OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Abie Nathan and his Double-Edged Missions: The Transnational Humanitarian and Human Rights Activist during the Nigeria-Biafra War	12
Akan Relations, Commercial Networks, and the Portuguese Empire in West Africa, 1482–1637	3
Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right ed. by Julia Adeney Thomas and Geoff Eley	3
New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy by Brian P. Owensby	1
Ritual in the Early Modern World: Proliferation, State-Formation, and the Work of the Manchu Surrender Ceremony	1
The “Material Turn” in World and Global History	1
Heavenly Fatherland: German Missionary Culture and Globalization in the Age of Empire by Jeremy Best	1
Chinese Volley Fire and Metanarratives of World History	1
A Disdain for Deserts: The Sahara Sea Project and Climatic Modification in North Africa, 1864–1885	1
Gender: A World History by Susan Kingsley Kent, and: Gender Rules: Identity and Empire in Historical Perspective by Karen Phoenix (review)	1
Water, Bodies, Space: New Directions in World Environmental History	1
"From desh to desh ": The Family Firm as Trans-Local Household in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean	1
Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770–1842 by Elizabeth Elbourne (review)	1
Index to Volume 34, 2023	0
Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China by Shellen Xiao Wu (review)	0
Piracy in World History ed. by Stefan Eklöf Amirell, Bruce Buchan, and Hans Hägerdal	0
Going the Distance: Eurasian Trade and the Rise of the Business Corporation, 1400–1700 by Ron Harris	0
Samurai and Mongols: How a Medieval Samurai Became Chinggis Khan	0
A Convergence Whose Time Has Come	0
A Failed Transplant: American Cotton in the Ottoman Empire	0
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa: Medical Encounters, 1500–1850 by Kalle Kananoja	0
U.S. Indian Affairs, British Imperial Africa, and Transcolonial Dialogues over Conservation and "Native Development" in the 1930s	0
The Minor Key: Indonesian Marxists Sojourning Abroad	0
Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941 by Genevieve Alva Clutario (review)	0
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia by Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper (review)	0

They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton (review)	0
Empire of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines by Andrew J. Rotter	0
Unobvious Parallels: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, Wacław Sieroszewski, and Their Role in Gathering Imperial Knowledge in Sumatra and Yakutia in the 1890S	0
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age: Floods, Worms, and Cattle Plague by Adam Sundberg (review)	0
Colonial City, Global Entanglements: Intra-and Trans-Imperial Networks in George Town, 1786–1937	0
Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray, et al. (review)	0
The Privileged and the Unprotected: U.S. Consuls, Return Migrants, and Extraterritorial Debates in the Ottoman Empire, 1830 – 1914	0
Index to Volume 35, 2024	0
The Guts of the Matter: A Global History of Human Waste and Infectious Intestinal Disease by James L. A. Webb (review)	0
Connecting Eurasia: Jesuit Experimentation with Overland Mobility Between China and Europe, 1656–1664	0
Invulnerability and the Cartography of Resistance to Imperialism	0
Globalizing Automobilism: Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980 by Gijs Mom	0
"The Destruction of a Common Foe": The Expedition Against Shap-ng-tsai and the International Dimensions of Suppressing Chinese Piracy	0
Oceanic Wahhabism	0
Seventeenth-Century Foreign Lives of Ayutthaya: Sources of Cross-Cultural Cooperation and Integration in the Asian Trading Entrepôt	0
Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment ed. by Joan-Pau Rubiés and Neil Safier (review)	0
Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace by Tamara Venit Shelton	0
Diverging in Peace: (Inter)Religious Internationalism, Interwar Pacifism, and a World Conference that Never Happened	0
Captive Colonizers: The Role of the Prisoners of War from Poland-Lithuania and the Crimean Khanate in the Russian Subjugation of Eastern Siberia	0
Iran and a French Empire of Trade, 1700–1808: The Other Persian Letters by Junko Thérèse Takeda	0
Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom by Paul Clammer (review)	0
Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions by James Davey (review)	0
Mobility in an Age of Imperialism, Nation-Building, and Revolution: Kawata Masazō's Late-Nineteenth-Century Pacific World	0
Inter-Imperial Entanglement: The British Claim to Portuguese Delagoa Bay in the Nineteenth Century	0
The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries by Richard C. Hoffmann (review)	0
Reimagining the Ottomans: The Tale of an Ottoman Ayan	0
Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884–1905 by Matthew Unangst (review)	0
Graphic Worlding: Radical Histories and the Narrative Form in Recent Works from Graphic Mundi	0
Pan-Asian Decolonization? Iranian Oil, Japanese Tankers, and the Nisshomaru Incident of 1953	0
Index to Volume 33, 2022	0
From the Atlantic to the Manchu: Taiwan Sugar and the Early Modern World, 1630s–1720s	0
In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama by Eric Tagliacozzo (review)	0
The Kelenteng and Annual Rituals: Hokkien Community in Batavia	0
Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex by Agnieszka Sobocinska	0
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs	0
Amity, Commerce, and Compromise: Americans, Indians, and the Evolution of Trade on Zanzibar and across the Western Indian Ocean, 1825–1861	0
Obeah, Orisa & Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume 1, Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination by Tracey E. Hucks (review)	0
