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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics	27
Moscow’s heavy shadow: the violent collapse of the USSR	17
Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis	14
Local identity and intergroup relations: Jews and Muslims in Ferghana Valley in late Soviet Era	13
The EU’s Central Asia policy: no chance for change?	12
A practitioner's perspective from Kyrgyzstan: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	11
Writing travel and the genealogical imagination: Afghan Kyrgyz migrations in contemporary perspective	11
Writing about peoples: an American’s reflections on 30 years of Central Asian studies	11
Introducing the symposium on Philipp Lottholz’s Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia: Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering Post-Liberal Stat	10
‘End the dominance of the Uyghur ethnic group’: an analysis of Beijing’s population optimization strategy in southern Xinjiang	10
A reading from Kazakhstan with a focus on decolonization: Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia	10
Polymaths of Islam: Power and networks of knowledge in Central Asia	9
Musique contemporaine en Ouzbékistan: Politique, identités et globalisation	9
Hunza matters: Bordering and ordering between ancient and new Silk Roads	8
Rentier capitalism and its discontents: Power, morality and resistance in Central Asia	8
The Silk Roads: A new history of the world	8
Working with the Taliban: from the first to the second Emirate	6
Smartphones and public support for LGBTQ+ in Central Asia	6
Fieldwork within queer communities in Central Asia: a research note	6
Vehicularizing the vernacular: using the periodical press to popularize vernacular languages in Soviet Turkic communities	6
Student online protests in Uzbekistan: democratization of higher education as concomitant to the COVID-19 crisis?	6
‘Abyroy’ from status to contract: social honour in Kazakh culture	5
Central Asia: from dark matter to a dark curtain?	5
Learning in, about and from the field? Symbolic functions of EU knowledge production on Central Asia	5
Changes in the flock: sheep-keeping as a symbol of the transformation of the Kazakh traditional economy	5

Demographic effects of deportation: seeking the causes of high fertility rates in the North Caucasus, Russia	4
Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home	4
‘Listening State?’ : exploring citizens’ perceptions of Open Government in Tokayev’s Kazakhstan	4
Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries	4
Mosques as religious infrastructure: Muslim selfhood, moral imaginaries and everyday sociality	4
The Tajik Civil War and Russia’s Islamist moment	4
European Union, civil society and local ownership in Kyrgyzstan: analysing patterns of adaptation, reinterpretation and contestation in the prevention of violent extremism (PVE)	4
Communal self-governance as an alternative to neoliberal governance: proposing a post-development approach to EU resilience-building in Central Asia	4
Subverting oppressive structures: on kelinhood , solidarity and feminist research in the bazaars	4
Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan	3
Feminization of labour migration from Uzbekistan to Turkey: the role of neoliberal policies, patriarchy and social networks	3
Narrating the state in miniature: philatelic representations of Kazakhstan, 1992–2021	3
Thieves, opportunists and autocrats: building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan	3
The agency of object: the doppa as a narrator for a dynamic Uyghur identity	3
The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan	3
Visual propaganda in northwest China: exploring cultural representations	3
Widening the scope: how middle powers are changing liberal institutionalism	3
Correction	3
Refocusing education: understanding higher education institutions’ needs for human resource development in Azerbaijan	3
Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan	3
Religious, national or cultural? A case study of frameworks for Jewish education in post-Soviet Central Asia	3
Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation	3
Of squirrels and men: being Soviet in Frunze’s green spaces	2
The Kazakhstani Soviet not? Reading Nazarbayev’s Kazakhstani-ness through Brezhnev’s Soviet people	2
Qarakhanid roads to China: A history of Sino-Turkic relations	2
Inside Afghanistan: Political networks, informal order, and state disruption	2
Diversifying/revitalizing the study of Central Asia and the Caucasus	2
A narrative analysis: tragic images of the Aral Sea in the Russophone ecopoems	2
Surviving Everyday Life: The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan	2
Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage	2
Labour transfers as a means of ‘civilizing’ and forcibly assimilating ethnic minorities in western China	2
Songs of war and despair: two Afghan/Uzbek women’s life history and lament	2
Methods of studying LGBT experiences in the situation of invisibility: from African countries to Uzbekistan	2
The multiethnic Soviet Union and its demise	2
Agency and resistance amongst queer people in Kazakhstan	2
Irina Viktorovna Erofeeva (1953–2020)	2
Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context	2
The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus	2
The contributions of new media to young people’s political participation in Russia and Kazakhstan	2
Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia	2
Introduction: LGBTQ + visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia	2
Private supplementary tutoring and educational inequality in secondary education in Kazakhstan	2
Islam in China	2
Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan	2