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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The jihadi insurgency in Mozambique: origins, nature and beginning	37
Urban layers of political rupture: the ‘new’ politics of Addis Ababa’s megaprojects	26
Interpreting contemporary Oromo politics in Ethiopia: an ethnographic approach	14
Future visions, present conflicts: the ethnicized politics of anticipation surrounding an infrastructure corridor in northern Kenya	12
When watchdogs fight back: resisting state surveillance in everyday investigative reporting practices among Zimbabwean journalists	9
Agency in constrained circumstances: adolescent migrant sex workers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	8
One-stop border posts in East Africa: state encounters of the fourth kind	8
Real governance of the COVID-19 crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa	8
Who are Kenya’s 42(+) tribes? The census and the political utility of magical uncertainty	6
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	6
Militant Islamism and local clan dynamics in Somalia: the expansion of the Islamic Courts Union in Lower Jubba province	6
Electoral turnovers and the disappointment of enduring presidential power: constitution making in Zambia	6
The Ethiopian developmental state and struggles over the reproduction of young migrant women’s labor at the Hawassa Industrial Park	6
Humanitarian spill-over: the expansion of hybrid humanitarian governance from camps to refugee hosting societies in East Africa	6
Peace without freedom in Eritrea: causes and consequences of the Ethio-Eritrean rapprochement	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	5
Prosperity in a crisis economy: the Nyamongo gold boom, Tanzania, 1970s–1993	5
‘Developmental nationalism?’ Political trust and the politics of large-scale land investment in Magufuli's Tanzania	5
Capital of the imperial borderlands: urbanism, markets, and power on the Ethiopia-British Somaliland boundary, ca. 1890–1935	5
War-talk: an urban youth language of siege in Nairobi	5
‘Tribal balancing’: exclusionary elite coalitions and Zambia’s 2021 elections	4
Brokerage in the borderlands: the political economy of livestock intermediaries in northern Kenya	4
Seeing like students: what Nairobi youth think about politics, the state and the future	4
Infrastructural configurations of mobile telephony in urban Africa: vignettes from Buru Buru, Nairobi	4
Love or crime? Law-making and the policing of teenage sexuality in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo	4

Youth, the Kenyan state and a politics of contestation	4
Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania	4
Patronage politics and parliamentary elections in Zambia’s one-party state c. 1983–88	4
Reparations and the politics of waiting in Kenya	3
Insecure borderlands, marginalization, and local perceptions of the state in Turkana, Kenya, circa 1920–2014	3
The urban vote in Zambia’s 2021 elections: popular attitudes towards the economy in Copperbelt and Lusaka	3
Overcoming incumbency advantage: the importance of social media on- and offline in Zambia’s 2021 elections	3
Autocratisation, electoral politics and the limits of incumbency in African democracies	3