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
Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes, and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet	62
Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis	62
Making the List: Reevaluating Political Trust and Social Desirability in China	59
This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest	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
Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa	50
Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach	50
Enfranchisement and Incarceration after the 1965 Voting Rights Act	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
Discrimination Without Traits: From Social Construction to the Politics of Discrimination	40
Bloc Voting for Electoral Accountability	40

Structural Responsibility	39
In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes	38
Notes from the Editors: #APSR	37
Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India	37
Climate Displacement and Territorial Justice	36
Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia	35
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