OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of South East Asia Research is 0. 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
Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas ( Love Destiny )	11
Recruitment of village officials in decentralized Indonesia: national policy, local accommodation and resistance	9
Finding Bisaya : the state of the field for Visayan literature	7
Pursuing morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in Southeastern Myanmar	6
The Communist Party of Thailand's education for young children in Northern Laos and Southern China	6
The candidate’s dilemma: anticorruptionism and money politics in Indonesian election campaigns The candidate’s dilemma: anticorruptionism and money politics in Indonesian election campa	5
Fluid jurisdictions: colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia Fluid jurisdictions: colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia , by Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Ithaca and London, C	5
Forsaken causes: liberal democracy and anticommunism in Cold War Laos	5
Global city dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore literature: intersectional politics and cultural negotiations in the 21st century	4
Mobilizing idol celebrity in queer affective advertising: exploring the impacts of ‘Boys Love’ media and fandom in Thailand	4
The value of wild fish: diet and livelihoods in two rural villages in the Mun River Basin, northeastern Thailand	4
Winaray without tears: annotations on the translations and transcriptions of Bisayan terms and phrases in Alcina’s Historia (1668)	3
Port security and preman organizations in Indonesia	3
Rethinking histories of Indonesia: experiencing, resisting and renegotiating coloniality	3
Economic Cold War: Chinese economic aid to Vietnam, 1954–1975	3
Recycling infrastructures in Cambodia: circularity, waste, and urban life in Phnom Penh	3
Worshipping the Other: a literary anthropological study of the Datuk Gong cult in Malaysia	2
Politics of unbelonging: ethnic Chinese identity politics in post-Suharto Indonesia	2
The man and his tales: Étienne Aymonier’s Textes khmers and the colonial construction of the Khmers	2
‘Brave and self-sacrificing Covid warriors:’ the metaphors used to describe healthcare workers in Thailand	2
The culture of pamatbat and parapamatbat in the Central Philippines	2
‘The buffalo skin written word’: the cultural politics of orality and writing in mainland South East Asia	2
Islam, modernity and well-being: health advice in Muhammadiyah publications during the Dutch colonial period	2
Vietnam: navigating a rapidly changing economy, society, and political order	1
Winning by process: the state and neutralization of ethnic minorities in Myanmar Winning by process: the state and neutralization of ethnic minorities in Myanmar , by Ja	1

Unpacking the black box: I. Knowledge production and public health narratives on liver fluke infection and cholangiocarcinoma in Northeast Thailand	1
Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance , by Kĕmuling Rat Dyah Atapêng Raje, edited and translated by Stuar	1
Unexpectedly sacred: Islamic conversion narratives as sacred historiography in West Java	1
Finding eunuchs in imperial Vietnam: questions and sources	1
Buddhist landscapes: art and archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th centuries	1
The ramifications of displacement for mealtime-related activities, practices and dynamics among people affected by conflict in Mindanao, Philippines	1
Workers and democracy: The Indonesian labour movement, 1949–1957	1
Amnesia: a history of democratic idealism in modern Thailand	1
Are all middle powers good international citizens? The contrasting case of Vietnam	1
Imagining Malaya: Peranakan cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and belonging at the end of empire, 1945–1957	1
Postcolonial hangups in Southeast Asian cinema	1
Governing urban Indonesia	1
Customary institutions and village governance in Indonesia: a comparative study	1
Histories of scale: Java, the Indies and Asia in the imperial age, 1820–1945 Histories of scale: Java, the Indies and Asia in the imperial age, 1820–1945 , by Vincent Ho	1
Participation without accountability: deliberative democracy in village Indonesia	1
A political biography of the Indonesian lesbian, bisexual and trans movement	1
Single mothers and the state’s embrace: reproductive agency in Vietnam	1
Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels	1
‘Good for the country, beneficial to the family’: the Bắc Hưng Hải irrigation system and pragmatic collectivism in post-1954 northern Vietnam	1
Acculturation orientation and expectation: mapping the labour migration processes of Cham youth in Cambodia	1
