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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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?	25
Oligarch Moralities of Wealth: The Russian Case	12
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
Exclusively Our People: Defining Tribalism through the Slovak Case	9
Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania	9
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	8
The Evolution of Civic Activism in Contemporary Russia	8
Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateř	7
The Land at the Bottom of the Lake: Development through Nature in Yugoslav (Post-)Socialism	7
Who Cares for Families? Narrative(s) of Return in Postsocialist Europe	6
Artists and Generals: The Representation of Colonial and National Rule through Street Naming	6
Underestimated Ally: Ukraine during the Polish–Soviet War of 1920 in Polish Underground Publications (1976–1989)	6
Overlooked and Undeserving: Older People in Narratives of Return in Post-1989 East Germany	6
Key Features and Factors behind Social Trust Formation in Ukraine	5
Biographies of Belonging in the Holocaust	5
The Last Mass Execution of World War II: The Roundup Carried Out by Soviet Troops in the Augustów Forest in July 1945	5
Bottom-up Content Convergence Phenomena in Socialist Cultural Economies: The Case of Premodern Story Universes of Romanian Film and Music	5
Obedience to Authority: Attitudes of Prison Officers in Stalinist Poland, 1944–1954	5
Expelled from the Fairytale: The Impact of the Dissident Legacy on Post-1989 Central European Politics	5
Agency Attributions under a Normative Crisis: Corpus Analysis of Emerging Frameworks of Meaning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poland	4
Displaced Borderlands: Civilizational Belonging in the Narratives of Kharkiv Residents Relocated to the European Union after February 2022	4
The History of the Czech Women’s Movement: A Casualty of War?	4

Europe Moving Eastward? The Changing Dynamics in the EU and NATO Following the War in Ukraine	4
Between Control and Invisibility: Platform Workers and the Limits of Protection in Poland and Slovakia	4
The Russian War in Ukraine and the Visegrád Group: What Impact on Energy Transformation?	4
Shades of Dependency and the Discourse on “Corruption”: Railway Concessions in Romania in the Nineteenth Century	4
Party System Change and Challenges to Democracy in Slovenia	4
The Ethnic Card: From Diaspora Policy Instrument to Migration Policy Trigger. The Case of the Pole’s Card	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
Being “Local” in Eastern Slovakia: Belonging in a Multiethnic Periphery	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
Three Accounts—Two World Wars—One Town: Narratives of War and Genocide in Eastern Galicia	3
Are Your Hands Covered in Jewish Blood? Jewish Red Army Soldiers Encountering the Aftermath of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union	3
Corrigendum to Rethinking Theoretical Approaches to Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe: Toward a Dynamic Approach	3
Party Views on Democratic Backsliding and Differentiated Integration	3
Narrative(s) of Return and the Gendered Memory Politics of Post-1989 Transformation: Populist Familism, Catholic Fundamentalism, and Liberal Feminism in Poland	3
Nationalism, Clientelism, and Green Transition: Econativism and Environmental Politics in Pljevlja, Montenegro	3
From Opposition to Implementation: Unraveling the Strategy of Technocratic Populist Government’s Appropriation of Opposition Policy Proposals	3
“Forgotten Friend(s)”: Polish Literary Diplomacy in Slovenia	3
Being There as Socialism Unravels	3
Are They Building a “Second Ireland” in Poland? Political Remitting by Polish Migrants and Return Migrants from Ireland	3
The Russia–Serbia Nexus between Strategic Partnership and Domestic Politics	3
The Imagined City: The Great Flood of 1997 as a Foundation Story of Wrocław	3
The Inner Dynamics of Moral Economies: The Case of Waste Management	2
Does Ideological Extremism within Generations Explain Electoral Mobilization? The Evidence from Poland 2011–2023	2
Post-Dissident Politics and the “Liberal Consensus” in East-Central Europe after 1989	2
The Presence of War	2
Introduction: Revisiting Security in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Non-State Actors as Allies of Russian Foreign Policy	2
A Balkan Neofunctional Success Story or the Curious Case of Bosnia’s Central Bank	2
The Polish Countryside as a Gray Zone: Village Heads and the Meso Level of the General Government, 1939–1945	2
Communist Prison Camps as Sites of Memory and Legacies of Dissent: Belene and Goli Otok in Bulgarian and Croatian Cultural Memory	2
Never-Ending Journeys to the Past	2
Why Brothers in Kosovo Build Identical Houses: The House as an Attempt to Adapt to Contradictions of Globalization	2
Sustainable Consumption Consciousness and Middle-Income Class Affiliation: Theory and Evidence from Poland	2
Fiscal Burden as a Determinant of Innovation Performance in the CEE Countries	2
The Conflict in Eastern Ukraine and International Support for the Decentralization Reform (2014–2022): Theory-Guided Observations	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
Neo-Feudalism and Neo-Traditionalism as Responses to Liberalism	2
Terror in Przedbórz: The Night of 26 May 1945	2