OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of Railways in the Ottoman Empire During the First World War	23
Turkish Foreign Policy in the Chaos of War, 1939-1945	20
Digital age: the changes in economy, society, politics	14
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier	12
China-Central and Eastern Europe Cooperation in a Divided World: Narratives and Scenarios	12
Past and present financialization in Central Eastern Europe: the case of Western subsidiary banks	9
Soft Power and SPPD in China Iran Relationship	8
The Contribution of the Guaranteed Minimum Income in Alleviating Extreme Poverty in Greece	8
March 1941: Relations Between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria with a View to Joining the Tripartite Pact	8
The Late 19th Century Liberal Islamist Young Turk Movement in Egypt	7
Cyprus 1974: Anatomy of an Invasion	7
The Complexities of Interreligious Dialogue in the Post-Yugoslav Context	7
Revisiting Kemal Kaya in the Turmoil of 1930s Xinjiang	7
Cyprus, 1955–1959: The US, Britain and the USSR: Then is Now	6
Editorial to the special issue on ”Asian Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean”	6
‘A Longdrawn-Out Game of Chess’ and the Camouflaged Partition of the Island of Cyprus that followed on 16 August 1960: A Review of Achilles C. Emilianides, A Longdraw	5
Neo-Liberalism, Depopulation and Economic Stagnation in the Balkans	5
Comprehending and Countering Hybrid Warfare Strategies by Utilizing the Principles of Sun Tzu	5
The Ottoman Legacy of the Connected Histories of Demographic Engineering: The Case of the Ottoman Greeks of Western Anatolia	5
Review: Working in Greece and Turkey: A Comparative Labour History from Empires to Nation-States, 1840–1940, Leda Papastefanaki and M. Erdem Kabadayı (eds). Berghahn Books. 2020 $179.00/£132.00 / Hb	5
Can Nacar, Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco Workers, Managers, and the State, 1872-1912 Can Nacar, Labor and Power in the Late Ottoman Empire: Tobacco Workers, Manage	4
Syrian Immigrants and Turkish–European Union Migration Deals: Business as Usual	4
Remaking “Small Business” in Turkey: Critical Assessment of Small Business Politics Under the AKP Rule	4
Multinationals in the Grain Trade: The Louis Dreyfus Company at the Lower Danube, 1889–1948	4
Political and Legal Problems of the Soviet–Yugoslav Military Co-Operation During the World War II: The Case of the 1 ^st Yugoslav Rifle Brigade	4

China’s Mediation Paradigm: How China’s Mediation Diplomacy Advanced Saudi-Iran Reconciliation	4
The Role of Republican and AKP Elites in the Construction and Reconstruction of Turkiye’s Foreign Policy Identity: A Critical Narrative Analysis	4
The Foreign Policy of PASOK and the Greek–Turkish Crisis in the Aegean (1981–89)	4
2023 Elections in Turkey within Global Context: Right Wing Populism in the Era of Global Shift	4
From Missionary Teacher to Dysfunctional Technician: Teacher Training System in Turkey and Formations of Turkish Modernity	4
Islam and Politics in Turkey: Alliance and Disunion Between the Fethullah Gülen Movement and the Justice and Development Party of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	3
The Merchants During the Metaxas Dictatorship in Greece (1936–1941)	3
Iran and post-Assad Syria: strategic dilemmas and constraints	3
The Penetration of European Banking into Ottoman Lands During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century	3
Summitry Diplomacy in Turkey–Africa Relations: Statements, (Non-)Accomplishments and Effectiveness	3
The Strategic Use of Narratives and Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Major Autocratisers in Europe	3
Ukraine, Multipolarity and the Crisis of Grand Strategies	3
Turkey-Africa Relations and Turkey’s National Role Conception as the Centre Country: Continuity or a Break with the Past?	3
An Assessment of Turkey’s Soft Power Resources in Asia: Potential and Limitations	3
Chto Takoe Sovetskaya Diaspora? Is There a Living and Ideologically Sovieticized ‘Soviet Diaspora’?	3
Editorial. Entangled Temporalities of Migration in the Western Balkans. Ethnographic Perspectives on (Im)-mobilities and Reception Governance	3
Macedonia & Its Questions. Origins, Margins, Ruptures & Continuity	3
The New Challenges of the Western Balkan Banking Industry During Ongoing Global Crisis	3
German Troops in Afghanistan: Strategic Narratives on German Participation in Resolute Support	3
Social Security in the Balkans—Volume 1. An Overview of Social Policy in Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria	3
The Far-Right Redox Reaction: The Transformation of Populist Radical Right Parties from Marginal ‘Groupuscules’ into Considerable Political Forces	3
Defend the Nation, Crush the People: Desertion and Civil War in Greek Macedonia, 1916–17	3
Introduction Turkey and Africa: Motivations, Challenges and Future Prospects	3
Politics of Emotions in the Late Ottoman Empire: ‘Our Beloved Crete’	3
Hicret, Dîn ü Devlet: Osmanlı Göç Politikası(1856- 1908)[Hegira, the Religion and the State: The Ottoman Policy of Migration(1856- 1908)] Hicret, Dîn ü Devlet: Osmanlı Göç Politikası(18	3
Ontological Insecurity and the Return of the Greek-Turkish Conflicts: Reconfiguring Hagia Sophia as an Ontic Space	3
Water, Sewage and Sanitation: Infrastructure Projects and Public Health in Izmir in the Late Ottoman Empire	3
The Turkish Bourgeoisie at the Foundation of the Republic of Turkey: The Case of the Ship Owners	3
Post-Pandemic Inflation and Currency Board Arrangements in the Balkans	3
Autonomy and Control in the Gig Economy and Platform Work: Domestic and Home Repair Workers in Turkey	3
Which Legitimization for de facto States? The Case of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq	3
Litigation as a Strategy for Environmental Movements Questioned: An Examination of Bergama and Artvin-Cerattepe Struggles	2
Analyzing the Mutual Geopolitical and Security Complementarity of Iran and Turkey: Border, Energy, and Water	2
Back to Basics: The Re-Securitization of Cyprus by Turkey After Crans Montana	2
Hegemony, Europeanization, and Migration Diplomacy: Case of the EU-Turkey Statement and Action Plan	2
Greece’s (Un)competitive Capitalism and the Economic Crisis: Critical Thoughts Under the Lens of Social Policy Greece’s (un) Competitive Capitalism and the Economic Cr	2
Post-Yugoslav States Thirty Years after 1991: Unfinished Businesses of a Fivefold Transition	2
Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey	2
Who Takes Care of the Children? Albanian Migrant Parents’ Strategies for Combining Work and Childcare in Greece	2
Turkey in the Global Political Economy: Technological and Economic Integration	2
Russia’s Foreign Policy Actions and the Syrian Civil War in the United Nations Security Council	2
The Rise of the Right-Wing Good Party (İYİP) in Turkey: Authoritarian Turn, Anomie, and Regulatory Nostalgia	2
Gendering Public Diplomacy: Turkey and Europe in the 1930s	2
The Role of Armed Non-State Actors in Iran’s Syria Strategy: A Case Study of Fatemiyoun and Zainabiyoun Brigades	2
Aid, Trade or Faith? Questioning Narratives and Territorial Pattern of Gulf Foreign Aid	2
The Architecture Heritage of Edirne	2
Turkey’s Balancing Act between East and West: A Russian Perspective	2
Exploring the Maritime Nexus in Turkey’s African Agenda	2