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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	103
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	72
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	70
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	70
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	68
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	66
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	65
Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley – CORRIGENDUM	57
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	56
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	54
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	49
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	47
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	46
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	46
Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election	44
Muddying the Waters: How Perceived Foreign Interference Affects Public Opinion on Protest Movements	43
Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites	42
Notes from the Editors: Advice to Authors	42
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	38
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	37
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	36
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	36
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	36
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	36
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	35

Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	34
Structural Responsibility	34
Representative Democracy and Social Equality	33
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	33
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	33
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	33
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	32
The Effect of Gender on Interruptions at Congressional Hearings	32
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	32