OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Science History is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Welfare State as Transnational Event: Evidence from Sequences of Policy Adoption	51
Nonresponse in Samples from Historical Populations: Observations on the Problem	47
Stature in Transition: A Micro-Level Study from Nineteenth-Century Belgium	23
African-American Strikebreaking from the Civil War to the New Deal	21
Slave Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records	18
From Reconstruction to Reform: Modernization and the Interest Group State, 1875–1900	13
Racially Polarized Voting in the South: Quantitative Evidence from the Courtroom	13
The Welfare State as Transnational Event: Evidence from Sequences of Policy Adoption	13
Migration in Colonial America: Evidence from the Militia Muster Rolls	12
Grammars of Death: An Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death from the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory	11
Health during Industrialization: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania State Prison System	11
Introduction to Roundtable	11
Colonial American Paper Money and the Quantity Theory of Money: An Extension	10
From Average to Ideal: The Evolution of the Height and Weight Table in the United States, 1836-1943	9
Slave Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records	9
Left Out:Policy Diffusion and the Exclusion of Black Workers from Unemployment Insurance	9
Falling Far from the Tree	9
African-American Strikebreaking from the Civil War to the New Deal	9
Trends and Determinants of Adult Mortality in Early New England: Reconciling Old and New Evidence from the Long Eighteenth Century	8
Racially Polarized Voting in the South: Quantitative Evidence from the Courtroom	7
Unequal Positions: A Relational Approach to Racial Inequality Trends in the US States, 1940–2010	7
Economic Determinants of the Age at Leaving Home: Evidence from the Lives of Nineteenth-Century New England Manufacturers	7
Petitioners and Rebels: Petitioning for Parliamentary Reform in Regency England	6
Migration in Colonial America: Evidence from the Militia Muster Rolls	6
L’éruption patriote: The Revolt against Dalhousie and the Petitioning Explosion in Nineteenth-Century French Canada	6

The "Revolution of Rising Expectations," Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Social Disorders of the 1960s: Evidence from State-Level Data	6
Ethnohistory's Ethnohistory: Creating a Discipline from the Ground Up	6
Imagining Change, Imaginary Futures: “Conditions of Possibility” in Pre-Independence Southern Rhodesia, 1959–1963	6
The Formation of a Three-Caste Society: Evidence from Wills in Antebellum New Orleans	6
Life after Work: The Impact of Basic Income on Nonemployment Activities	6
From Mortuary to Cemetery: Funeral Riots and Funeral Demonstrations in Lille, 1779-1870	5
The Languages of Petitioning in Early Colonial India	5
Interpreting Corporate Interlocks from Broken Ties	5
Stature in Transition	5
What Did Chartism Petition For? Mass Petitions in the British Movement for Democracy	5
Tribal Demography: The Hopi and Navaho Populations as Seen Through Manuscripts from the 1900 U.S. Census	4
From Soldiers to Students: The Tests of General Educational Development (GED) as Diplomatic Measurement	4
Accounting for Civilian Casualties: From the Past to the Future	4
"Stay and Starve, or Go and Prosper!" Juvenile Emigration from Great Britain in the Nineteenth Century	4
Prices in Toledo (Spain): Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	4
Immigration and Child Mortality: Lessons from the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	4
Degeneration, Protestantism, and Social Democracy: The Case of Alcoholism and “Illiberal” Policies and Practices in Denmark 1900–43	4
Divided Government and Significant Legislation: A History of Congress from 1789 to 2010	4
Political Centralization, Federalism, and Urban Development: Evidence from US and Canadian Capital Cities	4
The Formation of a Three-Caste Society: Evidence from Wills in Antebellum New Orleans	4
A Microhistory of British Antislavery Petitioning	4
From Friendly Society to Compulsory Medical Aid Association: The History of Medical Aid Provision in South Africa's Public Sector, 1905-1970	4
Market-oriented Reforms and the Language of Popular Protest: Latin America from Charles III to the IMF	4
Land Tenure Inequality, Harvests, and Rural Conflict: Evidence from Southern Spain during the Second Republic (1931–1934)	4
The Mexican Immigration Debate: The View from History	4
Escape from Catastrophe: The Saami's Experience with Smallpox in Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Sweden	4
The Signatures of Social Structure: Petitioning for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Manchester	3
Re-imagining Petitioning in Spain (1808–1823)	3
Suited for Service	3
Scars from a Childhood Disease: Measles in the Concentration Camps during the Boer War	3
Problem Pressure and Social Policy Innovation: Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Germany	3
Introduction: The Transformation of Petitioning in the Long Nineteenth Century (1780–1914)	3
