OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Political Science Review is 34. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Slavery and Oratory: Frederick Douglass in the History of Rhetoric	261
Vigilance as a Practice of Postcolonial Freedom	196
Starting with People Where They Are: Ella Baker’s Theory of Political Organizing	86
I’m a Survivor: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Partisan Identification	84
Racial Equality and Anticolonial Solidarity: Anténor Firmin’s Global Haitian Liberalism	74
Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates	71
In the Mood for Democracy? Democratic Support as Thermostatic Opinion-CORRIGENDUM	64
Legislative Effectiveness in the American States	64
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	62
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	62
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	59
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	59
Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior	58
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous–State Relations in Latin America	57
Payments and Penalties for Democracy: Gendered Electoral Financing in Action Worldwide	54
Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative	52
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	50
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	50
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	50
Land, Opportunism, and Displacement in Civil Wars: Evidence from Colombia	49
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	44
Can Stakeholders Mobilize Businesses for the Protection of Democracy? Evidence from the U.S. Capitol Insurrection	41
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	40
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	40

Structural Responsibility	39
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	38
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	37
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	37
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	36
How the Workplace Affects Employee Political Contributions	35
Representative Democracy and Social Equality	35
Public Perceptions of Minority Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy: A Replication, Validation, and Extension	35
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	35