OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies is 6. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	77
Fighting for Europe: The EU's Democratic Pull Phenomenon in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus	68
Turkey's Influence as a Third Country on the European Union: From Association to a Key Partner	64
‘You Know, This Conference Has No Legitimacy’: Eurosceptic Contestation of the Conference on the Future of Europe	49
Supranational Entrepreneurship Through the Administrative Backdoor: The Commission, the Green Deal and the CAP 2023–2027	48
Is the Governance of Europe's Transnational Party System Contributing to EU Democracy?*	44
Euro Area: Towards a European Common Bond? – Empirical Evidence from the Sovereign Debt Markets	43
Resilience of the Silo Organizational Structure in the European Commission	42
The European Economic Area: Decision‐Shaping during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	38
The European Parliament and Gender Equality: An Analysis of Achievements Based on the Concept of Power	37
The Ripple Effects of Compliance: Reconfiguring EU Policy Effectiveness in Transboundary Environmental Governance	36
Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024	33
Two and a Half Tales of Europe: How the European Commission Narrates Peoplehood in Migration and Citizenship Policy	33
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments	33
Fiscal Rules in the European Union: Less Is More	32
How Much Do Experts' Ideas Matter for the European Union's Political Agenda?	32
EUropean Identity Construction After the Russian Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others	31
EU Sport Diplomacy: An Idea Whose Time Has Nearly Come	30
Issue Information	29
Minding the Gaps: Solidaristic Transfers and Burden‐Sharing in the European Union and Its Member States' Pandemic Response	29
Equal Focus on Inequality? Approaches to Distributional Impact Assessment in the National Budget Process Across the EU	29
Waking a Dormant Legal Resource: Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest	29
Anti‐elitism in the European Radical Right in Comparative Perspective	28
Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0	28
The New Pact on Migration: Embedded Illiberalism?	27

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The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything	25
Home Field Advantage? EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreement Meeting Locations and Textual Tone	24
Account‐Holding Intensity in the EU Accountability Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of EU agencies' Institutional Accountability Relationships*	23
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector	22
Brussels‐Based Think Tanks in Times of Crisis: Examining Think Tank Climate Publication and Networking Activities During Brexit	21
Transregional Europe by William Outhwaite (Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020, ISBN: 978‐1‐78769‐494‐1); 152 pp., €90.46, hardcover.	21
Beyond the Heaven–Hell Binary and the One‐Way Traffic Paradigm: The European Union, Africa and Contested Human Rights in the Negotiations of the Samoa Agreement	20
All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement	20
Firms and Trade Policy Lobbying in the European Union	19
The Populist Vs Anti‐Populist Divide in the Time of Pandemic: The 2021 Czech National Election and its Consequences for European Politics*	18
Issue Information	18
Book Reviews	18
From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes	17
Immigration Policy Preferences in Six EU Countries: The Shadow of Intergovernmental Conflicts in Public Opinion	17
Non‐documents for Big Decisions: The Commission and the EEC–Japan Automotive Agreement (1991)	16
Transnational Parliamentary Activities in EU Foreign Policy: The Role of Parliamentarians in the Establishment of the EU's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime	16
Issue Information	16
The EU at Crossroads: 2022 as a Turning Point Year?	16
A Litmus Test for Democratic Politics in Europe: Parliaments, Brexit and the Future of the European Union, JulienNavarro (London: Routledge, 2022)	15
Dysfunction and Pathology in Brussels: The European Commission and the Politics of Debt Restructuring	15
Issue Information	14
Border Regions as Nuclei of European Integration? Evidence From Germany	14
Trust Matters in the Single Market, but How? Analysing Trust Amongst European Financial Supervisors	14
Enforcement, Information or Socialization? The Role of the European Labour Authority in Protecting Mobile Workers in the EU	14
Legislative Transparency in the European Parliament: Disclosing Legislators' Meetings with Interest Groups	14
Failing Forward in European Economic Governance: The Cyclicality of European Integration and Institutional Competition in the COVID‐19 Crisis	13
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EU Snapshots: 2022 Challenges of Fortress EU	13
