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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

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	10
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	8
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	7
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	7
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	6
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	6
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	5
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	5
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	5
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	5
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	5
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	5
‘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	4
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	4
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	4
Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)	4
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	4
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

Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	3
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	3
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	3
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Political accountability and legislative behavior in Africa: evidence from the 2019 Kenyan Sugar Bill in the context of the political economy of sectoral policy	3