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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
How Do Bigger and Smaller Cities Manage Migration? Ukrainian War Refugees in Polish Cities	16
From the Bronze Soldier to the “Bloody Marshal”: Monument Wars and Russia’s Aesthetic Vulnerability in Estonia and the Czech Republic	11
From Dissidence to Heroism: Constructing an Ideal Post-Communist Identity in the Czech Republic	10
Between Ideological Loyalty and Political Adaptation: The “Agrarian Question” in the Development of Bulgarian Social Democracy, 1891–1912	9
Shrinking, Shifting, and Strengthening: The Dynamics and Diversity of Civic Activism in Poland	7
The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe	7
Civic Engagement and Its Disparate Goals in Bosnia-Herzegovina	7
Restoring What Never Existed: The Role of Familism in Narratives of Return in Hungary	6
Populist Juggling with Fear: The Case of Hungary	5
Differentiated European Integration of Ukraine in Comparative Perspective	5
Unsettling Borderlands: The Population Exchange and the Polish Minority in Soviet Belarus, 1944–1947	5
“A Disease Like Any Other”: Awareness-Raising and Neuro-tivization of Depression in Poland	5
In Need of a Leader: Bolesław Piasecki’s Charismatic Leadership in the 1930s	4
Actions Speak Louder Than Words? The Untapped Potential of V4 Parliaments in EU Affairs	4
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	4
Political Will and Media Law: A Poland Case Analysis	4
Editors’ Note	4
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	4
Outcomes, Politicians, or the Institution Itself? Using a Czech Case to Explain Trust Formation in Different Political Institutions and the Implications for Voter Turnout	4
Who Survives and Who Does Not? The Rise and Decline of Personalized Parties	3
Bringing the Virus Back Home: Media Representations of Ukrainian Labour Migrants in a Time of Pandemic	3
Home as an Uncanny Site of Violence in Polish-Jewish Autobiographical Texts on the Holocaust	3
“Secret Services Are Meant To Serve”: State Violence in the Autobiographic Memory of Secret Police Officers in Communist Poland	3
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	3
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	3

The Unintended Costs and Unfulfilled Promises of Concurrent Elections: A Natural Experiment on Turnout and Invalid Voting	3
Preaching the “Traditional Family” in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative	3
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	2
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	2
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy	2
Monitoring Democracy in the Eastern Neighbourhood: When Are the EU’s Assessments Lenient and Why?	2
Peripheralization Processes as a Contextual Source of Populist Vote Choices: Evidence from the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany	2
The Entrepreneur in “Transformation Cinema”: Representing the Economic Changes of the 1990s in Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia	2
Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past	2
Participation in Polish Local Elections: Sheer Rational Choice or Social Embeddedness Fate?	2
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	2
Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	2
East European Politics and Societies’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine	2
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	2
Circulation, Conditions, Claims: Examining the Politics of Historical Memory in Eastern Europe	2
Different Meanings of Proper Nutrition: The Sociopolitical Dynamics of the Relationship between Body and State in the 1970s and 2010s Poland	2
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	2
Populism and Memory: Legislation of the Past in Poland, Ukraine, and Russia	2
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania	2
Lustration: A Post-Communist Phenomenon	2
Taming Transylvania: Paramilitaries Building State and Peace after World War I	2
Between Conflict and Cooperation: Electoral Strategies of Ethnic Parties	2
Writing Władysław Gomułka’s Life: Historiography of Władysław Gomułka’s Biographies	2
Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest	2
Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968. An Author Meets Her Reviewers: A Symposium	2
Remembering a Contentious Past: Resistance and Collaboration in the Former Soviet Union	2
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	2