OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Historical Methods 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed	14
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–1775	9
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–1880	9
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–2020	7
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods	7
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–1910	6
The use of quantile methods in economic history	6
Counting question 20 on the 1870 census, the denial of the right to vote: Different tallies by the Census Office; the Minnesota Population Center; and Ancestry.com	5
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	5
U.S. demography in transition	4
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents	4
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–2020	4
British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis	4
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)	4
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study	3
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations	3
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 1860	3
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914	3
Introduction to editorial	3
Correction	3
EconHist: a relational database for analyzing the evolution of economic history (1980–2019)	3
Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017)	3
A reassessment of industrial growth in interwar Turkey through first-generation sectoral estimates	3
Exploring the transformation of French trade in the long eighteenth century (1713–1823): The TOFLIT18 project	2
Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis	2

Metrics for the identification of primary centers of government from historical itineraries: Přemysl Otakar II: A case study	2
Correction	2
“Born yesterday, baptized today, buried tomorrow” : Early baptism as an indicator of negative life outcomes in rural Spain, 1890-1939	2
Overflowing tables: Changes in the energy intake and the social context of Thanksgiving in the United States	1
Data retrieval from local heritage books—Is artificial intelligence the solution?	1
Detecting Ottokar II’s 1248–1249 uprising and its instigators in co-witnessing networks	1
Identifying prominent actors in historical networks: The case of the New Education movement	1
Bricks without straw: Using linked census data to estimate child mortality in the pre-registration era of the United States	1
New data sources for research on the nineteenth-century United States: IPUMS full count datasets of the censuses of population 1850–1880	1
Correction	1
The IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel: progress and prospects	1
Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps	1
Constructing a county-level environmental events dataset for China during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1911)	1
Dirty deeds: Finding and mapping race restrictions in local property records	1
Measuring socioeconomic status in historical censuses of Canada	1
Transparent generosity. Introducing the impresso interface for the exploration of semantically enriched historical newspapers	1
Drawing constitutional boundaries: A digital historical analysis of the writing process of Pinochet’s 1980 authoritarian constitution	1
Structural reading: Developing the method of Structural Collocation Analysis using a case study on parliamentary reporting	1
Adapting to the Little Ice Age in pastoral regions: An interdisciplinary approach to climate history in north-west Europe	1
Socio-ecological metabolism and rural livelihood conditions: Two case studies on forest litter uses in France and Poland (1875–1910)	1