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

Article	Citations
Xiongnu Rulers’ Residences in the Historical Records of the Han Dynasty	9
Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces	8
An Enduring Prestige: Land Grants in a Princely State Census	6
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān	5
“The Turquoise Was Brought From Chorasmia” Mining, Empire, and the People of the Steppes across the Achaemenid Northeastern Borderlands	5
The Arghūn State in Qandahar and the New World Economy, 1479–1522	3
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon	3
Inheritance as a God-Given Right: the Debate on the Family Waqf in 20th and 21st Century Saudi Arabia	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
Perpetuating Property and Kinship: Matrilineal Family Waqfs in 20th-Century Colonial Malabar, South India	2
Imperial Landed Endowments (Vakıf Çiftliks) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of Pertevniyal Valide Sultan’s Endowments in Thessaly	2
The Crimean Khan Şahin Giray (1777–1783): The First Modernizer of the Islamic World and his Image in Imperial and Minority Perspectives	2
Mechanisms and Performance of the Maoist Economy: a Holistic Approach, 1950–1980	1
Turkstroi: Soviet-Turkish Industrial Cooperation and the Dialectics of Divergence and Convergence in Interwar Statism, 1931–1941	1
Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1689–1843	1
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	1
Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	1
A ‘Good Qaṣba:’ Chamkanī and the Confluence of Politics, Economy and Religion in Durrānī Peshawar, 1747–1834	1
The Unofficial Russo-Qing Trade in Northern Xinjiang and the Eastern Kazakh Steppe in the First Half of the 19th Century	1
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan	1
Shirin’s Petition: an Enslaved Hazara Woman’s Quest for Justice in the Late 19th Century	1
Crafting a Categorical Ayutthaya: Ethnic Labeling, Administrative Reforms, and Social Organization in an Early Modern Entrepôt	1
Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean	1
Rural Administration, Tax-Farming, and the mutadarriks in Egypt from the Late 14th to the Early 16th Centuries	1
An Ottoman Governor’s Agent at the Sublime Porte: the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652–7	1

Social Infrastructures, Military Entrepreneurship, and the Making of the Sultan’s Court in Fifteenth-Century Cairo	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
Cash Waqfs and Commercial Capital: Evidence from Ottoman-Venetian Trade (16th Century)	1
Reconciling Peoples and Places: Perpetual Re-interpretation in Perceptions of Social and Cultural Identities in Northeast China	1
Corrigendum	1