OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Central Asian Survey is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Correction	63
Gendered mobilities of Central Asian women in Germany through the perspective of public transport	21
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan	17
Semiotic analysis of ‘kalyng’ ritual in Manas: framework for cultural knowledge	16
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy	14
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity	12
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan	12
Analysing Kazakhstan’s Foreign Policy Regime Neo-Eurasianism in The Nazarbayev Era	11
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan	10
After the resurgence of Talibanism theocracy: non-lethal intervention and the politics of non-neutrality in Afghanistan	10
Central Asian studies in the People’s Republic of China: a structural topic model	10
Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review	10
Introduction: LGBTQ + visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia	10
Backlash: China’s struggle for influence in Central Asia	9
Collectivization generation: oral histories of a social revolution in Uzbekistan	9
The mobilization of ‘capabilities’ as an idea and practice in today’s China: From appropriation to exclusion of Uyghur identities	8
The EU and European transnational companies in Central Asia: relocating agency in the energy sector	8
Reclaiming self-esteem: Mongols’ responses to the early COVID-19 pandemic in Inner Mongolia, China	8
Extraordinary Estonians, disappearing Duha: tourism imaginaries and imperial identity economies of Northern Mongolia	7
Georgian Jews and Georgian non-Jews: Soviet experience through the prism of nostalgia	7
‘Abduct her before another man does’: evolving consensual bride abduction patterns in Kazakhstan’s Jetisu province	7
In Soviet educational greenhouses: on the problem of language teaching to the Bukharan–Jewish children of Uzbekistan, 1917–47	7
‘And there will be “kan (blood)” … ’: ‘voices’ of participants and eyewitnesses of the 1916 uprising in Semirech’e in interrogation protocols	6
Inter-regionalism and strategic adaptation in Central Asia: economic development and geopolitical resilience in a multipolar order	5
Dekolonizatsiia Kazahstana	5

‘The Book of My Mother’ as national allegory: subaltern nationalism and political unconscious in early twentieth century Azerbaijani fiction	5
Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion	5
A void in Central Asia research: climate change	5
Pioneering new migration routes: central Asian truck drivers’ experiences in the EU	5
LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies	5
Afghan Napoleon: The life of Ahmad Shah Massoud	4
Paradoxes of migration in Tajikistan: locating the good life,	4
The political economy of non-Western migration regimes: Central Asian migrant workers in Russia and Turkey	4
Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan	4
Contextualizing data collection in Central Asia: insights from local researchers’ experiences	4
The role of geopolitics in Turkey’s diplomatic approach to the Second East Turkestan Republic (1939–1949)	4
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note	4
Factors inhibiting institutional responses to domestic violence in Kyrgyzstan	4
Soft power in Central Asia: the politics of influence and seduction	4
New media and political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan. Exploring the lived experiences of young people in Eurasia	4
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?	4
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities	3
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia	3
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus	3
Universities branching out: towards a typology of transnational education partnerships in Central Asia	3
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage	3
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment	3
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries	3
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan	3
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context	3
Uyghur identity and culture: a global diaspora in a time of crisis	3
Intersecting legacies: gender, ethnicity and displacement in the aftermath of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War for internally displaced and refugee women	3
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems	3
Chet ellarda o'qigan Turkistonlik yoshlar (Young People from Turkistan Who Studied Abroad)	3
Taking account of authoritarian peacebuilding in Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	3
We want to be heard: a victim empowerment approach to interviewing survivors of torture	2
In the corridors of officialdom: how patience and flexibility unlock elite interviews in Uzbekistan	2
‘Why should we have theirs if we have our own?’ On decolonizing social science research ethics in Central Asia	2
‘We’re all like brothers’: religion’s role in Afghan Uzbek identity formation	2
Post-Soviet settlement of the Sino-Soviet border: a failed attempt at a three-level game, 1991–2012	2
Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan	2
Traditional medicine, legitimacy and nationalist doxa in pandemic-era Mongolia	2
Native, but unique: Jews of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and their neighbours revealed through their twentieth century demographic profiles	2
Kratkaia istoriia kazakhov. Ot pervykh kochevnikov do nashikh dnei	2
China, Russia and Central Asian infrastructure: fragmenting or reformatting the region?	2
Balancing tradition and reform: tensions in university mathematics curriculum and assessment in Uzbekistan	2
Representation of the Kazakhstani famine (1931–33) in secondary school history textbooks, 1992–2021	2
Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan	2
‘Two parts – one whole’? Kazakh–Kyrgyz relations in the making of Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1917–24	2
Maya Karin Peterson (1980–2021)	2
Decolonizing Uyghur visual art: Uyghur diasporic responses to China’s cultural engineering	2
Helping a f(r)iend in need? Rethinking the role of linkages in authoritarian covert repression	2
Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan	2
Scripts without screens: ‘ordinary racism’ and suppressed projects in wartime Kazakh cinema	2