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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Unspoken Legacies of Fascism in Italy	79
Protecting Children’s Rights in Crises	19
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy	17
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role	13
Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert	11
France’s Identity Crisis	11
How Bangladeshi Students Toppled a Government	10
Saving Nature and Ourselves	10
Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War	8
African Nationalism and the United Nations	8
The Mobile Fortress	6
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment	6
The Democratic Challenges in Global Governance of AI	6
Art and Protest in Kazakhstan	6
Israel, Palestine, and the Road to October 7: Dead End or Deadly Detour?	6
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	6
Europe’s Energy Dilemma	5
Colombia Tries a Transformative Left Turn	5
Climate Disaster Risk, Disability, and Resilience	5
Huawei Is Quietly Dominating China’s Semiconductor Supply Chain	5
The Violent Remaking of Jeddah	5
Chasing Extraterrestrial Intelligence	4
Solar Power and the Struggle for Electrification in Africa	4
Namibia’s Intractable Land Question	4
Mexico’s Structures of Violence	4

The Elusive Dream of Democracy, Security, and Well-Being in Mozambique	4
Erratum	4
The Dark Arctic	4
China’s Endless Frontier	4
China’s Sin City	4
The Art of Navalny and the History of Corruption	4
Croatia’s Uneasy First Decade in the European Union	4
The Legacies of the Stroessner Dictatorship in Paraguay	4
China’s Ecological Engineering in the Anthropocene	3
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies	3
A Case for Extreme Climate Action	3
Gender and Sexual Politics in China’s Online Dating Scene	3
The Trap of Wish Fulfillment	3
Surviving Under the Shadow of the Islamic State	3
Khaki Capital and Coups in Thailand and Myanmar	3
The European Union’s Strategic Test in Ukraine	3
The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis	3
Pentecostalism and Power in Guatemala	3
Transformations in Afghan Media and Culture Through Cycles of Upheaval	3
Guest Editor’s Note	3
May Nigeria Not Happen to You	2
Why Latin America Has Embraced Ecotourism	2
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship	2
Ideas Matter	2
The Rebels Who Fought Mexican and US Oppression	2
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	2
Digital Currencies—More than a Passing Fad?	2
Migrants in Waiting in Mexico	2
Crisis and Institutional Collapse in Haiti	2
The Elections that Unmade Turkey’s Democracy	2
Portugal’s Legacies of Colonialism and Decolonization	2
Why Zimbabweans Choose to Migrate or Stay	2
Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?	2
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia	2
Violent Silence	2
Chad after Idriss Déby	2
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	2
As Oil Is Waning, the Times Are Changing	2
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	2
The Ghostly Politics Haunting Yemen	1
Culture, Imperialism, and the Other Russias	1
Forgetting Atrocity in East Africa	1
Re-engineering the Innovation Chain	1
Precarious Youth and Everyday Improvisation in Kinshasa	1
The Power and Politics of Popular Egyptian Music	1
Moldova’s Thirty-Year Search for Independence	1
Pastoralism and the State in China’s Inner Mongolia	1
Visions and Mirages of Tourism in the Middle East	1
How Faith-Based Human Rights Work Gets Done in Moscow	1
Central European Thinkers Who Prophesied Our World	1

Enzyme Power	1
The Return of Inflation	1
Tibetan Exiles in India Face Urgent Questions	1
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana	1
Forging Nationalism Through Heritage in Oman	1
China’s Booming Fiction Industry	1
Sustainability Spectacle in the Gulf	1
Amazigh Indigeneity and the Remaking of Tamazgha	1
Transitional Justice at 40	1
States of Emergency—The Apartheid Paranoia in South Africa’s Lockdown	1
Reconstructing the Nuclear Peace	1
Youth Mobilization and Democracy in Senegal	1
The Politics of Indigenous Exclusion in Australia and New Zealand	1
Land Concessions and Postwar Conflict in Laos	1
The Evolving Terrorism Threat in Europe	1
Why Witchcraft Matters Now	1
Okinawa’s Unsettled Membership in Japan	1
How War Is Rebordering Ukraine	1
The Tragedy of Transition in Ethiopia and Sudan	1
Africa in the World Arena	1
Green Extractivism’s New Frontiers	1
A Country in Abeyance	1
The Dominican National Pastime	1
Ferociously Cute	1
COVID-19, Poverty, and Inequality in Bangladesh	1
An Eruption of History in Peru’s Bicentenary	1
How Vegetarianism Went Global	1
Neglect and Resistance in Brazil’s Pandemic	1
The Climate Risk of Green Industrial Policy	1
Women’s Struggles for Empowerment in Bangladesh	1
The Business of Climate Transformation	1
The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics	1