OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Xiongnu Rulers’ Residences in the Historical Records of the Han Dynasty	12
Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces	9
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon	6
An Enduring Prestige: Land Grants in a Princely State Census	6
“The Turquoise Was Brought From Chorasmia” Mining, Empire, and the People of the Steppes across the Achaemenid Northeastern Borderlands	3
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān	3
The Arghūn State in Qandahar and the New World Economy, 1479–1522	2
“Melaka” in Chinese Texts: Archivalisation and Macro Patterns Related to Records of Melaka in the Ming and Qing Periods (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	2
Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia	2
The Crimean Khan Şahin Giray (1777–1783): The First Modernizer of the Islamic World and his Image in Imperial and Minority Perspectives	2
Perpetuating Property and Kinship: Matrilineal Family Waqfs in 20th-Century Colonial Malabar, South India	2
Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	1
Reconciling Peoples and Places: Perpetual Re-interpretation in Perceptions of Social and Cultural Identities in Northeast China	1
Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1689–1843	1
Turkstroi: Soviet-Turkish Industrial Cooperation and the Dialectics of Divergence and Convergence in Interwar Statism, 1931–1941	1
“The 72 Kinds”: The Cloth Classic, the Jiangnan Cotton Finishing Sector, and the Expansion of Cotton Dyeing in the Qing Dynasty	1
Shirin’s Petition: an Enslaved Hazara Woman’s Quest for Justice in the Late 19th Century	1
Corrigendum	1
An Almost Ordinary Town? Three Ninth- / Fifteenth-Century Fiscal Edicts at the Friday Mosque of Ardabīl	1
Back matter	1
Social Infrastructures, Military Entrepreneurship, and the Making of the Sultan’s Court in Fifteenth-Century Cairo	1
The Unofficial Russo-Qing Trade in Northern Xinjiang and the Eastern Kazakh Steppe in the First Half of the 19th Century	1
Muslim Industrial Workers in California: Two Tatar Memoirs from the Eve of the Great War	1
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	1
Cash Waqfs and Commercial Capital: Evidence from Ottoman-Venetian Trade (16th Century)	1

Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean	1
Consumption and Supply of Wood in Hangzhou/Lin’an and Its Seaport in View of the Southern Song Energy Crisis and Interregional Dependencies	1
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan	1
Imperial Landed Endowments (Vakıf Çiftliks) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of Pertevniyal Valide Sultan’s Endowments in Thessaly	1
An Ottoman Governor’s Agent at the Sublime Porte: the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652–7	1
Mechanisms and Performance of the Maoist Economy: a Holistic Approach, 1950–1980	1