OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Historical Methods is 2. 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
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods	5
The use of quantile methods in economic history	5
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	4
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
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
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study	2
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