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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Organized violence, 1989–2019196
Security implications of climate change: A decade of scientific progress101
Organized violence 1989–2020, with a special emphasis on Syria97
Organized violence 1989–2021 and drone warfare53
Climate variability, crop and conflict: Exploring the impacts of spatial concentration in agricultural production38
Human security of urban migrant populations affected by length of residence and environmental hazards35
Natural hazards, internal migration and protests in Bangladesh35
Beyond internal conflict: The emergent practice of climate security31
Cooperation under autonomy: Building and analyzing the Informal Intergovernmental Organizations 2.0 dataset31
Estimating one-sided-killings from a robust measurement model of human rights30
Weather, wheat, and war: Security implications of climate variability for conflict in Syria30
Food and water insecurity as causes of social unrest: Evidence from geolocated Twitter data30
This time is different! Or is it? NeoMalthusians and environmental optimists in the age of climate change29
First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest25
Environmental migrants and social-movement participation24
The ethics of ethnographic methods in conflict zones24
Mapping coercive institutions: The State Security Forces dataset, 1960–201022
What is rebel governance? Introducing a new dataset on rebel institutions, 1945–201221
Organized violence 1989–2022, and the return of conflict between states20
ViEWS2020: Revising and evaluating the ViEWS political Violence Early-Warning System19
Territorial control in civil wars: Theory and measurement using machine learning19
Overlapping international human rights institutions: Introducing the Women’s Rights Recommendations Digital Database (WR2D2)19
Local elites, civil resistance, and the responsiveness of rebel governance in Côte d’Ivoire18
The global economic burden of violent conflict18
Pathways to water conflict during drought in the MENA region18
Arms for education? External support and rebel social services17
Ethics of archival research on political violence16
Mobilizing memories: The social conditions of the long-term impact of victimization16
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database16
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?16
Transnational terrorism and restrictive immigration policies15
A security dividend: Peacekeeping and maternal health outcomes and access15
Can women benefit from war? Women’s agency in conflict and post-conflict societies15
The problem of the missing dead15
Climate and cohesion: The effects of droughts on intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic trust14
Science–policy dimensions of research on climate change and conflict13
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)13
Commander–community ties after civil war12
Action or inaction: United Nations Security Council activity, 1994–201312
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war12
Food price increase and urban unrest: The role of societal organizations11
How and how much does expert error matter? Implications for quantitative peace research11
Ambition and ambivalence: Reconsidering positive peace as a trans-scalar peace system11
International support networks and the calculus of uprising11
Political life after civil wars: Introducing the Civil War Successor Party dataset11
COVID-19, state capacity, and political violence by non-state actors11
Is the NPT unraveling? Evidence from text analysis of review conference statements11
Peacekeeping and development in fragile states: Micro-level evidence from Liberia11
Hot under the collar: A latent measure of interstate hostility10
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation10
Climate bones of contention: How climate variability influences territorial, maritime, and river interstate conflicts10
A latent variable approach to measuring wartime sexual violence10
Compliance without coercion: Effects of reporting on international labor rights10
Continuous recognition: A latent variable approach to measuring international sovereignty of self-determination movements10
The effectiveness of mediation and peacekeeping for ending conflict9
International trade and cyber conflict: Decomposing the effect of trade on state-sponsored cyber attacks9
Parties to an alliance: Ideology and the domestic politics of international institutionalization9
Purging militaries: Introducing the Military Purges in Dictatorships (MPD) dataset9
Using practitioner surveys to measure human rights: The Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s civil and political rights metrics9
Only as fast as its troop contributors: Incentives, capabilities, and constraints in the UN’s peacekeeping response9
New Data on UN Mission Mandates 1948–2015: Tasks Assigned to Missions in their Mandates (TAMM)9
Bargaining in intrastate conflicts: The shifting role of ceasefires9
Disasters and the dynamics of interstate rivalry9
The impact of terrorism on international mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from firm-level decisions8
Introducing the Women’s Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) project, 1946–20158
United Nations endorsement and support for human rights: An experiment on women’s rights in Pakistan8
The Humanitarian Turn at the UNSC: Explaining the development of international norms through machine learning algorithms8
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?8
The geo-temporal evolution of violence in civil conflicts: A micro analysis of conflict diffusion on a new event data set8
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War8
Gendered preferences: How women’s inclusion in society shapes negotiation occurrence in intrastate conflicts8
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package7
Riots and resources: How food access affects collective violence7
External support in armed conflicts: Introducing the UCDP external support dataset (ESD), 1975–20177
Peace agreements and women’s political rights following civil war7
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict7
Introducing the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset7
Explaining public support for violence against politicians during conflict: Evidence from a panel study in Israel7
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy7
Economic governance and homicide: Some theory and empirics, 1990–20177
Frozen conflicts in world politics: A new dataset7
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database7
Wartime ties and the social logic of crime7
Disasters and civilian victimization: Exploring the dynamic effect in Africa, 1997–20176
Trust in the aftermath of genocide: Insights from Rwandan life histories6
