OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nationalities Papers-The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
NPS volume 51 issue 6 Cover and Front matter	17
State-Building as Lawfare: On Conflict, Interpretation, and Ethics	15
Turkish Nationalism, Egalitarianism, and Social Policy: The Compulsory Public Service of Physicians	15
Nationalities without Nationalism? The Cultural Consequences of Metternich’s Nationality Policy	14
Climate Change: Bad News for Populism? How the Rassemblement National Used COVID-19 to Promote Its Environmental Agenda	13
Strengthening Religious Ties: The Neo-Protestant Church and the Integration of Romanian Migrants in the United States	13
Ineffectual People, Incompetent Government: A Chinese Discursive Representation of India during COVID-19	12
Communicating Assistance to Ukrainian Refugees: Does Empathetic Communication Make a Difference?	12
Political and Social Transformation of Kazakhstan During the Years of Revolutions	12
Frankfurt am Meer: The “Illiberal” Liberalism of the German Confederation and Its Aspirations over the Habsburg Adriatic in 1848	11
Thank You to Our Reviewers	11
Hungarian Nationalism in Orbán’s Era: The Case of Martfű	11
Multinational in Form, Russkii in Content: Explaining Russian Citizens’ Enduring Preference for a Multinational State	11
NPS volume 52 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	10
NPS volume 51 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	10
The Zelensky Effect, by Olga Onuch and Henry E. Hale, Hurst Publishers, 2022, 424pp., $24.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9781787388635.	10
“Paper Nation” Jews as a Religion, Minority, and Nation in Bureaucratic Discourse and Praxis in Russian Imperial and Post-Imperial States	9
The Creation of Death-Worlds: Visual Necropolitics and Russia’s War on Ukraine	9
Women, Ethnicity, and Peacebuilding: A Case Study of the Councils of National Minorities in Serbia	9
Forms of National and European Identity: A Research Note Reviewing Literature of Cross-National Studies	8
The 2022 protests in Karakalpakstan. From lost autonomy to regional identity consolidation?	8
Transcultural, Transnational Histories: A Response to Stefano Bianchini’s Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe	8
The Achilles Heel of Constitutional Jurisprudence: Conceptualization of Minority Rights by Constitutional Courts in Central and Eastern Europe	8
Answering the “National Question”: Marxist Theories and the Intellectual Origins of Soviet Nationality Policies	8
Irish Realpolitik versus Catalan Idealism: The Propaganda Campaign of Terence MacSwiney’s Hunger Strike	8

Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia by Gulnaz Sibgatullina, Brill, 2020, 220 pp., €126.00 (e-book, hardcover), ISBN 9789004426450, ISBN 9789004426443.	7
Beyond (Ethno)linguistic Determinism: Diverse Approaches to Nationalism in Habsburg-Austrian Schools	7
NPS volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	7
Grounded Nationalisms in Time and Space: Response to Erin Jenne, Eleanor Knott, and Harris Mylonas	7
The Banality of State Nationalism: Changing Airport Names in the Balkans	7
Putin’s Fascists: Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia, by Robert Horvath, Routledge, 2020, $160.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0367474133, $32.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0367682958	7
Ukrainian War Humor and Civic Activism in 2022	6
NPS volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	6
The Pitfalls of Family Rule. Patronage Norms, Family Overreach, and Political Crisis in Kazakhstan and Beyond, by Barbara Junisbai, Cornell University Press, 2025, $48.95 (Hardcover), ISBN 97815017790	6
Why the 2020 Belarusian Protests Failed to Oust Lukashenka	6
State Violence and Pains of Punishment: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in Belarus in the Aftermath of the 2020 Protests	6
The Politics of Legal Pluralism in a Muslim Society	6
Border Memory and the Politics of Territoriality in the Russian-Finnish Borderland	6
Territorial Dynamics of Spanish Members of Parliament (1977–2020)	6
(In)voluntary Non-migrants? Unfulfilled Migration Intentions under Emigration Restrictions	6
