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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Brexit and Empire: ‘Global Britain’ and the Myth of Imperial Nostalgia	40
Portugal, the World Health Organisation and the Regional Office for Africa: From Founding Member to Outcast (1948–1966)	5
Colonial Fragility: British Embarrassment and the So-called ‘Migrated Archives’	4
Chinese Illicit Immigration into Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1970–1980	3
World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–1959	3
‘The Bhangi and the Chamar should be Called to the Councils of Empire’: Lord Lothian, the Indian Franchise, and the Untouchables	3
Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production	3
The Frontiers of Empire: Colonial Policing in Southern Palestine, Sinai, Transjordan and Saudi Arabia	3
Law Against Empire, or Law for Empire? – American Imagination and the International Legal Order in the Twentieth Century	2
An ‘Incalculable Blunder’: Empire and the British Public School, 1896–1914	2
Stamping ‘Imagination and Sensibility’: Objects, Culture, and Governance in Late Colonial Hong Kong	2
On Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning: A Reply to Alan Lester	2
‘Shipwrecked in Jerusalem’: British Amateur Theatre and Colonial Culture in Mandatory Palestine	2
Independence and Pan-African Diplomatic Contestation: Anti-colonial Nationalism and the Eclipse of White Legitimacy in ‘British Central Africa’, 1957–64	2
Britain and the Rhodesian Mercenary Issue, c.1970–1980	2
‘Mr Wakefield’s Speaking Trumpets’: Abolishing Slavery and Colonising Systematically	2
Law, Identity and Imperial Logics of Exclusion: The Case of theKomagata MaruPassengers	2
‘Abroad Was Where It all Happened’: Inter-war and Post-war Sponsored Migration to the Commonwealth	2
Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth: Time to Open the Archives	2
The Small Spaces of Empire: Long-distance Trade, Anglo-Indian Foodways and the Bottlekhana	1
The Convict Peace: The Imperial Context of the 1833 Convict Revolt at Castle Forbes	1
Military Training and Decolonisation in the British Empire	1
‘Today We Will Milk Dogs!’ (Nhasi tinokama imbwa)* – A Socio-political History of African-owned Dogs and the Dog Tax in Southern Rhodesia, c.1900–1950	1
The Road to 1898: On American Empire and the Philippine Revolution	1
The ILO and the Political Economy of Labour Policy Making in Nigeria, 1930–1960	1

‘The Little Nothings of Our Life’: Furlough, Recovery and Imperial Interlude at the Cape Colony, 1796–1850	1
Decolonising theHajj:Nationalist Politics and Pilgrimage Administration the British Empire in the Mid-twentieth Century	1
Stabilising Lymph: British East and Central Africa, ‘Tropical’ Climates, and the Search for Effective Smallpox Vaccine Lymph, 1890s–1903	1
Governing Over Distance: Delegating Trust and Dealing with Disorder in the Early East India Company Trade	1
Proslavery Collaborations Between British Outport and Metropole: The Rise of the Glasgow–West India Interest, 1775–1838	1
Violence, Resilience and the ‘Coolie’ Identity: Life and Survival on Ships to the Caribbean, 1834–1917	1
An Alternative Macanese Public Sphere: Discussing Portuguese Macau’s Problems in British Hong Kong	1
The British Empire after A.G. Hopkins'sAmerican Empire	1
‘A Matter of Doubt and Uncertainty’: John Gladstone and the Post-Slavery Framework of Labour in the British Empire	1
The British Empire in the Culture War: Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning	1
‘In the Mutual Interest’: The Making and Breaking of the United Kingdom-Ceylon Defence Agreement, 1947–1957	1
Colonialism and its Regimes of Visibility: Edgard Imbert’s Views of the French Empire	1
The Philippines in Imperial History	1
Sovereignty After the Empire and the Search for a New Order: India’s Attempt to Negotiate a Common Citizenship in the Commonwealth (1947–1949)	1
Shirking the Briggs Plan: Civilian Resistance to Reform and the Army’s Struggle for Control in Malaya, 1950–1952	1
Concealing Colonial Comparability: British Exceptionalism, Imperial Violence, and the Dynamiting of Cave Refuges in Southern Africa, 1879–1897	1
Sámi Mobilities in Colonial Spaces and the Right to Make a Home	1
United States Expansion and Incorporation in the Long Nineteenth-century	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 Imperial Afterlife of Warren Hastings, 1818–1947	1