OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Das Prachtboot: Wie Deutsche die Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten	10
Geschichtlos No More: The Trans-imperiality of German Colonial Expertise	6
A New and Unfamiliar Sea: Politics, Geopolitics and the 2024 General Elections in Solomon Islands	5
MANUSCRIPT XLVI: New Light on the Establishment of the Wesleyan Mission in Lakeba, Fiji	5
Corrections: An Update to ‘The Making of Tupaia’s Map’	3
Mandates and Missteps: Australian Government Scholarships to the Pacific – 1948 to 2018	3
Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa	3
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji	2
A Fish Named Tahiti: Myths and Power in Ancient Polynesia (Tahiti, Ra‘iātea, Hawai‘i, Aotearoa New Zealand)	2
The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik	2
‘If It Wasn’t For Us … ’: Peripheral Narratives of the Pacific War	2
Sereke Pua (‘Pottery-Making’): History of a Dying Tradition on Lauru (Choiseul), Solomon Islands	2
The Pacific World in the Round	2
The Ambiguous History of Matthew and Hunter Islands: Tracing the Roots of Vanuatu and French Claims	2
Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand	2
The Constitution That Never Was: Revisiting Fiji’s 2012 Draft	1
The Persistence of Sung History-Making in Oceania	1
Across the Kalapani: Uttar Pradesh to Fiji	1
MANUSCRIPT XXXVIII: Rau's Report on the Work of the Cook Islands ‘Orometua in Papua, 18 June 1872–14 June 1877	1
Tanna Times: Islanders in the World	1
Editors’ Introduction: Brij V. Lal and the Contemporary Politics of Fiji	1
Fiji’s Foreign Relations, 2006–23	1
Walter Niel Gunson (1930–2023)	0
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Archives of the Cook Islands Christian Church: Extract from the Main Assembly Catalogue, Takamoa Mission House	0
Manuscript XLVII: Sea Diary of Captain Martin Huggett, Melanesian Mission, 1899	0

‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5	0
Media review by Nicholas Hoare of Makatea: La terre convoitée by Claire Perdrix	0
The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands	0
A Political History of the Subject: Brij V. Lal on Leadership	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
Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea	0
The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan	0
Le Vanuatu dans tous ses états. Histoire et anthropologie	0
Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer	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
Storying Manus Women and Girls into Asylum Seeker and PNG Women’s Rights Discourses Surrounding the Manus Regional Processing Centre, 2012–19	0
Introduction: What Can We Learn from the 2021 Political Crisis About Long-run Stability and Democracy in Sāmoa?	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
Remembrance of Pacific Pasts	0
Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other	0
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World	0
The Plot against Mt Hurun: How Cold War Targeting of Nuclear Missiles Sparked the Peli Movement, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea	0
Wharenui Harikoa	0
What Lies Behind the Increasing Chinese Tourism Presence in the Northern Mariana Islands?	0
The Beharell Patrol of 1938: The First Government Patrol Across the Land of Kubo People (Nomad District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea)	0
Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai’i and the Making of US Empire	0
Brij V. Lal (1952–2021)	0
Scottish Reformers and ʻIli ʻĀina Dissolution in Mid-19th Century Hawaiʻi	0
Military Labourers and Sexual Violence in the New Guinea Campaign of the Pacific War, 1942–5	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
‘They Will Terminate at District Headquarters’: Towards a History of Patrol Reports and Their Circulation in Papua New Guinea c. 1958–73	0
E Vaine Toa, E Rangatira: Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe (D.Litt), 1930–2022	0
The Indigenous Rights Challenge to Common and Equal Citizenship in the ‘New’ Fiji	0
Polynesian Agency and the Establishment of the French Centre for Pacific Tests	0
Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam	0
Inaugural Brij Lal Memorial Lecture: Belonging, and Banishment from and in the Sea of Islands	0
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa – Our Living Nexus across 50,000 Years of History and Beyond	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
‘Tonga Is My Homeland, But Fiji Is My Home’: Journeys and Experiences of Tongan Women in Fiji (1959–79)	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
Solomon Islands Song as History: Kastom, Preservation, and Transformation	0
MANUSCRIPT XLV: J.H.F. (Frits) Sollewijn Gelpke, The Spanish Exploration and Annexation of North New Guinea in the 16th Century, Part 1	0
Massacre at Ocean Island (Banaba): Some I-Kiribati and Japanese Perspectives	0
Queen Kaʻahumanu of Hawaiʻi: A Biography	0
Regional Politics in Oceania: From Colonialism and Cold War to the Pacific Century	0
