OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Global 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The archer and the arrow: Zen Buddhism and the politics of religion in Nazi Germany	55
Rethinking colonialism through early modern global diplomacy: A tale of Pampangan mobility	15
Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement	12
Interwar statistics, colonial demography, and the making of the twentieth-century refugee	8
JGH volume 17 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
JGH volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	6
Patrick O’Brien on industrialization, little Britain and the wider world	5
Working for the Wireless World: Radio Uganda Technicians and the Wo/manpower of 1970s Cosmopolitanism	5
On the rationale and implications of China’s RMB internationalization: A global historical perspective	5
JGH volume 17 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	5
Commodity frontiers: a view from economic history	4
(Anti-)Colonialism, religion and science in Bengal from the perspective of global religious history	4
Was the British industrial revolution a conjuncture in global economic history?	4
A merger of equals: The political economy of the World Bank’s early contacts with China	4
Commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside: a research agenda	4
‘To the benefit of Africa, the world, and ourselves’: The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) Mission to Nigeria, 1966–1968	4
Islam and the cognitive study of colonialism: The case of religious and educational reform at Egypt’s al-Azhar	4
The poor woman’s energy: Low-modernist solar technologies and international development, 1878–1966	3
Substituting Coffee and Tea in the Eighteenth Century: A Rural and Material History with Global Implications	3
Commodity frontiers and global histories: the tasks ahead	3
JGH volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
The seasonality of empire: Coping with the intermittence of the global in Portuguese Asia and beyond (1500–1650)	3
The League of Nations and the post-Ottoman recolonization of the Nile Valley: The imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922–1924 – CORRIGENDUM	3
Doing Utopia: Radical utopian communities, mobility, and the body in the early twentieth century	3
Parsi capital and imperial infrastructure: Shipping and shopping in the port of Aden, 1840-1888	2

Seeing the Berlin Conference from the periphery: Latin American reactions to imperialism elsewhere, 1884–85	2
The intimate labour of internationalism: maternalist humanitarians and the mid-twentieth century family planning movement	2
India, the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and the 1979 Virginity Testing Scandal	2
JGH volume 17 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	2
Chairman Cotton: Socialist Bulgaria’s cotton trade with African countries during the early Cold War (1946–70)	2
The extreme southern origins of globality: Circumnavigation, habitability, and geopolitics	2
What is refugee history, now?	2
Asia’s oceanic Anthropocene: How political elites and global offshore oil development moved Asian marine spaces into the new epoch	2
Past growths: pre-modern and modern	2
Globalization, welfare, and inequality: Evidence from transoceanic market integration, 1815–1913	1
A great convergence: The American frontier and the origins of Japanese migration to Brazil	1
Contractor states and globalization of the market for naval artillery technology (1500–1750)	1
JGH volume 16 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
People, animals, and island encounters: A pig’s history of the Pacific	1
The league against imperialism, national liberation, and the economic question	1
Behind gold for pepper: The players and the game of Indo-Mediterranean trade	1
The World in Blocs: Leo Amery, the British Empire and Regionalist Anti-internationalism, 1903–1947	1
Scurrying seafarers: shipboard rats, plague, and the land/sea border	1
Comments on time, space and method for the study of commodity frontiers and the transformation of the global countryside	1
Towards a global perspective on early modern slave trade: prices of the enslaved in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago and Atlantic worlds	1
Nineteenth-century ‘trade guns’ in the Congo Estuary: Local refractions of a global trade	1
JGH volume 19 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	1
Connecting the ancient Afro-Eurasian world	1
The Sino-Malaysian Rubber Trade, 1950-80: A Global History	1
Towards Development: The Yellow River project and UNRRA’s technical assistance to China, 1944–1947	1
JGH volume 16 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
JGH volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
States, nations, and self-determination: Afghanistan and decolonization at the United Nations	1
Intertwined maritime Silk Road and Austronesian routes: A Taiwanese archaeological perspective	1
JGH volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Strategies of Decolonization: Economic Sovereignty and National Security in Libyan–US Relations, 1949–1971	0
Local advantage in a global context. Competition, adaptation and resilience in textile manufacturing in the ‘periphery’, 1860–1960	0
‘Only One Earth’: Environmental Perceptions and Policies before the Stockholm Conference, 1968–1972	0
JGH volume 19 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
Early modern Iberian empires, global history and the history of early globalization	0
The Hands Off Ethiopia campaign, racial solidarities and intercolonial antifascism in South Asia (1935–36)	0
Entangled political histories of twentieth-century West Africa: The case of Guinean exile networks	0
The caged bird sings of freedom: Maya Angelou’s anti-colonial journalism in the United Arab Republic and Ghana, 1961–1965	0
Empire of Impartiality: Managing Indebtedness to Foreigners in Eighteenth-Century China	0
