OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Global 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside: a research agenda	42
Pandemics and the politics of difference: rewriting the history of internationalism through nineteenth-century cholera	19
Pandemics that changed the world: historical reflections on COVID-19	16
Dating the Great Divergence	15
Viral surveillance and the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic	13
Ebola and COVID-19 in Sierra Leone: comparative lessons of epidemics for society	11
Decolonizing madness? Transcultural psychiatry, international order and birth of a ‘global psyche’ in the aftermath of the Second World War	10
UNHCR and the Algerian war of independence: postcolonial sovereignty and the globalization of the international refugee regime, 1954–63	9
’17, ’18, ’19: religion and science in three pandemics, 1817, 1918, and 2019	9
Comparative pandemics: the Tudor–Stuart and Wanli–Chongzhen years of pestilence, 1567–1666	8
How reminders of the 1918–19 pandemic helped Australia and New Zealand respond to COVID-19	7
What is refugee history, now?	7
Perspectivizing pandemics: (how) do epidemic histories criss-cross contexts?	7
Epidemics, indigenous communities, and public health in the COVID-19 era: views from smallpox inoculation campaigns in colonial Guatemala	7
Substituting Coffee and Tea in the Eighteenth Century: A Rural and Material History with Global Implications	5
Pandemics and soft power: HIV/AIDS and Uganda on the global stage	5
Islam and the cognitive study of colonialism: The case of religious and educational reform at Egypt’s al-Azhar	4
Past growths: pre-modern and modern	4
Connectivity and seasonality: the 1918 influenza and COVID-19 pandemics in global perspective	4
Early modern Iberian empires, global history and the history of early globalization	4
Endemic risks: influenza pandemics, public health, and making self-reliant Indian citizens	4
Scurrying seafarers: shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border	4
The value within multiform commodities: North African phosphates and global markets in the interwar period	4
Two concerns about the interpretation of the estimates of historical national accounts before 1850	4
Special issue introduction: Towards a global history of international organizations and decolonization	4

Was the British industrial revolution a conjuncture in global economic history?	4
People, animals, and island encounters: A pig’s history of the Pacific	3
Patrick O’Brien on industrialization, little Britain and the wider world	3
Malariology and decolonization: Eastern European experts from the League of Nations to the World Health Organization	3
From converts to cooperation: Protestant internationalism, US missionaries and Indian Christians and ‘Professional’ social work between Boston and Bombay (c. 1920–1950)	3
From administrative to political order? Global legal history, the organic law, and the constitution of mandate Syria, 1925–1930	3
States, nations, and self-determination: Afghanistan and decolonization at the United Nations	3
Commodity frontiers and global histories: the tasks ahead	3
Going West: Socialist flexibility in the long 1970s	2
The Hands Off Ethiopia campaign, racial solidarities and intercolonial antifascism in South Asia (1935–36)	2
Scaling up and zooming in: global history and high-definition archaeology perspectives on the longue durée of urban–environmental relations in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)	2
The extreme southern origins of globality: Circumnavigation, habitability, and geopolitics	2
On the rationale and implications of China’s RMB internationalization: A global historical perspective	2
Local advantage in a global context. Competition, adaptation and resilience in textile manufacturing in the ‘periphery’, 1860–1960	2
Three meanings of colonialism: Nehru, Sukarno, and Kotelawala debate the future of the Third World Movement (1954-61)	2
A great convergence: The American frontier and the origins of Japanese migration to Brazil	2
Historical national accounting and dating the Great Divergence	2
The Great Eastern Crisis (1875–1878) as a global humanitarian moment	1
Interwar statistics, colonial demography, and the making of the twentieth-century refugee	1
Commodity frontiers: concepts and history	1
‘To the benefit of Africa, the world, and ourselves’: The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) Mission to Nigeria, 1966–1968	1
India, the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and the 1979 Virginity Testing Scandal	1
The industrial revolution, an unintended consequence of self-defence?	1
The intimate labour of internationalism: maternalist humanitarians and the mid-twentieth century family planning movement	1
The Industrial Revolution and globalization: A discussion of Patrick O’Brien’s contribution	1
White Internationalism and the League of Nations Movement in Interwar Australia	1
‘With a minimum of bitterness’: decolonization, the right to self-determination, and the Arab-Asian group	1
The poor woman’s energy: Low-modernist solar technologies and international development, 1878–1966	1
Editors’ note – Global history after the Great Divergence	1
Germs, genomes, and global history in the time of COVID-19	1
Perspectivizing pandemics: (how) do epidemic histories criss-cross contexts? – ERRATUM	1
Intertwined maritime Silk Road and Austronesian routes: A Taiwanese archaeological perspective	1
Why understanding the timing of divergence matters	1
The league against imperialism, national liberation, and the economic question	1
Democratic imperialism and Risorgimento colonialism: European legionnaires on the Argentine Pampa in the 1850s	1
Towards a global perspective on early modern slave trade: prices of the enslaved in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds	1
Hinterland: The political history of a geographic category from the scramble for Africa to Afro-Asian solidarity	1
The League of Nations and the post-Ottoman recolonization of the Nile Valley: The imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922–1924 – CORRIGENDUM	1
The League of Nations and the post-Ottoman recolonization of the Nile Valley: The imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922–1924	1
Mapping Byzantine Sericulture in the Global Transfer of Technology	1
Do mountains kill states? Exploring the diversity of Southeast Asian highland communities	1
Chairman Cotton: Socialist Bulgaria’s cotton trade with African countries during the early Cold War (1946–70)	1
Strategies of Decolonization: Economic Sovereignty and National Security in Libyan–US Relations, 1949–1971	1
Transregional by design: The early communist press in the middle east and global revolutionary networks	1
Indian merchants abroad: Integrating the Indian ocean world during the early first millennium CE	1