The Self-Liberated Slave Periquillo Saves the Missionary Juan Pobre: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Origins of the Black Pacific	0
‘Very Beautiful Land’: Malay Knowledge, Spanish Voyages, and Indigenous Presence in Iberian Mapping of New Guinea	0
Words, Values, and Actions: Reading the Lives of Chiefs, Pastors, and Leaders in Kanaky New Caledonia	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIII: Petition to the United Nations Trusteeship Council from the Marshallese People, 20 April 1954	0
APT11; Eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art Gallery, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane, 30 November 2024–5 May 2025, Free.	0
The Story of Fai‘ota: Resolving an Ancient Conflict in Malaita, Solomon Islands	0
Art/Story of the Niuklia Fri Pasifik: On Doing Creative Pacific Histories	0
‘We will not Relax our Efforts’: The Anti-Nuclear Stance of Civil Society and Government in Post-Independence Fiji	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIV: Inaugural Lecture: History, Lies and Mythology – the Historian and the Community	0
La littérature irradiée - Les essais nucléaires en Polynésie Française au prisme de l'écriture	0

Media Review by Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman of Te Wai Ngunguru: Nomads of the Sea by Lisa Reihana	0
Isaac Qölöni: Personal Reflections on an Important Actor in Post-Colonial Solomon Islands	0
War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II	0
The ‘Third Expedition to South New Guinea’: A Review Essay	0
Reframing Indigenous Biography	0
‘Pity the Fishing People’: Taiwan’s Legal and Illegal Fishing in the 20th-century Pacific	0
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange	0
A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXIX: Mamae of Mangaia: Nineteenth Century Pastor and Tribal Historian	0
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean	0
‘Between Two Worlds’: The Origins, Operation, and Future of the 2013 Fiji Constitution	0
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa	0
Seeking Peace in the Pacific: The Story of Conflict and Christianity in the Central Solomon Islands	0
Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania	0
Imperial Resurgence: How French Polynesia Was Chosen as the Site for the French Centre for Pacific Tests (CEP)	0
From Copra Sequestration to Outboard Engine Trawling: Changes in the Carbon Footprint of Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands	0
MANUSCRIPT XLVIII: Protestant Islander Missionaries in the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)	0
‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa	0
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants	0
Avoiding Japanese Intervention in New Caledonia: June and July 1940	0
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear and Science at Sea	0
Troubles and Puzzles: The 2022 General Elections in Papua New Guinea	0
Reframing Suffrage Narratives: Pacific Women, Political Voice, and Collective Empowerment	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: The Pistol of Nga‘ara	0
The Cook Voyages Encounters: The Cook Voyages Collections of Te Papa	0
Jack Golson: A Life (13 September 1926–2 September 2023)	0
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism	0
‘Na Viti’: A Magazine for Young Fiji	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXVII: Personal Narratives and Letters of Cook Islands ‘Orometua Trained at Takamoa College	0
John Dunmore (1923–2023)	0
Customary Paths Toward Denuclearization and Decolonization: Mā‘ohi and Kanak Activists Passing Through lo Larzac	0
Remembering the Medical Tultul of Papua New Guinea	0
Promoting the Nation: Conflicting Theories of Tourism during Decolonization in Papua New Guinea, 1960–70s	0
From Warriors to Soldiers: Militarizing Fijian Identity during the Second World War	0
Island Encounters: Timor-Leste from the Outside In	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
Beyond Wartime Loyalty and Collaboration: The Legacy of George Bogese	0
Introduction: Resistance and Survival – The Nuclear Era in the Pacific	0
John Anthony Moses (10 June 1930–30 May 2024)	0
Ethnographic and Imperial Mapping: Miklouho-Maclay's New Guinea Placenames	0
Seeking a Lost Collection at Museums Victoria: George Thomas Rice’s ‘Museum of Island Curios’	0
Understanding the Church and Training from Which the Cook Islander Missionaries Brought the Christian Message to Papua New Guinea in the 1870s	0
Pleasure and Pain in the Pacific	0
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment	0
Introduction – In Our Own Words: Histories in Languages of Oceania	0
Like Fire: The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia	0
Sandalwood and the Entanglement of the Juan Fernández Islands in Eco-Cultural Networks	0
En Sigi Ha’ Mo’na: A Genealogy of CHamoru Resistance to Language Erasure	0
In the Grip of Calamity: Tahiti and the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic	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
