OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Pacific History is 0. 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
Geschichtlos No More: The Trans-imperiality of German Colonial Expertise	8
MANUSCRIPT XLVI: New Light on the Establishment of the Wesleyan Mission in Lakeba, Fiji	7
Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa	5
A New and Unfamiliar Sea: Politics, Geopolitics and the 2024 General Elections in Solomon Islands	4
Corrections: An Update to ‘The Making of Tupaia’s Map’	3
The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik	3
The Pacific World in the Round	3
Mandates and Missteps: Australian Government Scholarships to the Pacific – 1948 to 2018	3
The Ambiguous History of Matthew and Hunter Islands: Tracing the Roots of Vanuatu and French Claims	3
Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand	2
MANUSCRIPT XXXVIII: Rau's Report on the Work of the Cook Islands ‘Orometua in Papua, 18 June 1872–14 June 1877	2
Tanna Times: Islanders in the World	2
Editors’ Introduction: Brij V. Lal and the Contemporary Politics of Fiji	2
Across the Kalapani: Uttar Pradesh to Fiji	2
The Persistence of Sung History-Making in Oceania	2
A Fish Named Tahiti: Myths and Power in Ancient Polynesia (Tahiti, Ra‘iātea, Hawai‘i, Aotearoa New Zealand)	2
The Constitution That Never Was: Revisiting Fiji’s 2012 Draft	2
Sereke Pua (‘Pottery-Making’): History of a Dying Tradition on Lauru (Choiseul), Solomon Islands	2
John Dunmore (1923–2023)	1
Island Encounters: Timor-Leste from the Outside In	1
A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944–64	1
Leading from the Frontline: A History of Pacific Climate Diplomacy	1
In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea . By Meli	1
Fiji’s Foreign Relations, 2006–23	1
E Vaine Toa, E Rangatira: Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe (D.Litt), 1930–2022	1

Jack Golson: A Life (13 September 1926–2 September 2023)	1
Wharenui Harikoa	1
Brij V. Lal (1952–2021)	1
Correction	1
Le Retour des trésors polynésiens/The Return of the Polynesian Treasures	1
Correction	1
Eight Months in the Cook Islands	1
John Anthony Moses (10 June 1930–30 May 2024)	0
Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji . Edited by Nicholas Halter. Canberra, ANU Press, 2022. xlii + 477 pp., ill	0
From Copra Sequestration to Outboard Engine Trawling: Changes in the Carbon Footprint of Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands	0
MANUSCRIPT XLV: J.H.F. (Frits) Sollewijn Gelpke, The Spanish Exploration and Annexation of North New Guinea in the 16th Century Part 2	0
‘Na Viti’: A Magazine for Young Fiji	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIV: Inaugural Lecture: History, Lies and Mythology – the Historian and the Community	0
Forward Without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai‘i 1900–1941	0
Walter Niel Gunson (1930–2023)	0
‘We will not Relax our Efforts’: The Anti-Nuclear Stance of Civil Society and Government in Post-Independence Fiji	0
Remembering the Medical Tultul of Papua New Guinea	0
War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II	0
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa – Our Living Nexus across 50,000 Years of History and Beyond	0
The Plot against Mt Hurun: How Cold War Targeting of Nuclear Missiles Sparked the Peli Movement, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea	0
The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan	0
Promoting the Nation: Conflicting Theories of Tourism during Decolonization in Papua New Guinea, 1960–70s	0
The Curious Case of Assassination of the Minister for Works in 1999	0
Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki	0
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Transition to Self-government, 1970–1972; Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea; The Push t	0
‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5	0
Tonga’s Monarchy and the Country’s Coconut Industry, c. 1945 to Independence	0
Tupaia’s Wind Positioning System: (Re)Modelling Ancestral Polynesian Voyaging	0
Five Centuries of Settlement Dynamics and Mobility in the Northern Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua	0
