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

Article	Citations
Das Prachtboot: Wie Deutsche die Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten	9
Geschichtlos No More: The Trans-imperiality of German Colonial Expertise	3
MANUSCRIPT XLVI: New Light on the Establishment of the Wesleyan Mission in Lakeba, Fiji	3
The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik	2
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean	2
Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand	2
Te Papa to Berlin: The Making of Two Museums	2
Corrections: An Update to ‘The Making of Tupaia’s Map’	2
Te Ata o Tū The Shadow of Tūmatauenga: The New Zealand Wars Collections of Te Papa	2
A Fish Named Tahiti: Myths and Power in Ancient Polynesia (Tahiti, Ra‘iātea, Hawai‘i, Aotearoa New Zealand)	1
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji	1
Atomic Bomb Island: Tinian, the Last Stage of the Manhattan Project, and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II	1
The Persistence of Sung History-Making in Oceania	1
‘If It Wasn’t For Us … ’: Peripheral Narratives of the Pacific War	1
Across the Kalapani: Uttar Pradesh to Fiji	1
MANUSCRIPT XXXVIII: Rau's Report on the Work of the Cook Islands ‘Orometua in Papua, 18 June 1872–14 June 1877	1
Editors’ Introduction: Brij V. Lal and the Contemporary Politics of Fiji	1
The Ambiguous History of Matthew and Hunter Islands: Tracing the Roots of Vanuatu and French Claims	1
Sereke Pua (‘Pottery-Making’): History of a Dying Tradition on Lauru (Choiseul), Solomon Islands	1
The Constitution That Never Was: Revisiting Fiji’s 2012 Draft	1
Queen Kaʻahumanu of Hawaiʻi: A Biography	0
Beyond Wartime Loyalty and Collaboration: The Legacy of George Bogese	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
Are Sāmoa’s Political Institutions Democratic? A Critical Examination of the Fa‘amatai and the 2021 General Election	0
Engaging Environments in Tonga: Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World	0

La littérature irradiée - Les essais nucléaires en Polynésie Française au prisme de l'écriture	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
Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu \| Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923	0
Margaret Mead	0
A Distant Thud in the Jungle (140 km à l’ouest du paradis)	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
Select List of Histories and Biographies of Pacific Islander Missionaries	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXIX: Mamae of Mangaia: Nineteenth Century Pastor and Tribal Historian	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
Remembering Deryck Anthony Scarr (7 September 1939–29 March 2024)	0
A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic	0
Outermost Oceania? Taiwan and the Modalities of Pacific History	0
Seeking Peace in the Pacific: The Story of Conflict and Christianity in the Central Solomon Islands	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIV: Inaugural Lecture: History, Lies and Mythology – the Historian and the Community	0
From Warriors to Soldiers: Militarizing Fijian Identity during the Second World War	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
Une Histoire de Tahiti: des origines à nos jours	0
Mangroves, Coconuts and Frangipani: The Story of Rabaul	0
Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania	0
The Indigenous Rights Challenge to Common and Equal Citizenship in the ‘New’ Fiji	0
Tonga and the British Empire in the Great War: Loyalty and Neutrality	0
Le Vanuatu dans tous ses états. Histoire et anthropologie	0
‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa	0
The Upper Sepik–Central New Guinea Project	0
The Melanesian Way in the 21st Century: Culture, Politics, and Festivals	0
Promoting the Nation: Conflicting Theories of Tourism during Decolonization in Papua New Guinea, 1960–70s	0
Naming ‘Polynesia’: Cartography, Geography, and Toponymy of the ‘Fifth Part of the World’	0
The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers	0
MANUSCRIPT XL: Koe taimi kovi ‘i Toga – A Bad Time in Tonga: The Journal of J. Fekau ‘Ofahemo‘oni, 18 January to 27 March 1887	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 XXXVII: Personal Narratives and Letters of Cook Islands ‘Orometua Trained at Takamoa College	0
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa	0
Robert Philp and the Politics of Development	0
Reawakened: Traditional Navigators of Te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa	0
Je vous écris des Samoa. Un demi-siècle de correspondance inédite 1858–1909 venue de la lointaine Océanie	0
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants	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
John Dunmore (1923–2023)	0
Guardians of the Constitution: Upholding Judicial Independence During Samoa’s Constitutional Crisis	0
Reframing Suffrage Narratives: Pacific Women, Political Voice, and Collective Empowerment	0
Walter Niel Gunson (1930–2023)	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
