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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks	127
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead	108
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances	107
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war	35
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection	34
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset	32
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war	27
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica	26
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion	24
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents	22
Democracy, reputation for resolve, and civil conflict	19
Local ethno-political polarization and election violence in majoritarian vs. proportional systems	18
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters	18
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China	16
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India	15
Who commits the most to NATO? It depends on how we measure commitment	15
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War	14
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation	14
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia	13
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence	13
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions	12
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition	12
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–2019	12
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda	12
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT	11

Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq	11
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in	11
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset	10
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine	10
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception	10
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database	10
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present	10
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa	9
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement	9
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence	9
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?	9
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment	9
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire	9
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression	8
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans	8
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict	8
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion	8
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts	8
Predicting armed conflict using protest data	7
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables	7
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package	7
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito	7
Organized violence 1989–2020, with a special emphasis on Syria	7
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 Moriceau	7
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset	7
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 activities	6
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states	6
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence	6
Blowback or overblown? Why civilians under threat support invasive foreign intervention	6
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict	6
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within	6
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media	6
Introducing Native American Conflict History (NACH) data	6
No paradox here? Improving theory and testing of the nuclear stability–instability paradox with synthetic counterfactuals	6
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression	6
Leader similarity and international conflict	6
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?	6
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions	6
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC	6
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war	5
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries	5
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset	5
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups	5
Civil war mediation in the shadow of IGOs: The path to comprehensive peace agreements	5
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?	5
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia	5
Emerging diasporas: Exploring mobilization outside the homeland	5
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment	5

Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset	5
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset	5
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–2016	5
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships	5
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	5
Women, political violence and economics	5
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset	5
Incumbent takeovers	5
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention	5
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database	5