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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Savoring Polishness: History and Tradition in Contemporary Polish Food Media	18
Václav Havel: Posthumous Reclamation of a National Hero?	16
Threading Postsocialist, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Intersections in Hybrid Spaces: Selected Women’s Textile Creations across the Czech and Slovak Borders	8
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	8
Gender Differences in Public Issue Salience: Evidence from Czechia	8
The Reform Communist Interpretation of the Stalinist Period in Czech Historiography and Its Legacy	8
The Functional Dereliction of the Druzhba Cinema in Comrat: A Case Study of a Cultural and National Heritage Site in Post-Soviet Gagauzia	7
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	7
The Effectiveness of Grassroots Lobbying at the Regional Level in Poland: The Cases of Opole and Subcarpathian Region	7
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	6
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	6
In Defense of Liberal Democracy: Exploring Motivations for Protesting against Democratic Backsliding	5
Is it Greener on the Right Side? The Relationship between Political Preferences and Environmental Behavior in Hungary	5
Proposing Anti-LGBTQIAP Resolutions at the Municipal Level in Poland: Meeting the Social Demand or Making Use of the Available Resources?	5
Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateřina Tučková’s	5
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	4
The Land at the Bottom of the Lake: Development through Nature in Yugoslav (Post-)Socialism	4
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	4
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	4
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	4
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	3
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	3
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	3
Nationalist versus Populist Constructions of “the People”: Eastern Europe and Latin America in Comparative Perspective	3
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	3

Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	3
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	3
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	3
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	3
Shades of Dependency and the Discourse on “Corruption”: Railway Concessions in Romania in the Nineteenth Century	3
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	3
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	3
Displaced Borderlands: Civilizational Belonging in the Narratives of Kharkiv Residents Relocated to the European Union after February 2022	3
Dreams of a Democratic Peace: The Carnival at 35	3
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	3
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	2
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	2
The Development of National Cinema in Post-Maidan Ukraine	2
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	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 Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–1945	2
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	2
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism	2
Being Polish, Jewish, and Tarnovian: Youth and Polyvalent Senses of Belonging during the Second Polish Republic	2
The Politics of Work: Young Employees’ Awareness of Industrial Relations in Romania’s Call Centres	2
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	2
The Logic of the Punisher: Retrospective Voting and Hyper-Accountability in Lithuania	2
Being There as Socialism Unravels	2
Platens from the Past: Yugonostalgia and the UNIS-tbm Typewriter	2
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	2
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	2
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	2
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	2
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	2
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	2
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	2
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization	2
The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland	2
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	2
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	2