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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Information	93
How Much Do Experts' Ideas Matter for the European Union's Political Agenda?	56
Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024	55
Fighting for Europe: The EU's Democratic Pull Phenomenon in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus	53
‘You Know, This Conference Has No Legitimacy’: Eurosceptic Contestation of the Conference on the Future of Europe	52
Crisis All Around? Crisification of the EU Institutional Discourse: A Longitudinal Perspective (2012–2024)	50
Turkey's Influence as a Third Country on the European Union: From Association to a Key Partner	49
Resilience of the Silo Organizational Structure in the European Commission	38
The European Economic Area: Decision‐Shaping during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	36
The Ripple Effects of Compliance: Reconfiguring EU Policy Effectiveness in Transboundary Environmental Governance	35
Two and a Half Tales of Europe: How the European Commission Narrates Peoplehood in Migration and Citizenship Policy	34
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments	34
The European Parliament and Gender Equality: An Analysis of Achievements Based on the Concept of Power	32
EUropean Identity Construction After the Russian Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others	32
Minding the Gaps: Solidaristic Transfers and Burden‐Sharing in the European Union and Its Member States' Pandemic Response	32
Fiscal Rules in the European Union: Less Is More	32
Waking a Dormant Legal Resource: Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest	32
EU Sport Diplomacy: An Idea Whose Time Has Nearly Come	30
Supranational Entrepreneurship Through the Administrative Backdoor: The Commission, the Green Deal and the CAP 2023–2027	30
Issue Information	27
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector	25
Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0	24
All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement	24
Anti‐elitism in the European Radical Right in Comparative Perspective	23
Firms and Trade Policy Lobbying in the European Union	22

Equal Focus on Inequality? Approaches to Distributional Impact Assessment in the National Budget Process Across the EU	22
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Brussels‐Based Think Tanks in Times of Crisis: Examining Think Tank Climate Publication and Networking Activities During Brexit	22
Transregional Europe by William Outhwaite (Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020, ISBN: 978‐1‐78769‐494‐1); 152 pp., €90.46, hardcover.	21
The Populist Vs Anti‐Populist Divide in the Time of Pandemic: The 2021 Czech National Election and its Consequences for European Politics*	20
The New Pact on Migration: Embedded Illiberalism?	20
Account‐Holding Intensity in the EU Accountability Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of EU agencies' Institutional Accountability Relationships*	19
Book Reviews	18
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	18
Immigration Policy Preferences in Six EU Countries: The Shadow of Intergovernmental Conflicts in Public Opinion	18
Issue Information	18
From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes	18
The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything	18
Issue Information	17
Non‐documents for Big Decisions: The Commission and the EEC–Japan Automotive Agreement (1991)	17
Enforcement, Information or Socialization? The Role of the European Labour Authority in Protecting Mobile Workers in the EU	17
Trust Matters in the Single Market, but How? Analysing Trust Amongst European Financial Supervisors	17
A Litmus Test for Democratic Politics in Europe: Parliaments, Brexit and the Future of the European Union, JulienNavarro (London: Routledge, 2022)	17
The EU at Crossroads: 2022 as a Turning Point Year?	17
Legislative Transparency in the European Parliament: Disclosing Legislators' Meetings with Interest Groups	17
Transnational Parliamentary Activities in EU Foreign Policy: The Role of Parliamentarians in the Establishment of the EU's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime	16
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Dysfunction and Pathology in Brussels: The European Commission and the Politics of Debt Restructuring	16
Border Regions as Nuclei of European Integration? Evidence From Germany	16
Democratic Contention and the 2024 US Presidential Election	16
EU Snapshots: 2022 Challenges of Fortress EU	15
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Issue Information	15
The United Kingdom: Turning its Back on Influencing the EU?	14
How Have EU Legislators Established EU Agencies With Enforcement Tasks? Case Studies of the European Aviation Safety Agency and the European Medicines Agency	13
When EU Agencies Set Up Advisory Committees: All About Autonomy?	13
Much More Than a Report: The Search for Europe's New Political Identity and the Politics of Competitiveness	13
The European Union's Place in United States–China Strategic Competition: How Role Dynamics Drive Brussels Towards Washington	12
Thank You to Reviewers List July 2024–July 2025	12
EU Social Policy in 2024: Parliamentary Politics for Social Europe	12
An Evermore Geoeconomic European Union? Exploring Critical Perspectives for Future Research	12
From the Green to the Just Transition: The Emergence of the Compensatory State in the EU's Approach to Climate Change	12
The New CAP and the Participative Method in Decision‐Making: A Textual Analysis of the Italian Case	12
The European Commission as a Social Advocate? Dissensus Over RRF Conditionality and Redistributive Reforms in the Neoliberal Baltics	12
The European Union's Response to the Rule of Law Crisis and the Making of the New Conditionality Regime	12
Environmental Supply Chain Regulations in a Changing Market Environment: Exploring the EU's Regulatory Power in the Cocoa Sector in Ghana	12
Irregular and Infectious? COVID‐19, Ebola and the Securitization of Migration to Southern Europe	12
Entangled Trajectories: The 2024 Electoral Year in Bulgaria and Romania	12
A ‘Geopolitical Commission’: Supranationalism Meets Global Power Competition	12
Security‐as‐Service in the Management of European Border Data Infrastructures	11
The 2023 Cypriot Presidential Elections: Shifts in Domestic and Regional Dynamics	11
Moving across Borders: The Work Life Experiences of Czech Cross‐border Workers during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	11
Correction to “Examining the EU Reaction to a Humanitarian Emergency from a Network Perspective: The Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth”	11
