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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Protecting Children’s Rights in Crises	22
López Obrador’s Transformation of Mexican Democracy	16
Unspoken Legacies of Fascism in Italy	14
When Health Is the Target	14
Egyptian Universities Search for a New Role	13
How Bangladeshi Students Toppled a Government	11
France’s Identity Crisis	10
African Nationalism and the United Nations	9
Saving Nature and Ourselves	8
India’s Oligarchic State Capitalism	8
Environmental Injustice in Iran’s Peripheral Regions	7
Mining, Water Conflicts, and Climate Change in Chile’s Atacama Desert	7
Interspecies Relations in the Midst of the Russia–Ukraine War	6
A Slow Disaster Historical Experiment	6
How Syria’s Dynasty Collapsed	6
The Democratic Challenges in Global Governance of AI	6
Colombia Tries a Transformative Left Turn	6
Art and Protest in Kazakhstan	5
Israel, Palestine, and the Road to October 7: Dead End or Deadly Detour?	5
Europe’s Energy Dilemma	5
Huawei Is Quietly Dominating China’s Semiconductor Supply Chain	5
Namibia’s Intractable Land Question	4
Croatia’s Uneasy First Decade in the European Union	4
What the Emergency Wrought	4
The Violent Remaking of Jeddah	4

The Dark Arctic	4
China’s Endless Frontier	4
Solar Power and the Struggle for Electrification in Africa	4
China’s Sin City	4
Mexico’s Structures of Violence	4
The Legacies of the Stroessner Dictatorship in Paraguay	4
The Elusive Dream of Democracy, Security, and Well-Being in Mozambique	4
For a Fearless, Stirring, and Loving Climate Pessimism	4
Guest Editor’s Note	3
The European Union’s Strategic Test in Ukraine	3
Finland and Sweden’s Road to NATO	3
Europe’s Rearmament Dilemmas	3
Pentecostalism and Power in Guatemala	3
Will Nationalism, Illiberalism, and Climate Change Lead to Water Wars?	3
The Unfolding Sovereign Debt Crisis	3
The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency	3
How to Address the Roots of Gen Z Frustration	3
The Rebels Who Fought Mexican and US Oppression	3
Chasing Extraterrestrial Intelligence	3
Ethics and Global Health Emergencies	3
Erratum	3
China’s Ecological Engineering in the Anthropocene	3
Can Ecuador Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?	3
Politicization Undermines the Military’s Nonpartisan Ethic	3
Maintaining the Illusion	3
Surviving Under the Shadow of the Islamic State	3
The Trap of Wish Fulfillment	3
The Contradictory Syrian Presence in Turkey’s Southern Borderlands	2
Egypt’s Adaptive Islamic Puritans	2
The Politics of Extreme Heat in Urban South Asia	2
Protesting for Europe in Georgia	2
Forgetting Atrocity in East Africa	2
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship	2
Why Zimbabweans Choose to Migrate or Stay	2
Crisis and Institutional Collapse in Haiti	2
Migrants in Waiting in Mexico	2
Walls and Cages	2
China’s Booming Fiction Industry	2
Portugal’s Legacies of Colonialism and Decolonization	2
May Nigeria Not Happen to You	2
Amazigh Indigeneity and the Remaking of Tamazgha	2
Chad after Idriss Déby	2
The Ghostly Politics Haunting Yemen	2
Central European Thinkers Who Prophesied Our World	1
Precarious Youth and Everyday Improvisation in Kinshasa	1
Africa in the World Arena	1
Housing, Speculation, and Social Change in Albania	1
Has Greece Gone from Basket Case to Poster Child?	1
Ferociously Cute	1
A Country in Abeyance	1

The Climate Risk of Green Industrial Policy	1
How Vegetarianism Went Global	1
China’s Zero-COVID Campaign and the Body Politic	1
Can Gen Z Protests Transform Nepal’s Political Futures?	1
A New Age of Empires?	1
Okinawa’s Unsettled Membership in Japan	1
Will AI Slay the Poverty Dragon?	1
Tibetan Exiles in India Face Urgent Questions	1
The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics	1
States of Emergency—The Apartheid Paranoia in South Africa’s Lockdown	1
How War Is Rebordering Ukraine	1
Reconstructing the Nuclear Peace	1
Green Extractivism’s New Frontiers	1
The Dominican National Pastime	1
The Tragedy of Transition in Ethiopia and Sudan	1
Sustainability Spectacle in the Gulf	1
How COVID-19 Has Redistributed Human Mobility	1
Ireland Is Post-Catholic, But Religion Still Matters	1
Visions and Mirages of Tourism in the Middle East	1
Transitional Justice at 40	1
Enzyme Power	1
The Politics of Ethnography at a Tibetan Nunnery	1
Re-engineering the Innovation Chain	1
Land Concessions and Postwar Conflict in Laos	1
The Return of Inflation	1
The Elections that Unmade Turkey’s Democracy	1
Youth Mobilization and Democracy in Senegal	1
Pluralistic Approaches to Mental Health Care in Ghana	1
The Power and Politics of Popular Egyptian Music	1
Why Witchcraft Matters Now	1
The Politics of Indigenous Exclusion in Australia and New Zealand	1
Machine Dreams of the Tech Barons	1
The United States and a United West	1
How Family History Helps Ukrainians Face the War	1
Culture, Imperialism, and the Other Russias	1
Brunei Faces Generational Change	1
Women’s Struggles for Empowerment in Bangladesh	1