OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of World History 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Shaping (Il)legal Mobilities: Regulations, Pilgrim Passports, and the Hajj in Tsarist Central Asia During the Turn of the Nineteenth Century	12
“Race and Racism beyond National Borders”	7
U.S. Indian Affairs, British Imperial Africa, and Transcolonial Dialogues over Conservation and "Native Development" in the 1930s	3
Unobvious Parallels: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Wacław Sieroszewski, and Their Role in Gathering Imperial Knowledge in Sumatra and Yakutia in the 1890S	2
A Short History of Feather Fans' Spread and Cultural Connotations: From Bronze Age Africa East to China and West to Europe	1
Diverging in Peace: (Inter)Religious Internationalism, Interwar Pacifism, and a World Conference that Never Happened	1
Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914	1
Piracy in World History ed. by Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hägerdal	1
Amity, Commerce, and Compromise: Americans, Indians, and the Evolution of Trade on Zanzibar and across the Western Indian Ocean, 1825–1861	1
Lines Drawn Across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations by Mary C. Fuller (review)	1
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy	1
India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World by Jagjeet Lally	1
Globality Without Mobility: Ephemera, 1830s–1860s	1
Captive Colonizers: The Role of the Prisoners of War from Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate in the Russian Subjugation of Eastern Siberia	1
A Failed Transplant: American Cotton in the Ottoman Empire	1
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia by Anand Yang	1
Index to Volume 33, 2022	1
Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines by Andrew J. Rotter	1
Culture Contacts in Ancient Worlds: A Review of Theoretical Debates and Practical Applications	0
The “Material Turn” in World and Global History	0
The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Cindy Ermus (review)	0
Akan Relations, Commercial Networks, and the Portuguese Empire in West Africa, 1482–1637	0
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 by Kalle Kananoja	0
Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History by William T. Taylor (review)	0
Between World-Imagining and World-Making: Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Universalism and Transimperial Indo-U.S. Brotherhood	0

Decolonizations, Colonizations, and More Decolonizations: The End of Empire in Time and Space	0
Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640 by Miguel A. Valerio (review)	0
Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire by Jeremy Best	0
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (review)	0
Connecting Eurasia: Jesuit Experimentation with Overland Mobility Between China and Europe, 1656–1664	0
The Privileged and the Unprotected: U.S. Consuls, Return Migrants, and Extraterritorial Debates in the Ottoman Empire, 1830 – 1914	0
Private Enterprise and the China Trade: Merchants and Markets in Europe, 1700–1750 by Meike von Brescius (review)	0
Religion and the Contemporary Phase of Globalization: Insights from a Study of John Paul II’s World Youth Days	0
Anthropology, Opportunity, and Empire: Collecting Expeditions in Sarawak and the Philippines, 1898–1909	0
Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control by Steffen Rimner (review)	0
After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi by Marc A. Hertzman (review)	0
Invulnerability and the Cartography of Resistance to Imperialism	0
New Earth Histories: Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World ed. by Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern and Adam Bobbette (review)	0
Aesthetic Explorations of the Global Past	0
Oceanic Wahhabism	0
Global History and the Measures of Early Modern Technology: Europe, East Asia, and the Case of Smoothbore Ballistics	0
Maori Rugby in 1920s France: Sport, Race, and Indigeneity	0
Altruism and Realpolitik: A History of the U.S. Agency for International Development	0
A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Ulrike Freitag (review)	0
Mobility in an Age of Imperialism, Nation-Building, and Revolution: Kawata Masazō's Late-Nineteenth-Century Pacific World	0
Introduction: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire	0
African Americans and the Lynching of Foreign Nationals in the United States	0
“A One-Woman Expedition to Get to Know Tanzanian Women”: State Socialist Women’s Travelogues about Africa in the 1960s–80s	0
Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace by Tamara Venit Shelton	0
Chains of Custody, Oceans of Instability: The Precarious Logistics of the Natural History Trade	0
Polynesia against Paris: Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Literature and the French Colonial Origins of Oceanian Reintegration	0
Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Pérez Jr (review)	0
The Myth of Immobility: Women and Travel in the British Imperial Indian Ocean	0
Index to Volume 34, 2023	0
Colonial City, Global Entanglements: Intra-and Trans-Imperial Networks in George Town, 1786–1937	0
They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton (review)	0
Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions by James Davey (review)	0
New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy by Brian P. Owensby	0
Index to Volume 35, 2024	0
Chinese Volley Fire and Metanarratives of World History	0
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar	0
Pan-Asian Decolonization? Iranian Oil, Japanese Tankers, and the Nisshomaru Incident of 1953	0
Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770–1842 by Elizabeth Elbourne (review)	0
Strangers Within: The Rise and Fall of the New Christian Trading Elite by Francisco Bethencourt (review)	0
Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941 by Genevieve Alva Clutario (review)	0
Interaction and Localization: New Insights into Early Metallurgy in China	0
From the Atlantic to the Manchu: Taiwan Sugar and the Early Modern World, 1630s–1720s	0
Papuan Children, Catholic Missionaries, and the Formation of Transimperial Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe	0
Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era ed. by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer	0
Gender: A World History by Susan Kingsley Kent, and: Gender Rules: Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective by Karen Phoenix (review)	0
