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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Legends of Places as Part of the Sustainable Development of Regions	3
From Nature Romanticism to Eco-Nationalism: The Development of the Concept of Estonians as a Forest Nation	2
Play and Folklore in Children’s Peer Cultures	1
Vernacular Reactions to COVID-19 in Estonia: Crisis Folklore and Coping	1
“Doctors Just Don’t Care about People!” How Medical Specialists Are Depicted in a Vaccine-Critical Estonian Facebook Group	1
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Online Coping with the First Wave: Covid Humor and Rumor on Dutch Social Media (March – July 2020)	1
Graphic Aspects of Mobility: Folkloristic-Ethnological Drawings as a Starting Point for Discussing Mobility and Borders	1
Faith in the Times of COVID-19: Integrating Religion in the Fight against COVID-19 in Tanzania	1
A Joke, Mockery, or Something More? The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster – an Invented Religion or a New Movement?	1
Technology Creating a New Human: The Alchemical Roots of Transhumanist Ideas	1
Heroes and Villains in Memes on the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	1
Introduction: Affective Mires in Contemporary Culture	1
Women of the Twilight: The Narrative Spaces of Women in the Icelandic Rural Community of the Past	1
Rules and Norms, Freedom, and Regulation: The 15th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)	1
Sustaining and Substituting the Sacred: Coin Trees in Britain and Ireland	1
Symbolic Capital as a Resource of Promotion of Provincial Cities: An Analysis of Place Branding Strategies of Ural Urban Destinations	1
Early Days of the Novel Coronavirus: Public Response in Social Media during the First Month of the Outbreak	1
The General, His Fandom, and a Participatory Pandemic	1
Motif Index of Prophetic Dream Narratives: Methods of Compilation	0
Rumours in a Situation of Political Conflict: Catalonia and Its Referendum of Self-Determination	0
Collecting Slovenian School Lore Via E-Questionnaire: Analysis of the Collected Material and Revision of the Questionnaire	0
Gender Perspectives in the Study of Estonian Society and Culture: Current State and Challenges	0
Political Meanings Hidden Behind Enchanting Melodies: How China Delivered Ideological Messages in the Song Cycle “Four Seasons of Our Motherland”	0
Opening Archives to Society: The Experience from the Folklore Archive at Rovira i Virgili University	0

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Materiality of Magic in Estonian and Finnish Museums	0
Introduction into Health-Related Folklore and Its Research: From First-Hand Experiences to Second-Hand Narrating Models	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
Situating Oneself Within the Estonian Language and World Literature: Ivar Ivask’s Relational Ways of Self-Understanding	0
Children as Consumers and Co-Creators of Cultural Products: The Impact of Foreign Films on Estonian Children’s Culture in the 1950s	0
Instead of Introduction: How Old Is Sacredness?	0
Layers of Folkloric Variation: Computational Explorations of Poetic and Narrative Text Corpora	0
Vindications and Customs: Women’s Participation in Local Festive Rituals in Spain	0
Illness: Narratives, Imagery, and Politics	0
Ritual Rules in Changing Circumstances: Break, Adapt or Maintain? An Introduction	0
Performing an Archive: Aims, Interests, Ideologies and Expectations	0
Pilgrimages in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Romania	0
Experiences of Mire Sports: Sensory Encounters in Nature	0
Aleksei Peterson in the Southern Veps Villages in 1965–1969: A Chapter from the History of Soviet Estonian Ethnography	0
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“Still, I Can Hardly Believe It”: Reactions, Resources, and Religion in Conversations about Sexual Abuse of Children among Laestadians in Finland	0
Unlived Life: The Death and Funeral of a Child in Slavic Traditional Culture	0
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Slovenian Folk Lullabies: Analysis of the Lullaby Texts and Their Functions	0
One Trauma, Two Narratives: Adamah versus Tomorrow’s a Wonderful Day	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
Fictional Folklore: On the Paremiology of A Game of Thrones	0
When a Crisis Opens New Academic Perspectives: The New Webinar Series of the SIEF Ritual Year Working Group	0
