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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Lineage genealogies as a new source for researching the occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Tradition (partially) transformed34
Measuring mercantile concentration in eighteenth-century British America: Charleston, 1735–177512
IPUMS full count datasets of the United States censuses of mortality, 1850–18807
Using word analysis to track the evolution of emotional well-being in nineteenth-century industrializing Britain7
Recent advances in social metabolism research: Sources and methods6
New area- and population-based geographic crosswalks for U.S. counties and congressional districts, 1790–20205
The use of quantile methods in economic history5
Unlocking archival censuses for spatial analysis: An historical dataset of the administrative units of Galicia 1857–19104
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
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency3
Estimating energy flows in the long run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800–20203
British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis3
Unlocking the archives: Using large language models to transcribe handwritten historical documents3
U.S. demography in transition3
Social mobility and fertility: Applying diagonal reference models in historical studies (Sweden, 1870–2015)3
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-19143
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