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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed	14
Enumerating Indigenous populations at the turn of the twentieth century	13
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–1880	11
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods	9
Using the TCP data to study Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century: Challenges and opportunities	9
The use of quantile methods in economic history	8
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	7
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–2020	7
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–1910	5
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents	5
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)	5
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
Correction	5
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914	4
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–2020	4
U.S. demography in transition	4
Immigrants’ labour market experiences in early twentieth century Canada	4
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study	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
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations	3
Introduction to editorial	3
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 1860	2
Correction	2
“Born yesterday, baptized today, buried tomorrow” : Early baptism as an indicator of negative life outcomes in rural Spain, 1890-1939	2

Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis	2
Correction	2
Metrics for the identification of primary centers of government from historical itineraries: Přemysl Otakar II: A case study	2
Bricks without straw: Using linked census data to estimate child mortality in the pre-registration era of the United States	1
Dirty deeds: Finding and mapping race restrictions in local property records	1
Transparent generosity. Introducing the impresso interface for the exploration of semantically enriched historical newspapers	1
Data retrieval from local heritage books—Is artificial intelligence the solution?	1
New data sources for research on the nineteenth-century United States: IPUMS full count datasets of the censuses of population 1850–1880	1
Adapting to the Little Ice Age in pastoral regions: An interdisciplinary approach to climate history in north-west Europe	1
Measuring socioeconomic status in historical censuses of Canada	1
A machine learning approach for nominative record linkage in Chinese historical databases	1
The IPUMS multigenerational longitudinal panel: progress and prospects	1
Constructing a county-level environmental events dataset for China during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1911)	1
Socio-ecological metabolism and rural livelihood conditions: Two case studies on forest litter uses in France and Poland (1875–1910)	1
Identifying prominent actors in historical networks: The case of the New Education movement	1
Correction	1
Built-up areas of nineteenth-century Britain. An integrated methodology for extracting high-resolution urban footprints from historical maps	1