Journal of Peace Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Peace Research is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war139
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset120
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection49
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks38
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions37
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances36
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead29
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents27
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war23
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict23
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica21
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India20
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion19
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China16
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters16
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War15
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia14
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–201914
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence13
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda13
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation13
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition13
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions13
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in13
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending12
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database12
CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt12
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present11
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq11
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT11
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine11
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa10
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception10
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence10
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?9
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts9
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset9
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment9
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans9
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire9
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement9
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito8
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau8
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence7
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions7
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion7
Predicting armed conflict using protest data7
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?7
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals7
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention7
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!7
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict7
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression7
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC7
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict7
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package7
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset7
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables7
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war6
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries6
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities6
Incumbent takeovers6
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?6
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression6
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups6
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective6
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media6
Women, political violence and economics6
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia6
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states6
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war6
Leader similarity and international conflict6
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset6
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within6
A win or a flop? Measuring mass protest successfulness in authoritarian settings5
Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage5
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War5
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts5
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database5
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements5
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset5
Supporting reparations after armed conflict: How discursive ‘memory battles’ affect political solidarity with Guatemalan Indigenous survivors5
The two faces of power-sharing5
Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania5
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)5
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?5
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset5
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict5
The impact of negative oil shocks on military spending and democracy in the oil states of the greater Middle East: Implications for the oil sanctions5
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya5
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset5
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–20165
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention5
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset5
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships5
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent4
Greed, grievance, or graduates? Why do men rebel?4
Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Border walls and refugees4
Bias and balance in civil war mediation4
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset4
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression4
Malnutrition and violent conflict in a heating world: A mediation analysis on the climate–conflict nexus in Nigeria4
Denial and punishment in war4
Joining forces: Social coalitions and democratic revolutions4
How cyber operations can reduce escalation pressures: Evidence from an experimental wargame study4
Protests and persuasion: Partisanships effect on evaluating nonviolent tactics in the United States4
Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests4
Organized violence 1989–2022, and the return of conflict between states4
Remaining behind in the community: Rebel service provision and internal (non-)displacement of civilians in the former FATA, Pakistan4
Tactics of survival: Strategies of Resistance Data Project update4
Recovering from economic coercion: Does the pain stop when sanctions end?4
Modeling threats and promises: Explaining the Munich crisis of 19383
Interventions and repression following civil conflict3
The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa3
The election of former rebel women3
Third-party countries in cyber conflict: Public opinion and conflict spillover in cyberspace3
Friends and partners: Estimating latent affinity networks with the graphical LASSO3
Social reintegration of former al-Shabaab militants: How formal channels help mitigate threat perceptions3
To compete or strategically retreat? The global diffusion of reconnaissance strike3
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award for 2024 goes to Melanie Sauter!3
War, social preferences, and anti-outgroup behavior: Experimental evidence from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine3
Data innovations on protests in the United States3
Police reform in the aftermath of armed conflict: How militarization and accountability affect police violence3
State violence and participation in transitional justice: Evidence from Colombia3
Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders3
Spatial patterns of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa3
Leader or lackey? Understanding the United Nations Secretary-General’s role in conflict diplomacy3
The causes and consequences of fisheries conflict around the Horn of Africa3
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset3
Demographic features or spatial structures? Unpacking local variation during the 2022 Iranian protests3
The prehistory of violence and war: Moving beyond the Hobbes–Rousseau quagmire3
The gendered risks of defending rights in armed conflict: Evidence from Colombia3
Allies and diffusion of state military cybercapacity3
Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace3
Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands3
The drawbacks of drones: The effects of UAVs on escalation and instability in Pakistan3
The global economic burden of violent conflict3
Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings3
Economic slowdowns and international conflict3
2022 Reviewers3
Re-examining women leaders and military spending3
The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR article of the Year Award 2021 goes to Alison Heslin3
Episodes of regime transformation3
Nuclear balance and the initiation of nuclear crises: Does superiority matter?3
Infrastructure and authority at the state’s edge: The Border Crossings of the World dataset3
Tactics of resistance and post-conflict judicial independence3
Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council2
Agricultural roots of social conflict in Southeast Asia2
Does the military lose public confidence without compliance with civilian control? Experimental evidence from Japan2
A theory of jihadist beheadings2
Cyber-enabled influence operations as a ‘center of gravity’ in cyberconflict: The example of Russian foreign interference in the 2016 US federal election2
Women’s economic rights and sexual violence in civil conflict2
The heterogeneous effects of conflict on education: A spatial analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa2
Swords into ploughshares? Why human rights abuses persist after resistance campaigns2
Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda2
Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data2
Violence against civilians and public support for the state: The moderating role of governance and ideology2
Resolving bargaining problems in civil conflicts: Goals, institutions and negotiations2
Repression, backlash, and the duration of protests in Africa2
Caring is sharing: Why independent commissions in post-conflict societies have power-sharing arrangements2
Microfoundations of domestic audience costs in nondemocratic regimes: Experimental evidence from Putin’s Russia2
Introducing MACEDA: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict2
Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.12
Take a chance: Trust-building across identity groups2
Organized violence 1989–2024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims2
The supply side determinants of territory2
How does war affect cultural tolerance? Evidence from concert programs, 1900–602
The long-term consequences of power-sharing for ethnic salience2
The democratic patience2
International prices and continuing conflict: Theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (1980–2017)2
Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries2
From plastic to peace: Overcoming public antipathy through environmental cooperation2
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy2
Did Egypt’s post-uprising crime wave increase support for authoritarian rule?2
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