Making disorder more manageable: The short-term effectiveness of local mediation in Darfur6
Contesting narratives of repression: Experimental evidence from Sisi’s Egypt6
Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries6
Emerging diasporas: Exploring mobilization outside the homeland6
Interstate War Battle dataset (1823–2003)6
An interactive model of democratic peace6
For better or worse: Shaming, faming, and human rights abuse6
Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.16
The diversity of repression: Measuring state repressive repertoires with events data6
What states want: Estimating ideal points from international investment treaty content6
The politics of nonviolent mobilization: Campaigns, competition, and social movement resources5
Bargaining under polarization: The case of the Colombian armed conflict5
Secessionist conflict and affective polarization: Evidence from Catalonia5
Introducing ROLE: A database of rebel leader attributes in armed conflict5
The drawbacks of drones: The effects of UAVs on escalation and instability in Pakistan5
Survey participation effects in conflict research5
Determinants of political purges in autocracies: Evidence from ancient Chinese dynasties5
Power-sharing, conflict resolution, and the logic of pre-emptive defection5
Supporting rebels and hosting refugees: Explaining the variation in refugee flows in civil conflicts5
Third-party regime type and civil war duration5
Terrorism and internet censorship5
The two faces of power-sharing4
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–20194
Who commits the most to NATO? It depends on how we measure commitment4
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war4
Defending core values: Human rights and the extradition of fugitives4
Why share? An analysis of the sources of post-conflict power-sharing4
Unilateral secession, international recognition, and great power contestation4
Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda4
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa4
High-risk participation: Demanding peace and justice amid criminal violence4
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression4
What are the drivers of diplomacy? Introducing and testing new annual dyadic data measuring diplomatic exchange3
Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests3
Introducing the Military Mutinies and Defections Database (MMDD), 1945–20173
Why does ethnic partition foster violence? Unpacking the deep historical roots of civil conflicts3
Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings3
Episodes of regime transformation3
Take a chance: Trust-building across identity groups3
Introducing the new CPOST dataset on suicide attacks3
Civilian targeting in African conflicts: A poor actor’s game that spreads through space3
Disasters and intergroup peace in sub-Saharan Africa3
Power politics: Armed non-state actors and the capture of public electricity in post-invasion Baghdad3
Analyzing Participation in the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda3
Pushing the doors open: Nonviolent action and inclusion in peace negotiations3
Measuring institutional variation across American Indian constitutions using automated content analysis3
Introducing a new dataset on Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO)3
Did Egypt’s post-uprising crime wave increase support for authoritarian rule?3
The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes dataset, 1945–20153
A test of the democratic peacekeeping hypothesis: Coups, democracy, and foreign military deployments3
International prices and continuing conflict: Theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (1980–2017)3
Material military power: A country-year measure of military power, 1865–20193
Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace3
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition3
Don’t turn around, der Kommissar’s in town: Political officers and coups d’état in authoritarian regimes3
The causes and consequences of fisheries conflict around the Horn of Africa3
Urban Social Disorder 3.0: A global, city-level event dataset of political mobilization and disorder3
Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda2
Anti-austerity riots in late developing states: Evidence from the 1977 Egyptian Bread Intifada2
Are stronger states more humane? A re-evaluation of ‘exemplary villains’2
Talks before the talks: Effects of pre-negotiation on reaching peace agreements in intrastate armed conflicts, 2005–152
Cyber-enabled influence operations as a ‘center of gravity’ in cyberconflict: The example of Russian foreign interference in the 2016 US federal election2
Impeding fatal violence through third-party diplomacy: The effect of mediation on conflict intensity2
External threats and state support for arms control2
Is governmental and societal discrimination against Muslim minorities behind foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq?2
Avoiding fallout from terrorist attacks: The role of local politics and governments2
Whose trade follows the flag? Institutional constraints and economic responses to bilateral relations2
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War2
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries2
Does the WTO exacerbate international conflict?2
Combatant socialization and norms of restraint: Examining officer training at the US Military Academy and Army ROTC2
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset2
Cyberattacks and public opinion – The effect of uncertainty in guiding preferences2
Allies and diffusion of state military cybercapacity2
A micro-level analysis of the contagion effect: Evidence from the Kurdish conflict2
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention2
Introducing the Mapping Attitudes, Perceptions and Support (MAPS) dataset on the Colombian peace process2
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia2
How very massive atrocities end: A dataset and typology2
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China2
Local ethno-political polarization and election violence in majoritarian vs. proportional systems2
How leaders’ experiences and rebellion shape military recruitment during civil war2
Greed, grievance, or graduates? Why do men rebel?2
Terrorism and emergency constitutions in the Muslim world2
Adjustments to gang exposure in early adolescence2
Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage2
Feels like home: Effect of transnational identities on attitudes towards foreign countries2
Central banks and civil war termination2
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset2
Cheap talk or costly commitment? Leader statements and the implementation of civil war peace agreements2
Perceived threats and the trade-off between security and human rights2
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