OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Political Science Review is 30. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter	206
The Opinion-Mobilizing Effect of Social Protest against Police Violence: Evidence from the 2020 George Floyd Protests	149
Increasing Precision without Altering Treatment Effects: Repeated Measures Designs in Survey Experiments	85
Gone For Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash, and US Presidential Voting	78
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	64
Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India	62
Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections	57
Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room”	57
Gender, Candidate Emotional Expression, and Voter Reactions During Televised Debates	55
Reconsidering the Link Between Self-Reported Personality Traits and Political Preferences	51
Understanding and Reducing Biases in Elite Beliefs About the Electorate	48
Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support	47
Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice? The Effect of Mohamed Salah on Islamophobic Behaviors and Attitudes	47
Does Public Diplomacy Sway Foreign Public Opinion? Identifying the Effect of High-Level Visits	47
To Emerge? Breadwinning, Motherhood, and Women’s Decisions to Run for Office	46
Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change	45
Do Commodity Price Shocks Cause Armed Conflict? A Meta-Analysis of Natural Experiments	42
The Psychology of Online Political Hostility: A Comprehensive, Cross-National Test of the Mismatch Hypothesis	39
Why Austerity? The Mass Politics of a Contested Policy	38
Creating Climate Coalitions: Mass Preferences for Compensating Vulnerability in the World’s Two Largest Democracies	37
The Curious Case of Theresa May and the Public That Did Not Rally: Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps Not Bumps	35
Family Matters: How Immigrant Histories Can Promote Inclusion	35
Suppressing Black Votes: A Historical Case Study of Voting Restrictions in Louisiana	34
Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding	34
Playing to the Gallery: Emotive Rhetoric in Parliaments	33

Studying Policy Design Quality in Comparative Perspective	33
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	32
Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments	31
Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building	31
Facing Change: Gender and Climate Change Attitudes Worldwide	31
Public Perceptions of Women’s Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy	30
Slavery, Reconstruction, and Bureaucratic Capacity in the American South	30