Understanding the Church and Training from Which the Cook Islander Missionaries Brought the Christian Message to Papua New Guinea in the 1870s	0
‘He Wished We Did Not Look So Thoroughly English’: Competition and Co-Imperialism on a French Polynesian Phosphate Island	0
‘Between Two Worlds’: The Origins, Operation, and Future of the 2013 Fiji Constitution	0
Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu \| Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923	0
Imperial Resurgence: How French Polynesia Was Chosen as the Site for the French Centre for Pacific Tests (CEP)	0
En Sigi Ha’ Mo’na: A Genealogy of CHamoru Resistance to Language Erasure	0
APT11; Eleventh Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art/Queensland Art Gallery, Southbank Precinct, Brisbane, 30 November 2024–5 May 2025, Free.	0
Islanders of Destiny: The Intrinsic Importance of Pacific Islanders to the Secret War on Bougainville, 1941–2	0
The Experiment and Experience of Co-Imperialism in the New Hebrides, 1870s–1920s	0
Review of Leveraging Sovereignty by J. Susan Corley	0
Introduction: What Can We Learn from the 2021 Political Crisis About Long-run Stability and Democracy in Sāmoa?	0
Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua . By Camellia Webb-Gannon. Honolulu,	0
The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands	0
‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa	0
Adrift in the Sea of Phosphates: Walpole Island in the Early 20th Century	0
Media Review by Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman of Te Wai Ngunguru: Nomads of the Sea by Lisa Reihana	0
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean	0
Te Moana Nui a Kiwa: The Tide-Beating Heart of Earth	0
Modelling of Epidemics Suggests Over 96 per cent Population Loss on Aneityum, Vanuatu, Following European Contact	0
Troubles and Puzzles: The 2022 General Elections in Papua New Guinea	0
Constituencies in a Hybrid State: An Examination of the Shift from ‘Territorial’ to ‘Electoral’ Constituencies in Sāmoa	0

Gender and Political Leadership in Samoa: Fiame Naomi Mata‘afa and the 2021 Election	0
Attending to the Fiji Court: Engaging with Material Culture to Address Entangled Subjectivities at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition 1925–6	0
Customary Paths Toward Denuclearization and Decolonization: Mā‘ohi and Kanak Activists Passing Through lo Larzac	0
Pleasure and Pain in the Pacific	0
Art/Story of the Niuklia Fri Pasifik: On Doing Creative Pacific Histories	0
MANUSCRIPT XLII: The Cry of Mata‘afa	0
‘A Very Remarkable Development … Has Taken Place in Tanna’: The Albatross Scheme, 1915–22	0
Scottish Reformers and ʻIli ʻĀina Dissolution in Mid-19th Century Hawaiʻi	0
Introduction – In Our Own Words: Histories in Languages of Oceania	0
Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai’i and the Making of US Empire	0
Decolonizing Regional Politics in Oceania: Re-examining the Historical Record	0
The Russians ‘Americanize’ Hawai‘i: Russian Molokan Migrants and the Failed Labour Domiciling Experiment in Kaua‘i, 1905–6	0
Words, Values, and Actions: Reading the Lives of Chiefs, Pastors, and Leaders in Kanaky New Caledonia	0
Reframing Suffrage Narratives: Pacific Women, Political Voice, and Collective Empowerment	0
The Rev. Newell’s Dilemma: Responding to Lauaki’s Mau a Pule Movement	0
The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands . By Pierre Maranda, James Tuita Dede and Ben Bur	0
Military Labourers and Sexual Violence in the New Guinea Campaign of the Pacific War, 1942–5	0
Gordon S. Parsonson (1919–2023)	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIII: Petition to the United Nations Trusteeship Council from the Marshallese People, 20 April 1954	0
MANUSCRIPT XLVIII: Protestant Islander Missionaries in the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)	0
Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea	0
Tonga and the British Empire in the Great War: Loyalty and Neutrality	0
‘Women and Children Last’: Establishing Maternal and Child Health Services in Papua New Guinea	0
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua	0
Ethnographic and Imperial Mapping: Miklouho-Maclay's New Guinea Placenames	0
