OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How Much Do Experts' Ideas Matter for the European Union's Political Agenda?	116
Supranational Entrepreneurship Through the Administrative Backdoor: The Commission, the Green Deal and the CAP 2023–2027	75
The Ripple Effects of Compliance: Reconfiguring EU Policy Effectiveness in Transboundary Environmental Governance	74
Crisis All Around? Crisification of the EU Institutional Discourse: A Longitudinal Perspective (2012–2024)	71
The European Parliament and Gender Equality: An Analysis of Achievements Based on the Concept of Power	64
Information or Accountability? A Research Agenda on European Commissioners in National Parliaments	54
Turkey's Influence as a Third Country on the European Union: From Association to a Key Partner	45
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Minding the Gaps: Solidaristic Transfers and Burden‐Sharing in the European Union and Its Member States' Pandemic Response	45
The European Economic Area: Decision‐Shaping during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	44
Fighting for Europe: The EU's Democratic Pull Phenomenon in Ukraine, Poland and Belarus	43
EUropean Identity Construction After the Russian Full‐Scale Invasion of Ukraine: Dialogic (Re)construction of Self and Others	42
Fiscal Rules in the European Union: Less Is More	39
‘You Know, This Conference Has No Legitimacy’: Eurosceptic Contestation of the Conference on the Future of Europe	38
Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024	38
Waking a Dormant Legal Resource: Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest	36
Resilience of the Silo Organizational Structure in the European Commission	34
Two and a Half Tales of Europe: How the European Commission Narrates Peoplehood in Migration and Citizenship Policy	34
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The New Pact on Migration: Embedded Illiberalism?	32
Equal Focus on Inequality? Approaches to Distributional Impact Assessment in the National Budget Process Across the EU	30
Reframing Civil–Military Relations in the EU: Insights From the Drone Strategy 2.0	28
Transregional Europe by William Outhwaite (Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020, ISBN: 978‐1‐78769‐494‐1); 152 pp., €90.46, hardcover.	26
All in this Together? Communities of Practice in UK–EU Cybersecurity Relations Post‐Brexit and Differentiated Re‐engagement	26

Brussels‐Based Think Tanks in Times of Crisis: Examining Think Tank Climate Publication and Networking Activities During Brexit	26
Account‐Holding Intensity in the EU Accountability Landscape: A Comprehensive Review of EU agencies' Institutional Accountability Relationships*	25
The Populist Vs Anti‐Populist Divide in the Time of Pandemic: The 2021 Czech National Election and its Consequences for European Politics*	25
Negative Integration Is What States Make of It? Tackling Labour Exploitation in the German Meat Sector	24
Anti‐elitism in the European Radical Right in Comparative Perspective	24
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	24
Firms and Trade Policy Lobbying in the European Union	23
The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything	23
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The EU at Crossroads: 2022 as a Turning Point Year?	21
From Protesting Against Troika Bailouts to Pro‐EU Governing in Greece and Portugal: Europeanisation and Institutionalisation Processes	21
Book Reviews	21
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Non‐documents for Big Decisions: The Commission and the EEC–Japan Automotive Agreement (1991)	20
Democratic Contention and the 2024 US Presidential Election	20
Immigration Policy Preferences in Six EU Countries: The Shadow of Intergovernmental Conflicts in Public Opinion	19
A Litmus Test for Democratic Politics in Europe: Parliaments, Brexit and the Future of the European Union, JulienNavarro (London: Routledge, 2022)	19
Legislative Transparency in the European Parliament: Disclosing Legislators' Meetings with Interest Groups	19
Trust Matters in the Single Market, but How? Analysing Trust Amongst European Financial Supervisors	19
Dysfunction and Pathology in Brussels: The European Commission and the Politics of Debt Restructuring	19
Transnational Parliamentary Activities in EU Foreign Policy: The Role of Parliamentarians in the Establishment of the EU's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime	19
