Historical Methods

Papers
(The TQCC of Historical Methods is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed13
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–177511
Using the TCP data to study Indigenous households’ living arrangements at the turn of the 20th century: Challenges and opportunities11
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–18809
The use of quantile methods in economic history8
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods7
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency6
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–20206
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.com5
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents5
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–19105
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–20204
Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017)4
U.S. demography in transition4
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study4
Immigrants’ labour market experiences in early twentieth century Canada4
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-19144
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