Massacre at Ocean Island (Banaba): Some I-Kiribati and Japanese Perspectives	0
A Taste of Canada in Vanuatu: The ViVa Project on Tanna (1991–2018)	0
Tracing Presence: Experience, Indigenous Agency, and Place in European Toponymy of New Guinea, 1606–1908	0
Kanak Women and the Revolutionary Struggle for Kanak Liberation: Militant Women’s Writing in the Groupe 1878 and the PALIKA	0
Genealogies, Genomes, and Histories in the Pacific: Genetic Drift	0
The ‘Segregation Village’ at Reao (Tuamotus): A Leprosarium on the Fringes of the Établissements français de l’Océanie	0
Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa and the World Beyond These Shores: Aotearoa and the World . Edited by Nina Hall. Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 2020. 248 pp., notes.	0
The Feminist Pacific: International Women’s Networks in Hawai‘i, 1820–1940	0
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment	0
‘They Will Terminate at District Headquarters’: Towards a History of Patrol Reports and Their Circulation in Papua New Guinea c. 1958–73	0
The Story of Fai‘ota: Resolving an Ancient Conflict in Malaita, Solomon Islands	0
Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J.W. Newland	0
The Philippines (and Chile) in Martínez de Zúñiga's 19th-Century Ideas about pre-Columbian trans-Pacific Contact	0
Voyages: Stories of an Ocean People Voyages: Stories of an Ocean People , a permanent exhibition at the Fiji Museum, Thurston Gardens, Suva, Fiji. Open daily.	0
Making Local Sense of a Global Disease: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Guam	0
MANUSCRIPT XLI: Papeiha, E tuatua no te taeanga mai o te tuatua na te atua ki Rarotonga nei (An Account of the Coming of the Word of God to Rarotonga), c. 1830	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIX: Macmillan Brown Lectures 1998	0
The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers	0
The Indigenous Rights Challenge to Common and Equal Citizenship in the ‘New’ Fiji	0
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World	0
Re-visiting Transgressive Actions: The Little-known Pacific Life of Sarah Henry Bland, 1797–1822	0
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic	0
Making Law in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System Making Law in Papua New Guinea: The Colonial Origins of a Postcolonial Legal System .	0
The Gallows of Girmit (1886–1919)	0
Indigenous Reservations in Australia and New Caledonia: A Colonial Reality and Its Variations in Aboriginal and Kanak Worlds	0
Regional Politics in Oceania: From Colonialism and Cold War to the Pacific Century	0
Sāmoan Custom, Individual Rights, and the Three 2020 Acts: Reorganizing the Land and Titles Court	0
‘Pity the Fishing People’: Taiwan’s Legal and Illegal Fishing in the 20th-century Pacific	0
Media review by Nicholas Hoare of Makatea: La terre convoitée by Claire Perdrix	0
What Lies Behind the Increasing Chinese Tourism Presence in the Northern Mariana Islands?	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXVII: Personal Narratives and Letters of Cook Islands ‘Orometua Trained at Takamoa College	0
Introduction: The Cook Islands Christian Church Special Issue	0
Are Sāmoa’s Political Institutions Democratic? A Critical Examination of the Fa‘amatai and the 2021 General Election	0
Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania	0
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty	0
Inaugural Brij Lal Memorial Lecture: Belonging, and Banishment from and in the Sea of Islands	0
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World	0
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa	0
The Self-Liberated Slave Periquillo Saves the Missionary Juan Pobre: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Origins of the Black Pacific	0
MANUSCRIPT XLV: J.H.F. (Frits) Sollewijn Gelpke, The Spanish Exploration and Annexation of North New Guinea in the 16th Century, Part 1	0
The Beharell Patrol of 1938: The First Government Patrol Across the Land of Kubo People (Nomad District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea)	0
Taro Swamps on Ontong Java Atoll: Past, Present, and Future	0
Polynesian Agency and the Establishment of the French Centre for Pacific Tests	0
