OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Quarterly Journal of Speech 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State	36
“An Empire for Liberty”: Reassessing US Presidential Foreign Policy Rhetoric	23
Memes we live by: visual rhetoric on justice	10
Affect and melodramatic resistance	7
Framing the activists: gender, race, and rhetorical disability in contested illnesses	6
Vaccine Rhetorics	6
Anaerobic rhetoric	5
The evolution of mathematics: a rhetorical approach	5
The U.S. American left and reverse moral exceptionalism: when do villains become heroes?	5
So you choose to “Lie Flat?” “Sang-ness,” affective economies, and the “Lying Flat” movement	5
The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO	4
The Dual Containment metaphor: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and linking the Cold War to the War on Terror	4
Storytelling and worldmaking climate justice futures: Indigenous climate advocacy and transnational solidarity in UN climate conferences	4
How liberals lost the public: Walter Lippmann, John Dewey, and the critique of “traditional democratic theory”	4
Rhetorical strategies for retrieving abortion rights	3
Rejecting Latinidad, embracing Améfrica Ladina	3
Toward reproductive justice rhetorics of care: state senator Jen Jordan’s dissent of Georgia’s heartbeat bill	3
Gore empowerment: patriarchal appetites and white feminist delights in Showtime’s Yellowjackets	3
“This is America”: repurposing the white gaze through imitation	3
A market for civil rights: whiteness as property, colorblindness, and the rhetoric of school choice	3
No going back: The struggle for a post- Roe reproductive justice	3
De-whitening consent amidst COVID-19 rhetoric	3
Creating a Latine imaginary via radionovela in the Republic of Ecuador	3
Alienizing logics and rhetoric at the end of the world	2
Imagining heteroglossic and polyvocal rhetoric in the Americas: from acknowledgment to legitimation	2

President Wonder Woman and Congresswoman Batgirl: the authoritarian Überfrau and democratic resilience in superheroine comics	2
“You smell sulfur in the sky”: embodied knowledge, smell, and expertise	2
Nuclear zelus: climate-oriented imaginaries among nuclear energy professionals	2
Caught on Tape: White Masculinity and Obscene Enjoyment	2
Derailing the capitalist engine: theorizing relations of mujō through Mugen Train	2
The center cannot hold: decolonial possibility in the collapse of a Tanzanian NGO	2
Singularity: Politics and Poetics	2
An accounting from Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb	2
“Except for brahmins”: caste, epideictic, and rhetorical world-making	2
Stripped: reading the erotic body	2
Melodrama, William Barr, and the imperial presidency	2
The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance	2
Expanding Latine imaginaries: a forum on critical possibilities within and beyond Latinidad	2
From blues to Beyoncé: a century of Black women’s generational sonic Rhetorics	1
“It's the truth about women— that we get lost”: Andrea Dworkin, public memory, and archival resilience	1
Caste-attentiveness	1
Weaving intimacies: Grace and connection in scholarly community	1
Cultivating radical care and otherwise possibilities at the end of the world	1
Census as obituary	1
Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties	1
Feminism and the Politics of Resilience: Essays on Gender, Media and the End of Welfare	1
“Greater than fear”: theorizing affective blockage in social movement rhetoric	1
We are future ancestors: on authoritarian politics and the deepening of our radical roots	1
American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump	1
Suffering and the edges of melodrama	1
Homeland maternity: US security culture and the new reproductive regime Homeland maternity: US security culture and the new reproductive regime , by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz	1
Privacy, precarity, and political change: Connecting gendered violence to reproductive injustice	1
Global Rhetorical Traditions	1
Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production	1
Black (rhetorics of) migration and laying claim to space	1
Caste/ism as a planetary threat	1
Infraconstitutive rhetoric: insurgent abolition and the Black radical imagination	1
I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States I the People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States , by Paul Elliott Johns	1
Sought out, kept out: Transantagonistic, anti-queer, and racist rhetoric in liberal academia	1