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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Organized violence, 1989–2019	196
Security implications of climate change: A decade of scientific progress	101
Organized violence 1989–2020, with a special emphasis on Syria	97
Organized violence 1989–2021 and drone warfare	53
Climate variability, crop and conflict: Exploring the impacts of spatial concentration in agricultural production	38
Human security of urban migrant populations affected by length of residence and environmental hazards	35
Natural hazards, internal migration and protests in Bangladesh	35
Cooperation under autonomy: Building and analyzing the Informal Intergovernmental Organizations 2.0 dataset	31
Beyond internal conflict: The emergent practice of climate security	31
Weather, wheat, and war: Security implications of climate variability for conflict in Syria	30
Food and water insecurity as causes of social unrest: Evidence from geolocated Twitter data	30
Estimating one-sided-killings from a robust measurement model of human rights	30
This time is different! Or is it? NeoMalthusians and environmental optimists in the age of climate change	29
First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest	25
The ethics of ethnographic methods in conflict zones	24
Environmental migrants and social-movement participation	24
Mapping coercive institutions: The State Security Forces dataset, 1960–2010	22
What is rebel governance? Introducing a new dataset on rebel institutions, 1945–2012	21
Organized violence 1989–2022, and the return of conflict between states	20
Territorial control in civil wars: Theory and measurement using machine learning	19
Overlapping international human rights institutions: Introducing the Women’s Rights Recommendations Digital Database (WR2D2)	19
ViEWS₂₀₂₀: Revising and evaluating the ViEWS political Violence Early-Warning System	19
The global economic burden of violent conflict	18
Pathways to water conflict during drought in the MENA region	18
Local elites, civil resistance, and the responsiveness of rebel governance in Côte d’Ivoire	18

Arms for education? External support and rebel social services	17
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?	16
Ethics of archival research on political violence	16
Mobilizing memories: The social conditions of the long-term impact of victimization	16
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database	16
Can women benefit from war? Women’s agency in conflict and post-conflict societies	15
The problem of the missing dead	15
Transnational terrorism and restrictive immigration policies	15
A security dividend: Peacekeeping and maternal health outcomes and access	15
Climate and cohesion: The effects of droughts on intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic trust	14
Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)	13
Science–policy dimensions of research on climate change and conflict	13
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	12
Commander–community ties after civil war	12
Action or inaction: United Nations Security Council activity, 1994–2013	12
International support networks and the calculus of uprising	11
Political life after civil wars: Introducing the Civil War Successor Party dataset	11
COVID-19, state capacity, and political violence by non-state actors	11
Is the NPT unraveling? Evidence from text analysis of review conference statements	11
Peacekeeping and development in fragile states: Micro-level evidence from Liberia	11
Food price increase and urban unrest: The role of societal organizations	11
How and how much does expert error matter? Implications for quantitative peace research	11
Ambition and ambivalence: Reconsidering positive peace as a trans-scalar peace system	11
Climate bones of contention: How climate variability influences territorial, maritime, and river interstate conflicts	10
A latent variable approach to measuring wartime sexual violence	10
Compliance without coercion: Effects of reporting on international labor rights	10
Continuous recognition: A latent variable approach to measuring international sovereignty of self-determination movements	10
Hot under the collar: A latent measure of interstate hostility	10
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation	10
Only as fast as its troop contributors: Incentives, capabilities, and constraints in the UN’s peacekeeping response	9
New Data on UN Mission Mandates 1948–2015: Tasks Assigned to Missions in their Mandates (TAMM)	9
Bargaining in intrastate conflicts: The shifting role of ceasefires	9
Disasters and the dynamics of interstate rivalry	9
The effectiveness of mediation and peacekeeping for ending conflict	9
International trade and cyber conflict: Decomposing the effect of trade on state-sponsored cyber attacks	9
Parties to an alliance: Ideology and the domestic politics of international institutionalization	9
Purging militaries: Introducing the Military Purges in Dictatorships (MPD) dataset	9
Using practitioner surveys to measure human rights: The Human Rights Measurement Initiative’s civil and political rights metrics	9
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War	8
Gendered preferences: How women’s inclusion in society shapes negotiation occurrence in intrastate conflicts	8
The impact of terrorism on international mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from firm-level decisions	8
Introducing the Women’s Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) project, 1946–2015	8
United Nations endorsement and support for human rights: An experiment on women’s rights in Pakistan	8
The Humanitarian Turn at the UNSC: Explaining the development of international norms through machine learning algorithms	8
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?	8
The geo-temporal evolution of violence in civil conflicts: A micro analysis of conflict diffusion on a new event data set	8
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict	7
Introducing the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset	7
Explaining public support for violence against politicians during conflict: Evidence from a panel study in Israel	7
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy	7

Economic governance and homicide: Some theory and empirics, 1990–2017	7
Frozen conflicts in world politics: A new dataset	7
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database	7
Wartime ties and the social logic of crime	7
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package	7
Riots and resources: How food access affects collective violence	7
External support in armed conflicts: Introducing the UCDP external support dataset (ESD), 1975–2017	7
Peace agreements and women’s political rights following civil war	7
Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries	6
Emerging diasporas: Exploring mobilization outside the homeland	6
Interstate War Battle dataset (1823–2003)	6
An interactive model of democratic peace	6
For better or worse: Shaming, faming, and human rights abuse	6
Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.1	6
The diversity of repression: Measuring state repressive repertoires with events data	6
What states want: Estimating ideal points from international investment treaty content	6
Disasters and civilian victimization: Exploring the dynamic effect in Africa, 1997–2017	6
Trust in the aftermath of genocide: Insights from Rwandan life histories	6
Making disorder more manageable: The short-term effectiveness of local mediation in Darfur	6
Contesting narratives of repression: Experimental evidence from Sisi’s Egypt	6