OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Iran and the Caucasus 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Expanders of the Realm	2
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Countering Radicalization in the North Caucasus	2
Urartian Stelae in Late Antique and Early Medieval Armenia	1
The Tamma of Azerbaijan in Regional and Imperial Contexts (1228–1261)	1
Pashto Radical Simple Verbs and the Linguistic Border	1
Ossetic Boar	1
Horace and the Parthians	1
Ludwig Paul (with the cooperation of Pejman Firoozbakhsh), An Analytical Bibliography of New Iranian Languages and Dialects. Based on Persian Publications since ca. 1980, Wiesbaden: “Ludwig Reichert V	1
A Prologue to Armenian Toponymy	1
Seventy-Two and The One Nation	1
Armeno-Avarica	1
On the Road to Kashgar	1
Iranian Lexical Material in the Caucasus	1
Philipp Ammon, Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation, Frankfurt a. M.: “Vittorio Klostermann Verlag”, 2020.—238 pp.	1
Contributions to Iranian Etymology II	1
The Talibs or the Taliban in Afghanistan	1
Reconsidering the Turkish–Islamic Synthesis	1
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 1)	1
Karmir Blur in the Late Urartian Context	1
Illegal Trafficking of Ammunition Along the Iran–Caucasian Border in the Early 20th Century	0
Again on New Persian ālufta	0
Again on the Demoness Šaša	0
Three Ritual Steps between India and Iran	0

Whose Past and Whose Future: Free Love and Love Marriage among “Kafirs” of the Hindukush in an Early Nineteenth-Century Persian Ethnography	0
Back matter	0
Eros and the Pearl. The Yezidi Cosmogonic Myth at the Crossroads of Mystical Traditions , by Artur Rodziewicz	0
On the History of a Mysterious Word: Kurdish ēš‘ache, pain; disease’	0
Some Remarks on the Urartian Toponym Dara(ni) and Its Possible Identification with the Site of Solak-1/Varsak in Kotayk Region, Armenia	0
Manifestation of the Yezidi Identity	0
Маджарские: армянский род в истории Беларуси, by Денис В. Лисейчиков, Евгений С. Глинский & The Majarskis: An Armenian Family in the History of Belarus, by Denis V. Lisejčikov, Evgenij S. Glinskij	0
On the Etymology of the Avestan Personal Name pourušaspa-	0
Early Safavid Campaigns in the Caucasus	0
An Agenda for the Study of the Jesus Letter	0
Some Remarks on the Term Abxāz in Classical Persian Literature and Historiography	0
Armeno-Iranica, Indo-Europaeica, and Gathica	0
Linguistic Insights from a Bilingual Letter: The Malati Dialect of Zoroastrian Dari in Yazd	0
L’épopée caucasienne des Nartes. Cycles d’Ossétie, Traduits de l’ossète et commentés par Lora Arys-Djanaïéva et Iaroslav Lebedynsky, Paris: “L’Harmattan”, 2019.—325 pp.	0
The Ostād	0
Pierre Briant, From Cyrus to Seleukos: Studies in Achaemenid and Hellenistic History, Ancient Iran Series, vol. 5: “UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies”, 2018.—327pp.	0
Archaeological Analysis of the Two Spearheads from the Territory of Medieval Armenia	0
The Demonic ‘Sub-Humanity’ of the Bears in the Mazdean Framework and Other Remarks	0
The Early History of the Syriac Liturgy. Growth, Adaptation and Inculturation , by Baby Varghese	0
Front matter	0
Lankarān	0
Laṭxāna (1950–1954), an Intellectual Commune in Quetta (Baluchistan)	0
On the Border between Urartu and Mannea: Goyje Qalʽeh, an Iron Age Site in Northern Iran	0
The Mazdean Image of the Bird and its ‘Earthly’ Egg in Light of Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, ch. 47, and its Later Continuations	0
Table of Contents	0
The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus, by Richard Foltz	0
Tubo-Sogdian Relations along the Silk Road: On an Enigmatic Gold Plaque from Dulan (Qinghai, China)	0
Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia, by Nikoloz Aleksidze	0
The Case of a Molokan Woman from the Archive of the Erivan Uezd Court (Mid-19th Century)	0
On the Legal System of the First Republic of Armenia (1918–1920)	0
History of the Caucasus, v. 2: In the Shadow of Great Powers, by Christoph Baumer	0
The Armenians Themselves Burnt Their Own Houses and Desecrated Their Own Churches	0
The Talishis on Opposite Banks of the Araxes River: Identity Issues	0
Traditionalism and Demodernisation	0
Symmetry in Armenian Mediaeval Ornaments	0
Far away from Pārsa: Empire, Borders, and Ideology in Achaemenid Bactria	0
Concepts of hewād ‘Homeland’ and millat ‘Nation’ in Modern Pashto-Language Schoolbooks	0
Preliminary Material	0
James Robert Russell 70	0
An Etymological Note on YAv. mūra-: Is it Really “Idiot, Stupid, Foolish”?	0
Håkon F. Teigen, The Manichaean Church in Kellis, Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 100, Brill: Leiden–Boston, 2021.—355pp.	0
Succession of Generations of the Circassian Mamlūks (1496–1501)	0
Evaluation of Environmental Factors Affecting Hydropolitics of Helmand Transboundary Basin	0
Ubykh Personal Names	0
Baskin Oran, Minorities and Minority Rights in Turkey: From the Ottoman Empire to the Present State, translated by John William Day, Boulder-Colorado: “Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.”, 2021.—275 pp.	0
Cultures of the Hindukush after Jettmar. A Bibliography, by A.M. Cacopardo	0
Archaisms and Innovations in the Armenian Dialects of Artsakh and Syunik	0
Back matter	0
Relocating the Prophet’s Image: Narrative Motifs and Local Appropriation of the Zarathustra Legend in Pre- and Early Islamic Iran (Part II - North-West Iran)	0
Greek Myths on a Bactrian Silver Bowl in the State Hermitage Museum	0

Heightened Smuggling of Weapons and Ammunition from Southern Caucasus to Northwestern Iran on the Eve of World War I	0
The Survival of Ossetians in Turkey	0
‘Big’ and ‘Small’ in the Toponymy of the Swāt Valley	0
“Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part I): Data from Udi	0
A Second Apostate?	0
Metal Quivers from Hasanlu	0
Martyrdom of the Sukiaseans (Mytho-Ritual Aspect)	0
Written Torah and Oral Torah in the Study of Hasidism	0
Jihad as an Individual Duty (farḍ al-ʻayn) in the Ideology of Circassian Sultans (1382–1517)	0
An Unknown Source on Proselytism among the Udis	0
Scythians and ξεινικὰ νόμαια	0
New Persian yādgār	0
Russian Orientalistics (Vostokovedenie)	0
Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World: Photography in Erzurum, Harput, Van and Beyond, Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World, by David Low	0
The ‘House of Song’, the *‘House of Clay’, Arm. gerezman, and Caucaso-Albanica	0
Hedayatollah Khan and the Gulgakh Canal	0
1908 Tabriz Uprising through French Writings	0
On Criticism of S. L. Nikolayev/S. A. Starostin, A North Caucasian Etymological Dictionary	0
The Elamite Version of A2Ha and the Verb vidiyā- in Old Persian	0
Judaism in the Kitchen: Ritual Space of the Mountain Jewish Women of Dagestan	0
Iran’s Security Interests and Policies in the South Caucasus	0
C‘ałman	0
On Peace Activists and Skilled Survivors	0
Iranian Lexical Material in the Caucasus	0
Christoph Baumer, History of the Caucasus, v. 1: At the Crossroads of Empires, London: “I. B. Tauris/Bloomsbury”, 2021—386 pp.	0
Caucasian Albania	0
Missionaries in Persia: Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism, by Christian Windler	0
In the Pursuit of the Lost Language	0
On the Ethnonym Khazar	0
Back Matter	0
Front Matter	0
Kurmanji p’irč (f.) ‘hair’	0
On the Participation of Armenians in the Mongol Ilkhanate’s Invasion of Syria (1259–1260)	0
