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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Recovering Hindustan and India	65
Space, Technology, and Visions of National Progress in India	15
The Pandemic Worsens Europe’s Housing Problems	15
Precarious Youth and Everyday Improvisation in Kinshasa	11
The Politics of Parasite in South Korea	9
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy	8
Protecting Children’s Rights in Crises	8
Nicaraguan Exiles and the Urbanization of Refuge in Costa Rica	8
Transformations in Afghan Media and Culture Through Cycles of Upheaval	7
A Case for Extreme Climate Action	6
Gender and Sexual Politics in China’s Online Dating Scene	6
Will AI Slay the Poverty Dragon?	5
Lithuania at the Frontier of the War in Ukraine	5
Pakistan’s Fragmented Megacity	5
States of Emergency—The Apartheid Paranoia in South Africa’s Lockdown	4
The Dominican National Pastime	4
REN PILL Politics in Poland	4
Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?	4
The Nordic Countries Face a Colonial Reckoning	4
The European Union’s Strategic Test in Ukraine	4
Gangs, Deportees, and Haiti’s Troubles	4
A Victory for Democracy in Brazil?	3
Can Affirmative Action Survive on the World’s Campuses?	3
The Vulnerability and Resilience of the Global Container Shipping Industry	3
India’s New Water Works	3

Unspoken Legacies of Fascism in Italy	3
The Power and Politics of Popular Egyptian Music	3
Moldova’s Thirty-Year Search for Independence	3
Indonesia’s Economic Futures	3
Reconstructing the Nuclear Peace	3
Central Asia Moves Beyond Russia	3
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	2
Religion and Climate Geopolitics	2
Global Music Politics	2
COVID-19 in Ebola’s Wake	2
External Relations and Local Agency in the Horn of Africa	2
Digital Currencies—More than a Passing Fad?	2
Desinicizing Taiwan	2
Pilgrimage in a Globalizing World	2
The Anatomy of Ethiopia’s Civil War	2
Khaki Capital and Coups in Thailand and Myanmar	2
Ferociously Cute	2
Philippine Traces of US Imperial Violence	2
Transitional Justice at 40	2
Party-State Capitalism in China	2
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	2
How Family History Helps Ukrainians Face the War	1
Where India Stands After Modi’s First Decade in Power	1
Why Zimbabweans Choose to Migrate or Stay	1
How Spain Became a Global LGBTQ Rights Leader	1
Niger’s Long Cycle of Poverty and Coups	1
China’s Booming Fiction Industry	1
How Bangladeshi Students Toppled a Government	1
Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War	1
Living with Inflation in Argentina	1
The Pandemic and the Long Shadow of Austerity in Southern Europe	1
The Erosion of Health Data Privacy	1
How a New Sufi Movement Globalized	1
How the Pandemic Made Sensory Power Visible	1
The Urban Geographies of Philippine Transnationalism	1
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	1
Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies	1
France’s Identity Crisis	1
Portugal’s Legacies of Colonialism and Decolonization	1
Forgetting Atrocity in East Africa	1
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role	1
Trust and Informal Power in Central Asia	1
Crisis and Institutional Collapse in Haiti	1
Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert	1
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	1
The Rights of Nature Go from Theory to Reality	1
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship	1
Disabled People’s Fight for Rights in South Korea and Japan	1
As Oil Is Waning, the Times Are Changing	1
Migrants in Waiting in Mexico	1

Spatial Injustice in Johannesburg in the Time of COVID-19	1
A New Age of Empires?	1
The Russian War Machine Fails the Tests of War	1
The Ukrainian State under Russian Aggression	1
Ireland Is Post-Catholic, But Religion Still Matters	1
American Exceptionalism Redux	1
Jokes and the Walls of Consciousness	1
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia	1
China’s Zero-COVID Campaign and the Body Politic	1
Saving Nature and Ourselves	1
Bhutan’s Democratic Growing Pains	1
The Rebels Who Fought Mexican and US Oppression	1
Artificial Canon	1
Who Is an African Jew?	1
Disability Rights in the Middle East	1
How COVID-19 Has Redistributed Human Mobility	1
Violent Silence	1
Why Have Progressive Schools?	1