Historical Methods

Papers
(The TQCC of Historical Methods is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed14
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–17759
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–18809
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–20207
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods7
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–19106
The use of quantile methods in economic history6
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.com5
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency5
U.S. demography in transition4
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents4
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–20204
British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis4
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)4
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study3
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations3
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 18603
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-19143
Introduction to editorial3
Correction3
EconHist: a relational database for analyzing the evolution of economic history (1980–2019)3
Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017)3
A reassessment of industrial growth in interwar Turkey through first-generation sectoral estimates3
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