OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of World History 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaping (Il)legal Mobilities: Regulations, Pilgrim Passports, and the Hajj in Tsarist Central Asia During the Turn of the Nineteenth Century	12
“Race and Racism beyond National Borders”	6
U.S. Indian Affairs, British Imperial Africa, and Transcolonial Dialogues over Conservation and "Native Development" in the 1930s	3
Unobvious Parallels: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Wacław Sieroszewski, and Their Role in Gathering Imperial Knowledge in Sumatra and Yakutia in the 1890S	2
Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines by Andrew J. Rotter	1
Globality Without Mobility: Ephemera, 1830s–1860s	1
Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914	1
Captive Colonizers: The Role of the Prisoners of War from Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate in the Russian Subjugation of Eastern Siberia	1
Index to Volume 33, 2022	1
India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World by Jagjeet Lally	1
Lines Drawn Across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations by Mary C. Fuller (review)	1
Amity, Commerce, and Compromise: Americans, Indians, and the Evolution of Trade on Zanzibar and across the Western Indian Ocean, 1825–1861	1
Piracy in World History ed. by Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hägerdal	1
Diverging in Peace: (Inter)Religious Internationalism, Interwar Pacifism, and a World Conference that Never Happened	1
A Failed Transplant: American Cotton in the Ottoman Empire	1
“Illustrative Cases of Hereditary Degeneracy”: The Use of Family Studies to Support New Zealand’s Eugenic Narrative in the 1920s	0
The Myth of Immobility: Women and Travel in the British Imperial Indian Ocean	0
China and the Spirit of Booker T. Washington: Applying Lessons from the Southern Black American Experience in Rural Republican China, 1920–1940	0
Samurai and Mongols: How a Medieval Samurai Became Chinggis Khan	0
Hundred Eyes or Hundred Wild Geese: An Examination of How Historical Sources were Made in Marco Polo’s Time	0
Global History and the Measures of Early Modern Technology: Europe, East Asia, and the Case of Smoothbore Ballistics	0
The Spread and Regional Development of Wheat Farming in the Yellow River Valley under the Han Empire	0
The Japanese Eye on Latin America Through The Japan Times , 1926–1941	0
A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Ulrike Freitag (review)	0
Religion and the Contemporary Phase of Globalization: Insights from a Study of John Paul II’s World Youth Days	0

Breaking the Containment: Horse Trade between the Ming Empire and its Northern Neighbors, 1368–1570	0
Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400–1700 by Ron Harris	0
Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace by Tamara Venit Shelton	0
Invulnerability and the Cartography of Resistance to Imperialism	0
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy	0
New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World ed. by Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern and Adam Bobbette (review)	0
The Making of Elixir: Ambergris, Emperor Jiajing, and the Portuguese Settlement at Macao in 1557	0
“A One-Woman Expedition to Get to Know Tanzanian Women”: State Socialist Women’s Travelogues about Africa in the 1960s–80s	0
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton (review)	0
Britain’s Atomic Energy Strategy toward Japan: The Anglo-American “Special Relationship,” 1945–1959	0
Strategies of Belonging in the Bandung Era: Diasporas and Cold War Asia	0
Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884–1905 by Matthew Unangst (review)	0
Chinese Volley Fire and Metanarratives of World History	0
A Late/Post-Imperial Region of Difference: The Ottoman Empire and its Successor Polities in Southeastern Europe, Turkey, and the Arab East, c. 1850s–1940s	0
In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama by Eric Tagliacozzo (review)	0
A Caribbean Enlightenment: Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750-1792 by April G. Shelford (review)	0
Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770–1842 by Elizabeth Elbourne (review)	0
The Mexican Labor Movement and the Global Scripts of Revolution, 1910–1929	0
Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China by Shellen Xiao Wu (review)	0
The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Cindy Ermus (review)	0
Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom by Paul Clammer (review)	0
Decline and Fall, Growth and Spread, or Resilience? Approaches to Studying How and Why Societies Change	0
The Privileged and the Unprotected: U.S. Consuls, Return Migrants, and Extraterritorial Debates in the Ottoman Empire, 1830 – 1914	0
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper (review)	0
The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China by Timothy Brook (review)	0
Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex by Agnieszka Sobocinska	0
The Christian Seas of Kyushu: How Local Maritime Networks Facilitated the Introduction of Catholicism to Japan in the Mid-Sixteenth Century	0
Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire by Jeremy Best	0
Agents, Ambassadors, and Imams: Ottoman-British Transimperialism in the Cape of Good Hope, 1862–1869	0
A Convergence Whose Time Has Come	0
Private Enterprise and the China Trade: Merchants and Markets in Europe, 1700–1750 by Meike von Brescius (review)	0
Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment ed. by Joan-Pau Rubiés and Neil Safier (review)	0
Maori Rugby in 1920s France: Sport, Race, and Indigeneity	0
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 by Kyle J. Gardner	0
Iran and a French Empire of Trade, 1700–1808: The Other Persian Letters by Junko Thérèse Takeda	0
Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640 by Miguel A. Valerio (review)	0
Oceanic Wahhabism	0
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Mery’s Intellectual World by Sara E. Johnson (review)	0
Altruism and Realpolitik: A History of the U.S. Agency for International Development	0
“Why Doest Thou Thus?”: Providence and Discourses of Difference in Two Nineteenth-Century Missionary Lives	0
Beating the Odds: A Survival Story of Chinese Immigrants in Nicaragua	0
Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume 1, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination by Tracey E. Hucks (review)	0
Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Pérez Jr (review)	0
Water, Bodies, Space: New Directions in World Environmental History	0
Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples by Mohamed Adhikari (review)	0
Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray, et al. (review)	0
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia by Anand Yang	0
Introduction: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire	0
African Americans and the Lynching of Foreign Nationals in the United States	0
Reimagining the Ottomans: The Tale of an Ottoman Ayan	0

"The Destruction of a Common Foe": The Expedition Against Shap-ng-tsai and the International Dimensions of Suppressing Chinese Piracy	0
The Kelenteng and Annual Rituals: Hokkien Community in Batavia	0
Chains of Custody, Oceans of Instability: The Precarious Logistics of the Natural History Trade	0
The “Material Turn” in World and Global History	0
Erratum	0
Ritual in the Early Modern World: Proliferation, State-Formation, and the Work of the Manchu Surrender Ceremony	0
Decolonizations, Colonizations, and More Decolonizations: The End of Empire in Time and Space	0
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 by Kalle Kananoja	0
After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi by Marc A. Hertzman (review)	0
A Disdain for Deserts: The Sahara Sea Project and Climatic Modification in North Africa, 1864–1885	0
Index to Volume 35, 2024	0
“Missions and Conversions in World History: An Introduction”	0
Pan-Asian Decolonization? Iranian Oil, Japanese Tankers, and the Nisshomaru Incident of 1953	0
From the Atlantic to the Manchu: Taiwan Sugar and the Early Modern World, 1630s–1720s	0
Culture Contacts in Ancient Worlds: A Review of Theoretical Debates and Practical Applications	0
Mediation Hub or Active Agent? FAO’s Commitment to Rural Welfare During Its First Thirty Years	0
Interaction and Localization: New Insights into Early Metallurgy in China	0
Papuan Children, Catholic Missionaries, and the Formation of Transimperial Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe	0
Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control by Steffen Rimner (review)	0
Gender: A World History by Susan Kingsley Kent, and: Gender Rules: Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective by Karen Phoenix (review)	0
The Puzzle of Rescue and Survival: The Wartime Exodus of Jewish Refugees from Lithuania and their Japanese Savior Redux	0
Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right ed. by Julia Adeney Thomas and Geoff Eley	0
Victims of Nationality: German Civilian Internment in British West Africa during the Second World War	0
Anthropology, Opportunity, and Empire: Collecting Expeditions in Sarawak and the Philippines, 1898–1909	0
"From desh to desh ": The Family Firm as Trans-Local Household in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean	0
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East by Samuel Dolbee (review)	0
Remembering Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012)	0
Mobility in an Age of Imperialism, Nation-Building, and Revolution: Kawata Masazō's Late-Nineteenth-Century Pacific World	0
Toward Rangoon: Cold War Internationalism and the Birth of Yugoslavia's Globalism	0
Creolised Science: Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific by Dorit Brixius (review)	0
Colonial City, Global Entanglements: Intra-and Trans-Imperial Networks in George Town, 1786–1937	0
Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World by Kathryn Renton (review)	0
The Minor Key: Indonesian Marxists Sojourning Abroad	0
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age: Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague by Adam Sundberg (review)	0
Global History of Early Modern Violence ed. by Erica Charters et al.	0
A Short History of Feather Fans' Spread and Cultural Connotations: From Bronze Age Africa East to China and West to Europe	0
Polynesia against Paris: Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Literature and the French Colonial Origins of Oceanian Reintegration	0
Index to Volume 34, 2023	0
Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica, and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire by Kwasi Konadu (review)	0
Seventeenth-Century Foreign Lives of Ayutthaya: Sources of Cross-Cultural Cooperation and Integration in the Asian Trading Entrepôt	0
"The Rifle is the Symbol": The AK-47 in Global South Iconography	0
New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy by Brian P. Owensby	0
The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries by Richard C. Hoffmann (review)	0
Get It in Writing (If You Can): Regulating Foreign Communities in Tokugawa Japan	0
Graphic Worlding: Radical Histories and the Narrative Form in Recent Works from Graphic Mundi	0
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar	0
Inter-Imperial Entanglement: The British Claim to Portuguese Delagoa Bay in the Nineteenth Century	0
Akan Relations, Commercial Networks, and the Portuguese Empire in West Africa, 1482–1637	0
Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History by William T. Taylor (review)	0
Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941 by Genevieve Alva Clutario (review)	0
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 by Margaret Chowning (review)	0
Between World-Imagining and World-Making: Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Universalism and Transimperial Indo-U.S. Brotherhood	0
Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions by James Davey (review)	0
Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era ed. by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer	0
The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World by Aisha Khan (review)	0
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (review)	0
Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite by Francisco Bethencourt (review)	0
Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 by Gijs Mom	0
Abie Nathan and his Double-Edged Missions: The Transnational Humanitarian and Human Rights Activist during the Nigeria-Biafra War	0
The Value and Prospect of the Needham Question: A Historiographical Reflection and Elaboration	0
The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease by James L. A. Webb (review)	0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs	0
Connecting Eurasia: Jesuit Experimentation with Overland Mobility Between China and Europe, 1656–1664	0