OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Contemporary European 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Framing the Socialist City as Practice	11
The Locarno Film Festival under the Influence? Programming Eastern European Movies in Anti-communist Switzerland (1946–1962)	9
Transitional Justice Incubator: Bridging European Fault Lines	9
Making Europe from the Outside: The Rise of Japan and European East–West Cooperation in the Long 1970s	7
Cosmopolitan Hopes across National Tongues: Scientific Cooperation through Multilingualism in International Medical Congresses, c. 1900	6
The Quest for the Language of Socialist Modernisation: (Re)writing Ukrainian Scientific Language in the Long 1920s	5
CEH volume 33 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
Neoliberalism from Within: The Business Fund and the Struggle for Market Ideology in Sweden	5
Delivering on Ideas: British Plans for Post-war Regional and International Order, January – August 1944	5
CEH volume 32 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Notes on Contributors	4
Fighting Decline: A Geopolitical History of European Public Health (1945–1960s)	4
The 2020 Contemporary European History Prize	4
Creating the ‘Suspect’: New Works on Policing France	4
‘Society Is Watching You Very Carefully’: Smuggling, the State and Athlete Attempts to Assert Agency in People's Poland	3
CEH volume 31 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	3
RETRACTED - Agents of Change? Families, Welfare and Democracy in Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century Europe	3
The Invisible Work of Intellectual Advocacy: Female Volunteering for the Socialist Cause in Cold War Iceland	3
Travelling to See, Reading to Believe: Being Fascists after the End of the Second World War	3
The Work of ‘Outsiders’: Conflicting Concepts of Prison Labour in the West German Democracy, 1950–1970	3
For Food and Freedom: Female Resistance, Hunger Demonstrations and Looting during the Second World War in Belgium	3
CEH volume 32 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	3
Democracy, Authoritarianism and Global Economic Governance	3
Free to Choose: E-voting, Infrastructure and the Origins of Estonia’s Digital Republic	3
The ‘Market-Conforming’ Family: Foreign Families, the ‘Grandmother Solution’ and the West German Welfare State	3

Writing the History of Postwar European Democracy	3
‘Death Is Not the End’: Thanatology Today – ERRATUM	2
The Un-‘Common Sense’ of National Identity: Luigi Molina, Trentini and the Fascist Italianisation Campaign in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	2
Bricks and Bombs versus Bullets and Batons: Protest and Regime Violence as Generational Experience in Communist Poland	2
CEH volume 33 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Spain: From the Epidemic to the Crisis of Liberalism	2
Colonial Business in Postcolonial Germany: The Imperial Afterlives of C. Woermann, 1919–1945	2
‘Lab Rats for Science’: Uranium Mining, Expellees, Public Health, and Narratives of Radiation Danger in Cold War West Germany, 1955–1968	2
The Anarchist in Uniform: The Militarisation of Anarchist Culture during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)	2
‘Big Clean’, the ‘Death Ship’ and the Hazardous Waste Trade between West Germany and Turkey, 1987–1988	2
Technologies of Emergency: Cyprus at the Intersection of Decolonisation and the Cold War	2
Infrastructures, Circulation and the Limits of Empire: German War Aims in the First World War	2
‘We Liberated Ourselves from Italians!’: Jewish Agency, Self-Organisation, and Resistance in the Italian-Occupied Dalmatia, 1941–3	2
‘Socialism is not just Built for a Hundred Years’: Renewable Energy and Planetary Thought in the Early Soviet Union (1917–1945)	2
Redefining Urban Citizenship: Italian Migrants and Housing Occupations in 1970s Frankfurt am Main	2
When History Matters Too Much: Historians and the Politics of History in Poland	2
Lifestyle Research and the Making of the Sovereign Consumer in Late Twentieth-Century Sweden	2
Visions of World Order in the Interwar Years: International Movements and the Quest for a Liberal Order	2
Human Rights and the Lomé Convention: Debates between the European Community and the Developing World, 1988–91	2
