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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	20
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	14
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	11
The untold stories of militiamen from Gojjam, Ethiopia: voices of distress and desperation from the Ogaden and Eritrean fronts, 1977–1991	10
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	8
Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco: young people’s milieus in postwar Asmara, Eritrea, 2001–2005	6
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	6
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	6
Verbal art beyond categorization: inductive and aesthetic approaches to Remmy Ongala’s songs	6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
‘Developmental nationalism?’ Political trust and the politics of large-scale land investment in Magufuli's Tanzania	5
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	5
Gimgema: civil servants’ evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia	5
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	5
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	4
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	4
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	4
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	4
Dissent as cybercrime: social media, security and development in Tanzania	4
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	4
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	4
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	4
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	4
The limitations of international law at the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and its implications for future conflict	4

Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	3
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
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	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
Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions	3
Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	3
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	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
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	3