OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of African Cultural Studies 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
“My Flight Arrives at 5 am, Can You Pick Me Up?”: The Gatekeeping Burden of the African Academic	19
Inxeba(The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture	17
The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures	15
YouTube Queer Communities as Heterotopias: Space, Identity and “Realness” in Queer South African Vlogs	14
Heteroerotic Failure and “Afro-queer Futurity” in Mohamed Camara’s Dakan	13
Skin and Silence in Selected Maghrebian Queer Films	10
Lawful Performance and the Representational Politics of Queer African Refugees in Documentary Film	10
Walking with Shadows: Jude Dibia and Olumide Makanjuola in Conversation with Lindsey Green-Simms	10
“Fake” Journals and the Fragility of Authenticity: Citation Indexes, “Predatory” Publishing, and the African Research Ecosystem	10
Covid-19, Knowledge Production and the (Un)Making of Truths and Fakes	5
Fakery and Fabrications in Kumasi’s “Modern” Market	5
Racial Discrimination in Uncertain Times: Covid-19, Positionality and Africans in China Studies	5
Thinking China from Africa: Encounter with the Other Other	4
Chihuahua Promises and the Notorious Economy of Fake Pets in Cameroon	4
Kenya’s “Fake Essay” Writers and the Light they Shine on Assumptions of Shadows in Knowledge Production	4
Introduction to Campus Forms	4
Cleavage: Guangzhou, Covid-19 and China–Africa Friendship Politics	4
Unmuting Conversations on Fakes in African Spaces	4
Laughing off Ebola in Sierra Leone: Humor in Times of Crisis	3
“The Fake is News”: On Popular Visual Media, Fakery and Legitimacy Contestations in Charismatic Christianity in Contemporary Ghana	3
Booty Power Politics: The Social-mediated Consumption of Black Female Bodies in Popular Culture	3
Black Aesthetics and Deep Water: Fish-People, Mermaid Art and Slave Memory in South Africa	3
Nigerian Campus Forms	3
Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah	3
Pan-Africanism and the Affective Charges of the African Union Building in Addis Ababa	3

Binyavanga Wainaina’s Narrative of the IMF-generation as Development Critique	3
Fake Wax	3
Rethinking Agency in Kenyan Animal Conservations: Ng’ang’a Mbugua’s Terrorists of the Aberdare	2
Zimbabwean Popular Cultural Expressions of Alternative Sexual Identities	2
“That Is Still our Tradition but in a Modern Form, but it Still Tells our Story”: Transitions in Buildings in Northern Ghana	2
Speargrass Blossoms: Patriarchy and the Cultural Politics of Women’s Ephemerality on the Land in Acholi	2
Civilisation under Colonial Conditions: Development, Difference and Violence in Swahili Poems, 1888–1907	2
Midwifery Narratives and Development Discourses	2
“Shot-putting” and Other Dirty Secrets: Nigerian Students’ Everyday Struggles	2
Spaces of Protest: Seydina Issa Sow's Campus Graphic NovelSidy	2
Being Muslim at the Intersection of Islam and Popular Cultures in Nigeria	2
The Racialization of Drug Fakery and Pharmaceutical Markets	2
The Politics of “Queer Reading” an Ethiopian Saint and Discovering Precolonial Queer Africans	2
Decolonizing “China–Africa Relations”: Toward a New Ethos of Afro-Asianism	2
In Defense of the False	2
Malawians’ Foreign Film Dubbing, Film Pirating and Consumption as “Weapons of the Weak”	2
The Campus as War Zone: Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, Post-Independence Civil War, and the African University	2