Regulating Uncharted Waters: The EU Platform Work Directive Between Uncertainty, Lobbyism and Politicisation	19
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Border Regions as Nuclei of European Integration? Evidence From Germany	18
Enforcement, Information or Socialization? The Role of the European Labour Authority in Protecting Mobile Workers in the EU	18
EU Snapshots: 2022 Challenges of Fortress EU	17
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How Have EU Legislators Established EU Agencies With Enforcement Tasks? Case Studies of the European Aviation Safety Agency and the European Medicines Agency	16
The United Kingdom: Turning its Back on Influencing the EU?	16
The European Commission as a Social Advocate? Dissensus Over RRF Conditionality and Redistributive Reforms in the Neoliberal Baltics	15
EU Social Policy in 2024: Parliamentary Politics for Social Europe	15
Entangled Trajectories: The 2024 Electoral Year in Bulgaria and Romania	15
The New CAP and the Participative Method in Decision‐Making: A Textual Analysis of the Italian Case	15
Irregular and Infectious? COVID‐19, Ebola and the Securitization of Migration to Southern Europe	14
Thank You to Reviewers List July 2024–July 2025	14
Failing Forward in European Economic Governance: The Cyclicality of European Integration and Institutional Competition in the COVID‐19 Crisis	14
From the Green to the Just Transition: The Emergence of the Compensatory State in the EU's Approach to Climate Change	13
A ‘Geopolitical Commission’: Supranationalism Meets Global Power Competition	13
The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?	13
When EU Agencies Set Up Advisory Committees: All About Autonomy?	13
Environmental Supply Chain Regulations in a Changing Market Environment: Exploring the EU's Regulatory Power in the Cocoa Sector in Ghana	13
Moving across Borders: The Work Life Experiences of Czech Cross‐border Workers during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	13
The European Union's Response to the Rule of Law Crisis and the Making of the New Conditionality Regime	13
Much More Than a Report: The Search for Europe's New Political Identity and the Politics of Competitiveness	13
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Correction to “Examining the EU Reaction to a Humanitarian Emergency from a Network Perspective: The Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth”	12
Book Reviews	12
The 2023 Cypriot Presidential Elections: Shifts in Domestic and Regional Dynamics	12
Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis	12

An Evermore Geoeconomic European Union? Exploring Critical Perspectives for Future Research	12
External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World	12
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The European Union's Place in United States–China Strategic Competition: How Role Dynamics Drive Brussels Towards Washington	12
How the European Parliament Chooses Its Battles: Parliamentary Resolutions on the Negotiation of International Agreements	11
Security‐as‐Service in the Management of European Border Data Infrastructures	11
Europe's Coming of Age, Loukas Tsoukalis (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022, ISBN 9781509554553); 246 pp., 25 GBP hardback.	11
Institutional Quality and Geography of Discontent in the EU	11
Inside the European Union's Trade Machinery: Institutional Changes in an Age of Geoeconomics	11
Thank you to Reviewers list July 2023 – July 2024	11
Defining and Operationalising Defiant Non‐Compliance in the EU: The Rule of Law Case	11
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.	11
Lobbying Across Policy Stages: Different Tales of Interest Group Success	10
Fundamental Change Beneath the Surface: The Supranationalisation of Rule of Law Protection in the European Union	10
The EU's Combating Antisemitism Policy: Agenda Setting and the Making of a ‘European Polity’	10
Non‐learning Within a Constellation of Communities of Practice: The Case of the EU and Its Democracy Support in the Arab World	10
All Along the Watch Tower: The European Central Bank and Legitimation Strategies in Times of Crisis	10
Debating EU Actions Against Democratic Backsliding in Hungary: Shifting Government and Opposition Frames	10
After Merkel – The 2021 German Election and its Implications for European Union Politics	10
Policy Coherence in the Time of Economic Insecurity: Balancing the Sustainable Trade and Development Playbook of the New European Commission	10
