Historical Methods

Papers
(The median citation count of Historical Methods is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed33
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–17758
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–18807
Using word analysis to track the evolution of emotional well-being in nineteenth-century industrializing Britain7
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–20206
The use of quantile methods in economic history5
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods5
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency4
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–19103
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)3
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.com3
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–20203
Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017)2
British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis2
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-19142
U.S. demography in transition2
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study2
Exploring the transformation of French trade in the long eighteenth century (1713–1823): The TOFLIT18 project1
Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis1
A reassessment of industrial growth in interwar Turkey through first-generation sectoral estimates1
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 18601
Constructing a county-level environmental events dataset for China during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1911)1
EconHist: a relational database for analyzing the evolution of economic history (1980–2019)1
Introduction to editorial1
“Born yesterday, baptized today, buried tomorrow” : Early baptism as an indicator of negative life outcomes in rural Spain, 1890-19391
Metrics for the identification of primary centers of government from historical itineraries: Přemysl Otakar II: A case study1
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations1
Overflowing tables: Changes in the energy intake and the social context of Thanksgiving in the United States0
A new strategy for linking U.S. historical censuses: A case study for the IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel0
Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks0
Structural reading: Developing the method of Structural Collocation Analysis using a case study on parliamentary reporting0
How many countries in the world? The geopolitical entities of the world and their political status from 1816 to the present0
Three new occupational status indices for England and Wales, 1800–19390
Understanding patterns of engagement in the citizen humanities: The civil records of Suriname0
Escaping Nazi deportation and temporary protection status: Applying causal modelling in a study on Amsterdam Jews0
Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data0
Applications of machine learning in tabular document digitisation0
Socio-ecological metabolism and rural livelihood conditions: Two case studies on forest litter uses in France and Poland (1875–1910)0
Correction0
Drawing constitutional boundaries: A digital historical analysis of the writing process of Pinochet’s 1980 authoritarian constitution0
Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps0
Developing a population grid in a historical context: The Valencia region in late 19th century0
The creation of LIFE-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project0
Downtown Toronto’s emergent properties: Exploring new methods for using port records to disaggregate urban metabolism in Toronto, Ontario, 1850-19260
Historical context and creation of the IPUMS Ancestry full count population census data 1900–19300
The regional occupational structure in interwar England and Wales0
Behind the numbers: Authorities’ approach to measuring disability in Swedish populations from 1860 to 19300
The healthscaping approach: Toward a global history of early public health0
Identifying prominent actors in historical networks: The case of the New Education movement0
Transparent generosity. Introducing the impresso interface for the exploration of semantically enriched historical newspapers0
Mapping the Third Republic: A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940)0
Deep mapping the daily spaces of children and youth in the industrial city0
Modeling systems of sentencing in early inquisition trials: Crime, social connectivity, and punishment in the register of Peter Seila (1241–2)0
Ghosts and the machine: testing the use of Artificial Intelligence to deliver historical life course biographies from big data0
Internal migrant trajectories within The Netherlands, 1850–1972: Applying cluster analysis and dissimilarity tree methods0
Latin American exports during the first globalization: How statistical aggregation and standardization affect our understanding of trade0
Geo-coding addresses in historic British census data: An open methodology0
Exploring French venality in the seventeenth century: Insights from a new database on offices0
Adapting to the Little Ice Age in pastoral regions: An interdisciplinary approach to climate history in north-west Europe0
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