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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	108
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	77
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	77
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	74
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM	71
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	66
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	62
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	52
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	50
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	48
Notes from the Editors: Research Notes	48
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	45
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	43
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	42
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	40
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	38
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites	37
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	37
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	37
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	37
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	36
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	35
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	35
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	35

Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	34
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	33
Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020	33
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	33
Structural Responsibility	33
Smoke and Mirrors: Strategic Messaging and the Politics of Noncompliance	33
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	32