OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Central Asian Survey 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	22
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity	20
Gendered mobilities of Central Asian women in Germany through the perspective of public transport	17
Semiotic analysis of ‘kalyng’ ritual in Manas: framework for cultural knowledge	14
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan	12
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan	12
Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Regime Neo-Eurasianism in The Nazarbayev Era	11
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model	11
Backlash: China’s struggle for influence in Central Asia	10
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan	10
Collectivization generation: oral histories of a social revolution in Uzbekistan	10
After the resurgence of Talibanism theocracy: non-lethal intervention and the politics of non-neutrality in Afghanistan	10
New Uzbekistan: the third renaissance	10
Introduction: LGBTQ + visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia	9
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review	9
The mobilization of ‘capabilities’ as an idea and practice in today’s China: From appropriation to exclusion of Uyghur identities	8
Reclaiming self-esteem: Mongols’ responses to the early COVID-19 pandemic in Inner Mongolia, China	8
Extraordinary Estonians, disappearing Duha: tourism imaginaries and imperial identity economies of Northern Mongolia	7
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia	7
‘Abduct her before another man does’: evolving consensual bride abduction patterns in Kazakhstan’s Jetisu province	7
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector	7
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–47	7
‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction	6
‘And there will be “kan (blood)” … ’: ‘voices’ of participants and eyewitnesses of the 1916 uprising in Semirech’e in interrogation protocols	6
Inter-regionalism and strategic adaptation in Central Asia: economic development and geopolitical resilience in a multipolar order	5

Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana	5
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion	5
Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU	5
Between autonomy and dependency: comparing hedging strategies of Central Asian states towards China	5
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies	5
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan	5
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan	4
Paradoxes of migration in Tajikistan: locating the good life,	4
New media and political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan. Exploring the lived experiences of young people in Eurasia	4
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment	4
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud	4
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction	4
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note	4
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?	4
Contextualizing data collection in Central Asia: insights from local researchers’ experiences	4
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)	4
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities	4
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia	3
Intersecting legacies: gender, ethnicity and displacement in the aftermath of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War for internally displaced and refugee women	3
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan	3
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context	3
The political economy of non-Western migration regimes: Central Asian migrant workers in Russia and Turkey	3
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems	3
Chet ellarda o'qigan Turkistonlik yoshlar (Young People from Turkistan Who Studied Abroad)	3
From friendship to friction: the evolution of China’s economic and technical assistance to Mongolia (1949–1985)	3
Uyghur identity and culture: a global diaspora in a time of crisis	3
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries	3
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus	3
Universities branching out: towards a typology of transnational education partnerships in Central Asia	3
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage	3
In the corridors of officialdom: how patience and flexibility unlock elite interviews in Uzbekistan	2
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–2012	2
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan	2
Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression	2
China, Russia and Central Asian infrastructure: fragmenting or reformatting the region?	2
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei	2
Balancing tradition and reform: tensions in university mathematics curriculum and assessment in Uzbekistan	2
Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles	2
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–2021	2
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia	2
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	2
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)	2
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan	2
Traditional medicine, legitimacy and nationalist doxa in pandemic-era Mongolia	2
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan	2
Institutional entrepreneurship under hierarchy: why Kazakhstan founds regional organizations but loses agenda control	2
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation	2
Decolonizing Uyghur visual art: Uyghur diasporic responses to China’s cultural engineering	2