The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics: Secession, Integration, and the Homeland, by Anna Batta, Routledge, 2022, 234 pp., $128 (hardback), ISBN 9781032070957. – CORRIGENDUM	6
Against the Odds: Explaining Mainstream Montenegrin Parties Domination of Bosniak and Albanian Minority Representation in Postcommunist Montenegro	6
Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe, by Lenka Bustikova, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 300 pp., $105.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9781108482653.	5
Failing to Fight for the “Russian World”: Pre-War Social Origins of the Pro-Russian Secessionist Organizations in Ukraine	5
The Failure of “Yugoslavia’s Last Chance”: Ante Marković and his Reformists in the 1990 Elections	5
NPS volume 51 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
Language and Nationality: Social Inferences, Cultural Differences, and Linguistic Misconceptions, by Pietro Bortone, London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 272 pp., $130 (hardback), ISBN 9781	5
Temporary Protection for Ukrainian Refugees in the Czech Republic and Poland	5
The Hot Vojvodina Summer Of 1988: Did Vojvodinians Seek to Overthrow Their Government?	5
“Bykivnia is Extremely Important in the Search for Our Identity”: A Martyrological Landscape of Remembrance and the Problems with the Victimhood Narrative	4
The Life after Life of the 2006 Transnistrian Sovereignty Referendum	4
Academic Diplomacy: The Educational Aspects of Chinese and Russian Soft Power in Tajikistan	4
Animalization of Kurds in Turkish-Speaking Social Media	4
Thank You to Our Reviewers	4
Decolonizing Ukrainian Art History	4
Reasons for the Exclusion of Women from the Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process in Armenia	4
Ethnic Mobilization and the Type of State Birth: Why Do Grievances Lead to Violent or Nonviolent Uprisings?	4
Cultural Trauma of World War II: The Case of the Upper Silesian Village of Bojszowy	4
Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: Russian Speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan, by Alina Jašina-Schäfer, Lexington Books, 2021, 190 pp., $95.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9781793631381, $39.99 (	4
Illusory Disparities: Unravelling the Paradox of the Absence of Horizontal Inequalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina – ADDENDUM	4
NPS volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
“Victims of Democracy” or “Enemies at the Gates”? Russian Discourses on the European “Refugee Crisis”	4
Yellow Star, Red Star: Response to Critiques	4
Jewishness without Jews? Ontological Security, Ethnonationalism, and the Social Power of Analogical Reasoning in Postcolonial Nigeria	3
Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba, by Timothy Blauvelt, London and New York, Routledge, 2021, 264 pp., $136 (hardcover), ISBN 9781032010007, $39.16 (p	3
Thirty Years of Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet States	3
Geopolitics and the Rise of German-Czech Antagonism 1839–1848	3
Finno-Ugric Identity in Estonia: Visual and Discursive Analysis	3
Democracy for the Democrats? Historical Origins of Soviet and Post-Soviet Intelligentsia	3
Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World, by Danilo Mandić. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021, Hardcover, 282 pp., ISBN 9780691187	3
Remembering a Very Recent Past in the Turkish Republic: The Single Party Era’s Historical Remembrance of the Great War	3
Tailoring Narratives on War in Ukraine: Cross-national Study of Sputnik News – CORRIGENDUM	3
Imperialism and Ethnonationalism in Russia’s Turbulent Years (1989–1994) – How Narratives of Unjust Borders Shaped Putin’s ‘Time Bomb’ Metaphor	3
NPS volume 52 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
‘Together We Are Many’: Activist Networks and Regional Protest in Ukraine 1990-2004	3

Is Russia Fascist?: A Response to Yoshiko Herrera, Mitchell Orenstein, and Anton Shekhovtsov	3
Ukrainian Russophones’ Engagement with Language Education Policies	3
Florian Znaniecki’s Culturalistic Sociology of Nation	3
Providing Meaning to Violence: Multiple Mobilizations and Dynamics of Conflict Escalation from November 2013 until February 2014 in Ukraine	3
Chinese Nationalism: Insights and Opportunities for Comparative Studies	3
