Journal of Peace Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Peace Research is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks127
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead108
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances107
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war35
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection34
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset32
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war27
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica26
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion24
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents22
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict19
Local ethno-political polarization and election violence in majoritarian vs. proportional systems18
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters18
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China16
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India15
Who commits the most to NATO? It depends on how we measure commitment15
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War14
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation14
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia13
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence13
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions12
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition12
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–201912
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda12
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT11
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq11
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in11
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset10
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine10
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception10
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database10
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present10
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa9
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement9
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence9
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?9
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment9
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire9
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression8
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans8
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict8
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion8
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts8
Predicting armed conflict using protest data7
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables7
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package7
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito7
Organized violence 1989–2020, with a special emphasis on Syria7
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!7
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau7
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset7
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?7
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities6
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states6
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence6
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention6
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict6
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within6
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media6
Introducing Native American Conflict History (NACH) data6
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals6
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression6
Leader similarity and international conflict6
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?6
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions6
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC6
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war5
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries5
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset5
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups5
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements5
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?5
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia5
Emerging diasporas: Exploring mobilization outside the homeland5
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment5
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset5
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset5
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–20165
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships5
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war5
Women, political violence and economics5
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset5
Incumbent takeovers5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention5
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database5
Defending the fortress: How asset ownership shapes the desire to resist foreign aggression4
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset4
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya4
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War4
The impact of negative oil shocks on military spending and democracy in the oil states of the greater Middle East: Implications for the oil sanctions4
Denial and punishment in war4
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts4
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)4
Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage4
A win or a flop? Measuring mass protest successfulness in authoritarian settings4
The two faces of power-sharing4
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict4
Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania4
Can rising powers reassure? Shifting power, foreign economic policy and perceptions of revisionist intent4
Organized violence 1989–2022, and the return of conflict between states4
Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests3
Joining forces: Social coalitions and democratic revolutions3
Recovering from economic coercion: Does the pain stop when sanctions end?3
To compete or strategically retreat? The global diffusion of reconnaissance strike3
The prehistory of violence and war: Moving beyond the Hobbes–Rousseau quagmire3
Friends and partners: Estimating latent affinity networks with the graphical LASSO3
Protests and persuasion: Partisanships effect on evaluating nonviolent tactics in the United States3
Remaining behind in the community: Rebel service provision and internal (non-)displacement of civilians in the former FATA, Pakistan3
Do nonproliferation agreements constrain?3
Bias and balance in civil war mediation3
Re-examining women leaders and military spending3
2022 Reviewers3
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset3
Greed, grievance, or graduates? Why do men rebel?3
Where there’s a will, there’s a way: Border walls and refugees3
How cyber operations can reduce escalation pressures: Evidence from an experimental wargame study3
Social reintegration of former al-Shabaab militants: How formal channels help mitigate threat perceptions3
Leader or lackey? Understanding the United Nations Secretary-General’s role in conflict diplomacy3