The Mute: Ritual and Transgressive Meanings of the Masked Character in the Romanian Căluş Ritual	0
The Wild Woman Archetype: A Comparative Study of Motif Correspondence Between “Bluebeard” and the Turkish Fairy Tale “İğci̇ Baba”	0
What We Remember and What We Forget: Selective Memory in the Holocaust	0
COVID-19 and the Traditional Culture of the Udmurts	0
An Ethno-Cultural Portrait of a Diaspora in Central Russia: The Formation and Culture of the Eastern Udmurt	0
The Appearance of Grotesque Forms in Crystal Manor Tales	0
Female Genital Cutting in Ịjọland: Context, Performance, and Songs	0
Child in the Natal Narratives of Modern Ukrainian Mothers: Folkloric Symbols and Frequent Motifs	0
Analysis of the Worldwide Distribution of the ‘Man or Animal in the Moon’ Motifs	0
The Popular Ballad, Rumours and Memories as a Special Narrative Format	0
Wooing Werewolves: Girls’ Genius, Feminine, and Initiation in Angela Carter’s and Märta Tikkanen’s Versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”	0
“Here and There One Seed Sprouts, and Then It Seems We Have Done Something”: Nurturing Creativity in Elementary Schools	0
Hospital Clowning as a Way to Overcome Trauma	0
Narrating Ethnicity in Oral History Interviews: Life Stories of People Resettled from Estonia to Germany in 1941	0
Challenging Hegemonic Gender Norms in Emma Donoghue’s “The Tale of the Rose” and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast	0
Folklore and Greek Hagiography: Some Preliminary Notes	0
The Image of the German, the Pole, the Latvian, and the Lithuanian in Lithuanian and Latvian Folklore	0
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Literary Biographies Without a Fixed Linguistic Abode	0
Traditional Healing Expectations in Light of Placebo and Performance Studies	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
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Rituals of Social Legitimization in the Lithuanian Childbirth Customs System: Traditions and Innovations	0
The Process of Becoming a War Refugee: The Case of a Finnish Boy	0
Personal Songbooks: Imprints of Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Lithuanian Written Culture	0
Archives and the Bodily Dimension of Traditional Dance Knowledge	0

The Ritual Year of the Nekrasov Cossacks in Turkey and in Russia: Reflecting on the Adaptation to New Environments	0
Combining Archival and Academic Research in Dissident Manuscripts: The Ostrobothnian Mystics Project (Finland)	0
Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Innovation and Tradition in the World of Quarantine Weddings	0
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From “Unbelievable Stupidity” to “Secret Clues for Staying Healthy”: CAM Landscape and Boundary-Work in Estonian and Finnish Mainstream Media in April 2020	0
The Life of Rituals during the Pandemic: The Ritual Year SIEF WG Roundtable at the SIEF 2021 Congress	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
Folklore Activities of the Lithuanian Science Society: Utopian Goals or Insightful Ideas?	0
Calendric Feast Bans and the Punishment for Violating Them in the Bulgarian Traditional Culture	0
Multilingualism in Estonian Poetry	0
The Contradictory Foundation of the Estonian Folklore Archives: Traditionality and Modernism, Unification and Segregation, and Basics of Authenticity	0
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German Migrants in Bulgaria and Their Social Networks	0
Trauma and the Victim Economy	0
Card Index of Former Latvian SSR KGB Agents: Trauma and the Path to Public Reconciliation	0
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Introduction: From Conceptual Debates to Practical Applications	0
The European Bear’s Son Tale: Its Reception and Influence on Indigenous Oral Traditions in North America	0
A Local Midwife or a Doctor? Two Systems of Knowledge in Birthing Practices of Russian Old Believers	0
Nursing Queen Archetype in the Context of Changes in Estonian Society: A Retrospective View	0
Seto People in the Expedition Diaries and Literary Works of a Russian Émigré Leonid Zurov	0
Historical Trauma between Event and Ethics: Aleida Assmann’s Theory in the Context of Trauma Studies	0
“Coming into the World: From Spirits to the Spirit”. The First Childhood Museum in Romania	0
Plots of Gothic Origin in Ukrainian Folklore Prose	0