Irrelevant Scapegoat: The Perils of Doing European History in Post-Trump America – CORRIGENDUM	2
Navigating Post-Imperial Transitions after the First World War: Introduction	2
CEH volume 34 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	2
Threats and Premonitions: German Intellectual Debates on Antisemitism in 1932	2
Rethinking Childhood and War in the Twentieth Century	2
A Provincial Pandemic: European Ignorance of the 1918 ‘Spanish’ Influenza as a Shared Event	1
The Interweaving: Communist Women and Feminism in 1970s Italy	1
Shaming Through Photographic Denunciation in Nazi Germany, 1933–1938	1
Teachers in Power: Nation-Building and Loyalty in a Czechoslovak Periphery (1918–1947)	1
CEH volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
CEH volume 31 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
A Flanking European Welfare State: The European Community's Social Dimension, from Brandt to Delors (1969–1993)	1
CEH volume 33 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
Entanglements of Scale: The Beer Purity Law from Bavarian Oddity to German Icon, 1906–1975	1
Sexual Knowledge and Expertise in Europe's East: Transnational Exchanges	1
‘No Solution to the Immediate Crisis’: The Uncertain Political Economy of Energy Conservation in 1970s Britain	1
Mercantile Neutrality: British Insurers and the Spanish Civil War	1
The Lives and Afterlives of a Soviet Misfit: Volodymyr Ivasiuk, the Emotional Crisis of Late Socialism and the Anti-Soviet Turn in Ukrainian Popular Culture	1
One Challenge Disguised as Two? New Scholarship on the Economic and Social Effects of Border Changes and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century Poland	1
Agents of Change? Families, Welfare and Democracy in Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century Europe – RETRACTION	1
From Collaboration to Resistance: The Family Dynamic in Autism Literature in Contemporary France	1
CEH volume 31 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Westerners, Western Power and Polish Society in the Mid-Twentieth Century: The Poznań International Trade Fair as a Complex Frontier	1
Tourism Diplomacy in Cold War Europe: Symbolic Gestures, Cultural Exchange and Human Rights	1
The Birth of the Finance Consumer: Feminists, Bankers and the Re-Gendering of Finance in Mid-Twentieth-Century Sweden	1
Public Responses to the Renaming of Commemorative Street Names in Post-Communist Poland: Daily Lives, Experiences of Change and Sense of Place	1
A Dual Entity: The European Investment Bank and Its Lending Policy from Its Origins to the Late 1970s	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Historians and the Decade of Centenaries in Modern Ireland	1
Between Ethnic Democracy, Authoritarianism and Violence: Inter-War Experiences and Jewish Socio-Political Stances in Early Post-War Poland	1
Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century	1

The Roles of Transnational Associations in the World Order in the 1919 Paris Peace Settlement: A Comparative Assessment of Proposals and Their Influence	1
CEH volume 32 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Catalans and Rifis during the Wilsonian Moment: The Quest for Self-Determination in the Post-Versailles World	1
The Ghosts of Fleet Street: What Did Not Working Mean in the British Printing Industry, C.1950–80?	1
A ‘Sisyphean Task’: Recent Developments in the Historiography of Mental Health	1
Demobilising Opposition to European Integration: The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Creation of the European Union, 1988–1992	1
Family Fortunes and Political Ruptures in Twentieth-Century East-Central Europe: The Trajectory of the Chorin Family	1
Beyond the Verdict: The Death Penalty and Clemency in Budapest	1
How Transnational Exchanges Shaped Conceptions about Morality and Small Nations in Europe: Catalan (and Spanish) Readings of Václav Havel in the 1990s	1
Europe's Long 1989	1
‘Economic Tyranny’ and Public Anger in France, 1945–1947	1
The Regia Nave Italia: Race, Migration and Fascist Colonial Diplomacy in Latin America, 1922–24	1
Image Under Fire: West German Development Aid and the Ghana Press War, 1960–1966	1
‘Hip Hip Hooray and Thank You Marshall’: Gratitude, Emotion and the Mediation of Post-War Dutch–US Relations	1