OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Constituencies of Control’ – Collective Punishments in Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–55	5
Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022)	4
Remembering the Colonial Past in Algerian Literature	3
American Empire in Global History	3
The Swedish Slave Trade Efforts at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: Case Studies in Nordic Transimperial History	3
World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–1959	3
Southern Rhodesia and Britain’s Discriminatory Sterling Area: The Dollar Crisis and Post-War Colonial Tobacco Trade, 1947–1960	2
Self-determination and State-building: Mosul Before the League of Nations, 1918–1932	2
A Place in the Empire: Gibraltar Camp in Jamaica and the British Imperial Order, 1940–1947	2
The Imperial Afterlife of Warren Hastings, 1818–1947	2
Cold War and Decolonisation: The British Response to Soviet Union Anti-colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
The African Savers and the Post Office Savings Bank in Colonial Kenya (1910-1954)	2
Stabilising Lymph: British East and Central Africa, ‘Tropical’ Climates, and the Search for Effective Smallpox Vaccine Lymph, 1890s–1903	2
To Maintain or Adjust?: On the Whiteness of Swedish Men in the Congo Free State (1884–1914)	2
The Northern Ireland Conflict and Colonial Resonances	2
Andrew Porter (1945–2021)	2
Channelling Ottoman Armenian Refugees During the Hamidian Massacres: Immigration Restrictions and British Liberal Imperial Humanitarianism at Stake (1894–1898)	2
Development and Decolonisation: the 1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development and the Independence of Papua New Guinea	1
A ‘Mudbank’ or ‘the Most Dangerous Area in the World’? Decolonising British Guiana, Czechoslovakia, and the Making of a Cold War Hot Spot in Latin America	1
Reanalysing Ireland’s Exit from the Commonwealth 1948–49: The Brexit Isles’ Alter Ego?	1
The Maltese Fulcrum: Strategy and Fantasy in the Early Nineteenth-century British Mediterranean	1
Performing an Imperial Career: Hamilton Goold-Adams in Southern Africa, Cyprus and Queensland	1
Imperial Confusion: America’s Post-colonial and Post-revolutionary Empire	1
The Remains of the Colonial Postcard Days: How to Come to Terms with the Imperial Gaze	1
Peter Burroughs (1936–2021)	1

The Proteas Plucked for a Lotus Land: Ceylon’s Boer Internment Experience, 1900–1902	1
Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914	1
‘Mr Wakefield’s Speaking Trumpets’: Abolishing Slavery and Colonising Systematically	1
Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974: Contingent Continuities from Empire to Post-Empire	1
Fleet-footed Performers at the Edges of Colonial Law: Jack Johnson, Maud Allan and the Struggles of Cinema Censorship in British India	1
Brexit and the ‘Imperial Factor’: A longue durée Approach to British Exceptionalism	1
Fragile Connections: Finnish Settlers and U.S. Power in Cuba, c. 1904–1959	1
The Frontiers of Empire: Colonial Policing in Southern Palestine, Sinai, Transjordan and Saudi Arabia	1
Practical Christianity in Practice: Chinese Youth Culture and the Scouting Movement as Seen by British Missionaries at the Griffith John College, Hankou, 1915–1925	1
Nordics in Motion: Transimperial Mobilities and Global Experiences of Nordic Colonialism	1
Nordic Settler Identities in Colonial Kenya: Class, Nationality and Race in Bror and Karen Blixen’s Transimperial Lives	1
‘In the Mutual Interest’: The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947–1957	1
Come By Chance: Newfoundland and Global Medical Migration, 1950–1976	1
Response: Imperial Puzzles	1
‘The Little Nothings of Our Life’: Furlough, Recovery and Imperial Interlude at the Cape Colony, 1796–1850	1
A Poorly Invented Tradition?La Semaine coloniale française 1927–1939in its Transnational Context	1
The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning	1