OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Party-State Capitalism in China	44
Education Technology Seizes a Pandemic Opening	21
Is There a Cure for Vaccine Nationalism?	16
Violent Silence	13
How Japan Stumbled into a Pandemic Miracle	10
How Informal Transport Systems Drive African Cities	10
Chile’s Constitutional Moment	9
Precarious Times for Central Asian Migrants in Russia	8
How India’s Caste Inequality Has Persisted—and Deepened in the Pandemic	8
Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss	7
Health and Environmental Tolls of Protracted Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa	7
Migrant Workers Bear the Pandemic’s Brunt in the Gulf	7
The Vulnerability and Resilience of the Global Container Shipping Industry	6
COVID-19, Poverty, and Inequality in Bangladesh	5
Neglect and Resistance in Brazil’s Pandemic	5
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	5
Science, Politics, and the Pandemic	5
African Decolonization's Past and Present Trajectories	5
The Anatomy of Ethiopia’s Civil War	5
Could Russia Embrace an Energy Transition?	5
China’s Zero-COVID Campaign and the Body Politic	5
The Quest for Sustainable Tourism in Nepal	4
Combating COVID-19 in Democratic Taiwan and South Korea	4
COVID-19 in Ebola’s Wake	4
African Popular Culture Enters the Global Mainstream	4

Refugees’ Pandemic Responses in a Palestinian Camp in Lebanon	4
A Populist President Tests El Salvador’s Democracy	4
How Czech Democracy Defies the Illiberal Trend	4
Europe’s Energy Dilemma	4
Brexit’s Hidden Costs for Britons Living in the EU	4
Global Security Entanglement and the Mobility Paradox	3
How Brazil and Mexico Diverged on Social Protection in the Pandemic	3
A Path to Sustainable Food Systems	3
Khaki Capital and Coups in Thailand and Myanmar	3
As the Druze Go, So Goes the Middle East	3
Did China’s Public Health Reforms Leave It Prepared for COVID-19?	3
Social Protection and the Pandemic in the MENA Region	3
Did the EU’s Crisis Response Meet the Moment?	3
The Many Faces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative	3
The Specter of Deglobalization	3
Disability Rights in the Middle East	3
The Business of Climate Transformation	2
ASEAN’s Multilateral Path Through the Pandemic	2
Can Russia’s Health and Welfare Systems Handle the Pandemic?	2
Digital Currencies—More than a Passing Fad?	2
The Poorest After the Pandemic	2
The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis	2
Women’s Empowerment and Fight against Violence in Latin America	2
Disability Rights and Wrongs in Uganda	2
Strategies of Disability Activism in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia	2
The Pandemic Exposes an Ailing US Governance Model	2
Catastrophe and Denial in Belarus	2
The Meat Industry Goes Back to the Jungle	2
Tanzania’s Authoritarian Turn	2
From Sick Man of Asia to Sick Uncle Sam	2
Oil Fuels Guyana’s Internecine Conflict	2
The Changing Face of Nepal	2
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	2
COVID-19 and the Long-Standing Vulnerabilities of Older Adults	2
The Belt and Road Initiative’s Central Asian Contradictions	2
Carbon Removal to the Rescue?	2
The Pandemic and Southeast Asia’s Democratic Struggles	1
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies	1
The Pandemic and the Long Shadow of Austerity in Southern Europe	1
How Sanctions Led to Authoritarian Capitalism in Venezuela	1
Sudan's Rule of Law Revolution	1
Russians in Wartime and Defensive Consolidation	1
Chiefs, Democracy, and Development in Contemporary Africa	1
The Exclusion of Roma and European Citizenship	1
February 2020	1
Black Travel and Presence in the Building of South Africa	1
Desinicizing Taiwan	1
Disability Rights and Cross-National Disparities in Europe	1
European Social Policy Embraces Solidarity in a Crisis	1
India's Welfare State: A Halting Shift from Benevolence to Rights	1

An Eruption of History in Peru’s Bicentenary	1
How the Taliban Are Losing the Peace in Afghanistan	1
Energy After COVID	1
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	1
Slow Progress for Women with Disabilities in India	1
Brute Force and Hollow Reforms in Saudi Arabia	1
The Elusive Dream of Democracy, Security, and Well-Being in Mozambique	1
Care Work on the Front Lines	1
The International System After Trump and the Pandemic	1
How the Pandemic Made Sensory Power Visible	1
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	1
Lithuania at the Frontier of the War in Ukraine	1
Georgia’s Contested European Trajectory	1
A Victory for Democracy in Brazil?	1
Global Reproductive Governance after Dobbs	1
Indonesia’s Economic Futures	1
Shared Traditions for Living in the Sundarbans	1
Pastoralism and the State in China’s Inner Mongolia	1
Chad after Idriss Déby	1
A Hashtag Revolution in Nigeria	1
Disabled People’s Fight for Rights in South Korea and Japan	1
Does the China Trade Pay for Latin America?	1
The Ukrainian State under Russian Aggression	1
Repressive Erasure and Reflective Nostalgia in Kuwait	1
Testing Citizenship in the Bengal Borderlands	1
The Roots of America’s Anti-Asian Violence	1
The Erosion of Health Data Privacy	1
A New Age of Empires?	1
External Relations and Local Agency in the Horn of Africa	1
The Plight of Migrants and Refugees in the Pandemic	1
Moldova’s Thirty-Year Search for Independence	1
Requiem for the Unipolar Moment in Nagorny Karabakh	1
The Pandemic Worsens Europe’s Housing Problems	1
The Politics of Epidemics, from Thucydides to Mary Shelley to COVID-19	1
How the Maldives Have Navigated Disease and Development	1
The African Union Makes Its Mark in the Pandemic	1