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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain?	36
The Silk Roads: A new history of the world	17
Demographic effects of deportation: seeking the causes of high fertility rates in the North Caucasus, Russia	15
Correction	14
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan	13
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity	13
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan	11
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy	11
Islam in China	10
Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan	10
Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Regime Neo-Eurasianism in The Nazarbayev Era	10
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review	9
Songs of war and despair: two Afghan/Uzbek women’s life history and lament	9
‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction	8
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model	8
Introduction: LGBTQ + visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia	8
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan	8
A void in Central Asia research: climate change	7
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–47	7
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector	6
Opportunity and threat perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	6
Leveraging low state capacity for economic development: a case study of Tajik–Afghan cross-border markets	6
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia	6
Islam in Central Asia 30 years after independence: debates, controversies and the critique of a critique	5
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana	5

Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU	5
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion	5
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies	5
Emigrants/Muhacir from Xinjiang to Middle East during 1940–60s	4
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan	4
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud	4
Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia: an introduction	4
Studying states and regimes in Central Asia: contributions to comparative politics and future challenges	4
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction	4
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan	4
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?	3
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment	3
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries	3
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context	3
Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan	3
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities	3
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)	3
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems	3
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus	3
The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people	3
Student online protests in Uzbekistan: democratization of higher education as concomitant to the COVID-19 crisis?	3
Writing about peoples: an American’s reflections on 30 years of Central Asian studies	3
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note	3
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage	3
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia	3
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan	2
Exploring civil society perspectives on the situation of human rights defenders in the Commonwealth of Independent States	2
The Soviet city as a landscape in the making: planning, building and appropriating Samarkand,c.1960s–80s	2
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation	2
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)	2
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–2021	2
Grassroots struggles against domestic violence in Uzbekistan: strategies of exit and voice	2
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei	2
Women herders: women’s role and bargaining power in Mongolian herding households	2
The war on the Uyghurs: China’s internal campaign against a Muslim minority	2
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia	2
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan	2
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan	2
‘To firmly establish our border at the foot of The Hindu Kush’: road construction as a means of legitimizing the rule of the Russian Empire in the Pamir	2
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan	2
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	2
Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression	2
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–2012	2