OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Peace Research is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Security implications of climate change: A decade of scientific progress	124
Organized violence 1989–2020, with a special emphasis on Syria	112
Organized violence 1989–2021 and drone warfare	81
Organized violence 1989–2022, and the return of conflict between states	53
Human security of urban migrant populations affected by length of residence and environmental hazards	46
Climate variability, crop and conflict: Exploring the impacts of spatial concentration in agricultural production	43
Food and water insecurity as causes of social unrest: Evidence from geolocated Twitter data	43
Natural hazards, internal migration and protests in Bangladesh	40
Beyond internal conflict: The emergent practice of climate security	40
The ethics of ethnographic methods in conflict zones	36
First comes the river, then comes the conflict? A qualitative comparative analysis of flood-related political unrest	34
Estimating one-sided-killings from a robust measurement model of human rights	33
This time is different! Or is it? NeoMalthusians and environmental optimists in the age of climate change	33
Weather, wheat, and war: Security implications of climate variability for conflict in Syria	32
Environmental migrants and social-movement participation	29
The global economic burden of violent conflict	25
What is rebel governance? Introducing a new dataset on rebel institutions, 1945–2012	23
Windows of repression: Using COVID-19 policies against political dissidents?	22
ViEWS₂₀₂₀: Revising and evaluating the ViEWS political Violence Early-Warning System	21
Local elites, civil resistance, and the responsiveness of rebel governance in Côte d’Ivoire	21
Examining the ‘age of apology’: Insights from the Political Apology database	20
Climate and cohesion: The effects of droughts on intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic trust	19
Anger and support for retribution in Mexico’s drug war	19
The problem of the missing dead	19
External support in armed conflicts: Introducing the UCDP external support dataset (ESD), 1975–2017	17

Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA)	14
Is the NPT unraveling? Evidence from text analysis of review conference statements	13
Science–policy dimensions of research on climate change and conflict	13
COVID-19, state capacity, and political violence by non-state actors	13
Introduction: Cyber-conflict – Moving from speculation to investigation	12
How and how much does expert error matter? Implications for quantitative peace research	12
Purging militaries: Introducing the Military Purges in Dictatorships (MPD) dataset	12
The effectiveness of mediation and peacekeeping for ending conflict	11
A latent variable approach to measuring wartime sexual violence	11
Hot under the collar: A latent measure of interstate hostility	11
New Data on UN Mission Mandates 1948–2015: Tasks Assigned to Missions in their Mandates (TAMM)	10
International trade and cyber conflict: Decomposing the effect of trade on state-sponsored cyber attacks	10
Repertoires of conflict-related sexual violence: Introducing the RSVAC data package	10
Climate bones of contention: How climate variability influences territorial, maritime, and river interstate conflicts	10
Disasters and the dynamics of interstate rivalry	10
Protest against Covid-19 containment policies in European countries	10
Peace agreements and women’s political rights following civil war	10
Bargaining in intrastate conflicts: The shifting role of ceasefires	9
The geo-temporal evolution of violence in civil conflicts: A micro analysis of conflict diffusion on a new event data set	9
Introducing the parliamentary deployment votes database	9
Disaster diplomacy: The intricate links between disaster and conflict	9
Updating nonviolent campaigns: Introducing NAVCO 2.1	9
Unilateral secession, international recognition, and great power contestation	8
Contesting narratives of repression: Experimental evidence from Sisi’s Egypt	8
Episodes of regime transformation	8
Introducing the Online Political Influence Efforts dataset	8
When do natural disasters lead to negotiations in a civil war?	8
High-risk participation: Demanding peace and justice amid criminal violence	8
Coup d’état and a democratic signal: The connection between protests and coups after the Cold War	8
Introducing the Women’s Activities in Armed Rebellion (WAAR) project, 1946–2015	8
Economic governance and homicide: Some theory and empirics, 1990–2017	7
Introducing the Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns (ARC) dataset	7
The long-term electoral implications of conflict escalation: Doubtful doves and the breakdown of Israel’s left–right dichotomy	7
Tracking the rise of United States foreign military training: IMTAD-USA, a new dataset and research agenda	7
Disasters and civilian victimization: Exploring the dynamic effect in Africa, 1997–2017	7
Secessionist conflict and affective polarization: Evidence from Catalonia	7
Material military power: A country-year measure of military power, 1865–2019	7
Supporting rebels and hosting refugees: Explaining the variation in refugee flows in civil conflicts	7
The diversity of repression: Measuring state repressive repertoires with events data	6
Emerging diasporas: Exploring mobilization outside the homeland	6
Introducing the African Peace Processes (APP) dataset: Negotiations and mediation in interstate, intrastate and non-state conflicts in Africa	6
International Sanctions Termination, 1990–2018: Introducing the IST dataset	6
Who commits the most to NATO? It depends on how we measure commitment	6
Pushing the doors open: Nonviolent action and inclusion in peace negotiations	6
Who leads peace operations? A new dataset on leadership positions in UN peace operations, 1948–2019	6
Third-party regime type and civil war duration	6
The two faces of power-sharing	5
Your space or mine? Competition, control, and the spatial profile of militant violence against civilians	5
Introducing the new CPOST dataset on suicide attacks	5
Introducing ROLE: A database of rebel leader attributes in armed conflict	5

The drawbacks of drones: The effects of UAVs on escalation and instability in Pakistan	5
Susceptibility to threatening information and attitudes toward refugee resettlement: The case of Japan	5
Ghosts of the Black Decade: How legacies of violence shaped Algeria’s Hirak protests	5
Survey participation effects in conflict research	5
The wedding bells of war: The influence of armed conflict on child marriages in West Africa	5
Disasters and intergroup peace in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace	4
Anti-austerity riots in late developing states: Evidence from the 1977 Egyptian Bread Intifada	4
Oil discoveries, civil war, and preventive state repression	4
Joining forces: Social coalitions and democratic revolutions	4
Whose trade follows the flag? Institutional constraints and economic responses to bilateral relations	4
Is governmental and societal discrimination against Muslim minorities behind foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq?	4
The causes and consequences of fisheries conflict around the Horn of Africa	4
Coercion, governance, and political behavior in civil war	4
Analyzing Participation in the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda	4
Do we know it when we see it? (Re)-conceptualizing rebel-to-party transition	4
Introducing a new dataset on Designated Terrorist Organizations (DTO)	4
Did Egypt’s post-uprising crime wave increase support for authoritarian rule?	4