Robert Philp and the Politics of Development	0
Nungon, Patrol Officers, and Missionaries: Differing Narratives about Two Key Events in the History of Nungon People of New Guinea	0
Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain, and the Pacific	0
A Political History of the Subject: Brij V. Lal on Leadership	0
Solomon Islands Song as History: Kastom, Preservation, and Transformation	0
The Fiji Times at 150: Imagining the Nation (Or, A Scrapbook of Fiji’s History)	0
‘A Good Healthy Game’: A Colonial History of Netball in Papua New Guinea	0
From Warriors to Soldiers: Militarizing Fijian Identity during the Second World War	0
Gauguin and Polynesia	0
Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other	0
Settler Colonial Dynamics Across the Coral Sea: White Australia and the Contours of French Settlement in New Caledonia	0
Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam	0

Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific, 1880–1920	0
John Douglas Dademo Waiko: Binandere Man, Historian, and Politician (8 August 1945–16 November 2024)	0
Remembering Deryck Anthony Scarr (7 September 1939–29 March 2024)	0
Avoiding Japanese Intervention in New Caledonia: June and July 1940	0
Glorious Company: The Polynesia Company in Melbourne and Fiji	0
‘Very Beautiful Land’: Malay Knowledge, Spanish Voyages, and Indigenous Presence in Iberian Mapping of New Guinea	0
Looking for Lost Proficiency in East Polynesian Voyaging Traditions and Ethnology	0
‘Tonga Is My Homeland, But Fiji Is My Home’: Journeys and Experiences of Tongan Women in Fiji (1959–79)	0
Sandalwood and the Entanglement of the Juan Fernández Islands in Eco-Cultural Networks	0
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange	0
Introduction: Resistance and Survival – The Nuclear Era in the Pacific	0
Letters from Kiribati	0
Maisin Recollections of the Kokoda Campaign, 1942-3	0
Queen Kaʻahumanu of Hawaiʻi: A Biography	0
The Melanesian Way in the 21st Century: Culture, Politics, and Festivals	0
Beyond Wartime Loyalty and Collaboration: The Legacy of George Bogese	0
On Two Different Personalities from Old Rapa Nui: Personal Effects of ‘ ariki mau Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and ‘Prophetess’ María Angata Veri Tahi (ca. 1853–1914) – Part I	0
Guardians of the Constitution: Upholding Judicial Independence During Samoa’s Constitutional Crisis	0
Where Lies the State? Sāmoa's 2021 Election and the Defeat of the Human Rights Protection Party	0
Reframing Indigenous Biography	0
Violent Laughter: Commemorating Anglo-French Co-operation and Forgetting Violence through Gilbert and Sullivan in Colonial Vanuatu	0
The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism	0
Victory in the Pacific: 80th Anniversary	0
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World	0
Photography in New Caledonia: Constructed and Casual Views of Colonial Life	0
Muskets for the ‘King’: The Tahitian Firearms Trade Prior to Unification	0
The Constitutionalization of Sāmoan Politics: A Comparison of the 1975, 1982 and 2021 Political Crises	0
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants	0
Manuscript XLVII: Sea Diary of Captain Martin Huggett, Melanesian Mission, 1899	0
Seeking a Lost Collection at Museums Victoria: George Thomas Rice’s ‘Museum of Island Curios’	0
Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIX: Macmillan Brown Lectures 1998 Lecture Two: Te Kerēme – The Claim University of Canterbury, 15 September 1998	0
Paradox and Pity: What We Can Learn From Fiji’s Urban Squatter Settlements	0
APT10; The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art	0
Le Vanuatu dans tous ses états. Histoire et anthropologie	0
Storying Manus Women and Girls into Asylum Seeker and PNG Women’s Rights Discourses Surrounding the Manus Regional Processing Centre, 2012–19	0
The Anatomy of Frank Bainimarama’s Defeat at the Fiji December 2022 Election	0
On Two Different Personalities from Old Rapa Nui: Personal Effects of ‘ariki mau Nga‘ara (? – ca. 1859) and ‘Prophetess’ María Angata Veri Tahi (ca. 1853–1914) – Part I: The Pistol of Nga‘ara	0
Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul	0
Colin Newbury (1929–2025)	0