OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Post-Soviet Affairs is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The politics of exporting higher education: Russian university branch campuses in the “Near Abroad”	22
Making sense of the January 2022 protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments	18
Mixed signals: what Putin says about gender equality	17
“All of Belarus has come out onto the streets”: exploring nationwide protest and the role of pre-existing social networks	16
Is Telegram a “harbinger of freedom”? The performance, practices, and perception of platforms as political actors in authoritarian states	15
Citizenship as a cornerstone of civic national identity in Ukraine	14
Russia’s “impressionable years”: life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs	13
Composition of the ruling elite, incentives for productive usage of rents, and prospects for Russia’s limited access order	12
Is Putin’s popularity (still) real? A cautionary note on using list experiments to measure popularity in authoritarian regimes	11
Smart enough to make a difference? An empirical test of the efficacy of strategic voting in Russia’s authoritarian elections	11
Beyond “hybrid warfare”: a digital exploration of Russia’s entrepreneurs of influence	11
Property rights in Russia after 2009: from business capture to centralized corruption?	11
You are what you read: media, identity, and community in the 2020 Belarusian uprising	9
Sanctions and dollar dependency in Russia: resilience, vulnerability, and financial integration	9
Long Soviet shadows: the nomenklatura ties of Putin elites	9
Politics and banking in Russia: the rise of Putin	8
Patriotic disunity: limits to popular support for militaristic policy in Russia	8
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies	8
Populism for the ambivalent: anti-polarization and support for Ukraine’s Sluha Narodu party	8
Outsourcing social services to NGOs in Russia: federal policy and regional responses	7
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: the case of Poland, 1989–2019	7
Anti-opposition crackdowns and protest: the case of Belarus, 2000–2019	7
Truth with a Z: disinformation, war in Ukraine, and Russia’s contradictory discourse of imperial identity	6
The art of partial commitment: the politics of military assistance to Ukraine	6
Plus ça change: getting real about the evolution of Russian studies after 1991	6

Still winners and losers? Studying public opinion’s geopolitical preferences in the association agreement countries (Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine)	6
Producing state capacity through corruption: the case of immigration control in Russia	6
Activism in exile: how Russian environmentalists maintain voice after exit	6
A tale of two councils: the changing roles of the security and state councils during the transformation period of modern Russian politics	5
Exogenous shock and Russian studies	5
Protest, platforms, and the state in the Belarus crisis	5
Firm performance and regional economic freedom: the case of Russia	5
Credibility revolution and the future of Russian studies	5