The value within multiform commodities: North African phosphates and global markets in the interwar period	0
JGH volume 17 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	0
Commodity frontiers: concepts and history	0
Islands in a sea of sand: The role of Tarim Basin polities in global trade during late antiquity	0
Historical national accounting and dating the Great Divergence	0
‘With a minimum of bitterness’: decolonization, the right to self-determination, and the Arab-Asian group	0
The extreme southern origins of globality: Circumnavigation, habitability, and geopolitics – ADDENDUM	0
Special issue introduction: Towards a global history of international organizations and decolonization	0
“The Same Causes Occasioning the Same Effects”: The “Jewish Question”, the “Chinese Question” and the Global Precedents of Exclusion in Late Nineteenth Century Central Europe	0
‘They must either be informed or they will be cominformed’: Covert propaganda, political literacy, and cold war knowledge production in the Loyal African Brothers series	0
Freeing Chinese Men on the María Luz: Gender and the Latin American Coolie Trade	0

JGH volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
White Internationalism and the League of Nations Movement in Interwar Australia	0
Hinterland: The political history of a geographic category from the scramble for Africa to Afro-Asian solidarity	0
Commodity frontiers and global histories: the tasks ahead – CORRIGENDUM	0
UNHCR and the Algerian war of independence: postcolonial sovereignty and the globalization of the international refugee regime, 1954–63	0
Tropical deforestation and Indigenous resistance over the longue durée in South America	0
Going West: Socialist flexibility in the long 1970s	0
A computerised ark: The International Species Information System (ISIS) and the laborious re-ordering of the zoo world	0
The ruble lever: Soviet development knowledge and the political economy of the UN	0
Transregional by design: The early communist press in the middle east and global revolutionary networks	0
JGH volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	0
JGH volume 16 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
The Industrial Revolution and globalization: A discussion of Patrick O’Brien’s contribution	0
Co-opting the cooperative movement? Development, decolonization, and the power of expertise at the Co-operative College, 1920s–1960s	0
Mapping Byzantine Sericulture in the Global Transfer of Technology	0
JGH volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
The Federation persuasion: Identity, sovereignty, and decolonisation in the Indies East and West	0
Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian south (1900s–40s)	0
South Africa’s Haymarket: the Knights of Labor and political violence in the United States and South Africa, 1886–1892	0
Three days in December: Jewish human rights between the United Nations and the middle east in 1948	0
The industrial revolution, an unintended consequence of self-defence?	0
Contesting US hegemony: Pan-American infrastructure and South American visions of global transportation, 1880s–1890s	0
Do mountains kill states? Exploring the diversity of Southeast Asian highland communities	0
The League of Nations and the post-Ottoman recolonization of the Nile Valley: The imperial Matryoshka of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1922–1924	0
Three meanings of colonialism: Nehru, Sukarno, and Kotelawala debate the future of the Third World Movement (1954-61)	0
The paper famine: Newsprint, development, and the materialities of Third World media in the time of decolonisation	0
The company-microstate: The Auckland Islands and corporate colonialism in global history, 1849-52	0
Communicating overpopulation to a global audience: Disney’s Family Planning (1968)	0
Transregional by design: The early communist press in the middle east and global revolutionary networks – CORRIGENDUM	0
JGH volume 16 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
Man-making and World-making on Two Wheels: Indian ‘Globe Cyclists’ in the Interwar Years	0
Dating the Great Divergence	0
Malariology and decolonization: Eastern European experts from the League of Nations to the World Health Organization	0
JGH volume 19 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	0
Why understanding the timing of divergence matters	0
JGH volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
From cakravartin to bodhisattva: Buddhist models for globalization	0
Indian merchants abroad: Integrating the Indian ocean world during the early first millennium CE	0
From administrative to political order? Global legal history, the organic law, and the constitution of mandate Syria, 1925–1930	0
JGH volume 19 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	0
The women’s faces of development in Latin America and the Caribbean: The first generation of Cepalinas (1960s–1980s)	0
Two concerns about the interpretation of the estimates of historical national accounts before 1850	0
Voyaging into a Christian World: Indian children and the Church Missionary Society’s project of world-making, 1920s–1940s	0
JGH volume 17 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	0
The Development Dichotomy: Colonial India’s Accession to the ILO’s Governing Body (1919–22)	0
‘To the benefit of Africa, the world, and ourselves’: The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) Mission to Nigeria, 1966-1968 – CORRIGENDUM	0
JGH volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	0
UNHCR and the Algerian war of independence: postcolonial sovereignty and the globalization of the international refugee regime, 1954–63 – ADDENDUM	0
The Hands Off Ethiopia campaign, racial solidarities and intercolonial antifascism in South Asia (1935-1936) – CORRIGENDUM	0
Law, peace, and world order: Hans Kelsen’s global thought in the 1940s	0