OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Political Science Review is 35. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Democracy in America? Partisanship, Polarization, and the Robustness of Support for Democracy in the United States	258
Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter	160
Agenda Seeding: How 1960s Black Protests Moved Elites, Public Opinion and Voting	149
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests	119
Administrative Records Mask Racially Biased Policing	116
When to Worry about Sensitivity Bias: A Social Reference Theory and Evidence from 30 Years of List Experiments	94
Who Governs? A New Global Dataset on Members of Cabinets	69
The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918–2017	68
Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments	67
Political Advertising Online and Offline	62
Constraining Governments: New Indices of Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Accountability	59
Wildfire Exposure Increases Pro-Environment Voting within Democratic but Not Republican Areas	55
Gone For Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash, and US Presidential Voting	54
Seniority-Based Nominations and Political Careers	50
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India	49
Which Identity Frames Boost Support for and Mobilization in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement? An Experimental Test	47
The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years	45
Corruption Information and Vote Share: A Meta-Analysis and Lessons for Experimental Design	45
The Political Economy of Bureaucratic Overload: Evidence from Rural Development Officials in India	44
Gender, Candidate Emotional Expression, and Voter Reactions During Televised Debates	44
Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences	44
Understanding and Reducing Biases in Elite Beliefs About the Electorate	44
#No2Sectarianism: Experimental Approaches to Reducing Sectarian Hate Speech Online	43
Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa	43
Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”	42

Democracy by Mistake: How the Errors of Autocrats Trigger Transitions to Freer Government	42
Political Secularism and Muslim Integration in the West: Assessing the Effects of the French Headscarf Ban	42
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	41
Explanations of Institutional Change: Reflecting on a “Missing Diagonal”	39
Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections	38
Women’s Representation and the Gendered Pipeline to Power	37
To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women’s Decisions to Run for Office	37
Do Commodity Price Shocks Cause Armed Conflict? A Meta-Analysis of Natural Experiments	36
Institutionalized Police Brutality: Torture, the Militarization of Security, and the Reform of Inquisitorial Criminal Justice in Mexico	36
Public Opinion and Foreign Electoral Intervention	36
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes	35
Why Austerity? The Mass Politics of a Contested Policy	35
Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support	35