OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Folklore-Electronic Journal of Folklore is 0. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Motif Index of Prophetic Dream Narratives: Methods of Compilation	2
Women of the Twilight: The Narrative Spaces of Women in the Icelandic Rural Community of the Past	1
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Heroes and Villains in Memes on the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	1
Political Meanings Hidden Behind Enchanting Melodies: How China Delivered Ideological Messages in the Song Cycle “Four Seasons of Our Motherland”	1
Melancholic, Joyful, and Outlaw Voices: Finnish Rhymed Couplets and Writers’ Archival Materials	1
Personal Songbooks: Imprints of Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Lithuanian Written Culture	1
The Collection of Hungarian Traditional Games	1
The Simiots of Catalan Folklore: Neither Are Reminiscences So Old, Nor Are They So Strange Beings	1
Algebraic Structure of Ancient Mesopotamian Omens	1
The Mute: Ritual and Transgressive Meanings of the Masked Character in the Romanian Căluş Ritual	0
Trauma and the Victim Economy	0
Rumours in a Situation of Political Conflict: Catalonia and Its Referendum of Self-Determination	0
Youth Identity Development on the Basis of Traditional Kazakh Folk Music	0
Exploring the Transformative Power of Play in African Children’s Games	0
Historical Trauma between Event and Ethics: Aleida Assmann’s Theory in the Context of Trauma Studies	0
Archtypology of the Figural Antagonist in Classical Fairy Tales and Other Culture-Forming Stories	0
Humorous Reactions to Controversies in the Estonian Public Sphere: Form, Content, Mechanisms and Comments	0
“Here and There One Seed Sprouts, and Then It Seems We Have Done Something”: Nurturing Creativity in Elementary Schools	0
Do Bulgakov’s Hella (Gella), Azazello, Behemoth, and Abadonna Have Ancient Near Eastern Origins?	0
Aleksei Peterson in the Southern Veps Villages in 1965–1969: A Chapter from the History of Soviet Estonian Ethnography	0
Motifs of Inanimate Nature and Atmospheric Phenomena in Polish Folktales	0
Play and Folklore in Children’s Peer Cultures	0
Distinguishing Between Proverbs and Sayings According to Josef Mlacek’s Classification in Dictionaries and Paremiological Collections: The Case of Explanations of Meaning in Two Slovenian Dictionaries	0
Slovenian Folk Lullabies: Analysis of the Lullaby Texts and Their Functions	0

Multi-Use of Cranberries (Vaccinium Spp.): Heritage and Pharmaceutical Results	0
Base Form and Other Forms of the Estonian Verb	0
Some Aspects of Food Security/Insecurity of Ukrainian Society: The Socio-Economic Dimension	0
Archives and the Bodily Dimension of Traditional Dance Knowledge	0
The Popular Ballad, Rumours and Memories as a Special Narrative Format	0
After the War and Repressions: Mediating of Traumatic Experiences in Estonian Life Stories	0
Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Innovation and Tradition in the World of Quarantine Weddings	0
The Romani in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation	0
The Structures of Dialect as the Founding Element of Social Identity: The Case of Bursa City	0
Card Index of Former Latvian SSR KGB Agents: Trauma and the Path to Public Reconciliation	0
As Much as Necessary and as Little as Possible: The Interplay of National and Soviet in a Wedding Performance at the 1960 Folk Art Evening of the Estonian Song Festival	0
“To hear the mermaids sing”: Visual Figuration, Myth and Desire in the Case of the Waterwoman	0
Opening Archives to Society: The Experience from the Folklore Archive at Rovira i Virgili University	0
Bridging Northern and Southern Traditions in the Finnic Corpus of Oral Poetry	0
Materialized Trauma Narratives of Border Crossings	0
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When a Crisis Opens New Academic Perspectives: The New Webinar Series of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group	0
Exploring the Semantics and Structure of Vocatives in Ukrainian Folk Songs	0
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An Archetypal Analysis of the Queen Mother of the West in Chinese Mythology	0
Paying Public Domain and the Albanian Protection of Folklore	0
Adopting or Dodging the Heroic Model: Professional Trajectories of Estonian Women Architects	0
The Wedding Ceremony in Kazakh Folklore: Yesterday and Today	0