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Failing Forward in European Economic Governance: The Cyclicality of European Integration and Institutional Competition in the COVID‐19 Crisis	11

Lobbying Across Policy Stages: Different Tales of Interest Group Success	11
Book Reviews	11
Right‐Wing Eurosceptic Parties and the Strategic Use of Law	10
Debating EU Actions Against Democratic Backsliding in Hungary: Shifting Government and Opposition Frames	10
How the European Parliament Chooses Its Battles: Parliamentary Resolutions on the Negotiation of International Agreements	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
Inside the European Union's Trade Machinery: Institutional Changes in an Age of Geoeconomics	10
Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis	10
Thank you to Reviewers list July 2023 – July 2024	10
Europe's Coming of Age, Loukas Tsoukalis (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022, ISBN 9781509554553); 246 pp., 25 GBP hardback.	10
Context Matters: Variation in the Shortsightedness of European Climate Policy	10
Institutional Quality and Geography of Discontent in the EU	10
Defining and Operationalising Defiant Non‐Compliance in the EU: The Rule of Law Case	10
Fundamental Change Beneath the Surface: The Supranationalisation of Rule of Law Protection in the European Union	10
Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism‐Led Growth in Europe's Southern Periphery	9
All Along the Watch Tower: The European Central Bank and Legitimation Strategies in Times of Crisis	9
After Merkel – The 2021 German Election and its Implications for European Union Politics	9
The EU's Combating Antisemitism Policy: Agenda Setting and the Making of a ‘European Polity’	9
‘Closer to the Market’: EU Research Governance and Symbolic Power	9
The Politics of Emigration in Europe: A Research Agenda*	9
Coordination and Control in European Council Centred Governance. The Netherlands and the Covid Recovery Fund	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
Non‐learning Within a Constellation of Communities of Practice: The Case of the EU and Its Democracy Support in the Arab World	9
Triggers and Hierarchies of Social Identities in the European Parliament	9
A Turn to Export‐Led Growth? Rethinking the Growth Models in Greece and Portugal	9
Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations	8
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An EU Sustainable Migration: Institutional Discourse and Migration Politics	8
Plan B for Europe: The Birth of ‘Disobedient Euroscepticism’?	8
Decentring European Union Foreign Policy: Addressing Colonial Dynamics in EU‐Algeria Relations	8
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Uncovering EU External Multilevel Governance: The Implementation of EU Data Protection Law in Switzerland	8
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Working with the EU: How Discourses Shape the Application of EU State Aid Rules	8
A Capacity‐Based Approach for Assessing Changes in Responsibility Sharing in the EU: Comparing the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Crises	8
From Eurorealism to Europhilia? The 2021 Dutch Elections and the New Approach of the Netherlands in EU Politics	7
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The Challenge of Right‐Wing Populism in Europe: Response to Reviews	7
A Matter of Prescriptive Clarity? Analysing How Swedish Judges' Motives for Action Vary in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure	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
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	7
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.	7
Perpetuating Crisis as a Supply Strategy: The Role of (Nativist) Populist Governments in EU Policymaking on Refugee Distribution	7
Nationalism and War in the 21st‐Century Europe	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
Queering European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Invisibility, Heteronormativity and Binaries in the EU's Approach to Women, Peace and Security	7
Beyond Formal Agreements: EU Agencies' Cooperation with Third Countries	7
Policy Learning and European Integration	7
Critical Expectation Gaps: Advancing Theorization of the Perceptual Approach in EU Foreign Policy Studies	7
EU Industrial Policy and Convergent Development in EU Peripheries: An Assessment of the ‘Important Project of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI) Template	7
Organizational Overlap and Bureaucratic Actors: How EU–NATO Relations Empower the European Commission	7
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When Expertise Is Not Enough: Explaining the European Commission's Non‐success in the Integration of Public Sector Accounting	7
Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia	7
Central Bankers as Migrating Birds: How Inflation Shapes the Rhetorical Strategies of Doves and Hawks	7
Third Country Access to EU Agencies: Exploring Spaces for Influence	6
From Europhilia to Eurorealism: The 2022 General Election in Italy	6
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Feeling the Heat: Emotions, Politicization, and the European Union	6
European Development Co‐operation via Technical Assistance: An Outside‐in Perspective	6
Correction to ‘Quid Pro Quo. The Effect of Issue Linkage on Member States' Bargaining Success in European Union Lawmaking’	6
Regulation and Governance Gaps in the Detection of Labour Exploitation Within State‐Funded Domestic Services	6
Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies: The Evolution of Gendered Publication and Citation Patterns	6
Issue Information	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 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
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
Can Third Country Nationals Be Banned From Schengen? Assessing Member State Unilateral Measures Against Russian Citizens and the Commission's Response	6
Regional Community Building in Hard Times: Communal and Functional Filtering at EU Borders During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	6
Spot the Difference: Differentiated Co‐operation and Differentiated Integration in the European Union	6
Brexit Rhapsody: Exploring Patterns of Issue Salience in the Negotiations	6
Ritual and Affect in Europe Day Celebrations: Institutional Practices of European Identity Construction in Crisis	6
Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene	6
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
Divergent Attitudes of Eurosceptic Parties Towards Intergovernmental and Supranational EU Institutions	6
External Contestations of Europe: Russia and Turkey as Normative Challengers?*	6