OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peace Research is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war	139
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset	120
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection	49
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks	38
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions	37
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances	36
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead	29
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents	27
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict	23
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war	23
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica	21
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India	20
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion	19
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters	16
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China	16
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War	15
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–2019	14
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia	14
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation	13
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition	13
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions	13
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in	13
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence	13
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda	13
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database	12

CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt	12
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending	12
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine	11
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present	11
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq	11
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT	11
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence	10
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa	10
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception	10
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans	9
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire	9
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement	9
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?	9
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts	9
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset	9
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment	9
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito	8
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau	8
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 conflict	7
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression	7
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC	7
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict	7
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package	7
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset	7
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables	7
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence	7
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions	7
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion	7
Predicting armed conflict using protest data	7
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 counterfactuals	7
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention	7
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia	6
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states	6
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	6
Leader similarity and international conflict	6
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset	6
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within	6
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war	6
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries	6
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities	6
Incumbent takeovers	6
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?	6
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression	6
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups	6
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective	6
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media	6
Women, political violence and economics	6
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?	5

Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts	5
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict	5
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database	5
The impact of negative oil shocks on military spending and democracy in the oil states of the greater Middle East: Implications for the oil sanctions	5
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset	5
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya	5
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset	5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention	5
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)	5
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships	5
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset	5
A win or a flop? Measuring mass protest successfulness in authoritarian settings	5
Who spies on whom? Unravelling the puzzle of state-sponsored cyber economic espionage	5
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War	5
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–2016	5
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements	5
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment	5
Supporting reparations after armed conflict: How discursive ‘memory battles’ affect political solidarity with Guatemalan Indigenous survivors	5
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset	5
The two faces of power-sharing	5
Identity threats and ideas of superiority as drivers of religious violence? Evidence from a survey experiment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	5