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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	19
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	14
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	13
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	11
Not So Much Societal: The Catholic Church in Poland as a Veto Player	7
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy	7
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	7
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	7
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	6
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	6
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	5
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	5
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	4
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary	4
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	4
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	4
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	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	4
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	3
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	3
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	3
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	3
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	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 System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	3

The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	3
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	3
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	3
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis	3
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	2
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	2
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	2
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	2
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	2
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past	2
Silesians in the Face of Polish Cultural Dominance	2
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	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
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	2
How Historians Got Involved in Memory Politics: Patterns of the Historiography of the Polish People’s Republic before and after 1989	2
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization	2
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	2
Economic Growth Determinants in South-East European Countries: A System Generalized Method of Moments Approach	2
“Paradoxical” Dissatisfaction among Post-Socialist Farmers with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: A Study of Farmers’ Subjectivities in Rural Poland	2
Being There as Socialism Unravels	2
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	2
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	2
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	2
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	2
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	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
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	2