OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Comparative Studies in Society and History is 1. 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 Talat-Tehlirian Complex: Contentious Narratives of Martyrdom and Revenge in Post-Conflict Societies	13
CSS volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	9
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	8
Human Trafficking and Piracy in Early Modern East Asia: Maritime Challenges to the Ming Dynasty Economy, 1370–1565	7
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison: Anticolonialism and the Reinvention of Modernization in British Central Africa	7
The Things They Carried (and Kept): RevisitingOstalgiein the Global South	7
Slavery, Freedom Suits, and Legal Praxis in the Ottoman Empire, ca. 1590–1710	6
A Thousand Years of Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the Philippines since 1946	6
The Evolution of Social Darwinism in China, 1895–1930	6
Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa	6
Hindu: A History	5
CSS volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	5
Opera as Critical “Synthesis”: Theorizing the Interface between Cosmopolitanism and Orientalism	5
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	5
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy	4
Making Sense of “Senseless Violence”: Thoughts on Agrarian Elites and Collective Violence during “Reconstruction” in South Africa and the American South	4
The Sick Vines of Europe: Raisins, Phylloxera, and the Politics of Place in the Late Ottoman Aegean	4
Hegemony by Adaptation: Decolonizing Ghana’s Construction Industry	4
Spiritual Pawning: “Mad Slaves” and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa	4
A Seven-Headed Public: Empire and Satire in Revolutionary Caucasus	4
Ordinary Exemplars: Cultivating “the Everyday” in the Birthplace of Fascism	4
Cartwheel or Ladder? Reconsidering Sinhala Caste	3
CSS volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	3
Editorial Foreword	3
Re-Territorializing the Neolithic: Architecture and Rhythms in Early Sedentary Societies of the Near East	3

Uhuru Sasa! Federal Futures and Liminal Sovereignty in Decolonizing East Africa	3
Alexander and the Elephants	2
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini’s Italy	2
Praise the Gardeners, Dun the Hunters: Alaska Natives, Taxation, and Settler Colonialism	2
Hamlet after Genocide: The Haunting of Soghomon Tehlirian and Empirical Fabulation	2
Towards an Energetics of Class: Comparing Energy Protests in India and the United States	2
Branded Bodies: Judicial Torture, Punishment, and Infamy in Nineteenth-Century Iran—ERRATUM	2
The Rule-of-Law as a Problem Space: Wāsṭa and the Paradox of Justice in Jordan	2
The “Is” at Home, the “Ought” Abroad: Self-Comparison as Self-Criticism and the Transylvanian Model in Early Twentieth-Century Romania	2
Class Trips beyond Borders: Reimagining the Nation through State-Sponsored Heritage Tourism	2
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983	2
Differences over Difference: Sino-Russian Friendship at Interstate and Interpersonal Scales	2
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands	2
The Suffering Subject: Colonial Flogging in Northern Nigeria and a Humanitarian Public, 1904–1933	2
Editorial Foreword	2
Slavery and the “American Way of War,” 1607–1861	2
Scientific Ghostwriting in the Amazon? The Role of Experts in the Lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador	1
CSS volume 64 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam	1
Francisco Franco Is Back: The Contested Reemergence of a Fascist Moral Exemplar	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Breakbulk Pasts and Containerized Futures: Submergent Histories on a Saltwater Frontier	1
German Lessons: Comparative Constitutionalism, States’ Rights, and Federalist Imaginaries in Interwar India	1
Editorial Foreword–Corrigendum	1
Building Merit: The Moral Economy of the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Rural, Post-Socialist Eastern Mongolia	1
“Our Roots Are the Same”: Hegemony and Power in Narratives of Chinese Linguistic Antiquity, 1900–1949	1
Law’s Logistical Media: The Installation of the File System in the Postwar Japanese Prosecutor’s Office	1
Religion in the Folded City: Origami and the Boundaries of the Chronotope	1
Mapping Oysters and Making Oceans in the Northern Indian Ocean, 1880–1906	1
Inventing Ancestors and Limited Empiricism in Chosŏn Korea: A Case of the Kigye Yu Lineage	1
Making MalagasyZebu: The Biopolitics of Cattle Commodification in Socialist Madagascar, 1960–1978	1
Indonesia’s Cigarette Culture Wars: Contesting Tobacco Regulations in the Postcolony	1
Pilot Programs and Postcolonial Pivots: Pioneering “DNA Fingerprinting” on Britain’s Borders	1
CSS volume 63 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
Of Rule not Revenue: South Sudan’s Revenue Complex from Colonial, Rebel, to Independent Rule, 1899 to 2023	1
The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology, and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism	1
Mussolini between Hero Worship and Demystification: Exemplary Anecdotes,Petite Histoire, and the Problem of Humanization	1
The Slippages of Exemplary Action: The Case of Ataman Semenov	1
Sinicizing China’s World Muslim City: Spatial Politics, National Narratives, and Ethnoreligious Assimilation in the PRC	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Balancing Hope and Fear: Muslim Modernists, Democracy, and the Tyranny of the Majority	1
Slavery and Its Transformations: Prolegomena for a Global and Comparative Research Agenda	1
Beyond Long-Distance Nationalism: Khorasan and the Re-imagination of Afghanistan	1
Editorial Foreword	1
Erosion by Design: Rethinking Innovation, Sea Defense, and Credibility in Guyana	1
Jewish-Muslim Friendship Networks: A Study of Intergenerational Boundary Work in Postwar Germany	1