OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Historical Methods 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
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed	13
Using the TCP data to study Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century: Challenges and opportunities	11
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–1775	11
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–1880	9
The use of quantile methods in economic history	8
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods	7
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	6
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–2020	6
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents	5
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–1910	5
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)	5
Counting question 20 on the 1870 census, the denial of the right to vote: Different tallies by the Census Office; the Minnesota Population Center; and Ancestry.com	5
U.S. demography in transition	4
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study	4
Immigrants’ labour market experiences in early twentieth century Canada	4
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914	4
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–2020	4
Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017)	4
Correction	3
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 1860	3
Introduction to editorial	3
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations	3
A reassessment of industrial growth in interwar Turkey through first-generation sectoral estimates	3
Metrics for the identification of primary centers of government from historical itineraries: Přemysl Otakar II: A case study	2
“Born yesterday, baptized today, buried tomorrow” : Early baptism as an indicator of negative life outcomes in rural Spain, 1890-1939	2

Correction	2
Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis	2
Bricks without straw: Using linked census data to estimate child mortality in the pre-registration era of the United States	1
Dirty deeds: Finding and mapping race restrictions in local property records	1
Transparent generosity. Introducing the impresso interface for the exploration of semantically enriched historical newspapers	1
Data retrieval from local heritage books—Is artificial intelligence the solution?	1
Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps	1
New data sources for research on the nineteenth-century United States: IPUMS full count datasets of the censuses of population 1850–1880	1
Adapting to the Little Ice Age in pastoral regions: An interdisciplinary approach to climate history in north-west Europe	1
Identifying prominent actors in historical networks: The case of the New Education movement	1
Correction	1
The IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel: progress and prospects	1
Constructing a county-level environmental events dataset for China during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1911)	1
Socio-ecological metabolism and rural livelihood conditions: Two case studies on forest litter uses in France and Poland (1875–1910)	1
Measuring socioeconomic status in historical censuses of Canada	1
A machine learning approach for nominative record linkage in Chinese historical databases	1
Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks	1