OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Global History 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 2020-11-01 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
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
How reminders of the 1918–19 pandemic helped Australia and New Zealand respond to COVID-19	7
Pandemics and soft power: HIV/AIDS and Uganda on the global stage	5
Substituting Coffee and Tea in the Eighteenth Century: A Rural and Material History with Global Implications	5
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

Islam and the cognitive study of colonialism: The case of religious and educational reform at Egypt’s al-Azhar	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
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
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