Historical Methods

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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed40
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–177512
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–18809
The use of quantile methods in economic history7
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods6
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–20206
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
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)4
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency4
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents4
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–19104
U.S. demography in transition3
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–20203
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-19143
British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis3
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 18602
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations2
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study2
Introduction to editorial2
EconHist: a relational database for analyzing the evolution of economic history (1980–2019)2
A reassessment of industrial growth in interwar Turkey through first-generation sectoral estimates2
Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017)2
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