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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	19
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	17
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	11
Threading Postsocialist, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Intersections in Hybrid Spaces: Selected Women’s Textile Creations across the Czech and Slovak Borders	9
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	9
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	9
The Functional Dereliction of the Druzhba Cinema in Comrat: A Case Study of a Cultural and National Heritage Site in Post-Soviet Gagauzia	8
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	7
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	7
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	7
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	7
The Land at the Bottom of the Lake: Development through Nature in Yugoslav (Post-)Socialism	6
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	6
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship Between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary	5
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	5
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	5
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	5
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	5
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	5
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	4
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	4
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	4
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	4
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	3
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	3

Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	3
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	3
The History of the Czech Women’s Movement: A Casualty of War?	3
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	3
Shades of Dependency and the Discourse on “Corruption”: Railway Concessions in Romania in the Nineteenth Century	3
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	3
Displaced Borderlands: Civilizational Belonging in the Narratives of Kharkiv Residents Relocated to the European Union after February 2022	3
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	3
Being There as Socialism Unravels	3
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	3
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	3
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	3
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	3
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	3
Nationalism, Clientelism, and Green Transition: Econativism and Environmental Politics in Pljevlja, Montenegro	2
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	2
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism	2
Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter	2
The Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–1945	2
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	2
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	2
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	2
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	2
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	2
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	2
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	2
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations	2
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	2
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past	2
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	2
Between Peripheries and Solidarities: Resisting Green Extractivism in Serbia	2
The Presence of War	2
The Post-Socialist Reshaping of Urban Identity: Insights from Novi Sad, Serbia	2
The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland	2
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	2
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	2
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization	2
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	2