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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Dispossession and displacement of migrant workers: the impact of state terror and economic development on Uyghurs in urban Xinjiang	19
A void in Central Asia research: climate change	17
Silent partners: archaeological insights on mobility, interaction and civilization in Central Asia’s past	14
On writing Soviet History of Central Asia: frameworks, challenges, prospects	12
‘Not here for geopolitical interests or games’: the EU’s 2019 strategy and the regional and inter-regional competition for Central Asia	12
Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan	11
‘End the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group’: an analysis of Beijing’s population optimization strategy in southern Xinjiang	11
Human rights of daughters-in-law (kelins) in Central Asia: harmful traditional practices and structural oppression	11
Opportunity and threat perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan	9
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia	8
The hidden integration of Central Asia: the making of a region through technical infrastructures	7
Women’s bargaining power and contraception use in post-Soviet Tajikistan	6
European Union, civil society and local ownership in Kyrgyzstan: analysing patterns of adaptation, reinterpretation and contestation in the prevention of violent extremism (PVE)	6
Academic freedom in Tajikistan: how the suppression, acquiescence and incorporation of intellectuals strengthens the state and affects knowledge production	6
Outer space technopolitics and postcolonial modernity in Kazakhstan	5
On the brink and at the world’s edge: Western approaches to Central Asia’s international politics, 1991–2021	5
Informal civil society initiatives in non-Western societies: mahallas in Uzbekistan	5
The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?	5
Queer identity in the contemporary art of Kazakhstan	5
Studying states and regimes in Central Asia: contributions to comparative politics and future challenges	4
Welcome and unwelcome connections: travelling post-Soviet roads in Kyrgyzstan	4
Claiming heritage: the Manas epic between China and Kyrgyzstan	4
Governance and order-making in Central Asia: from illiberalism to post-liberalism?	4
Nomadic by nature? Contradictions and precarious work in Mongolian tourism	4
The contributions of new media to young people’s political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan	4

Introduction: 30 years of Central Asian studies – the best is yet to come	4
Towards building a culturally informed consent process in Central Asia	4
Circling the barrels: Kazakhstan’s regime stability in the wake of the 2014 oil bust	4
Recasting the nation: transforming heroes of the Soviet Union into symbols of Kazakhstani patriotism	4
State-run media outlets in Central Asia: external regime legitimation through regional conflict and cooperation framing	3
Introduction: Art and culture – actors or representatives?	3
Student online protests in Uzbekistan: democratization of higher education as concomitant to the COVID-19 crisis?	3
The EU and China: how do they fit in Central Asia?	3
The interplay of narratives on regionness, regionhood and regionality: European Union and Central Asia	3
Monotonous motorscapes: Uzbekistan’s car industry and the consolidation of a post-socialist shortage economy	3
The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people	3
Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia	3
A guest for a day? An analysis of Uzbek ‘language migration’ into the Japanese educational and labour markets	3
Technology, temporality, and the study of Central Asia: an introduction	3
The reality of environmental cooperation and the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea	3
The evolution of religious regulation in Central Asia, 1991–2018	3
Corruption, public procurement and political instability in Kazakhstan	3
The seismic colony: earthquakes, empire and technology in Russian-ruled Turkestan, 1887–1911	3
We need to talk about political society: subaltern resistances beyond civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia	2
Place-name wars in Karabakh: Russian Imperial maps and political legitimacy in the Caucasus	2
Turkmenistan in Eurasian railway geopolitics	2
Neighbouring an insurgency: the case of radicalization in Georgia	2
Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain?	2
From anatomic analogies to arrhythmic timescapes: roads and development in northern Mongolia	2
Informality versus shadow economy: reflecting on the first results of a manager’s survey in Kyrgyzstan	2
Islam in Central Asia 30 years after independence: debates, controversies and the critique of a critique	2
The Soviet city as a landscape in the making: planning, building and appropriating Samarkand,c.1960s–80s	2
Mosques as religious infrastructure: Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality	2
After Karimov and Nazarbayev: change in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan?	2
Conceiving homogenous state-space for the nation: the nationalist discourse on autochthony and the politics of place-naming in Armenia	2
Persuasion or polarization? LGBTQ+ attitudes among young social media users in Kazakhstan	2
EU–Central Asian interactions: perceptions, interests and practices	2