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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Languages of History, Histories of Language	26
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney	12
Enduring Medical Knowledge in the Age of Slavery	11
Pathology, Heredity, and the Varieties of Man, 1650–1800	7
Homosociality, Sexual Misconduct and Gendered Violence in England’s Pre-Modern Legal Profession	6
Alcohol Diplomacy, Gender and Power in the Late Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast Slaving Complex	6
Firearms and the State in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Gun Proliferation and Gun Control	5
Adrift in the Andaman Sea:  Law, Archipelagos and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty	4
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England	4
Prize court politics and regional ordering in the Caribbean	4
Believing in Belief: Gibbon, Latour and the Social History of Religion	4
UNRRA in North Africa: A Late Colonial History of Refugee Encampment	4
The Transformation of Smallpox Inoculation in the Early Modern Atlantic World	4
Mutiny on Trial: Law and Order among Seventeenth-Century Seafarers	4
Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity: Between Ideology, Aesthetics and Practicality	4
The New History of Old Inequality	4
All That Is Solid Bursts into Flame: Capitalism and Fire in the Nineteenth-Century United States	4
Caravaggio’s Rumore: Fact, Fiction and Authority in Giovanni Baglione’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects	4
The Origins of Modern Public Health in Anglo-Caribbean Slavery, 1764–1790	4
Feminism, reproductive labour, and the gendered welfare state in Britain’s National Insurance Act of 1911	4
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England	3
The migration–innovation nexus in the early modern world	3
From Surveying to Surveillance: Maritime Cartography and Naval (Self-)Tracking in the Long Nineteenth Century	3
Solitude and Soul in Restoration Britain	3
The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era	3

Rethinking Literacy in Rural England, 1550–1700	3
Machines in the Hands of Capitalists: Power and Profit in Late Eighteenth-Century Cornish Copper Mines	3
The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument	3
Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans	2
Givens, pleasures and imaginings	2
By Whom Were Early Christians Persecuted?	2
Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923	2
Reply: Out of the West — and neither East, nor North, nor South	2
The Uprooting of Indigenous Women’s Horticultural Practices in Brazil, 1500–1650	2
Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction	2
Secularizing Strategies in the Early Middle Ages and the History of Pre-Modern Religion	2
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto	2
The National Negro Business League and the Economic Life of Black Entrepreneurs	2
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c .1850–1947	2
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–1914	2
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)	2
Rumour, Public Opinion and Print in Istanbul, 1780s–1830s	1
The Many Values of Night Soil in Wartime China	1
Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents	1
CONFISCATION AS GOVERNANCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1750–1839	1
Indentured Indian workers and the politics of race, caste, and sanitation at sea and in colonial South Africa, c .1860–1911	1
Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope	1
Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910	1
PRESENTISM AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: REVISITING THE 2022 JAMES SWEET AFFAIR	1
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon	1
The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983	1
The Indian Muslim Salariat and the Moral and Political Economies of Usury Laws in Colonial India, 1855–1914	1
Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920	1
Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 1950	1
The Impossible Reformation: Protestant Europe and the Greek Orthodox Church	1
Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene	1
Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850	1
Trans Liminality and the Nazi State	1
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union	1
Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape	1
A revisionist history of the United Nations	1
Assembling India’s Constitution: Towards a New History	1
Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–1450	1
State, crime, and violence in Mexico, 1920–2000: Arbiters of impunity, agents of coercion	1
‘The Shipwreck of the Turks’: Sovereignty, Barbarism and Civilization in the Legal Order of the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean	1
Unruly Singing and Shouting: Listening to Labourers’ Work Songs in Modern Shanghai	1
Is paradise a democracy? The heavenly city as political paradigm, c .1145–55	1
Healing, Mobility, and Belonging: ‘María Phelipa de Color Negro’, A Black Woman Healer Navigating the Canary Islands, 1712–1729	1
Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain	1
Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World: Law, Violence, and European Empires	1
Correction to: ‘Where Are the Proxenoi?’ Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis	1
Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973	1
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley	1
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya	1
Making Friends and Making ‘Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship, 1947–1957	1