OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic History is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	48
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911	39
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review	32
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China	22
A Millennial View of Spain’s Development. Essays in Economic History. By Leandro Prados de la Escosura. Cham: Springer and Fundación Rafael del Pino, 2024. Pp. Xxxii, 375. Open Access.	22
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting	20
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846	18
Editors’ Report for 2023	14
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina	13
Editors’ Notes	13
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)	13
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan. New York: PublicAffairs, 2022. Pp. vii, 223. $29.00, hardcover.	13
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940	13
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	11
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	11
Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns	10
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823	10
JEH volume 82 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	10
JEH volume 85 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	9
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	9
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.	9
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	8
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy	8
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas	8
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748	8

Malaria, Race, and Inequality: Evidence from the Early 1900s U.S. South	8
Taming the Global Financial Cycle: Central Banks as Shock Absorbers in the First Era of Globalization	8
The Feudal Origins of Manorial Prosperity: Social Interactions in Eleventh-Century England	8
Urban Political Structure and Inequality: Political Economy Lessons from Early Modern German Cities	7
JEH volume 85 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	7
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	7
Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean. By David Allen Harvey . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. Pp. 306. $64.95, hardcover.	6
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance. By Didac Queralt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 343. $120.00, cloth; $35.00, paper.	6
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	6
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971	6
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933	5
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	5
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s	5
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages	5
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act	5
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut	5
Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations	5
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years	5
Knowledge Diffusion and Intellectual Change: When Chinese Literati Met European Jesuits	5
The Failure of Cotton Imperialism in Africa: Seasonal Constraints and Contrasting Outcomes in French West Africa and British Uganda	5
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	5
JEH volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879	4
Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution? By R. J. C. Adams. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvi, 320. £65.00, hardcover.	4
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance	4
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	4
JEH volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	4
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development	4
Why Join the Fed?	4