David Leupold, Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish Memory, New York: “Routledge”, 2020.—249 pp.	0
Акоп Овнатанян. Портреты–воспоминания о художнике , by Ирина Дзуцова	0
Proto-Indo-European Initial *r Revisited	0
The Survival of an Ancient Term in Talishi	0
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave	0
On a Painted Burial Jar from Tigranakert of Artsakh	0
‘Come Down from Those Yonder Stars!’	0
On an Enigmatic Deity with a Dragon on a Chorasmian Silver Bowl from Dagestan	0
The Ethno-Religious Contradictions as Threats to the North Caucasus Stability and Integration	0
The Iranian Sound Change w- > γw- in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands and a New Etymology for Gāndhārī and Sanskrit guśura(ka)-	0
A Corpus-Based Study of Alignment in Literary Gorani (Based on the Manuscript 11092 of Dīwān-i Mawlawī)	0
On the Emergence of the Iranian Apocalypse Between the Sixth and Seventh Centuries	0
Front Matter	0
The St. Ełiše (Elisaeus) Church and the Sanctuary of Kyomrad in Nij	0
Out of the Mouth of Babes … (Ps. 8:2)	0
The Significance of ṛtācā brzmniy in Xerxes’ Cultic Reform	0
In the Spirit of Zarathustra: Intertextual Legitimation in Pahlavi Literature	0
The Jewish–Tat Relations and the Issue of Mountain Jews Identity (Part II)	0
A Copper Statuette from South-Eastern Iran (3rd Millennium B.C.)	0
Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures, by Maryam Nourzaei, Carina Jahani, Agnes Korn (eds.)	0
Escape from the Land of the Dead: Nart Sagas, Divine Comedy, and the Journey Through the Afterlife	0
Shiraz on the Adriatic	0
Hunza Matters: Bordering and Ordering between Ancient and New Silk Roads, by Hermann Kreutzmann	0
America’s Turkish Lobby against Armenian Genocide Recognition	0
A Central Asian Silver Dish with a Greek Mythological Scene found in Dulan (Qinghai)	0
Georgia and Sasanian Iran	0
Samuel N. C. Lieu, Glen L. Thompson (eds.), The Church of the East in Central Asia and China (China and the Mediterranean World, 1), Turnhout: “Brepols”, 2020.—xiii + 245 pp.	0
Alberto Tiburcio, Muslim–Christian Politics in Safavid Iran, Edinburgh: “Edinburgh University Press”, 2020.—232 pp.	0
Voices of Desolation	0
The City of Brass and Alexander’s Narrow Grave: Translation and Commentary of Kafas added to Manuscript M7709 (Part 2)	0
Editorial Preface	0
Parthian moγ and Middle Persian moγ/mow in Light of Earlier Eastern and Western Iranian Sources	0
Armenia and Iran	0
Hell’s Kitchen: The Banquet in the Hereafter and the Reflexion of Zoroastrian Eschatological Motifs in the Qurʾān	0
Approaching the Neolithization Processes in North-Western Iran	0
The New Testament Gospels in Manichaean Tradition. The Sources in Syriac, Greek, Coptic, Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Bactrian, New Persian, and Arabic, with Appendices on the Gospel of Thomas a	0
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union	0
The Southern Boundaries of the Southern Caucasus	0
Sefer Yeṣirah’s Dating, Geographic Provenance and the Open Question of Its Composer’s Religious Affiliation and Identity	0
Pluralized Collectives in Young Avestan: A Morphosyntactic Explanation of the Replacement of the YAv. nom.-acc.pl.n. Endings and by -āiš, and -īš	0
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity. Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750	0
“She Did Not Give Bread to a Dog with Puppies”	0
“Other” Strategies in the Eastern Caucasus (Part II): Typology	0
An Eastern Iranian Lunar Deity and Her Epithet	0
The Oil Policy and Independence of the Kurdistan Regional Government	0
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ʿAbdulbahāʾ farzand-e Īrān: baxš-e farāmūš-šode-ye tārīx-e roušanfekrī-ye Īrān, by Fereydūn Vahman (ed.)	0