Blessing or Curse? The Rise of Tourism‐Led Growth in Europe's Southern Periphery	10
Context Matters: Variation in the Shortsightedness of European Climate Policy	10
Right‐Wing Eurosceptic Parties and the Strategic Use of Law	10
Coordination and Control in European Council Centred Governance. The Netherlands and the Covid Recovery Fund	10
The Politics of Emigration in Europe: A Research Agenda*	10
A Turn to Export‐Led Growth? Rethinking the Growth Models in Greece and Portugal	10
Critical Expectation Gaps: Advancing Theorization of the Perceptual Approach in EU Foreign Policy Studies	9
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A Capacity‐Based Approach for Assessing Changes in Responsibility Sharing in the EU: Comparing the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Crises	9
From Eurorealism to Europhilia? The 2021 Dutch Elections and the New Approach of the Netherlands in EU Politics	9
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Towards a Critical Democracy Promotion Agenda? Liminal Allyship in EU–Tunisian Relations	9
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Does Populism Matter in EU–China Relations? The Cases of Italy and Czechia	9
Triggers and Hierarchies of Social Identities in the European Parliament	9
Decentring European Union Foreign Policy: Addressing Colonial Dynamics in EU‐Algeria Relations	9
Policy Learning and European Integration	9
Nationalism and War in the 21st‐Century Europe	8
An EU Sustainable Migration: Institutional Discourse and Migration Politics	8
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EU Industrial Policy and Convergent Development in EU Peripheries: An Assessment of the ‘Important Project of Common European Interest’ (IPCEI) Template	8
Central Bankers as Migrating Birds: How Inflation Shapes the Rhetorical Strategies of Doves and Hawks	8
Organizational Overlap and Bureaucratic Actors: How EU–NATO Relations Empower the European Commission	8
The Challenge of Right‐Wing Populism in Europe: Response to Reviews	8
Beyond Formal Agreements: EU Agencies' Cooperation with Third Countries	8
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Perpetuating Crisis as a Supply Strategy: The Role of (Nativist) Populist Governments in EU Policymaking on Refugee Distribution	8
Working with the EU: How Discourses Shape the Application of EU State Aid Rules	8
Uncovering EU External Multilevel Governance: The Implementation of EU Data Protection Law in Switzerland	8
Regional Community Building in Hard Times: Communal and Functional Filtering at EU Borders During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	8
When Expertise Is Not Enough: Explaining the European Commission's Non‐success in the Integration of Public Sector Accounting	8
From Europhilia to Eurorealism: The 2022 General Election in Italy	8
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Queering European Union Foreign and Security Policy: Invisibility, Heteronormativity and Binaries in the EU's Approach to Women, Peace and Security	7
Mapping Corporate Investments Between China and Europe in an Era of Geoeconomic Competition	7
Implementing the Just Transition Fund: Patterns of Multilevel Governance	7
European Development Co‐operation via Technical Assistance: An Outside‐in Perspective	7
Third Country Access to EU Agencies: Exploring Spaces for Influence	7
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.	7
Bureaucratic Responses to Populist Government: Explaining Foreign Policy (Non‐)Change	7
Ritual and Affect in Europe Day Celebrations: Institutional Practices of European Identity Construction in Crisis	7
Spot the Difference: Differentiated Co‐operation and Differentiated Integration in the European Union	7
Capturing Women's Standpoint in EU–Turkey Studies: The Evolution of Gendered Publication and Citation Patterns	7
A Matter of Prescriptive Clarity? Analysing How Swedish Judges' Motives for Action Vary in the Preliminary Ruling Procedure	7
Divergent Attitudes of Eurosceptic Parties Towards Intergovernmental and Supranational EU Institutions	7
The Making of the EU's Geoeconomic ‘Bazooka’: The Anti‐Coercion Instrument and the Role of Think Tanks in European Union Foreign Policy	7
Brexit Rhapsody: Exploring Patterns of Issue Salience in the Negotiations	7
Third Country Influence on EU Law and Policy‐making: Setting the Scene	7
To Be or Not to Be a Worker: Legal Uncertainty and Precarious Employment in the European Union	7
Where Have All the ‘Exiters’ Gone? Contextualising the Concept of Hard Euroscepticism	7