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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of a Swahili tabloid in socialist Tanzania: Ngurumo newspaper, 1959–76	12
‘Constitutions without constitutionalism’ and judicial leadership in Kenya	11
Perceptions of COVID-19 in faith communities in DR Congo	8
Fragments of solidarity: the social worlds of African migrants moving northwards	8
Protest, middlemen and everyday meanings of place: reconceptualising the scramble for East Africa’s drylands	7
The ‘Wolqayt question’ from c. 2015 to the Tigray war: agrarian claims in Amhara nationalism	7
The cycle of migrants’ containment between Libya and Africa: navigating their life among dreams, resilience, and defeats	6
Becoming Amhara: ethnic identity change as a quest for respect in Aari, Ethiopia	6
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia	6
Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement	6
The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity	6
Incumbent disadvantage in a swing province: Eastern Province in Zambia’s 2021 general election	6
Land rights, identity, and the authority nexus in post-independent Eritrea	6
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940	6
Scripting the nation: extraverted political propaganda from the Southern Sudanese Liberation Movement	5
Authoritarian micro-politics: village chairpersons in NRM Uganda and the lessons of their 2018 re-election	5
When community falls apart: conservation aid as an instrument of land fragmentation and control in the rangelands of Kenya	5
‘Governing from the corridors’: evaluating the emergence and implications of informality on Kenya’s intergovernmental relations	5
Ascendant recentralisation: the politics of urban governance and institutional configurations in Nairobi	5
Resisting imperial erasures: Matigari ruins and relics in Nairobi	4
Decolonizing African history:Authenticité, cosmopolitanism and knowledge production in Zaire, 1971–1975	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
Rebuilding social relationships in contexts of refuge: spiritual kinship among Congolese in Kampala (Uganda)	4
State-led modernization of the Ethiopian sugar industry: questions of power and agency in lowland transformation	4

Inhabiting humanitarian borderscapes: claiming rights and organizing dissent in post-2011 southeastern Tunisia	3
‘A dream come true’? Adolescents’ perspectives on urban relocation and life in condominiums in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	3
Amongst agaish : the criminalization of Eritrean migrants’ communities of care	3
Contested waters: watering agriculture, pastoralism, conservation and hydropower in the Rufiji basin complex, 1960 to the present	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
Survivors-at-home and the right to know: solidarities in Eritrea in the aftermath of the Lampedusa tragedy	3
‘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
Identity and dissent in Ethiopian football fandom (2012–2019)	3
Political accountability and legislative behavior in Africa: evidence from the 2019 Kenyan Sugar Bill in the context of the political economy of sectoral policy	3