OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Communist and Post-Communist Studies 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
From Restricted to Digital Fieldwork	12
Distributional Consequences of Political Freedom	11
Soviet Memories as Part of Regional Repertoires of Usable Past in Contemporary Russia	10
The Birth of Collective Action Out of Influencer Culture?	9
Forged in Crises	8
Religion and the Protest Movement	8
From Division to Democracy	7
The Language of the Witness, the Language of the Researcher	7
The Long Shadow Cast by Communism over Women’s Political Representation	6
Political Positioning of Religious Institutions in Comparative Perspective	6
Debt-Based Trade, Social Norms, and Informality in Uzbekistan	5
How Does a Military Create a Tradition in a New Democracy?	5
Lukashenka’s Constitutional Plebiscite and the Polarization of Belarusian Society	5
Transformations in Russian Activism	5
Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Participation in Post-Communist Europe during the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan	5
Communist Social Policy	5
Knowledge Production and Resistance in Times of War	5
Polyphonic Peace	5
Dear Compatriots	5
Erratum	5
Social Class and Ethnocentric Worldviews	5
Social and Personal Fears of the Population of Ukraine	4
Pushed against the Wall	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Authoritarian Resilience of Communist Regimes in Asia	4

A Least Expected Ally?	4
Proxy Games and Freezing Conflict	4
The Invention of Legacy	4
We Are All Netnographers Now? Fieldwork in an Age of Participatory Warfare	4
Witnessing the Crisis	4
Failures in Ukrainian Arms Procurement 2014–2023	4
From Celebrity Feminism to Feminist Anti-War Resistance	4
Through Their Eyes	4
The Evolution of Women’s Activism in Russia	4
The Defending “Defenders”	3
Researching Russia with Digital Trace Data	3
The Role of “Resources” in Regime Durability in Laos	3
Nothing Was Available and Everything Was Possible	3
Multiple Positionalities of a Researcher	3
Class Analysis as Systemic Critique	3
Studying the Great Patriotic War in the Shadow of the Current Crisis	3
The Image of the Communist Ideo-Political Legacy	3
Measuring Civil Society	3
The Digital Contestation of Racialized Nationhood in Russia	3
Introduction	3
Socialist Egalitarianism in Everyday Life of Secondary Technical Schools in Czechoslovakia during the Normalization Period (1969–89)	3
The Cossacks of Southern Russia in 21st-Century Memory Politics	2
War Memories, Monumental Activism, and Regional Identity in the Arctic Borderland	2
Populism, Anti-establishment Politics, and Dimensions of Political Competition	2
Elections, Succession, and Legitimacy in Ukraine	2
Sino-Russian Relations from the Perspective of National Role Theory	2
Gendering Violence in the Age of Anti-Genderism	2
The Soviet Pillar of Belonging	2
The Foundations of Russian Statehood	2
The Politburos of Communist Eastern Europe	2
Between Loyalty and Opposition	2
Organizational Strength and Authoritarian Durability in Cambodia	2
Social Media Listening Platforms in Wartime Russia	2
Escaping the Long Shadow of Homo Sovieticus	2
Reframing Reflexivity	2
No Limit on Terms Served?	2
Networked Public Diplomacy	2
Ukrainian Researchers in a War Documentation Project	2
War and Eurasia’s Ethnic Boundaries	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Class Dynamics from Socialism to Post-Socialism	2
Assessing Socialist Past and Sociodemographic Present	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eurasian Continuities	2
Everyday Bribery in North Korea as Moral Economy	1
Institutionalizing Electoral Malpractice	1
International Policy Transfer in Post-Communist States	1
Constitutional Amendments, Democratic Resilience, and the Threat of Political Regime Change	1
The Way Home, or the Way to Prison? Gender Legacies and Anti-War Protest in Russia	1
A Bottom-Up Analysis of Societal Belief in Judicial Independence in Russia	1
Define a Dragon	1
Informal Network as a Coping Strategy in the Climate–Livestock Relationship	1

Finding Space for Activism	1
Explaining Support for Russian Narratives about the Events in Ukraine among Japanese Scholars and Intellectuals in 2014–19	1
“Competitive Rent-Seeking” in the Kim Jong Un Era of North Korea	1
ICT Use and Entrepreneurial Mobilization of Chinese Grassroots Activists in and beyond Cyberspace	1
Language Activism in Kazakhstan	1
Communist Legacy, Anti-Elite Sentiments, and Modernization Theory	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on Protest and Authoritarian Reaction in Belarus	1
“We Will Die as Free People”	1
Supporting the War in Ukraine Compared to the Annexation of Crimea in Russia’s Bureaucratic Texts	1
Gender Egalitarianism of Recent Emigrants from Russia	1
Media Literacy and the Interpretation of the War—A Study of Uzbekistani Youth’s Perceptions on the Russia-Ukraine War	1
Collective Action, Memories of 1989, and Social Media	1
A Not-So-Simple Noodle Story	1
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext	1
Class, Conflict, and Power between Hegemony and Critical Knowledge	1
Immersion and Distancing	1
Russian Foreign Policy Research and War in Ukraine	1
Songs for Ordinary People	1
Targets and Resources	1