How Have EU Legislators Established EU Agencies With Enforcement Tasks? Case Studies of the European Aviation Safety Agency and the European Medicines Agency	13
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Irregular and Infectious? COVID‐19, Ebola and the Securitization of Migration to Southern Europe	12
The United Kingdom: Turning its Back on Influencing the EU?	12
How Do Supranational Regulators Keep Companies in Line? An Analysis of the Enforcement Styles of EU Agencies	12
The European Union's Place in United States–China Strategic Competition: How Role Dynamics Drive Brussels Towards Washington	12
A ‘Geopolitical Commission’: Supranationalism Meets Global Power Competition	12
From the Green to the Just Transition: The Emergence of the Compensatory State in the EU's Approach to Climate Change	12
Much More Than a Report: The Search for Europe's New Political Identity and the Politics of Competitiveness	12
When EU Agencies Set Up Advisory Committees: All About Autonomy?	12
An Evermore Geoeconomic European Union? Exploring Critical Perspectives for Future Research	11
The New CAP and the Participative Method in Decision‐Making: A Textual Analysis of the Italian Case	11
The European Union's Response to the Rule of Law Crisis and the Making of the New Conditionality Regime	11
Entangled Trajectories: The 2024 Electoral Year in Bulgaria and Romania	11
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Moving across Borders: The Work Life Experiences of Czech Cross‐border Workers during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	11
Book Reviews	11
Lobbying Across Policy Stages: Different Tales of Interest Group Success	10
How the European Parliament Chooses Its Battles: Parliamentary Resolutions on the Negotiation of International Agreements	10
Pandemic Politics: The European Union in Times of the Coronavirus Emergency	10
Critical Theory and International Relations: Knowledge, Power and Practice, by S.Hobden (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023), ISBN 9781526131959); ix+197 pp., £85 GBP hardcover.	10

Correction to “Examining the EU Reaction to a Humanitarian Emergency from a Network Perspective: The Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth”	10
Debating EU Actions Against Democratic Backsliding in Hungary: Shifting Government and Opposition Frames	10
Fundamental Change Beneath the Surface: The Supranationalisation of Rule of Law Protection in the European Union	10
Context Matters: Variation in the Shortsightedness of European Climate Policy	10
The Legal Architecture of the Economic Responses to COVID‐19: EMU beyond the Pandemic*	10
The 2023 Cypriot Presidential Elections: Shifts in Domestic and Regional Dynamics	10
Security‐as‐Service in the Management of European Border Data Infrastructures	10
Inside the European Union's Trade Machinery: Institutional Changes in an Age of Geoeconomics	9
Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis	9
Thank you to Reviewers list July 2023 – July 2024	9
The EU's Combating Antisemitism Policy: Agenda Setting and the Making of a ‘European Polity’	9
Coordination and Control in European Council Centred Governance. The Netherlands and the Covid Recovery Fund	9
A Turn to Export‐Led Growth? Rethinking the Growth Models in Greece and Portugal	9
Revisiting Policy Preferences and Capacities in the EU: Multi‐level policy implementation in the subnational authorities	9
Defining and Operationalising Defiant Non‐Compliance in the EU: The Rule of Law Case	9
Europe's Coming of Age, Loukas Tsoukalis (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022, ISBN 9781509554553); 246 pp., 25 GBP hardback.	9
Triggers and Hierarchies of Social Identities in the European Parliament	9
Networked Health Cooperation in the European Union: Horizontal or Hierarchical?	9
Policy Coherence in the Time of Economic Insecurity: Balancing the Sustainable Trade and Development Playbook of the New European Commission	9
Economic Sentiment and Aggregate Activity: A Tale of Two European Cycles*	9
Institutional Quality and Geography of Discontent in the EU	9
Right‐Wing Eurosceptic Parties and the Strategic Use of Law	9
After Merkel – The 2021 German Election and its Implications for European Union Politics	9
Plan B for Europe: The Birth of ‘Disobedient Euroscepticism’?	9
An EU Sustainable Migration: Institutional Discourse and Migration Politics	8
Working with the EU: How Discourses Shape the Application of EU State Aid Rules	8
The Politics of Emigration in Europe: A Research Agenda*	8
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Sectoral Governance under the EU's Bilateral Agreements and the Limits of Joint Institutional Frameworks: Insights from EU‐Swiss Bilateralism for Post‐Brexit Relations with the UK	8
Issue Information	8
‘Closer to the Market’: EU Research Governance and Symbolic Power	8
Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism‐Led Growth in Europe's Southern Periphery	8
