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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed16
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–188013
Enumerating Indigenous populations at the turn of the twentieth century13
Using the TCP data to study Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century: Challenges and opportunities12
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–202010
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods9
The use of quantile methods in economic history8
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–19106
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency6
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
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents5
Correction5
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)4
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–20204
Translation mining: An AI-driven taxonomy of eighteenth-century Anglo-French translation practices4
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
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-19143
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study3
Immigrants’ labour market experiences in early twentieth century Canada3
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 18603
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