OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Eastern African Studies is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	12
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	11
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	10
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	8
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	8
Moving ahead through confinement: Ugandan women working in the Middle East	8
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism	6
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	6
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	6
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	6
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	6
Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)	6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
Rivals: polygynous partnerships and future orientations in eastern Uganda	5
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya	5
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations	5
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	5
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	4
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	4
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	4
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	4
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	4

Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	4
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	4
Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)	3
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	3
‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s’? Making sense of tax non-compliance among small business owners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda)	3
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	3
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	3
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present	3