“Here and There One Seed Sprouts, and Then It Seems We Have Done Something”: Nurturing Creativity in Elementary Schools	0
Ethno-Graphics: Folklore and Baltic Printmaking in the Period of Late Socialism	0
The Life of Rituals during the Pandemic: The Ritual Year SIEF WG Roundtable at the SIEF 2021 Congress	0
Performing an Archive: Aims, Interests, Ideologies and Expectations	0
Suicide Games, Abandoned Houses, and Thirst For Danger: The Youth’s Personal Experience Narratives and the Media’s Moral Panics about Semi-Supernatural Challenges in Estonia	0
Irina Sedakova 70	0
The Estonian Language and Its Influence on Music: A Cognitive Sciences Approach	0
Introduction: From Conceptual Debates to Practical Applications	0
Udmurt Folklore Material in the Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum and Its Collectors: A Brief Review	0
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Gender Perspectives in the Study of Estonian Society and Culture: Current State and Challenges	0
Combining Archival and Academic Research in Dissident Manuscripts: The Ostrobothnian Mystics Project (Finland)	0
Children as Agents, Targets, and Intermediaries of Family Humour	0
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The History of the Formation of Folklore Collections in Belarus	0
“Letters from America”: Songs of Lithuanian Immigrants in the USA	0
Hospital Clowning as a Way to Overcome Trauma	0
Ritual, Risk, and Danger: Avoidance Rituals among Antiquity Looters	0
Plots of Gothic Origin in Ukrainian Folklore Prose	0
Jin Ping Mei: A Story of Guanxi	0
Messy Affairs with Imagined Swamp Creatures: The Human-Nature Relationship in Swamp Monster Narratives	0
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Traditional Healing Expectations in Light of Placebo and Performance Studies	0
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Gender Role Perceptions in Selected South-African Folktales	0
Calendric Feast Bans and the Punishment for Violating Them in the Bulgarian Traditional Culture	0
Mediated Easter: Constructing Religious Rituals in a Lockdown	0

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“I Am Like Green Firewood – Not Going Out, Not Catching Fire!” A Prisoner’s Self-Portrait in Letters	0
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Melting in the Melting Pot: The Acculturation Experience of the Ahiska Turks in the US	0
How to Participate in Participatory Music Making at a Contemporary Folk Music Festival: Runosong Nests at the Viljandi Folk Music Festival and Pelimanni Evenings at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival	0
Introduction: Affective Mires in Contemporary Culture	0
Ainu Puri as a Compass: From Yukar Musical Epics to a Contemporary Context of Transnational Indigeneity of the Ainu	0
The Wild Woman Archetype: A Comparative Study of Motif Correspondence Between “Bluebeard” and the Turkish Fairy Tale “İğci̇ Baba”	0
Folklore and Greek Hagiography: Some Preliminary Notes	0
Challenging Hegemonic Gender Norms in Emma Donoghue’s “The Tale of the Rose” and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast	0
Children as Consumers and Co-Creators of Cultural Products: The Impact of Foreign Films on Estonian Children’s Culture in the 1950s	0
Female Genital Cutting in Ịjọland: Context, Performance, and Songs	0
One Trauma, Two Narratives: Adamah versus Tomorrow’s a Wonderful Day	0
Nursing Queen Archetype in the Context of Changes in Estonian Society: A Retrospective View	0
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Figures in the Mire: Towards Transformative Art and a Respectful Mire Relationship	0
Folklore Activities of the Lithuanian Science Society: Utopian Goals or Insightful Ideas?	0
Easter Traditions among Slovenes in Italy (Natisone Valley)	0
The Bowed Lyre of Estonia’s Swedes: Origin, Diffusion, Decline, Revival	0
Chinese National Motifs in the Folk Song Mo Li Hua: Influence on Modern Chinese Music	0
The Contradictory Foundation of the Estonian Folklore Archives: Traditionality and Modernism, Unification and Segregation, and Basics of Authenticity	0
Nordic and Baltic Digital Humanities Conference “Digital Dreams and Practices”, March 3–7, 2025, in Tartu	0
‘Have You Heard of Kalevauva.fi Yet?’ Modern Folklore, Humour, and Gender in the Lyrics of the Finnish Folk Troubadour Duo Kalevauva.fi	0
Ukrainian Folk Dumy: Problems of Historical Development and Modern Performance	0
