OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peace Research is 6. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum for Dawkins S. The problem of the missing dead	172
The motivating and mobilizing effects of inequality on civil conflict: Focusing on trade-induced labor market shocks	135
The self-enforcing dynamics of crime and protection	80
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war	44
Women’s roles and reproductive violence within armed rebellions	44
Rewarding loyalty: Selective reassurance and enforcement of asymmetric alliances	42
Rebel human rights abuses during civil wars: Introducing the rebel human rights violations dataset	33
Conflict exposure and democratic values: Evidence from wartime Ukraine	32
Not-so-average after all: Individual vs. aggregate effects in substantive research	31
Guest Editors’ introduction: Nonviolent resistance and its discontents	28
Inequality, elections, and communal riots in India	26
Butterfly effects in global trade: International borders, disputes, and trade disruption and diversion	22
The bridge to violence – Mapping and understanding conflict-related violence in postwar Mitrovica	20
When conflict becomes calamity: Understanding the role of armed conflict dynamics in natural disasters	20
Democracy dismissed: When leaders and citizens choose election violence	20
Nationalist propaganda and support for war in an authoritarian context: Evidence from China	17
Explaining intentional cultural destruction in the Syrian Civil War	16
Public opinion on trading with the enemy: Trade’s effects on the risk of war	16
Shock and awe: Economic sanctions and relative military spending	16
Renting political violence: A political economy of rents, access and violence delegation	15
Beyond economic development? Foreign direct investment and pre-election violence	15
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda	14
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition	14
International organizations, the EU and peace among member states: Bringing organization structure in	14
Quotidian crime, wartime violence and public goods preferences: Evidence from Liberia	14

CORRIGENDUM to Mitigating election violence locally: UN peacekeepers’ election-education campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire by Hannah Smidt	14
Introducing the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database	14
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation	13
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions	13
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–2019	13
Words to unite nations: The complete United Nations General Debate Corpus, 1946–present	12
Multidimensional effects of conflict-induced violence on wartime migration decisions: evidence from Ukraine	12
How user language affects conflict fatality estimates in ChatGPT	12
Controlling a moving world: Territorial control, displacement and the spread of civilian targeting in Iraq	12
Access denied: Land alienation and pastoral conflicts	11
Lethal brands: Terrorist groups’ logos and violence	11
Law enforcement at the margin of the law: Information provision and support for militarization in Mexico	11
Targeting telecommunications: Why do rebel groups target information and communication technology infrastructure?	11
Cyber and contentious politics: Evidence from the US radical environmental movement	11
De jure powersharing 1975–2019: Updating the Inclusion, Dispersion, and Constraints Dataset	11
If it bleeps it leads? Media coverage on cyber conflict and misperception	11
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2021 goes to Gaku Ito	10
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2022 goes to Imane Chaara, Jean-Benoît Falisse & Julien Moriceau	10
Descriptive representation and conflict reduction: Evidence from India’s Maoist rebellion	10
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa	10
The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment	10
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction	10
Polls of fear? Electoral violence, incumbent strength, and voter turnout in Côte d’Ivoire	10
The Journal of Peace Research is excited to announce that the 2024 JPR Best Visualization Award has been awarded to Masanori Kikuchi!	10
Predicting armed conflict using protest data	10
Introducing the Lynching in Latin America (LYLA) dataset	9
Bias mitigation in empirical peace and conflict studies: A short primer on posttreatment variables	9
How does violence deter? Functional and informational effects of preemptive repression	9
Giving a hand to autocrats: Are Russia’s high-level visits for authoritarian durability?	9
International recognition and support for violence among nonpartisans	9
Motivations of diaspora support in homeland civil conflict	8
‘Those MONUSCO agents left while we were still pregnant’: Accountability and support for peacekeeper-fathered children in the DRC	8
Militarized state-building interventions and the survival of fragile states	8
Explaining election violence: A meta-analysis	8
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict	8
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression	8
Economic crisis and regime transitions from within	8
Tailoring the message: A new dataset on the dyadic nature of NGO shaming in the media	8
Political violence in a polarized democracy: Years of Lead (YoL) data on Italy 1969–1988	8
Sports nationalism and xenophobia: When cheering turns into violence	8
Discriminatory coercion: Understanding the biases of EU and US sanctions	8
Democratic elections and anti-immigration attitudes	8
Women, political violence and economics	7
Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset	7
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups	7
Don’t blame it on ethnicity: The role of group identities and climate risks in farmer–herder relations in Senegal	7
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	7
Does conflict experience affect participatory democracy after war? Evidence from Colombia	7
Many hurdles to take: Explaining peacekeepers’ ability to engage in human rights activities	7
Leader similarity and international conflict	7

Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?	7
Public perception of terrorism attacks: A conjoint experiment	7
Reliable knowledge claims on the recruitment and use of children: An empirical perspective	7
The impacts of armed conflict on child health: Evidence from 56 developing countries	7
External coercion and public support: The case of the US–China trade war	7
Incumbent takeovers	6
Under God, indivisible? Religious salience and interstate territorial conflict	6
Political elite cues and attitude formation in post-conflict contexts	6
Sexual violence, gendered protection and support for intervention	6
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?	6
Introducing the Proscription of Armed Actors Dataset	6
Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset	6
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database	6
Fiscal conditions for multiparty elections in dictatorships	6
Contemporary slavery in armed conflict: Introducing the CSAC dataset, 1989–2016	6
Introducing the Concentration Camps (CCamps v1.0) dataset	6
Retributive or reparative justice? Explaining post-conflict preferences in Kenya	6
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset	6