Buried Alive: The Phenomenon of Apparent Death in Estonian Tradition	0
Homophobic Discourses and Their Soviet History in Estonia	0
An Archetypal Analysis of the Queen Mother of the West in Chinese Mythology	0
Exploring the Transformative Power of Play in African Children’s Games	0
After the War and Repressions: Mediating of Traumatic Experiences in Estonian Life Stories	0
“I Am Like Green Firewood – Not Going Out, Not Catching Fire!” A Prisoner’s Self-Portrait in Letters	0
Traces of a Greek Myth (?) in Subcultures of Lur-Inhabited Regions of Western Iran	0
Jizō in Action: The Role of Jizō Statues in Temple Atmosphere, Seen through the Eyes of Sendai Temple Abbots	0
“Here and There One Seed Sprouts, and Then It Seems We Have Done Something”: Nurturing Creativity in Elementary Schools	0
Folkloric Manifestation of Primitive Impulses: Folk Riddles	0
Children as Agents, Targets, and Intermediaries of Family Humour	0
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Traumatization of the Past and Martyrological Thinking in the Soviet Union and the Post-Soviet Space	0
The History of the Formation of Folklore Collections in Belarus	0
The Estonian Language and Its Influence on Music: A Cognitive Sciences Approach	0
Melting in the Melting Pot: The Acculturation Experience of the Ahiska Turks in the US	0
Gender Role Perceptions in Selected South-African Folktales	0
Udmurt Folklore Material in the Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum and Its Collectors: A Brief Review	0
The Romani in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation	0
An Experienced Ethnologist’s Thoughts on Digitalization, Open Access, and Open Data as New Research Assets	0
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Base Form and Other Forms of the Estonian Verb	0
Easter Traditions among Slovenes in Italy (Natisone Valley)	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
Mediated Easter: Constructing Religious Rituals in a Lockdown	0
The Simiots of Catalan Folklore: Neither Are Reminiscences So Old, Nor Are They So Strange Beings	0
Adopting or Dodging the Heroic Model: Professional Trajectories of Estonian Women Architects	0
Figures in the Mire: Towards Transformative Art and a Respectful Mire Relationship	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
The Estonian Folklore Archives as a Knowledge Hub	0
Tata Liba Ceremony for Reconciliation and Healing (Palu’e Island, Eastern Indonesia)	0
Developmental Changes in Acoustic Characteristics of Speech of Estonian Adolescents	0
“How I Gave Birth” (and Why I Am Writing about It): Women’s Narratives of First Childbirth Experiences from Internet Publications	0
Materialized Trauma Narratives of Border Crossings	0
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The Birth of a Child as Experienced and Narrated in the 1990s Finland	0
The Structure and Genesis of One Type of Magic Spell Against Children’s Insomnia among Slavic Peoples	0
Routes to Forming an Affiliative Postmemory about Difficult Pages in History (Based on the Example of the Era of Political Repression)	0
Messages Behind Self-Gifting Practices: A Phenomenological-Anthropological Approach	0
Messy Affairs with Imagined Swamp Creatures: The Human-Nature Relationship in Swamp Monster Narratives	0
Towards New Methodologies in Migration and Diaspora Studies: An Introduction	0
The Rite of Male Circumcision among the Muslim Population in the Western Balkans	0
Where the Structural Meets the Personal: Mother-In-Law Humor Between a Joke Cycle and Joking Relationships in Belarus	0
Motifs of Inanimate Nature and Atmospheric Phenomena in Polish Folktales	0
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Do Bulgakov’s Hella (Gella), Azazello, Behemoth, and Abadonna Have Ancient Near Eastern Origins?	0
Taking Hold of the Future: Active Childbirth Practices and Beliefs in Romania (in the Home Country and in Migration)	0
The Collection of Hungarian Traditional Games	0
The Structures of Dialect as the Founding Element of Social Identity: The Case of Bursa City	0
Jin Ping Mei: A Story of Guanxi	0
Jews in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation	0
Multi-Use of Cranberries (Vaccinium Spp.): Heritage and Pharmaceutical Results	0
Representations of Gender in Estonian Graffiti and Street Art	0
Introduction: Earlier Experience of Collecting and Researching School Lore in Estonia and Slovenia	0