Age, Sickness, and Longevity in the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Centuries: Evidence from the Hampshire Friendly Society	3
Generations of Veterans: Socioeconomic Attainment from World War II to the Contemporary Era	3
Alchemist's Gold: Inferring Individual Relationships from Aggregate Data	3
Petition-and-Response and Liminal Petitioning in Comparative/Historical Perspective	3
The “Revolution of Rising Expectations,” Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Social Disorders of the 1960s	3
The Male-Female Earnings Differential: A Historical Overview of the Clerical Occupations from the 1880s to the 1970s	3
Voter Coordination and the Rise of the Republican Party: Evidence from New England	3
From Defining Characteristic to Vitiation of Principle: The History of the Odd Fellows' Stipulated Sick Benefit and Its Implications for Studying American Fraternalism	2
Agricultural Expansion, Soil Degradation, and Fertilization in Portugal, 1873–1960: From History to Soil and Back Again	2
Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Evidence from Census-Linked Probate Data	2
Did Starvation Protect from Malaria? Distinguishing between Severity and Lethality of Infectious Disease in Colonial India	2
Inequality in Twentieth-Century Latin America: Path Dependence, Countermovements, and Reactive Sequences	2
Rewinding Civil Society: Conceptual Lessons from the Early Modern Guilds	2
Gender Composition in Contentious Collective Action: “Girl Strikers” in Gilded Age America—Harmful, Helpful, or Both?	2
The Determinants of International Migration in Early Modern Europe: Evidence from the Maritime Sector, c. 1700–1800	2
Quality over Quantity: A Lineage-Survival Strategy of Elite Families in Premodern Korea	2
Family Composition and Sex-Differential Mortality among Children in Early Modern Japan: Evidence from Yokouchi, 1671-1871	2
The Mexican Immigration Debate	2

Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-Led Economic Development: Regional Evidence from the Lakehead	2
The Bases of Progressivism within the Major Parties: Evidence from the National Conventions	2
The Myth of the Post-Communist Citizen: Communist Legacies and Political Trust	2
The Role of Politics in the Historical Transport Networks of the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees from Roman Times to the Nineteenth Century	2
Inequality and Growth in a Developing Economy: Evidence from Regional Data (Spain, 1860–1930)	2
Booming Sector Models, Economic Base Analysis, and Export-led Economic Development: Regional Evidence from the Lakehead	2
Trends and Determinants of Adult Mortality in Early New England: Reconciling Old and New Evidence from the Long Eighteenth Century	2
From Spellers to Spindles: Work-Force Entry by the Children of Textile Workers, 1888-1890	2
Health during Industrialization	2
Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Manhattan: Evidence from the Housing Market	2
The Changing Space of Families: A Genealogical Approach	1
Making History from Above and Below: Elite and Popular Perspectives on Politics	1
Voting on Prohibition: Disentangling Preferences on Alcohol and Decentralization	1
Anti-Irish Job Discrimination circa 1880: Evidence from Major League Baseball	1
Migration and the Nation: The View from Paris	1
Two Germanys? Investigating the Religious and Social Base of the 1930 Nazi Electorate	1
Grammars of Death	1
From State-Building to European Integration: The Role of the Railway Network in the Territorial Integration of Europe, 1850–2020	1
From the Populist Era to the New Deal: A Study of Partisan Realignment in Washington State, 1889-1950	1
Tribal Demography: The Hopi and Navaho Populations as Seen through Manuscripts from the 1900 U.S. Census	1
The Last Bastion of Categorical Inequality?	1
Economic Determinants of the Age at Leaving Home: Evidence from the Lives of Nineteenth-Century New England Manufacturers	1
Scars from a Childhood Disease: Measles in the Concentration Camps during the Boer War	1
Ethnohistory's Ethnohistory	1
Interpreting Corporate Interlocks from Broken Ties	1
A Match Made in Heaven? Southern Evangelicalism and the Rise and Fall of Agrarian Populism in the 1890s	1
Chicken Little, Anna Karenina, and the Economics of Slavery: Two Reflections on Historical Analysis, with Examples Drawn Mostly from the Study of Slavery	1
Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario	1
Demography and Dispossession: Explaining the Growth of the Global Informal Workforce, 1950-2000	1
The Male-Female Earnings Differential: A Historical Overview of the Clerical Occupations from the 1880s to the 1970s	1
The Bases of Progressivism within the Major Parties	1
Did Starvation Protect from Malaria? Distinguishing between Severity and Lethality of Infectious Disease in Colonial India	1
Ethnic Differences in School Attendance in Antebellum Massachusetts: Evidence from Newburyport, 1850-1860	1
“What Value Should We Attach to All These Petitions?”: Petition Campaigns and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands	1
From the Populist Era to the New Deal: A Study of Partisan Realignment in Washington State, 1889-1950	1
From Average to Ideal	1
“You’re Not from around Here”: Regional Naming and Life Outcomes	1