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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Efficiency of Occupational Licensing during the Gilded and Progressive Eras: Evidence from Judicial Review	42
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	33
Like Father Like Son? Intergenerational Immobility in England, 1851–1911	29
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
State Formation and Bureaucratization: Evidence from Pre-Imperial China	21
From Material to Non-Material Needs? The Evolution of Mate Preferences through the Twentieth Century in France	17
The Price and Welfare Consequences of the British Sugar Act of 1846	15
Editors’ Report for 2023	14
Editors’ Notes	13
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina	12
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.	12
Whither Education? The Long Shadow of Pre-Unification School Systems into Italy’s Liberal Age (1861–1911)	11
Inheritance Institutions and Landholding Inequality in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Evidence from Hesse-Cassel Villages and Towns	11
Dissecting the Sinews of Power: International Trade and the Rise of Britain’s Fiscal-Military State, 1689–1823	11
Market Access and Information Technology Adoption: Historical Evidence from the Telephone in Bavaria	11
Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850–1940	11
British-French Technology Transfer from the Revolution to Louis Philippe (1791–1844): Evidence from Patent Data	11
An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992. By Alain Naef. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xx, 246. £85.00, hardcover.	10
JEH volume 82 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	10
Job Tenure and Unskilled Workers before the Industrial Revolution: St Paul’s Cathedral 1672–1748	10
Economic Uncertainty and Divisive Politics: Evidence from the dos Españas	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
Dust Bowl Migrants: Environmental Refugees and Economic Adaptation	8

Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy	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
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy	7
JEH volume 81 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	7
Zombie International Currency: The Pound Sterling 1945–1971	6
Railways, Development, and Literacy in India	6
War, Coal, and Forced Labor: Assessing the Impact of Prisoner-of-War Employment on Coal Mine Productivity in World War I Germany	6
Financial Developments in London in the Seventeenth Century: The Financial Revolution Revisited	6
The Great Depression as a Savings Glut	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
Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages	6
Political Dynasties in Defense of Democracy: The Case of France’s 1940 Enabling Act	5
The Efficiency of the Chinese Silver Standard, 1920–1933	5
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing	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
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s	5
China’s GDP: Some Corrections and the Way Forward	5
We Do Not Know the Population of Every Country in the World for the Past Two Thousand Years	5
Catching-Up and Falling Behind: Russian Economic Growth, 1690s–1880s	5
The Demographic Effects of Colonialism: Forced Labor and Mortality in Java, 1834–1879	4
JEH volume 82 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	4
JEH volume 84 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	4
JEH volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	4
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance	4
Why Join the Fed?	4
Trade, Slavery, and State Coercion of Labor: Egypt during the First Globalization Era	4
An Alternative Institutional Approach to Rules, Organizations, and Development	4
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State	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