OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Political Science Review is 32. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	102
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	90
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	79
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	67
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	66
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM	66
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	65
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	64
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	62
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	56
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	52
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	52
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	51
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	48
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	45
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	45
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	43
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites	42
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	42
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	41
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	41
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	38
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	37
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	36
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	36

Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	35
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	35
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	34
Structural Responsibility	33
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	33
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	32
Representative Democracy and Social Equality	32
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	32
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	32
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	32
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	32