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age: Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague by Adam Sundberg (review)	0
Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment ed. by Joan-Pau Rubiés and Neil Safier (review)	0
Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 by Gijs Mom	0
Victims of Nationality: German Civilian Internment in British West Africa during the Second World War	0
Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume 1, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination by Tracey E. Hucks (review)	0

Remembering Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012)	0
The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease by James L. A. Webb (review)	0
A Late/Post-Imperial Region of Difference: The Ottoman Empire and its Successor Polities in Southeastern Europe, Turkey, and the Arab East, c. 1850s–1940s	0
Iran and a French Empire of Trade, 1700–1808: The Other Persian Letters by Junko Thérèse Takeda	0
Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right ed. by Julia Adeney Thomas and Geoff Eley	0
Toward Rangoon: Cold War Internationalism and the Birth of Yugoslavia's Globalism	0
Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Mery’s Intellectual World by Sara E. Johnson (review)	0
Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray, et al. (review)	0
"From desh to desh ": The Family Firm as Trans-Local Household in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean	0
Feral Empire: Horse and Human in the Early Modern Iberian World by Kathryn Renton (review)	0
Creolised Science: Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific by Dorit Brixius (review)	0
Mediation Hub or Active Agent? FAO’s Commitment to Rural Welfare During Its First Thirty Years	0
"The Rifle is the Symbol": The AK-47 in Global South Iconography	0
Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400–1700 by Ron Harris	0
"The Destruction of a Common Foe": The Expedition Against Shap-ng-tsai and the International Dimensions of Suppressing Chinese Piracy	0
Graphic Worlding: Radical Histories and the Narrative Form in Recent Works from Graphic Mundi	0
Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom by Paul Clammer (review)	0
Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China by Shellen Xiao Wu (review)	0
Abie Nathan and his Double-Edged Missions: The Transnational Humanitarian and Human Rights Activist during the Nigeria-Biafra War	0
The Making of Elixir: Ambergris, Emperor Jiajing, and the Portuguese Settlement at Macao in 1557	0
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper (review)	0
The Kelenteng and Annual Rituals: Hokkien Community in Batavia	0
Decline and Fall, Growth and Spread, or Resilience? Approaches to Studying How and Why Societies Change	0
Strategies of Belonging in the Bandung Era: Diasporas and Cold War Asia	0
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 by Margaret Chowning (review)	0
Ritual in the Early Modern World: Proliferation, State-Formation, and the Work of the Manchu Surrender Ceremony	0
In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama by Eric Tagliacozzo (review)	0
The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World by Aisha Khan (review)	0
A Disdain for Deserts: The Sahara Sea Project and Climatic Modification in North Africa, 1864–1885	0
China and the Spirit of Booker T. Washington: Applying Lessons from the Southern Black American Experience in Rural Republican China, 1920–1940	0
“Missions and Conversions in World History: An Introduction”	0
A Caribbean Enlightenment: Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750-1792 by April G. Shelford (review)	0
Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884–1905 by Matthew Unangst (review)	0
Agents, Ambassadors, and Imams: Ottoman-British Transimperialism in the Cape of Good Hope, 1862–1869	0
Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples by Mohamed Adhikari (review)	0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs	0
The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China by Timothy Brook (review)	0
The Puzzle of Rescue and Survival: The Wartime Exodus of Jewish Refugees from Lithuania and their Japanese Savior Redux	0
The Christian Seas of Kyushu: How Local Maritime Networks Facilitated the Introduction of Catholicism to Japan in the Mid-Sixteenth Century	0
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 by Kyle J. Gardner	0
Global History of Early Modern Violence ed. by Erica Charters et al.	0
The Value and Prospect of the Needham Question: A Historiographical Reflection and Elaboration	0
A Convergence Whose Time Has Come	0
Hundred Eyes or Hundred Wild Geese: An Examination of How Historical Sources were Made in Marco Polo’s Time	0
The Mexican Labor Movement and the Global Scripts of Revolution, 1910–1929	0
“Illustrative Cases of Hereditary Degeneracy”: The Use of Family Studies to Support New Zealand’s Eugenic Narrative in the 1920s	0
The Japanese Eye on Latin America Through The Japan Times , 1926–1941	0
The Minor Key: Indonesian Marxists Sojourning Abroad	0
Samurai and Mongols: How a Medieval Samurai Became Chinggis Khan	0
Breaking the Containment: Horse Trade between the Ming Empire and its Northern Neighbors, 1368–1570	0
“Why Doest Thou Thus?”: Providence and Discourses of Difference in Two Nineteenth-Century Missionary Lives	0
Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica, and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire by Kwasi Konadu (review)	0
Erratum	0
Britain’s Atomic Energy Strategy toward Japan: The Anglo-American “Special Relationship,” 1945–1959	0
Water, Bodies, Space: New Directions in World Environmental History	0
The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries by Richard C. Hoffmann (review)	0
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East by Samuel Dolbee (review)	0
Beating the Odds: A Survival Story of Chinese Immigrants in Nicaragua	0
The Spread and Regional Development of Wheat Farming in the Yellow River Valley under the Han Empire	0
Seventeenth-Century Foreign Lives of Ayutthaya: Sources of Cross-Cultural Cooperation and Integration in the Asian Trading Entrepôt	0
Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex by Agnieszka Sobocinska	0
Reimagining the Ottomans: The Tale of an Ottoman Ayan	0
Inter-Imperial Entanglement: The British Claim to Portuguese Delagoa Bay in the Nineteenth Century	0
Get It in Writing (If You Can): Regulating Foreign Communities in Tokugawa Japan	0