholding Judicial Independence During Samoa’s Constitutional Crisis	0
Brij V. Lal (1952–2021)	0
Making Local Sense of a Global Disease: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Guam	0
A Distant Thud in the Jungle (140 km à l’ouest du paradis)	0
Art/Story of the Niuklia Fri Pasifik: On Doing Creative Pacific Histories	0
Where Lies the State? Sāmoa's 2021 Election and the Defeat of the Human Rights Protection Party	0
The ‘Third Expedition to South New Guinea’: A Review Essay	0
The Curious Case of Assassination of the Minister for Works in 1999	0
Polynesian Agency and the Establishment of the French Centre for Pacific Tests	0
The Constitution That Never Was: Revisiting Fiji’s 2012 Draft	0
A Fish Named Tahiti: Myths and Power in Ancient Polynesia (Tahiti, Ra‘iātea, Hawai‘i, Aotearoa New Zealand)	0
Chasing the Bounty: The Voyages of the Pandora and Matavy	0
The ‘Segregation Village’ at Reao (Tuamotus): A Leprosarium on the Fringes of the Établissements français de l’Océanie	0
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty . By Paul Kreitman. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023. xvi	0

Gordon S. Parsonson (1919–2023)	0
About Ancestors	0
Une Histoire de Tahiti: des origines à nos jours	0
‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa	0
Media Review by Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman of Te Wai Ngunguru: Nomads of the Sea by Lisa Reihana	0
Queen Kaʻahumanu of Hawaiʻi: A Biography	0
The Cook Voyages Encounters: The Cook Voyages Collections of Te Papa	0
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World	0
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World	0
Te Papa to Berlin: The Making of Two Museums	0
Troubles and Puzzles: The 2022 General Elections in Papua New Guinea	0
A Political History of the Subject: Brij V. Lal on Leadership	0
Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua . By Camellia Webb-Gannon. Honolulu,	0
Sereke Pua (‘Pottery-Making’): History of a Dying Tradition on Lauru (Choiseul), Solomon Islands	0
Margaret Mead	0
Gender and Political Leadership in Samoa: Fiame Naomi Mata‘afa and the 2021 Election	0
Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii	0
Seeking Peace in the Pacific: The Story of Conflict and Christianity in the Central Solomon Islands	0
MANUSCRIPT XL: Koe taimi kovi ‘i Toga – A Bad Time in Tonga: The Journal of J. Fekau ‘Ofahemo‘oni, 18 January to 27 March 1887	0
A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania	0
The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan	0
Understanding the Church and Training from Which the Cook Islander Missionaries Brought the Christian Message to Papua New Guinea in the 1870s	0
Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa and the World Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa and the World . Edited by Nina Hall. Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 2020. 248 pp., notes.	0
Seeking a Lost Collection at Museums Victoria: George Thomas Rice’s ‘Museum of Island Curios’	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXIX: Mamae of Mangaia: Nineteenth Century Pastor and Tribal Historian	0
Wharenui Harikoa	0
The Self-Liberated Slave Periquillo Saves the Missionary Juan Pobre: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Origins of the Black Pacific	0
‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5	0
Military Labourers and Sexual Violence in the New Guinea Campaign of the Pacific War, 1942–5	0
Micronesia and the Rise of China: Realpolitik Meets the Reef	0
Geschichtlos No More: The Trans-imperiality of German Colonial Expertise Südsee-Schriften: Lebenserinnerungen und Tagebücher . By Franz Hernsheim. Edited by Jakob Anderh	0
The Story of Fai‘ota: Resolving an Ancient Conflict in Malaita, Solomon Islands	0
Promoting the Nation: Conflicting Theories of Tourism during Decolonization in Papua New Guinea, 1960–70s	0
Media review by Nicholas Hoare of Makatea: La terre convoitée by Claire Perdrix	0
Another Couple of Books About Bounty (and Pitcairn Island)?	0
The Upper Sepik–Central New Guinea Project	0
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film	0
MANUSCRIPT XLVI: New Light on the Establishment of the Wesleyan Mission in Lakeba, Fiji	0
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism	0
If Everyone Returned, the Island Would Sink: Urbanisation and Migration in Vanuatu	0
MANUSCRIPT XLI: Papeiha, E tuatua no te taeanga mai o te tuatua na te atua ki Rarotonga nei (An Account of the Coming of the Word of God to Rarotonga), c. 1830	0
Constituencies in a Hybrid State: An Examination of the Shift from ‘Territorial’ to ‘Electoral’ Constituencies in Sāmoa	0
Walter Niel Gunson (1930–2023)	0
Australian Border-Related Deaths, 1 January 2000 to 7 January 2021	0
On Two Different Personalities from Old Rapa Nui: Personal Effects of ‘ ariki mau Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and ‘Prophetess’ María Angata Veri Tahi (ca. 1853–1914) – Part I	0
An Ideal Colony and Epitome of Progress: Colonial Fiji in Picture Postcards	0
Remembrance of Pacific Pasts	0
The Plot against Mt Hurun: How Cold War Targeting of Nuclear Missiles Sparked the Peli Movement, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea	0
Inaugural Brij Lal Memorial Lecture: Belonging, and Banishment from and in the Sea of Islands	0