“Why Doest Thou Thus?”: Providence and Discourses of Difference in Two Nineteenth-Century Missionary Lives	0
Remembering Jerry H. Bentley (1949–2012)	0
Religion and the Contemporary Phase of Globalization: Insights from a Study of John Paul II’s World Youth Days	0
Victims of Nationality: German Civilian Internment in British West Africa during the Second World War	0
Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Kings and Queens, 1539–1640 by Miguel A. Valerio (review)	0
Decolonizations, Colonizations, and More Decolonizations: The End of Empire in Time and Space	0
Hundred Eyes or Hundred Wild Geese: An Examination of How Historical Sources were Made in Marco Polo’s Time	0
Altruism and Realpolitik: A History of the U.S. Agency for International Development	0
Globality Without Mobility: Ephemera, 1830s–1860s	0
Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control by Steffen Rimner (review)	0
Polynesia against Paris: Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Literature and the French Colonial Origins of Oceanian Reintegration	0
Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica, and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire by Kwasi Konadu (review)	0
Anthropology, Opportunity, and Empire: Collecting Expeditions in Sarawak and the Philippines, 1898–1909	0

Agents, Ambassadors, and Imams: Ottoman-British Transimperialism in the Cape of Good Hope, 1862–1869	0
The Christian Seas of Kyushu: How Local Maritime Networks Facilitated the Introduction of Catholicism to Japan in the Mid-Sixteenth Century	0
Mediation Hub or Active Agent? FAO’s Commitment to Rural Welfare During Its First Thirty Years	0
Papuan Children, Catholic Missionaries, and the Formation of Transimperial Networks in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe	0
Introduction: Global Travel, Exploration, and Comparative Study of Empire	0
Toward Rangoon: Cold War Internationalism and the Birth of Yugoslavia's Globalism	0
India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World by Jagjeet Lally	0
Erratum	0
Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples by Mohamed Adhikari (review)	0
The Puzzle of Rescue and Survival: The Wartime Exodus of Jewish Refugees from Lithuania and their Japanese Savior Redux	0
A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Ulrike Freitag (review)	0
“Race and Racism beyond National Borders”	0
The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World by Aisha Khan (review)	0
Colonial Reckoning: Race and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Cuba by Louis A. Pérez Jr (review)	0
Chains of Custody, Oceans of Instability: The Precarious Logistics of the Natural History Trade	0
Between World-Imagining and World-Making: Politics of Fin-de-Siècle Universalism and Transimperial Indo-U.S. Brotherhood	0
Private Enterprise and the China Trade: Merchants and Markets in Europe, 1700–1750 by Meike von Brescius (review)	0
Interaction and Localization: New Insights into Early Metallurgy in China	0
The Japanese Eye on Latin America Through The Japan Times , 1926–1941	0
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962 by Kyle J. Gardner	0
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar	0
Shaping (Il)legal Mobilities: Regulations, Pilgrim Passports, and the Hajj in Tsarist Central Asia During the Turn of the Nineteenth Century	0
The Making of Elixir: Ambergris, Emperor Jiajing, and the Portuguese Settlement at Macao in 1557	0
The Mexican Labor Movement and the Global Scripts of Revolution, 1910–1929	0
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby (review)	0
Decline and Fall, Growth and Spread, or Resilience? Approaches to Studying How and Why Societies Change	0
The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China by Timothy Brook (review)	0
Get It in Writing (If You Can): Regulating Foreign Communities in Tokugawa Japan	0
Culture Contacts in Ancient Worlds: A Review of Theoretical Debates and Practical Applications	0
“Missions and Conversions in World History: An Introduction”	0
Passing the Torch? Anglo-American Encounters in the British West Indies and Negotiating White Supremacy, c. 1865–1914	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
"The Rifle is the Symbol": The AK-47 in Global South Iconography	0
A Short History of Feather Fans' Spread and Cultural Connotations: From Bronze Age Africa East to China and West to Europe	0
China and the Spirit of Booker T. Washington: Applying Lessons from the Southern Black American Experience in Rural Republican China, 1920–1940	0
Lines Drawn Across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations by Mary C. Fuller (review)	0
Time in Maps: From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era ed. by Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer	0
The Value and Prospect of the Needham Question: A Historiographical Reflection and Elaboration	0
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia by Anand Yang	0
The Spread and Regional Development of Wheat Farming in the Yellow River Valley under the Han Empire	0
Breaking the Containment: Horse Trade between the Ming Empire and its Northern Neighbors, 1368–1570	0
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean by Tessa Murphy	0
The Myth of Immobility: Women and Travel in the British Imperial Indian Ocean	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
The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Cindy Ermus (review)	0
Global History of Early Modern Violence ed. by Erica Charters et al.	0
African Americans and the Lynching of Foreign Nationals in the United States	0
Britain’s Atomic Energy Strategy toward Japan: The Anglo-American “Special Relationship,” 1945–1959	0
Catholic Women and Mexican Politics, 1750–1940 by Margaret Chowning (review)	0
Maori Rugby in 1920s France: Sport, Race, and Indigeneity	0
Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East by Samuel Dolbee (review)	0