Placing the 2020 Belarusian Protests in Historical Context: Political Attitudes and Participation during Lukashenko’s Presidency	3
Griffith or de Valera? The Split of Catalan Nationalism in the Face of the Irish Civil War	3
The Second Coming of Rodina: The Role of a Nonparliamentary Party in Putin’s Managed Nationalism	3
Illusory Disparities: Unravelling the Paradox of the Absence of Horizontal Inequalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina – CORRIGENDUM	3
Changes in the Attitudes of Slovenian Communist Leaders toward Yugoslav Statehood in the Late 1980s	3
Thank You to Our Reviewers	3
Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals, by Jan Rovny, Oxford University Press, 2024, $115 (hardcover), ISBN: 9780198906711, $109.25 (ebook), ISBN 978019890674	3
Moldova’s First Quarter Century: Flawed Transition and Failed Democracy	3
Institutional Dynamics of State-Minority Relations: The Case of Roma Communities in Slovakia	2
From Postmodern Art to Stalinism: Donetsk’s Culture Reimagined	2
Ethnicity in Schools: Perceptions of Migrant Children from Central Asia in the Multicultural Environment of Russian Cities	2
Taking the “Race” Out of Master Race: The Evolving Role of the Jew in White Supremacist Discourse	2
The Many Faces of Nationalism	2
“War is destructive, but it reconstructs anew…:” Refugee Education and State Consolidation in Imperial Austria during the First World War	2
Negotiating Brotherhood and Unity: “Oriental Confectioners” and Socialist Morality in Postwar Slovenia	2
The Repertoires of Religious Nationalism: The Case of İsmet Özel	2
The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics: Secession, Integration, and the Homeland, by Anna Batta, Routledge, 2022, 234 pp., $128 (hardback), ISBN 9781032070957.	2
Cultural Autonomy, Zeitgeist and Simulation Politics: Russia as a Specimen	2
NPS volume 53 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	2
Captured City: Authoritarianism, Urban Space and Project Skopje 2014	2
National Chauvinism, Group Identity Affirmation, and Trust in International Relations: Experimental Results from Ukraine	2
Speaking Out against the Discrimination of Romanians Abroad: An Analysis of Parliamentary Speeches in the Home Country	2
NPS volume 52 issue 5 Cover and Back matter	2
Beyond Linguistic Peripheral Elites: The Provincial Imbalance of Cabinet Ministers in Belgium	2
The Search for Legitimacy over Yugoslavia: Rudolf Bićanić and the Power of Gold	2
Secessionism as the Mainstream: Regionalist Parties’ Strategies in the Catalan and Scottish 2021 Regional Elections	2
De Facto States and Land-for-Peace Agreements: Territory and Recognition at Odds? by Eiki Berg and Shpend Kursani, Routledge, 2022, 194 pp., $153 (hardcover), ISBN 9780367485139, $47.65 (ebook), ISBN	2
Bosnian-Herzegovinian Citizens in the Making – The Citizenship Debate in the Time of Social Mobilizations	2
Croatian Homeland War Memorial Museums – Exhibiting Urbicides and Concentration Camps	2
Revisiting Pan-Slavism in the Contemporary Perspective	2
Government-Coordinated Internal Colonization in the Era of Nationalism: The Case of Dualist Hungary	2
Pork Barrel and Identity Politics: Explaining a Minority Party’s Electoral Success in Lithuania	2
The Bilingualism Bonus in Socialist Slovenia: Domestic Policy or Diplomatic Prestige?	2
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, by Vladislav M. Zubok, Yale University Press, 2021, 576 pp., $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780300268171, $25.00 (paperback), ISBN 9780300257304.	2
The Birth of East-Belgian Identity and the Treaty of Versailles: A Critical Legal Analysis	2
A Specter from the Past: the Balkanization of Europe?	2
Russia’s Autocratic Resilience and the Sources of Political Change: Lankina’s Estate Origins	2
Editor’s Note	2
Yugoslavia is (not) a Refugee Country? Refugees between Transit and Integration in an Ever-Changing Socialist State	2
Praying Instead of Protesting? The Belarusian Churches and Political Protest After the 2020 Presidential Election	2
Marching the Victorious March: Populism and Memory Appropriation of the Yugoslav Partisans in Today’s Serbia	2
Flexible Nationalisms: Applying Anthony D. Smith’s Theory to the Irish Case	2
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe, by Emily Greble, Oxford University Press, 2021, 376 pp., $35.00 (hardcover), ISBN 9780197538807.	2