OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Past & Present 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Out of the West: Formation of a Permanent Plague Reservoir in South-Central Germany (1349–1356) and its Implications	22
Viewpoint New Approaches to the ‘Plague of Justinian’	22
Ghana Must Go: Nativism and the Politics of Expulsion in West Africa, 1969–1985	15
Sons and Daughters of the Soil: Politics and Protest of Kenyan Resettlement to Tanzania, 1961–1968	13
Seeing Like the Sea: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery 1800–1925	10
Aliens in a Revolutionary World: Refugees, Migration Control and Subjecthood in the British Atlantic, 1790s–1820s	9
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South	8
Enchantment in an Age of Reform: Fortune-Telling Fever in Post-Mao China, 1980s–1990s*	7
The Human, The Animal and the Prehistory of COVID-19*	6
Out of the East (or North or South): A Response to Philip Slavin	5
Capitalism In Global History*	5
A Different Story in the Anthropocene: Brazil’s Post-Colonial Quest for Oil (1930–1975)*	5
Heathrow and the Making of Neoliberal Britain	5
The New History of Old Inequality	5
Mothering in the Archives: Care and the Creation of Family Papers and Photographs in Twentieth-Century Southern England*	4
Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution in a Global Context	4
The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation*	4
Contesting ‘Permit-and-Licence Raj’: Economic Conservatism and the Idea of Democracy in 1950s India*	4
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State	3
Hidden Spaces of Empire: Italian Colonists in Nineteenth-Century Peru	3
The Impossible Reformation: Protestant Europe and the Greek Orthodox Church	3
Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England	3
A Business Archive of the French Illegal Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century	3
The Pervasiveness of Lordship (Italy, 1050–1500)	3
The Politics of Musical Standardization in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain	3

Worry Work: The Supernatural Labours of Living and Dead Mothers in Irish Folklore*	3
Switzerland, Borneo and the Dutch Indies: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, c.1770–1850	3
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800*	3
Frontiers of Civilization in the Age of Mass Migration from Eastern Europe	2
The Mother Within: Intergenerational Influences Upon Australian Matrescence Since 1945*	2
Time Warps During the French Revolution	2
Capital Accumulation, Supply Networks and the Composition of the Roman Senate, 14–235 ce	2
Globalizing the Second World War	2
The Art of Mercato: Buying City-States in Renaissance Tuscany	2
A Pathology of Sacral Kingship: Putrefaction in the Body of Charles Xi of Sweden	2
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines	2
Superstition and Statecraft in Late Qing China: Towards a Global History	2
Migrations of Decolonization, Welfare, and the Unevenness of Citizenship in the UK, France and Portugal	2
‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis	2
Mass Media and the Colonial Informant: Messaoud Djebari and the French Empire, 1880–1901	2
Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism in the Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic	2
City States in the Later Medieval Mediterranean World	2
Astrology, plague, and prognostication in early modern England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public health	1
Accumulation by Attachment: Colonial Benevolence and the Rule of Capital in Nineteenth-Century Panjab	1
Making Friends and Making ‘Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship, 1947–1957	1
Democracy in Spanish America: The Early Adoption of Universal Male Suffrage, 1810–1853	1
Papering Over Protest: Contentious Politics and Archival Suppression in Early Modern Venice	1
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment	1
Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Health Care and Confessional Relations in Spa, c .1648–1740	1
Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain	1
Death in the Archives: Witnessing War in Ireland, 1919–1921	1
Libel in the Provinces: Disinformation and ‘Disreputation’ in Early Modern England	1
Conflicting Narratives: Health (Dis)information in Eighteenth-Century Italy	1
The Animal Body As Medium: Taxidermy And European Expansion, 1775–1865	1
The Political Day in London, c .1697–1834	1
The Bishop as Lawmaker in Late Medieval Europe	1
Water, Fish and Property in Colonial India, 1860–1890	1
Mothering Illegitimate Children in Late Eighteenth-Century England*	1
Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class	1
Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia	1
Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( c .1474–1504)	1
Forbidden Love in Istanbul: Patterns of Male–Male Sexual Relations in the Early-Modern Mediterranean World	1
Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry	1
Mothering Solidarity: Infant-Feeding, Vulnerability and Poverty in West Africa Since the Seventeenth Century*	1
African Cultures and Creolization on an Eighteenth-Century St Kitts Sugar Plantation	1
A Work Out of Time: Religion and the Decline of Magic at Fifty	1
Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean	1
Mothering and Labour in the Slaveholding Households of the Antebellum American South	1
The Disenchantment of Chiromancy: Reading Modern Hands from Palmistry to Genetics	1
Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan’	1
Apostasy in the Baltic Provinces: Religious and National Indifference in Imperial Russia	1
Protection Shopping among Empires: Suspended Sovereignty in the Cocos-Keeling Islands	1
Oil, Money and Decolonization in South Asia	1
The Swedish Sonderweg in Question: Democratization and Inequality in Comparative Perspective, c.1750–1920	1
Care Work and the Family in Catholic Reformation Tuscany	1

Speaking in Hands: Early Modern Preaching and Signed Languages for the Deaf	1
The Value of Motherhood: Understanding Motherhood from Maternal Absence in Victorian Britain*	1
Managing Food Crises: Urban Relief Stocks in Pre-Industrial Holland*	1
Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–1700	1
Becoming the ‘Natural’ Mother in Britain and North America: Power, Emotions and the Labour of Childbirth Between 1947 and 1967*	1