OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of East European Politics and Societies 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
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	18
In Need of a Leader: Bolesław Piasecki’s Charismatic Leadership in the 1930s	14
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	11
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	8
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy	7
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	7
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	6
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	5
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	5
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	5
Not So Much Societal: The Catholic Church in Poland as a Veto Player	4
Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateřina Tučková’s Gerta	4
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary	4
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	4
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	4
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	4
Playing Locally but Commuting to a Better School: Urban Planning and Education Policies in Parental Involvement Practices and Local Community Formation	4
The Ethnopolitical Motivation behind the Formation of New Municipalities in Montenegro	3
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	3
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	3
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	3
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	3
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	3
The Toolkit of Nationalist Populism in Contemporary Hungary: Symbols, Objects, and Modalities of Circulation	3
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	3

The Rise and Decline of Polish Revisionist Marxist Economics: The Fates of Włodzimierz Brus and the Faculty of Political Economy (University of Warsaw), 1953–1968	3
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	2
The Idea of the Yugoslav–Bulgarian Federation at the End of the Second World War	2
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania	2
The Unintended Costs and Unfulfilled Promises of Concurrent Elections: A Natural Experiment on Turnout and Invalid Voting	2
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	2
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	2
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	2
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	2
Economic Growth Determinants in South-East European Countries: A System Generalized Method of Moments Approach	2
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	2
How Historians Got Involved in Memory Politics: Patterns of the Historiography of the Polish People’s Republic before and after 1989	2
Being There as Socialism Unravels	2
Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968. An Author Meets Her Reviewers: A Symposium	2
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	2
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	2
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	2
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	2
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	2
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	2
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	2
Silesians in the Face of Polish Cultural Dominance	2
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	2
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis	2
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	2
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	2
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	2
“Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: A Study of Farmers’ Subjectivities in Rural Poland	2
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	2