Multilingualism in Estonian Poetry	0
Homophobic Discourses and Their Soviet History in Estonia	0
Analysis of the Worldwide Distribution of the ‘Man or Animal in the Moon’ Motifs	0
Traditional Beliefs and Real Influence of Full Moon Days on the Behavior of Community Pharmacy Customers in Estonia	0
Layers of Folkloric Variation: Computational Explorations of Poetic and Narrative Text Corpora	0
Messages Behind Self-Gifting Practices: A Phenomenological-Anthropological Approach	0
Integration of Traditional Chinese Folk Music Culture into Music Education at Middle Schools	0
The Image of the German, the Pole, the Latvian, and the Lithuanian in Lithuanian and Latvian Folklore	0
If Oskar Kolberg Had Had the Phonograph… Or How to Read the Oldest Archival Notes of Polish Traditional Music through the Prism of Phonographic Experience	0
Pilgrimages in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Romania	0
Introduction: Earlier Experience of Collecting and Researching School Lore in Estonia and Slovenia	0
Fictional Folklore: On the Paremiology of A Game of Thrones	0
Wooing Werewolves: Girls’ Genius, Feminine, and Initiation in Angela Carter’s and Märta Tikkanen’s Versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”	0
Representations of Distance Learning in the Memes of the First Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Humour as a Coping and Self-Defence Strategy	0
Corpus-Based Research of Semantic Aspects of Laul-Stem Words in Estonian, Focused on Past Newspaper Texts and Folk Song Lyrics	0
The Process of Becoming a War Refugee: The Case of a Finnish Boy	0
Traumatization of the Past and Martyrological Thinking in the Soviet Union and the Post-Soviet Space	0
Illness: Narratives, Imagery, and Politics	0
The Status and Roles of Women in Terms of Gender in Ancient Turkish History and Culture Based on the Dīwān Lughāt Al-Turk – The First Turkish Dictionary	0
The Appearance of Grotesque Forms in Crystal Manor Tales	0
The Ritual Year of the Nekrasov Cossacks in Turkey and in Russia: Reflecting on the Adaptation to New Environments	0
An Experienced Ethnologist’s Thoughts on Digitalization, Open Access, and Open Data as New Research Assets	0
The Rite of Passage among Karaite Turks: Birth	0
Narrating Ethnicity in Oral History Interviews: Life Stories of People Resettled from Estonia to Germany in 1941	0
The European Bear’s Son Tale: Its Reception and Influence on Indigenous Oral Traditions in North America	0
She Sang in a Beautiful Light Voice: Musical Qualities of Runosong Performances in Fieldwork Reports	0
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Rules and Norms, Freedom, and Regulation: The 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)	0
Ethnography of the Balkan Cults in Abruzzi and Molise (Italy): Two Case-Studies	0
The Estonian Folklore Archives as a Knowledge Hub	0
Collecting Slovenian School Lore Via E-Questionnaire: Analysis of the Collected Material and Revision of the Questionnaire	0
Routes to Forming an Affiliative Postmemory about Difficult Pages in History (Based on the Example of the Era of Political Repression)	0
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What We Remember and What We Forget: Selective Memory in the Holocaust	0
Representations of Gender in Estonian Graffiti and Street Art	0
Ritual Rules in Changing Circumstances: Break, Adapt or Maintain? An Introduction	0
Traces of a Greek Myth (?) in Subcultures of Lur-Inhabited Regions of Western Iran	0
Folkloric Manifestation of Primitive Impulses: Folk Riddles	0
The Wedding Water (Neke Sui) and the Blending of Ancestral and Islamic Rituals in the Kazakh Traditional Marriage	0
Success Story or Traumatic Experience? An Attempt to Integrate Trauma Theory with Oral History Research for the Interpretation of First-Person Stories	0
Vindications and Customs: Women’s Participation in Local Festive Rituals in Spain	0
Traditional Songs and Their Messages in the Corona Period: An Experience from Serbia	0
Introduction: The Potential and Constraints of Cultural Transfer through Voice, Connection, and Message	0
Developmental Changes in Acoustic Characteristics of Speech of Estonian Adolescents	0
Materiality of Magic in Estonian and Finnish Museums	0
Tata Liba Ceremony for Reconciliation and Healing (Palu’e Island, Eastern Indonesia)	0
Experiences of Mire Sports: Sensory Encounters in Nature	0