Grand Strategy in 10 Words: A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century, by S.Biscop (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, ISBN 9781529217506); xii+250 pp., £75.00 hb.	8
Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia	8
From Eurorealism to Europhilia? The 2021 Dutch Elections and the New Approach of the Netherlands in EU Politics	8
Policy Learning and European Integration	8
Non‐learning Within a Constellation of Communities of Practice: The Case of the EU and Its Democracy Support in the Arab World	8
All Along the Watch Tower: The European Central Bank and Legitimation Strategies in Times of Crisis	8
A Capacity‐Based Approach for Assessing Changes in Responsibility Sharing in the EU: Comparing the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Crises	8
Nationalism and War in the 21st‐Century Europe	7
Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations	7
Brexit Rhapsody: Exploring Patterns of Issue Salience in the Negotiations	7
Politics of Stigmatization: Poland as a ‘Latecomer’ in the European Union, by M.Krasnodębska (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, ISBN 9783030515232); xiv+248pp., €71.00 pb.	7
Central Bankers as Migrating Birds: How Inflation Shapes the Rhetorical Strategies of Doves and Hawks	7
Perpetuating Crisis as a Supply Strategy: The Role of (Nativist) Populist Governments in EU Policymaking on Refugee Distribution	7
Decentring European Union Foreign Policy: Addressing Colonial Dynamics in EU‐Algeria Relations	7
Critical Expectation Gaps: Advancing Theorization of the Perceptual Approach in EU Foreign Policy Studies	7
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The Challenge of Right‐Wing Populism in Europe: Response to Reviews	7
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Organizational Overlap and Bureaucratic Actors: How EU–NATO Relations Empower the European Commission	7
EU Industrial Policy and Convergent Development in EU Peripheries: An Assessment of the ‘Important Project of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI) Template	7
The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit, by C.Hill (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019, ISBN 9781509524617); xiii+223 pp., £50.00 hb.	7
Issue Information	7
Correction to ‘Quid Pro Quo. The Effect of Issue Linkage on Member States' Bargaining Success in European Union Lawmaking’	6
The European Union in a Changing World Order: Interdisciplinary European Studies, edited by A.Bakardjieva Engelbrekt, N.Bremberg, A.Michalski and L.Oxelheim (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 202	6
Where Have All the ‘Exiters’ Gone? Contextualising the Concept of Hard Euroscepticism	6
Mapping Corporate Investments Between China and Europe in an Era of Geoeconomic Competition	6
The Risks and Benefits of Differentiated Integration in the European Union as Perceived by Academic Experts	6
How Implementation Affects Revision: EU Decision‐Making on Changing the Posting of Workers Directive*	6
Feeling the Heat: Emotions, Politicization, and the European Union	6
Divergent Attitudes of Eurosceptic Parties Towards Intergovernmental and Supranational EU Institutions	6
The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union, by B.Leruth, S.Gänzle, and J.Trondal (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022, ISBN 9780429054136); xx+749 pp., £32.00 ebook.	6
Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene	6
From Europhilia to Eurorealism: The 2022 General Election in Italy	6
Third Country Access to EU Agencies: Exploring Spaces for Influence	6
European Development Co‐operation via Technical Assistance: An Outside‐in Perspective	6
When Expertise Is Not Enough: Explaining the European Commission's Non‐success in the Integration of Public Sector Accounting	6
The European Semester as Goldilocks: Macroeconomic Policy Coordination and the Recovery and Resilience Facility	6
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Continuity and Change of Party Democracies in Europe, edited by S.Bukow and U.Jun (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2020, ISBN 9783658289874); x+366pp., €66.00 pb.	6
Queering European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Invisibility, Heteronormativity and Binaries in the EU's Approach to Women, Peace and Security	6
Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies: The Evolution of Gendered Publication and Citation Patterns	6
A Matter of Prescriptive Clarity? Analysing How Swedish Judges' Motives for Action Vary in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure	6
Unveiling Inconsistency: Consensus and Contestation along the Council–Comitology Cycle of EU Policy‐Making	6
Ritual and Affect in Europe Day Celebrations: Institutional Practices of European Identity Construction in Crisis	6
Spot the Difference: Differentiated Co‐operation and Differentiated Integration in the European Union	6