OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Turkish Historical Review is 0. 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
Ottoman Tobacco and the Moral Economy of State-Led Development (c. 1908–12)	9
Slaveholding in the Ottoman Central Lands (1460–1880)	6
Historical Writing in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: Expansion, Islamization, and Nationalization (1839–1908)	3
Before the War: Orthodox Christians in Anatolia, 1880s–1914	2
Continuity and Change: the Missed Historical Background of the Turkish Legal Revolution	2
Navigating Bureaucratic Transition From Below: Petitioning Practices of Late Ottoman Purge Victims (1909–12)	2
Between Tasavvuf and Spiritism: The Case of Enis Behiç Koryürek	1
Aspects of Populism and Nostalgia in the akp’s Turkey	1
Η Ελληνική Επανάσταση του 1821 και το Πατριαρχείο Κωνσταντινουπόλεως: Το πρόβλημα της Βαλκάνιας νεοτερικής εθνογένεσης [The Greek Revolution of 1821 and the Patriarchate of Constantinople: The Problem	1
A Close Reading of Çiftliks: the Detailed Avarız Registers for Yenice-i Vardar (1666) and Karaferye (1691)	1
New Critical Approaches to the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange	1
A Déjà Vu of the Greek Revolution—Etaireia “Conspiracies” in İstanbul and Ottoman Official Propaganda During the Crimean War, 1853–56	1
Working Class Formation in Turkey, 1946–1962. Work, Culture, and the Politics of the Everyday, written by Barış Alp Özden	1
Borders, Boundaries and Belonging in Post-Ottoman Space in the Interwar Period, edited by Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet	1
The Cairo Geniza as a Source for Turkish History	1
Introduction	1
Front matter	1
Symbolic Cretanness: Descendants of Cretan Muslims in Present-Day Turkey	1
Back matter	1
From Plevna Hero to Palace Prisoner: Geopolitics, Victorian Turcophilism and the De/Heroisation of Osman Paşa	1
In the Shadow of War and Empire: Industrialisation, Nation-Building, and Working-Class Politics in Turkey, written by Görkem Akgöz	1
War Tax Law (Tekalif-i Harbiye): An Instrument of Dispossession and Capital Accumulation in the Ottoman Empire during the Great War	1
Çiftlik and Fetva: How did the Ottoman Consultative Assembly (Meclis-i Meşveret) Address Land Redistribution in the 1820s?	0
Forgotten Experts: Astrologers, Science, and Authority in the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1600, written by Şen, A. Tunç	0
‘Top-Down’ or ‘Bottom-Up’ Modernisation: Local Railway Entrepreneurs in the Ottoman Empire in the Second Half of the 19th Century	0

Greek Personal Names and the Question of Personal Identification in the Late Ottoman Empire: a Social Historical Approach	0
The Diplomatic Activity of Mitar Bakić, Montenegrin Envoy in İstanbul, During the Crisis in Donji Vasojevići (Berane) in 1898	0
Front matter	0
Becoming Russia or Becoming Japan? The Russo-Japanese War and Ottoman Public Opinion	0
Serbia and Montenegro and the Situation in Crete in 1897	0
Taking Care of Orphans’ Properties: the Funds for Orphans in the Danube Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (1864–78)	0
Empty Lands and the Making of the Individual Property Regime in Western Anatolia: Actors, Debates and Policies (from the 18th to the early 20th century)	0
The ‘Turkish-Type’ Presidential System: an Imperial Civilisational Restoration?	0
Mosques Turned into Churches, and Bells Cast from Ottoman Cannons: Between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, Moldavia and Wallachia (1828–34)	0
The Refugee Sports Clubs in Greece as Carriers of Asia Minor Memory (1922–40)	0
Nationalizing the Ottomans and Ottomanizing the Turks	0
The Ideological Background to Architectural Restoration in Turkey (1920s–1960s)	0
The Urban Morphological History of Atatürk Avenue in Bursa, 1862–2018	0
Greeks in Turkey: Elite Nationalism and Minority Politics in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul, written by Dimitris Kamouzis	0
Exchanging Holiness for Harmony, Bringing Pontus to Patria: The Refugee Panagia on the Move	0
A Gender Analysis of the Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey	0
‘The Hagia Sophia Cause’ and the Emergence of Ottomanism in the 1950s	0
The Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran, 1639–1682: Diplomacy and Borderlands in the Early Modern Middle East, written by Selim Güngörürler	0
The Population Exchange and Politics in the Historiography of Turkey and Greece	0
Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire: Experiences of Istanbul Armenians in the Nineteenth Century, written by Masayuki Ueno	0
The Transformation of Rural Property Holding and Emergence of New Property Concepts: The Case of the Ottoman Balkans (1650–1793)	0
Villain or Hero? Shifting Views of Abdülhamid ii and His Era in Republican Turkey	0
Turkish and Soviet Revolutionaries, 1919–22: Cooperation on the Basis of Common Interests	0
Back matter	0
The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü, written by Georg B. Michels	0
Fugitive Peasants, Contested Waters, and Lucrative Contracts in Eighteenth Century Central Anatolia (1700–1774)	0
Editor’s Note	0
Editor’s Note	0
The Story of an Exclusive Panoramic Photograph of İstanbul	0
The Christian Population of 16th-Century Ottoman Anatolia: An Overview and Preliminary Observations on Its Location and Numbers in the 1520s	0
The Asymmetries of Displacement: The Spatial Aspects of the Greek-Turkish Population Exchange	0
Landed Estates, Rural Commons and Collective Agriculture in Ottoman Niş and Leskofçe in the Nineteenth Century	0
Compensation Schemes Following Forced Migration Movements in the 20th Century: A Comparative Perspective on Ottoman Greeks, Greek Muslims, East Germans, Palestinians, and Iraqi Jews	0
A Neo-Scholastic Critique of Modern Western Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Boghos Emmanuelian and Armenian Thomism	0
A History of Learned Courtesy: Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic Encounters in the 17th Century (1606–83)	0
One Hundred Years of Greek-Turkish Relations: The Human Dimension of an Ongoing Conflict, written by Samim Akgönül	0
Justice of the Peace Courts in the Adjudication of Property Disputes in the Ottoman Countryside (1839–1914)	0
The Establishment of Large Çiftliks: Indebtedness and Property Acquisition in 18th-Century Karaferye (Veria)	0
The Multicultural Ethnic and Religious Mosaic of Ottoman-origin Immigrants in Uruguay (1875–1932): A Quantitative and Qualitative Study	0
Doctors and Soldiers: Medical Observations from the Front in the Ottoman-Serbian War (1876–1877)	0
Historical Novel as a Propaganda Tool: Reviving the Ottoman Past in Fiction	0
Introduction, Çiftlik Debate Revisited: New Findings and New Questions	0
Amanda Phillips, Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean	0
U.S. Commercial Diplomacy Toward Turkey: Ambassador George C. McGhee’s Role in the Privatization of the Oil Business in the 1950s	0
Pan-Turkism in Action? Turkic Nationalists, Nazi Germany and Turkey During World War ii	0
Island and Empire: How Civil War in Crete Mobilized the Ottoman World, written by Uğur Zekeriya Peçe	0
The Story of the Parici: Fiscal Transformation and Social Reconstruction in Ottoman Cyprus (1572–1672)	0
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State, written by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky	0
Armenians in 1920s Greece: Turkey’s Unwanted Minority, the League of Nations’ Burden, Greece’s “Other” Refugees	0
Diplomacy Within the Security Framework in Turkey and Romania During the Interwar Period	0

Çiftlik Formation through Title Deeds in the Ottoman Black Sea (1800–1850s)	0
Rescuing Ottoman History from the Turks	0
Traces of Nazım Hikmet in Sakha (Yakut) Literature: Translations, Literary Gatherings and Personal Interactions	0
Front matter	0
The Roles of Refugee and Exchangee Associations in Greek and Turkish Civil Society	0
A Malleable National Holiday: Evolution of April 23’s Coverage on Turkish Newspapers from 1936 to 1950	0
Back matter	0
Imperial Genealogies and Ottoman Nobility in Republican Turkey: Reassessing the Distinction Between Public and Private Archives	0
Recitation of Poetry by a Leader as a Means to Combine History with Politics and Ideology: Erdoğan and the Promotion of the akp’s Policy Formula	0
Agricultural Reform and Agrarian Change in North-western Anatolia (1830–1860)	0
The Loss of the Greek Literary Society in Constantinople: The Dismantling of an Institution, Displacement of a Library, and Dissolution of an Intellectual Hub	0
On Bülent Ecevit and the Ottoman-Republican Contention: a Kemalist Hardliner or a Mediator?	0
Back matter	0
An Island of (Dis)Agreement Within Modern Turkish Historiography: the Chronic Conquest(s) of Cyprus Through the Turkish Past, Present and Future	0