OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Rethinking History 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The historian is present: live interactive documentary as collaborative history	21
Traces of existence: public monuments and the dead	19
Lepanto or Little Algiers? Public history and the cultural politics of commemoration in modern Greece	10
Rethinking the historical film form: trauma, temporality and indirect representation in historical essay films	7
Between agency and event: The Book of Job as a Greek Tragedy	7
How the fictional representation of historical characters can serve to justify historical events and actions: Tipu Sultan’s Tiger	6
Is Paul Ricoeur still relevant to the philosophy of history?	5
A whiff of grapeshot: practice research and the image-maker-as-historian	5
The notes, the markings: along the margins of the years	4
Two concepts of apocalypse and apocalyptic history today	3
Are there historical lessons across time and space? The ethics of ‘never again’ in European history teaching	2
‘Tawaifnama’ or The Courtesan Chronicles	2
Judging voluntariness: abortion assistance around 1900	2
The state of voluntariness? (Re)migration policy in post-fascist Germany between denazification, decolonization and development	2
Disappearance and archive fevers in film: the rewriting of history and practical uses of the past	2
Toward the logical structure of historical narrations: an interview with Paul A. Roth	2
“Uses of the past” in applied history methodology: the case of trust-building for public institutions in Belgium	2
Historiography as readymade	2
Using fiction to tell mad stories: a journey into historical imagination and empathy	2
Artificial history? Inquiring ChatGPT on historiography	2
On Martin L. Davies: an appreciation	2
Public history and transmedia storytelling for conflicting narratives	2
Amnesias and memories of imperialism: analysis of the restitutive policies of colonialism in Spain	2
The play’s only part of the thing: audience response to pastiche historical drama	2
The cabinet of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe: an essay in the biographical distillation of affinities	2

Boardgaming after the fall of Kabul: player and designer (re)engagement with A Distant Plain	2
Intimate constellations: photos of African American-German intimacies in the long postwar period	2
To think a little of you: a paragraph about Rena Merrill	2
Shapes and functions of historical events	1
Towards historical news values: Czech news media between past knowledge and current histotainment	1
Kibbutz Buchenwald: history and fiction	1
Creating Cromwell: an analysis of the historical novel’s position and potentiality through a study of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy	1
History as dreaming: assembling time*	1
Textuality as amplification: reconsidering close reading and distant reading in cultural history	1
Mind the Gap. On archival politics and historical theory in the digital age	1
Intertemporality in Spencer (2021): a methodology for the analysis of time and the contemporary	1
What is close reading? An exploration of a methodology	1
Metamorphoses of the past: a study of Primo Levi´sThe Periodic Table	1
‘I don’t even trust now what I read in history books’: family history and the future of co-production and collaboration	1
Patriarchal power as a conceptual tool for gender history	1
Beyond the endpoint: the report of the Belgian commission on colonial injustice and the wider tapestry of truth initiatives	1
My ‘Movy’ roles: excavating, interpreting and preserving the archaeological remains of WW1 submarine chaser ‘Movy’ Motor Launch [ML]286 as researcher, curator and performer	1
Academic history and the affordances of genres	1
Being alongside: the practice of collaborative public history	1
Martin L. Davies & the specter of history	1
History on the margins: truths, struggles and the bureaucratic research economy in Colombia, 2016–2023	1
Insurgent memory, post-imperial governance, and change: reassessing the truth about Portugal’s colonial history	1
American pet cemeteries in history and fiction: remembering animals through film	1
Digital visual history: historiographic curation using digital technologies	1
The reality of words: Martin L. Davies and Jean Paul	1
KNOWING IS SEEING: distance and proximity in affective virtual reality history	1
Natalie Zemon Davis in China: global historiographical exchanges as cross-cultural engagement	1