OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Political Science is 8. 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 Backlash Against Globalization	155
The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe	140
Ethnic Diversity and Social Trust: A Narrative and Meta-Analytical Review	114
Machine Learning for Social Science: An Agnostic Approach	104
Political Misinformation	102
Identity Politics and Populism in Europe	85
The Causes of Populism in the West	72
External Validity	63
Resilience to Online Censorship	57
Transnational Actors and Transnational Governance in Global Environmental Politics	54
Clientelism's Red Herrings: Dead Ends and New Directions in the Study of Nonprogrammatic Politics	52
The Fluidity of Racial Classifications	50
Madison's Constitution Under Stress: A Developmental Analysis of Political Polarization	49
Studying Leaders and Elites: The Personal Biography Approach	47
Nationalism: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know	45
Populism, Democracy, and Party System Change in Europe	44
Experiments and Surveys on Political Elites	43
Violence Against Civilians During Armed Conflict: Moving Beyond the Macro- and Micro-Level Divide	40
Understanding the Role of Racism in Contemporary US Public Opinion	39
Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior	38
Who Enters Politics and Why?	36
How Do Electoral Gender Quotas Affect Policy?	35
Political Control	32
Beyond War and Contracts: The Medieval and Religious Roots of the European State	32
Do Emerging Military Technologies Matter for International Politics?	28

Economic Development and Democracy: Predispositions and Triggers	26
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	26
The Political Theory of Parties and Partisanship: Catching Up	25
Party and Ideology in American Local Government: An Appraisal	25
Survey Experiments in International Political Economy: What We (Don't) Know About the Backlash Against Globalization	25
Authoritarian-Led Democratization	25
Emotion and Politics: Noncognitive Psychological Biases in Public Opinion	24
Economic Geography, Politics, and Policy	22
Comparative Bureaucratic Politics	21
Three Faces of Climate Justice	21
Historical Persistence	21
Government Responsiveness in Developing Countries	21
A Framework for the Study of Persuasion	18
How International Actors Help Enforce Domestic Deals	18
Education and Political Participation	18
Media and Policy Making in the Digital Age	17
Ethics of Field Experiments	15
Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy	15
Presidential Unilateral Power	15
Social Protection and State–Society Relations in Environments of Low and Uneven State Capacity	14
Understanding Multilateral Institutions in Easy and Hard Times	14
Non-Modernization: Power–Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions	13
The Rise of Local Politics: A Global Review	12
The American Political Economy: Markets, Power, and the Meta Politics of US Economic Governance	10
Authoritarian Power Sharing: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Strategies	10
Partisan Gerrymandering and Political Science	10
The Persistence of Racial Cues and Appeals in American Elections	10
Does Democracy Matter?	10
Political Participation Amid Mass Incarceration	10
Race in International Relations: Beyond the “Norm Against Noticing”	10
What Can We Learn from Written Constitutions?	9
Testing Causal Theories with Learned Proxies	9
Political Inequality in Rich Democracies	8
The Continuing Dilemma of Race and Class in the Study of American Political Behavior	8
Political Risk and International Investment Law	8
Immigration and Globalization (and Deglobalization)	8
Networks of Conflict and Cooperation	8
Secrecy in International Relations and Foreign Policy	8