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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	13
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	12
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	11
Moving ahead through confinement: Ugandan women working in the Middle East	10
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	9
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	8
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism	8
Banana beer in Belgian Burundi: a social metabolist history of intoxication (1916–1962)	7
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	7
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	7
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations	6
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya	6
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	6
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	6
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	6
Rivals: polygynous partnerships and future orientations in eastern Uganda	6
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
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	5
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	5
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4
Critical junctures in the shaping of citizenship in Ethiopia	4
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	4
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present	4

Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	4
Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda)	4
The deeper history of detention in Kenya: the rise of a parallel prison system, c.1923–1952	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
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
Beyond war and politics: Somali kinship and everyday service delivery	3
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	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
Becoming a migrant: The refugee-migrant nexus in onward trajectories of displaced Burundians towards South Africa	3
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	3
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	3
Between marriage and slavery: women, social mobility, and the making of Ngwana power in late-nineteenth-century Central Africa	3
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	3
A process-oriented approach to equitable resilience: insights from droughts in Lake Naivasha Catchment Area, Kenya	3