OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of East European Politics and Societies 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	25
Threading Postsocialist, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Intersections in Hybrid Spaces: Selected Women’s Textile Creations across the Czech and Slovak Borders	25
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	13
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	12
The Functional Dereliction of the Druzhba Cinema in Comrat: A Case Study of a Cultural and National Heritage Site in Post-Soviet Gagauzia	11
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	9
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	9
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	9
Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateř	8
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	8
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship Between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary	7
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	7
The Land at the Bottom of the Lake: Development through Nature in Yugoslav (Post-)Socialism	6
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	6
Justice Reform and Elite Power Consolidation: A Comparative Analysis of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova under the European Neighbourhood Policy	6
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	5
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	5
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	5
Between Control and Invisibility: Platform Workers and the Limits of Protection in Poland and Slovakia	5
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	5
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	5
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	5
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	4
Displaced Borderlands: Civilizational Belonging in the Narratives of Kharkiv Residents Relocated to the European Union after February 2022	4
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	4

Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	4
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	4
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	4
The Russian War in Ukraine and the Visegrád Group: What Impact on Energy Transformation?	4
The History of the Czech Women’s Movement: A Casualty of War?	4
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	4
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	4
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	4
Europe Moving Eastward? The Changing Dynamics in the EU and NATO Following the War in Ukraine	4
Shades of Dependency and the Discourse on “Corruption”: Railway Concessions in Romania in the Nineteenth Century	4
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	3
Being There as Socialism Unravels	3
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	3
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	3
The Russia–Serbia Nexus between Strategic Partnership and Domestic Politics	3
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	3
Nationalism, Clientelism, and Green Transition: Econativism and Environmental Politics in Pljevlja, Montenegro	3
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	3
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	3
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	3
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	3
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	2
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism	2
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization	2
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	2
Industrial Enterprise in Two Globalizations: The Czechoslovak Footwear Industry between Socialist Economic Exchange and Global Capitalism, 1980s–1990s	2
Introduction: Revisiting Security in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Non-State Actors as Allies of Russian Foreign Policy	2
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	2
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	2
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past	2
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	2
The Presence of War	2
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	2
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	2
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	2
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	2
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	2
Between Peripheries and Solidarities: Resisting Green Extractivism in Serbia	2
Does Ideological Extremism within Generations Explain Electoral Mobilization? The Evidence from Poland 2011–2023	2