Film is dangerous: ten years of censorship in Thailand’s cinema, 2010–2020	1
Film style in Indonesian cinema, 1998–2018	0
Trending Islam: cases from Southeast Asia	0
The trope of the Native American in nineteenth-century British and American accounts of South East Asia	0
In women we trust: female brokers in Indonesian village governance	0
Financialization and rural development: comparing credit systems in Thailand and Cambodia	0
The power of the blood: myths and practices surrounding menstruation in Indonesian diamond mining	0
The first Vietnam War: violence, sovereignty, and the fracture of the South, 1945-1956	0
Southeast Asia’s multipolar future: averting a new Cold War	0
Territorialization of maritime spaces and human insecurity: the case of the Bajau Laut in Sabah, Malaysia	0
The Red Necks and the importance of magic during the post-1975 insurgency in Laos	0
Les sultanats du Sud philippin: Une histoire sociale et culturelle de l’islamisation (xv ^e -xx ^e siècles)	0
‘Writing’ and sustaining Asian regionalism: interpreting the official discourse of ASEAN	0
Linguistic landscape study in the Philippines: themes, trends and trajectories	0
Strategic hedging: a case study of nineteenth-century Siam	0
Beating the status quo: Thailand’s energy governance and decarbonization strategies towards carbon neutrality	0
Do ethnic politics matter? Reassessing the role of ethnicity in local elections in Indonesia	0
Photographic realism and communism: the twin spectres in the image of the student skit in Dao Sayam	0
Jakarta: the city of a thousand dimensions	0
Race, sexuality and prostitution in colonial Singapore: reading J. G. Farrell's The Singapore Grip	0
From ‘sumandak’ to beauty queen: constructing Kadazandusun gendered identity in Sabah’s Unduk Ngadau pageant	0
Silver screens and golden dreams: a social history of Burmese cinema	0
Spirit possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: worlds ever more enchanted	0
Navigating stigmatized motherhood: self-stigma of single mothers with mental illness in Thailand	0
Wayward distractions: ornament, emotion, zombies and the study of Buddhism in Thailand	0
Local social movements and local democracy: tin and gold mining in Indonesia	0
Language superdiversity among ethnic minority communities in southeast Vietnam	0
Comparing village politics across time and space	0
Framing the ‘Others’: the portrayal of Chinese Indonesians in digital media	0
State of fear: policing a postcolonial city	0

The transformation of South East Asian studies in China: Sinocentric and de-Sinocentric paradigms	0
Illegal tin mining, policy gaps and the plight of small-scale tin miners in Indonesia	0
Juan Luna as nationalist painter and hero: examining configurations of public memory in the Philippines	0
Bisayan studies	0
The road to Nusantara: process, challenges and opportunities	0
Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand , by Yoshinori Nishizaki, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2	0
Polarization among the ASEAN member states: a geopolitical analysis	0
Blessing the living spaces of migrants: religious practices of Thai workers in Japan and their meanings	0
Beauty, educational prestige and vote choice in Indonesia: an experimental study	0
Contemporary legend as vernacular politics in postwar Hue: memory, ritual practice and contested sacred spaces	0
Vietnam documented: the British Library’s Vietnamese collection	0
Kretek capitalism: making, marketing, and consuming clove cigarettes in Indonesia	0
Living art: Indonesian artists engage politics, society and history Living art: Indonesian artists engage politics, society and history , edited by Elly Kent, Virginia H	0
Performative politics: unravelling the complexities of Myanmar–China relations and the Belt and Road Initiative	0
Desiring Thai Men: Asian gay media and transforming masculinities	0
Citizen designs: city-making and democracy in northeastern Thailand	0
The Sitala controversy: politicization of K-pop for democratization in Thailand	0
Colonial law making: Cambodia under the French	0
How contentious repertoires travel: pioneering hunger strikes as resistance in late colonial Burma	0
Bad lieutenants: the Khmer Rouge, united front, and class struggle, 1970–1997	0
Regionalism as anti-colonialism: imaginaries of area in South East Asian omnibus film and database art	0
Moments of silence: the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok Moments of silence: the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok , by Th	0
‘ Pa-uli na ’: Filipino familial intimacy and entreaties to returning interprovincial migrants	0
Innovation, style and spectacle in wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the evolution of an Indonesian performing art Innovation, style and spectacle in wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the evolution of an	0
