OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Eastern African Studies is 3. 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
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	20
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	10
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	8
The untold stories of militiamen from Gojjam, Ethiopia: voices of distress and desperation from the Ogaden and Eritrean fronts, 1977–1991	7
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
Tentative lifeworlds in Art Deco: young people’s milieus in postwar Asmara, Eritrea, 2001–2005	6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	6
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	6
Verbal art beyond categorization: inductive and aesthetic approaches to Remmy Ongala’s songs	5
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	5
Gimgema: civil servants’ evaluation, power and ideology in EPRDF Ethiopia	5
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	5
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	5
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	5
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	5
The limitations of international law at the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and its implications for future conflict	4
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	4
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	4
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	4
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	4
Marriage as a pathway for justice for the Gabooye of Somaliland	4
Colonialism, heritage and conservation: Zanzibari perceptions of the collapse of the House of Wonders	4
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	4

‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s’? Making sense of tax non-compliance among small business owners in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	3
Mining habitat, house and home during an East African gold boom: economic and emotional dimensions	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	3
Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)	3
Legal autocratisation ahead of the 2021 Zambian elections	3
Mixed-ish: race, class and gender in 1950s–60s Kampala through a life history of Barbara Kimenye	3