OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Xiongnu Rulers’ Residences in the Historical Records of the Han Dynasty	7
Shrines Unyielding: Inter-Asian Networks and the Enduring Power of Sacred Spaces	6
An Enduring Prestige: Land Grants in a Princely State Census	5
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān	3
“The Turquoise Was Brought From Chorasmia” Mining, Empire, and the People of the Steppes across the Achaemenid Northeastern Borderlands	3
The Arghūn State in Qandahar and the New World Economy, 1479–1522	3
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant: An Archaeobotanical and Historical Investigation of the Site of Ashkelon	3
“Melaka” in Chinese Texts: Archivalisation and Macro Patterns Related to Records of Melaka in the Ming and Qing Periods (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)	2
Turkstroi: Soviet-Turkish Industrial Cooperation and the Dialectics of Divergence and Convergence in Interwar Statism, 1931–1941	2
The Crimean Khan Şahin Giray (1777–1783): The First Modernizer of the Islamic World and his Image in Imperial and Minority Perspectives	2
An Ottoman Governor’s Agent at the Sublime Porte: the Letters of Kuşçu Mahmud Ağa, 1652–7	2
Flexible Forms of Contracts: Transactions through Fictitious Settlements (ṣulḥ/muṣālaḥa) in Iran	2
Imperial Landed Endowments (Vakıf Çiftliks) in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of Pertevniyal Valide Sultan’s Endowments in Thessaly	2
Crafting a Categorical Ayutthaya: Ethnic Labeling, Administrative Reforms, and Social Organization in an Early Modern Entrepôt	1
From Western India to Eastern Africa—the Rise of the Parsis in the 18th and 19th Centuries	1
Fifteenth-Century Melaka’s Networked Ports-of-Trade and Maritime Diasporas in the Bay of Bengal and Western Indian Ocean	1
Ijtihād in Putin’s Russia? Signature Fatwas from Moscow and Kazan	1
Back matter	1
Mechanisms and Performance of the Maoist Economy: a Holistic Approach, 1950–1980	1
From the Archives of Asian History	1
Cash Waqfs and Commercial Capital: Evidence from Ottoman-Venetian Trade (16th Century)	1
Persian in the Villages, or, the Language of Jamiat Rai’s Account Books	1
Social Infrastructures, Military Entrepreneurship, and the Making of the Sultan’s Court in Fifteenth-Century Cairo	1
Huṇḍī and Nirakh Huṇḍāwan: Indic Mercantile Instruments in the Persianate Bazaar	1
Corrigendum	1

Museum Cuficum Borgianum Velitris (pp. 32–37)	1
Transacting Politics in the Maratha Empire: An Agreement between Friends, 1795	1
Disputed Transactions: Documents, Language, and Authority in Eighteenth-Century Marwar	1
Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1689–1843	1
Shirin’s Petition: an Enslaved Hazara Woman’s Quest for Justice in the Late 19th Century	1