Remembering the Medical Tultul of Papua New Guinea	0
Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu \| Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923	0
Das Prachtboot: Wie Deutsche die Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten	0
John Anthony Moses (10 June 1930–30 May 2024)	0
Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji . Edited by Nicholas Halter. Canberra, ANU Press, 2022. xlii + 477 pp., ill	0
Protestant Martyrs of Melanesia	0
Living Among the Northland Māori: Diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844–1846	0
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Transition to Self-government, 1970–1972; Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Push t	0
Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania	0
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times	0
Looking for Lost Proficiency in East Polynesian Voyaging Traditions and Ethnology	0
In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea . By Meli	0
Tanna Times: Islanders in the World	0
Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea	0
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji	0
‘We will not Relax our Efforts’: The Anti-Nuclear Stance of Civil Society and Government in Post-Independence Fiji	0
Introduction: Resistance and Survival – The Nuclear Era in the Pacific	0
Voyages: Stories of an Ocean People Voyages: Stories of an Ocean People , a permanent exhibition at the Fiji Museum, Thurston Gardens, Suva, Fiji. Open daily.	0
Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer	0
Australia & the Pacific: A History	0
Photography in New Caledonia: Constructed and Casual Views of Colonial Life	0
Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul	0
The Constitutionalization of Sāmoan Politics: A Comparison of the 1975, 1982 and 2021 Political Crises	0
Framing the Islands: Power and Diplomatic Agency in Pacific Regionalism.	0
APT10; The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art	0
Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939	0
Introduction: The Cook Islands Christian Church Special Issue	0
The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands . By Pierre Maranda, James Tuita Dede and Ben Bur	0
Je vous écris des Samoa. Un demi-siècle de correspondance inédite 1858–1909 venue de la lointaine Océanie	0
A Concise History of History: Global Historiography from Antiquity to the Present	0
Imperial Resurgence: How French Polynesia Was Chosen as the Site for the French Centre for Pacific Tests (CEP)	0

Collecting in the South Sea: The Voyage of Bruni d'Entrecasteaux 1791–1794	0
John Dunmore (1923–2023)	0
The Beharell Patrol of 1938: The First Government Patrol Across the Land of Kubo People (Nomad District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea)	0
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Archives of the Cook Islands Christian Church: Extract from the Main Assembly Catalogue, Takamoa Mission House	0
Making Law in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System Making Law in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System .	0
The Ambiguous History of Matthew and Hunter Islands: Tracing the Roots of Vanuatu and French Claims	0
La littérature irradiée - Les essais nucléaires en Polynésie Française au prisme de l'écriture	0
Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other	0
Outermost Oceania? Taiwan and the Modalities of Pacific History	0
Like Fire: The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia	0
Avoiding Japanese Intervention in New Caledonia: June and July 1940	0
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa	0
Five Centuries of Settlement Dynamics and Mobility in the Northern Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua	0
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants	0
Introduction: What Can We Learn from the 2021 Political Crisis About Long-run Stability and Democracy in Sāmoa?	0
Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki	0
Decolonizing Regional Politics in Oceania: Re-examining the Historical Record	0
Customary Paths Toward Denuclearization and Decolonization: Mā‘ohi and Kanak Activists Passing Through lo Larzac	0
Editors’ Introduction: Brij V. Lal and the Contemporary Politics of Fiji	0
Atomic Bomb Island: Tinian, the Last Stage of the Manhattan Project, and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II	0
Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity	0
Fiji’s Foreign Relations, 2006–23	0
The Gallows of Girmit (1886–1919)	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIV: Inaugural Lecture: History, Lies and Mythology – the Historian and the Community	0
Roars from the Mountain: Colonial Management of the 1951 Volcanic Disaster at Mount Lamington	0
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange	0
Autonomy, Mobility, and Identity: The Re Tamuning of Guam, 1869–1901	0
Robert Philp and the Politics of Development Robert Philp and the Politics of Development . By Lyndon Megarrity. North Melbourne, Victoria, Australian Scholarly Publishi	0
What Lies Behind the Increasing Chinese Tourism Presence in the Northern Mariana Islands?	0
Tonga and the British Empire in the Great War: Loyalty and Neutrality	0
The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands	0