Demographic features or spatial structures? Unpacking local variation during the 2022 Iranian protests3
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration in peace agreements (1975–2021): Introducing the DDR dataset3
The election of former rebel women2
The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa2
State violence and participation in transitional justice: Evidence from Colombia2
Regime change and religious discrimination after the Arab uprisings2
The heterogeneous effects of conflict on education: A spatial analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa2
The democratic patience2
Microfoundations of domestic audience costs in nondemocratic regimes: Experimental evidence from Putin’s Russia2
Police reform in the aftermath of armed conflict: How militarization and accountability affect police violence2
Caring is sharing: Why independent commissions in post-conflict societies have power-sharing arrangements2
Spatial patterns of communal violence in sub-Saharan Africa2
International prices and continuing conflict: Theory and evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (1980–2017)2
The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR article of the Year Award 2021 goes to Alison Heslin2
The global economic burden of violent conflict2
Economic slowdowns and international conflict2
Politicized health emergencies and violent resistance against healthcare responders2
The gendered risks of defending rights in armed conflict: Evidence from Colombia2
Resolving bargaining problems in civil conflicts: Goals, institutions and negotiations2
A theory of jihadist beheadings2
Allies and diffusion of state military cybercapacity2
Infrastructure and authority at the state’s edge: The Border Crossings of the World dataset2
Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace2
Cyber-enabled influence operations as a ‘center of gravity’ in cyberconflict: The example of Russian foreign interference in the 2016 US federal election2
Tactics of resistance and post-conflict judicial independence2
Women’s economic rights and sexual violence in civil conflict2
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!2
Third-party countries in cyber conflict: Public opinion and conflict spillover in cyberspace2
The causes and consequences of fisheries conflict around the Horn of Africa2
Nuclear balance and the initiation of nuclear crises: Does superiority matter?2
Modeling threats and promises: Explaining the Munich crisis of 19382
How does war affect cultural tolerance? Evidence from concert programs, 1900–602
Repression, backlash, and the duration of protests in Africa2
Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries2
Episodes of regime transformation2
Data innovations on protests in the United States2
Interventions and repression following civil conflict2
Upping the ante without taking up arms: Why mass movements escalate demands2
The drawbacks of drones: The effects of UAVs on escalation and instability in Pakistan2
The effectiveness of mediation and peacekeeping for ending conflict2
Whose trade follows the flag? Institutional constraints and economic responses to bilateral relations2
Co-ethnic bias and policing in an electoral authoritarian regime: Experimental evidence from Uganda1
‘A lot of people still love and worship the monarchy’: How polarizing frames trigger countermobilization in Thailand1
Introducing the Government-Sponsored Mass Expulsion Dataset1
Introducing the Jihadi Plots in Europe Dataset (JPED)1
A difficult test for hard propaganda: Evidence from a choice experiment in Venezuela1
Nationalism and torture1
Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.11
Choosing tactics: The efficacy of violence and nonviolence in self-determination disputes1
From plastic to peace: Overcoming public antipathy through environmental cooperation1
Cheap talk or costly commitment? Leader statements and the implementation of civil war peace agreements1
Did Egypt’s post-uprising crime wave increase support for authoritarian rule?1
What is rebel governance? Introducing a new dataset on rebel institutions, 1945–20121
Can transparency strengthen the legitimacy of international institutions? Evidence from the UN Security Council1
Different fears, same alliance: Multilateralism, assurance and the origins of the 1951 United States–New Zealand–Australia alliance1
The long-term consequences of power-sharing for ethnic salience1
Does legal aid improve access to justice in ‘fragile’ settings? Evidence from Burundi1
International economic sanctions and conflict prevention in self-determination disputes1
Election proximity and the effectiveness of economic sanctions1
Your space or mine? Competition, control, and the spatial profile of militant violence against civilians1
Introducing the Mapping Attitudes, Perceptions and Support (MAPS) dataset on the Colombian peace process1
Perceived threats and the trade-off between security and human rights1
Asymmetric burden-sharing and the restraining and deterrence effects of alliances1
Evidence of the unthinkable: Experimental wargaming at the nuclear threshold1
The composition of UN peacekeeping operations and aid worker security1
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy1
From doctrine to detonation: Ideology, competition, and terrorism in campaigns of mass resistance1
Dynamics of organized violence in the wake of tropical cyclones1
Unpacking the concepts: Examining the link between women’s status and terrorism1
Swords into ploughshares? Why human rights abuses persist after resistance campaigns1
Rebels with a cause: Introducing the Post-Rebel Electoral Parties dataset1
The supply side determinants of territory1
Extreme weather and contentious elections1
Does the military lose public confidence without compliance with civilian control? Experimental evidence from Japan1
Don’t turn around, der Kommissar’s in town: Political officers and coups d’état in authoritarian regimes1
Student protest, violent interactions, and state repression1
Organized violence 1989–2023, and the prevalence of organized crime groups1
Disasters and civilian victimization: Exploring the dynamic effect in Africa, 1997–20171
External support in armed conflicts: Introducing the UCDP external support dataset (ESD), 1975–20171
Supporting rebels and hosting refugees: Explaining the variation in refugee flows in civil conflicts1
Economic origins of border fortifications1
Disaggregated defense spending: Introduction to data1
Avoiding fallout from terrorist attacks: The role of local politics and governments1
The role of subgroup leaders in combatant socialization and resocialization: The British re-education program for German POWs (1946–1948)1
Revisiting the puzzle of endogenous nuclear proliferation1
Take a chance: Trust-building across identity groups1
Abducted by hackers: Using the case of Bletchley Park to construct a theory of intelligence performance that generalizes to cybersecurity1
Agricultural roots of social conflict in Southeast Asia1
The military before the march: Civil-military grand bargains and the emergence of nonviolent resistance in autocracies1
Violence against civilians and public support for the state: The moderating role of governance and ideology1
Blessing or curse? Assessing the local impacts of foreign direct investment on conflict in Africa1
Introducing MACEDA: New micro-data on an indigenous self-determination conflict1
Central banks and civil war termination1
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