OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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.)

Article	Citations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed	33
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–1775	8
Using word analysis to track the evolution of emotional well-being in nineteenth-century industrializing Britain	7
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–1880	7
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–2020	6
The use of quantile methods in economic history	5
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods	5
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	4
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–1910	3
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.com	3
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–2020	3
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 analysis	2
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914	2
U.S. demography in transition	2
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study	2
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations	1
Exploring the transformation of French trade in the long eighteenth century (1713–1823): The TOFLIT18 project	1
Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis	1
A reassessment of industrial growth in interwar Turkey through first-generation sectoral estimates	1
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 1860	1
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 editorial	1

“Born yesterday, baptized today, buried tomorrow” : Early baptism as an indicator of negative life outcomes in rural Spain, 1890-1939	1
Metrics for the identification of primary centers of government from historical itineraries: Přemysl Otakar II: A case study	1
Latin American exports during the first globalization: How statistical aggregation and standardization affect our understanding of trade	0
Geo-coding addresses in historic British census data: An open methodology	0
Exploring French venality in the seventeenth century: Insights from a new database on offices	0
Adapting to the Little Ice Age in pastoral regions: An interdisciplinary approach to climate history in north-west Europe	0
Overflowing tables: Changes in the energy intake and the social context of Thanksgiving in the United States	0
A new strategy for linking U.S. historical censuses: A case study for the IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel	0
Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks	0
Structural reading: Developing the method of Structural Collocation Analysis using a case study on parliamentary reporting	0
How many countries in the world? The geopolitical entities of the world and their political status from 1816 to the present	0
Three new occupational status indices for England and Wales, 1800–1939	0
Understanding patterns of engagement in the citizen humanities: The civil records of Suriname	0
Escaping Nazi deportation and temporary protection status: Applying causal modelling in a study on Amsterdam Jews	0
Inferring “missing girls” from child sex ratios in historical census data	0
Applications of machine learning in tabular document digitisation	0
Socio-ecological metabolism and rural livelihood conditions: Two case studies on forest litter uses in France and Poland (1875–1910)	0
Correction	0
Drawing constitutional boundaries: A digital historical analysis of the writing process of Pinochet’s 1980 authoritarian constitution	0
Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps	0
Developing a population grid in a historical context: The Valencia region in late 19th century	0
The creation of LIFE-M: The Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database project	0
Downtown Toronto’s emergent properties: Exploring new methods for using port records to disaggregate urban metabolism in Toronto, Ontario, 1850-1926	0
Historical context and creation of the IPUMS Ancestry full count population census data 1900–1930	0
The regional occupational structure in interwar England and Wales	0
Behind the numbers: Authorities’ approach to measuring disability in Swedish populations from 1860 to 1930	0
The healthscaping approach: Toward a global history of early public health	0
Identifying prominent actors in historical networks: The case of the New Education movement	0
Transparent generosity. Introducing the impresso interface for the exploration of semantically enriched historical newspapers	0
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 city	0
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 data	0
Internal migrant trajectories within The Netherlands, 1850–1972: Applying cluster analysis and dissimilarity tree methods	0