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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	14
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	13
Moving ahead through confinement: Ugandan women working in the Middle East	12
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	11
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	10
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism	9
Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)	8
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	8
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations	7
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	7
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	7
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	6
Rivals: polygynous partnerships and future orientations in eastern Uganda	6
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	6
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya	6
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	6
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	6
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present	5
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	5
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	5
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	5
Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda)	5
A process-oriented approach to equitable resilience: insights from droughts in Lake Naivasha Catchment Area, Kenya	4
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	4

Critical junctures in the shaping of citizenship in Ethiopia	4
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	4
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	4
The deeper history of detention in Kenya: the rise of a parallel prison system, c.1923–1952	4
The politics of silence: narrating return to Burundi	4
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
Between marriage and slavery: women, social mobility, and the making of Ngwana power in late-nineteenth-century Central Africa	3
The politics of skeletons and ruination: living (with) debris of the Two Fishes Hotel in Diani Beach, Kenya	3
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections	3
Good dogs and bad dogs: rabies and the invention of a new canine order under the British South Africa Company government (Southern Rhodesia), 1902–1913	3
Making the Maasai: revisiting the history of Rift Valley Maa-speakers c.1800–c.1930	3
Courtship and partnerships in northern Uganda: the role of family and friends in the process of marrying	3
Bursting pipes and broken dreams: on ruination and reappropriation of large-scale water infrastructure in Baringo County, Kenya	3
Beyond war and politics: Somali kinship and everyday service delivery	3
Becoming a migrant: The refugee-migrant nexus in onward trajectories of displaced Burundians towards South Africa	3
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	3
Staying and moving after revolution: a microhistory of the social worlds of Zanzibar-Oman migration, 1964–1985	3