Nungon, Patrol Officers, and Missionaries: Differing Narratives about Two Key Events in the History of Nungon People of New Guinea	0
Tomorrow’s Woman?	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
Where Lies the State? Sāmoa's 2021 Election and the Defeat of the Human Rights Protection Party	0
The Feminist Pacific: International Women’s Networks in Hawai‘i, 1820–1940	0
Gender and Political Leadership in Samoa: Fiame Naomi Mata‘afa and the 2021 Election	0
Gordon S. Parsonson (1919–2023)	0
Five Centuries of Settlement Dynamics and Mobility in the Northern Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua	0
Are Sāmoa’s Political Institutions Democratic? A Critical Examination of the Fa‘amatai and the 2021 General Election	0
The Philippines (and Chile) in Martínez de Zúñiga's 19th-Century Ideas about pre-Columbian trans-Pacific Contact	0
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa: The Tide-Beating Heart of Earth	0
Forward Without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai‘i 1900–1941	0
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World	0
The Melanesian Way in the 21st Century: Culture, Politics, and Festivals	0
Tonga and the British Empire in the Great War: Loyalty and Neutrality	0
‘A Very Remarkable Development … Has Taken Place in Tanna’: The Albatross Scheme, 1915–22	0
Introduction: The Cook Islands Christian Church Special Issue	0
Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland	0
Paradox and Pity: What We Can Learn From Fiji’s Urban Squatter Settlements	0
Making Local Sense of a Global Disease: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Guam	0
Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul	0
Robert Philp and the Politics of Development	0
Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa	0
A Taste of Canada in Vanuatu: The ViVa Project on Tanna (1991–2018)	0
The Rev. Newell’s Dilemma: Responding to Lauaki’s Mau a Pule Movement	0
Guardians of the Constitution: Upholding Judicial Independence During Samoa’s Constitutional Crisis	0
The Gallows of Girmit (1886–1919)	0
Letters from Kiribati	0
Remembering Deryck Anthony Scarr (7 September 1939–29 March 2024)	0
Decolonizing Regional Politics in Oceania: Re-examining the Historical Record	0

MANUSCRIPT XLV: J.H.F. (Frits) Sollewijn Gelpke, The Spanish Exploration and Annexation of North New Guinea in the 16th Century Part 2	0
Constituencies in a Hybrid State: An Examination of the Shift from ‘Territorial’ to ‘Electoral’ Constituencies in Sāmoa	0
The 2019 Bougainville Referendum and the Question of Independence: From Conflict to Consensus	0
John Douglas Dademo Waiko: Binandere Man, Historian, and Politician (8 August 1945–16 November 2024)	0
Leading from the Frontline: A History of Pacific Climate Diplomacy	0
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World	0
Australia & the Pacific: A History	0
Glorious Company: The Polynesia Company in Melbourne and Fiji	0
Le Retour des trésors polynésiens/The Return of the Polynesian Treasures	0
The Russians ‘Americanize’ Hawai‘i: Russian Molokan Migrants and the Failed Labour Domiciling Experiment in Kaua‘i, 1905–6	0
‘Women and Children Last’: Establishing Maternal and Child Health Services in Papua New Guinea	0
Tracing Presence: Experience, Indigenous Agency, and Place in European Toponymy of New Guinea, 1606–1908	0
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film	0
Eight Months in the Cook Islands	0
The ‘Segregation Village’ at Reao (Tuamotus): A Leprosarium on the Fringes of the Établissements français de l’Océanie	0
The Constitutionalization of Sāmoan Politics: A Comparison of the 1975, 1982 and 2021 Political Crises	0
The Curious Case of Assassination of the Minister for Works in 1999	0
The Anatomy of Frank Bainimarama’s Defeat at the Fiji December 2022 Election	0
Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki	0
Muskets for the ‘King’: The Tahitian Firearms Trade Prior to Unification	0
Maisin Recollections of the Kokoda Campaign, 1942-3	0
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty	0
Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu \| Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923	0
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua	0
Looking for Lost Proficiency in East Polynesian Voyaging Traditions and Ethnology	0
Sāmoan Custom, Individual Rights, and the Three 2020 Acts: Reorganizing the Land and Titles Court	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
Kanak Women and the Revolutionary Struggle for Kanak Liberation: Militant Women’s Writing in the Groupe 1878 and the PALIKA	0
The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers	0
Margaret Mead	0
MANUSCRIPT XLII: The Cry of Mata‘afa	0
Re-visiting Transgressive Actions: The Little-known Pacific Life of Sarah Henry Bland, 1797–1822	0
Photography in New Caledonia: Constructed and Casual Views of Colonial Life	0
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific, 1880–1920	0
APT10; The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art	0
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic	0