OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peace Research 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset	205
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks	149
Not-so-average after all: Individual vs. aggregate effects in substantive research	118
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions	57
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead	49
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war	45
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine	36
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances	31
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica	29
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India	29
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion	24
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China	24
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters	21
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents	21
Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence	21
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war	21
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia	20
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda	19
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition	18
Introducing the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database	17
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in	17
Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation	16
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending	16
CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt	16
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–2019	15

Human rights violations and public support for sanctions	15
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence	15
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation	15
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present	14
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT	14
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq	14
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine	14
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts	13
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence	13
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire	13
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception	13
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?	12
Law enforcement at the margin of the law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico	12
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement	12
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment	12
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset	12
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa	12
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?	11
Predicting armed conflict using protest data	11
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans	11
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression	11
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset	11
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!	11
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau	11
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion	11
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables	10
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions	10
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction	10
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC	10
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups	9
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within	9
Leader similarity and international conflict	9
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict	9
Explaining election violence: A meta-analysis	9
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities	9
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence	9
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states	9
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war	9
Political violence in a polarized democracy: Years of Lead (YoL) data on Italy 1969–1988	9
Democratic elections and anti-immigration attitudes	8
Don’t blame it on ethnicity: The role of group identities and climate risks in farmer–herder relations in Senegal	8
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset	8
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset	8
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective	8
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset	8
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment	8
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset	8
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	8
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media	8
Women, political violence and economics	8

Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia	8
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict	7
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts	7
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database	7
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya	7
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships	7
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset	7
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention	7
Supporting reparations after armed conflict: How discursive ‘memory battles’ affect political solidarity with Guatemalan Indigenous survivors	7
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements	7
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–2016	7
Researching human rights violations: Assessing research-related stress among research assistants	7