Village–state relations in post-New Order Indonesia: political lobbying, village grants and clientelism	0
Kaagi: tracing Visayan identities in cultural texts	0
Letters to the editor: reporting disasters and creating identity in the late nineteenth century Philippines	0
Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature	0
Shaping a Dutch East Indies: François Valentyn’s VOC empire	0
Outsourcing the polity: non-state welfare, inequality, and resistance in Myanmar Outsourcing the polity: non-state welfare, inequality, and resistance in Myanmar , by Ge	0
Interterritorial conflicts of interest in the federation of French Indochina: recruiting indigenous labour in Tonkin and Annam in the 1920s	0
Vietnam’s policies and the role of the country of origin in the integration process of migrant workers in the EU	0
Political mobilization of the Malaysian Christian minority in the 1980s	0
Participatory environmental governance in Indonesia: assessing the limitations	0
Bangkok middle-class spectatorship and social realist media: contesting modernity through visualizing Muslim minorities	0
Kebalian: the dialogic construction of Balinese identity	0
Return of the junta: why Myanmar’s military must return to barracks Return of the junta: why Myanmar’s military must return to barracks , by Oliver Slow, London, Bloomsb	0
An abandoned Cham temple of Vietnam: the woven history of the Hòa Lai Temple from a multiple disciplinary approach	0
Unsettled frontiers: market formation in the Cambodia–Vietnam Borderlands	0
For a non-communist South East Asia: the Republic of Vietnam–Australia relationship during the Vietnam War, 1965–1973	0
Elite opposition and popular rejection: the failure of presidential term limit evasion in Widodo’s Indonesia	0
A feminist analysis of colonial representations of Visayan women at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition	0
Analysing and explaining variation in village governance regimes across Indonesia	0
Between chili farms and an aerotropolis: the struggle against the new airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	0
The Angkorian World	0
Celluloid colony: locating history and ethnography in early Dutch colonial films Celluloid colony: locating history and ethnography in early Dutch colonial films , by Sa	0
Adapting to local markets and political changes: Chinese businesses in Malaysia and Indonesia	0
Institutional change and the framing of palm oil-based biofuel development in Indonesia: in the national interest?	0
Contextualization of MNEs and the emergence of local marketers: brand competition in the Thai Detergent Industry (1950s–1980s)	0
In terms of kalibutan : notes on method via the Visayas	0
Eunuchs in Vietnam: what’s missing?	0
An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines	0
The downstream impacts of dams on the seasonally flooded riverine forests of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia	0
Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World	0
Hatta and Indonesia’s independent and active foreign policy: retrospect and prospect Hatta and Indonesia’s independent and active foreign policy: retrospect and prospect	0
State of disorder: privatised violence and the state in Indonesia	0
The Filipino migration experience	0
Hiding behind the platform: the myth of flexibility for gig workers in Indonesia	0
Living Theravada: Demystifying the people, places, and practices of a Buddhist tradition	0
Seaways and gatekeepers: trade and state in the Eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906	0
Law between two empires: marriage and divorce in the evolving Philippine legal system under the early US colonial period, 1898–1917	0
SOGIE equality bill deliberations in the 18th Congress of the Philippines: a persisting battle against discrimination	0
The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics	0
Nationalism and decolonisation in Singapore: the Malayan generation, 1953–1963	0
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum: a multifaceted history of Khmer Rouge crimes	0
Buddhist visions, dreams, and possession trance: spiritual authority, ritual diversity and religious innovation in Thailand	0
‘Mouthpiece’ and ‘arena’? – social(ist) media in contemporary Laos	0
The made-up state: technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia *The made-up state: technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia*	0
Thai women parliamentarians’ self-presentation on social media and the politics of affinity	0
Thai state film incentives and soft power: overseas productions and ‘positivity’	0
Beyond dualistic categories: interstitial practices in peri-urban Hanoi	0
China-style tourism in Indonesia: prospects for people-to-people bonds	0