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean	0
E Vaine Toa, E Rangatira: Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe (D.Litt), 1930–2022	0
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism	0
Introduction: Resistance and Survival – The Nuclear Era in the Pacific	0
The War Beat, Pacific: The American Media at War Against Japan	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
Like Fire: The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia	0

Tanna Times: Islanders in the World	0
‘Na Viti’: A Magazine for Young Fiji	0
Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Eastern Pacific	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
Letters from Kiribati	0
Massacre at Ocean Island (Banaba): Some I-Kiribati and Japanese Perspectives	0
A Political History of the Subject: Brij V. Lal on Leadership	0
Polynesian Agency and the Establishment of the French Centre for Pacific Tests	0
‘Very Beautiful Land’: Malay Knowledge, Spanish Voyages, and Indigenous Presence in Iberian Mapping of New Guinea	0
Glorious Company: The Polynesia Company in Melbourne and Fiji	0
Five Centuries of Settlement Dynamics and Mobility in the Northern Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua	0
The Constitutionalization of Sāmoan Politics: A Comparison of the 1975, 1982 and 2021 Political Crises	0
Forward Without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai‘i 1900–1941	0
Nungon, Patrol Officers, and Missionaries: Differing Narratives about Two Key Events in the History of Nungon People of New Guinea	0
‘Tonga Is My Homeland, But Fiji Is My Home’: Journeys and Experiences of Tongan Women in Fiji (1959–79)	0
Reframing Indigenous Biography	0
Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXVI: A Lasting Memorial to the Pacific Islander Missionaries: A Brief History of the Islander Missionaries Memorial Chapel, PTC	0
Words, Values, and Actions: Reading the Lives of Chiefs, Pastors, and Leaders in Kanaky New Caledonia	0
The Story of Fai‘ota: Resolving an Ancient Conflict in Malaita, Solomon Islands	0
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-colonialism, and the African World	0
‘We will not Relax our Efforts’: The Anti-Nuclear Stance of Civil Society and Government in Post-Independence Fiji	0
Art/Story of the Niuklia Fri Pasifik: On Doing Creative Pacific Histories	0
Gordon S. Parsonson (1919–2023)	0
A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania	0
Fencing in AIDS: Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea	0
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Archives of the Cook Islands Christian Church: Extract from the Main Assembly Catalogue, Takamoa Mission House	0
War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II	0
From Copra Sequestration to Outboard Engine Trawling: Changes in the Carbon Footprint of Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands	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
US-Pacific Engagement and the Biden Presidency: The Limits of a China-Centred Approach	0
Living Among the Northland Māori: Diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844–1846	0
The Rev. Newell’s Dilemma: Responding to Lauaki’s Mau a Pule Movement	0
Currents and Oceanic Geographies of Japan’s Unending Frontier	0
En Sigi Ha’ Mo’na: A Genealogy of CHamoru Resistance to Language Erasure	0
‘Pity the Fishing People’: Taiwan’s Legal and Illegal Fishing in the 20th-century Pacific	0
Micronesia and the Rise of China: Realpolitik Meets the Reef	0
Chasing the Bounty: The Voyages of the Pandora and Matavy	0
Decolonizing Regional Politics in Oceania: Re-examining the Historical Record	0
Inaugural Brij Lal Memorial Lecture: Belonging, and Banishment from and in the Sea of Islands	0
Media review by Nicholas Hoare of Makatea: La terre convoitée by Claire Perdrix	0
Where Lies the State? Sāmoa's 2021 Election and the Defeat of the Human Rights Protection Party	0
In the Grip of Calamity: Tahiti and the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic	0
Eight Months in the Cook Islands	0
Fluid Frontiers: Oceania and Asia in Historical Perspective	0
MANUSCRIPT XXXV: Why Miklouho-Maclay Chose New Guinea	0
Understanding the Church and Training from Which the Cook Islander Missionaries Brought the Christian Message to Papua New Guinea in the 1870s	0
Storying Manus Women and Girls into Asylum Seeker and PNG Women’s Rights Discourses Surrounding the Manus Regional Processing Centre, 2012–19	0
Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film	0
Leading from the Frontline: A History of Pacific Climate Diplomacy	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
Remembering the Medical Tultul of Papua New Guinea	0
Making Local Sense of a Global Disease: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Guam	0
The 2019 Bougainville Referendum and the Question of Independence: From Conflict to Consensus	0
Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki	0
Island Encounters: Timor-Leste from the Outside In	0
Troubles and Puzzles: The 2022 General Elections in Papua New Guinea	0
Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam	0
Avoiding Japanese Intervention in New Caledonia: June and July 1940	0
Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai’i and the Making of US Empire	0
Constituencies in a Hybrid State: An Examination of the Shift from ‘Territorial’ to ‘Electoral’ Constituencies in Sāmoa	0
Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939	0
The Russians ‘Americanize’ Hawai‘i: Russian Molokan Migrants and the Failed Labour Domiciling Experiment in Kaua‘i, 1905–6	0
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment	0
Protestant Martyrs of Melanesia	0
Photography in New Caledonia: Constructed and Casual Views of Colonial Life	0
MANUSCRIPT XLIII: Petition to the United Nations Trusteeship Council from the Marshallese People, 20 April 1954	0
Customary Paths Toward Denuclearization and Decolonization: Mā‘ohi and Kanak Activists Passing Through lo Larzac	0
Australia & the Pacific: A History	0
‘Between Two Worlds’: The Origins, Operation, and Future of the 2013 Fiji Constitution	0
APT10; The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art	0
Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times	0
Japan’s Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty	0
Gender and Political Leadership in Samoa: Fiame Naomi Mata‘afa and the 2021 Election	0
Introduction – In Our Own Words: Histories in Languages of Oceania	0
The ‘Segregation Village’ at Reao (Tuamotus): A Leprosarium on the Fringes of the Établissements français de l’Océanie	0
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean	0
The Self-Liberated Slave Periquillo Saves the Missionary Juan Pobre: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Origins of the Black Pacific	0
Introduction: The Cook Islands Christian Church Special Issue	0
In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua	0

MANUSCRIPT XLII: The Cry of Mata‘afa	0
Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other	0
John Anthony Moses (10 June 1930–30 May 2024)	0
The Anatomy of Frank Bainimarama’s Defeat at the Fiji December 2022 Election	0
Sāmoan Custom, Individual Rights, and the Three 2020 Acts: Reorganizing the Land and Titles Court	0
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear and Science at Sea	0
Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific, 1880–1920	0
‘A Very Remarkable Development … Has Taken Place in Tanna’: The Albatross Scheme, 1915–22	0
The Gallows of Girmit (1886–1919)	0
Maisin Recollections of the Kokoda Campaign, 1942-3	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
Roars from the Mountain: Colonial Management of the 1951 Volcanic Disaster at Mount Lamington	0
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	0
Paradox and Pity: What We Can Learn From Fiji’s Urban Squatter Settlements	0
Muskets for the ‘King’: The Tahitian Firearms Trade Prior to Unification	0
Regional Politics in Oceania: From Colonialism and Cold War to the Pacific Century	0
The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands	0
The Plot against Mt Hurun: How Cold War Targeting of Nuclear Missiles Sparked the Peli Movement, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea	0
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military’s Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange	0
Wharenui Harikoa	0
Solomon Islands Song as History: Kastom, Preservation, and Transformation	0
Seeking a Lost Collection at Museums Victoria: George Thomas Rice’s ‘Museum of Island Curios’	0
Introduction: What Can We Learn from the 2021 Political Crisis About Long-run Stability and Democracy in Sāmoa?	0
Isaac Qölöni: Personal Reflections on an Important Actor in Post-Colonial Solomon Islands	0
Brij V. Lal (1952–2021)	0
Remembrance of Pacific Pasts	0
Looking for Lost Proficiency in East Polynesian Voyaging Traditions and Ethnology	0
Media Review by Pounamu Jade William Emery Aikman of Te Wai Ngunguru: Nomads of the Sea by Lisa Reihana	0
Autonomy, Mobility, and Identity: The Re Tamuning of Guam, 1869–1901	0
Ethnographic and Imperial Mapping: Miklouho-Maclay's New Guinea Placenames	0
Le Retour des trésors polynésiens/The Return of the Polynesian Treasures	0
What Lies Behind the Increasing Chinese Tourism Presence in the Northern Mariana Islands?	0
Military Labourers and Sexual Violence in the New Guinea Campaign of the Pacific War, 1942–5	0
Imperial Resurgence: How French Polynesia Was Chosen as the Site for the French Centre for Pacific Tests (CEP)	0
The Beharell Patrol of 1938: The First Government Patrol Across the Land of Kubo People (Nomad District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea)	0
The ‘Third Expedition to South New Guinea’: A Review Essay	0
Fiji’s Foreign Relations, 2006–23	0
Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain	0
The Curious Case of Assassination of the Minister for Works in 1999	0
‘Our Pacific Through Native Eyes’: Māori Activism in the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement, 1980–5	0
The Cook Voyages Encounters: The Cook Voyages Collections of Te Papa	0
Tomorrow’s Woman?	0