OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Southern African Studies is 1. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System	21
The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952	15
Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre	10
Beyond Failure: Exploring the Heart of the Malawian State	9
Golden Wildebeest Days: Fragmentation and Value in South Africa’s Wildlife Economy After Apartheid	8
The Language Question in Disaster Prevention and Preparedness: The Case of Multilingual Mozambique	8
Duty, Diligence and Disasters: Detailing Everyday Practices of Malawian Civil Servants in the Climate Crisis	8
A Climate History of Early Dutch Settlement at Cape Town, 1652–62	8
Bureaucracy as Resistance: Everyday Acts of Power in the Malawi Ministry of Health	7
The Social Impact of Climate Change in Southern Africa: Introduction	7
The Incorporation of Diversity in the Constitution of Mauritius: A Case of Identities Frozen in Time	6
From Comrades to Capitalists: How South Africa’s Economic Future was (Re)Imagined	6
Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa	6
Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952	6
The Role of Transdisciplinary Formats in the Awareness Creation of (Social) Climate Change Impacts: A Namibian Perspective	6
Vigilante democracy: popular justice in contemporary South Africa	5
The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa	5
‘Back to the fields’: The Implementation and Impact of Government Efforts to Revive Field Cultivation in Ndabakazi in the Eastern Cape, South Africa	5
‘You have to know why you breathe’: Women’s Intellectual Work in the Southern African Liberation Struggle Women’s Sections	5
Borderlessness and the 20th-Century Rise of the Ndau People’s Subaltern Economy in the Zimbabwe–Mozambique Borderland	4
Editorial	4
Human–Wildlife Conflict, Drought and Chieftainship Illegitimacy in the Zambezi Valley, Northwestern Zimbabwe	4
Editorial	4
Understanding other colonial spaces and the possibility of a post-war and post-colonial world: a black South African traveller in East Africa and India	4
From Egypt to South Africa: the rise and fall of assistance from Moscow in Africa’s decolonisation	3

‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe	3
The personal–local as national history	3
Kinship and Hauntings in Post-Apartheid KwaNdebele, South Africa	3
Namibian Wedding Stories: Narrating Kinship and Social Class in Urban Namibia	3
Free Education? Promises and Policy in South African Higher Education Funding since 1994	3
High Modernist Hubris and its Subversion in South Africa’s Covid–19 Vaccination Roll-Out	3
Empathy, Sympathy and Witnessing Suffering in Damon Galgut’s Small Circle of Beings and The Guardian	3
Crash Narratives and Accidental Archives: Rethinking Road Safety in South Africa	3
Editorial	3
Between Rhetoric and Reality: Recurrent Resource Nationalism and the Practice of Resource Governance in Tanzania	2
Locating Jazz in Madagascar: A Brief Musical Social History	2
African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s	2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: Post-Presidency Experiences, 1994–1997	2
Extractivist Mega-Projects in Mozambique: Dispossession, Politicisation and Resistance in Moatize and Cabo Delgado	2
‘Entirely free and at liberty to engage their services as they may think fit’? Recaptured African Adjudication and Freedom at the Cape Colony, 1806–1834	2
Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952	2
Divisive pan-Africanism in Southern Rhodesia	2
In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony	2
Elite Capture in South Africa’s Land Redistribution: The Convergence of Policy Bias, Corrupt Practices and Class Dynamics	2
Of borders and crossings: the lives of a healer in northern Mozambique	1
Timing as Tactic: The Wildcat Strikes during the Transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, March 1980	1
‘A small measure of fairness’: Black South Africans and the Courts, 1919–1938	1
Donal Lowry, 1959–2022	1
Bureaucracy and Biopolitics of Multispecies Relations in South-Central Tanzania	1
A Whole New Ball Game: The Historiography of Sport in South Africa	1
Politics from the Pits: Artisanal Gold Mining, Politics and the Limits of Hegemonic State Domination in Zimbabwe	1
African Legislators: Unrepresentative Power Elites?	1
Unpacking Power: How the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) under Nelson Chamisa Selected its Parliamentarians	1
Ciskei’s Demise and the Tricky First Decade of Reintegration into the Eastern Cape Province	1
Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia	1
The politics of faithCaroline Jeannerat, An Ethnography of Faith: Personal Conception of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg in South Africa in the Early 20th Century (Basel	1
David Livingstone and Heritage Diplomacy in Malawi–Scotland Relations	1
Shaping Botswana’s Economy: Chinese Counterfeits as Catalysts of Globalisation and Local Development	1
*The human impact on big game in Botswana*	1
Dangerous Relations: Everyday Storytelling and the Dilemmas of Moral Discernment in Rural Zambia	1
Liberation Armies, Women Soldiers and Martial Masculinity: Gender and Training in the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZPRA)	1
ZANU(PF)’s Survival Strategies and the Co-option of Civil Society, 2000–2018	1
Policing ideological purity: the history, practice and consequences of Frelimo’s civil war gulags in Mozambique	1
Politics and science in South AfricaWilliam Beinart and Saul Dubow, The Scientific Imagination in South Africa: 1700 to the Present (New York, Cambridge University Press	1
Resource Nationalism and Political Change: Mine Nationalisation and the 2021 Zambian Election	1
Sowing the Empire: Eucalyptus in Angola, c .1875–1975	1
‘Put South Africans First’: Making Sense of an Emerging South African Xenophobic (Online) Community	1
‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana	1
Religion and Political Parties in South Africa: A Framework and Systematic Review	1
*Crime and democracy: The challenge of people’s policing in post-apartheid South Africa* Nicholas Rush Smith, Contradictions of Democ	1
Editorial	1
Coherent predation or elite fragmentation? South Africa’s captured party state	1
Anatomy of a Municipal Meltdown: Revenues, Redistribution, Infrastructure and Post-Apartheid’s Fragile Social Contract	1
The South African state and the regulation and management of mining waste	1
‘The real history of the country’? Expropriation without Compensation and Competing Master Narratives about Land (Dis)Possession in South Africa	1

Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–1963	1
Reading is the Weapon: Books and the Making of MK as a Political Army	1
‘The Herero claim it for themselves alone’: Subnationalism and the Growth and Evolution of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in South West Africa, 1921–1924	1
Editorial	1
Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA	1
Intellectuals, Revolution and Literature in Nationalist Armed Struggle in Angola and Mozambique, 1961–1974	1
Outsourcing Governance: Local Government and the Future of Democracy in South Africa	1