Historical Methods

Papers
(The TQCC of Historical Methods is 3. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed45
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–177513
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–18809
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods9
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–20206
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents6
The use of quantile methods in economic history6
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–19106
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–20204
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency4
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)4
British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis4
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.com4
U.S. demography in transition3
EconHist: a relational database for analyzing the evolution of economic history (1980–2019)3
A reassessment of industrial growth in interwar Turkey through first-generation sectoral estimates3
The problem of false positives in automated census linking: Nineteenth-century New York’s Irish immigrants as a case study3
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations3
IPUMS full count datasets of enslaved persons and slaveholders in the United States in 1850 and 18603
Beyond fossil fuels: Considering land-based emissions reshapes the carbon intensity of modern economic growth (Spain, 1860–2017)3
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-19143
Introduction to editorial3
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