OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Armed Forces & Society is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Characterizing Excellence: Lessons From Awarded Military-Technological Leaders	12
Archetype Profiles of Military Spouses in Australia–Identifying Perfect Partners and Mean Girls	12
Is Transformational Military Leadership Out There? An Exploratory Research Study of Military Teams in Action	10
Unpacking “Stacking”: Researching Political Identity and Regime Security in Armed Forces	9
Just Paying Lip Service? Public Trust and Public Support for Armed Forces in Germany	9
Narratives Around Civil–Military Cooperation: How Institutionalized Discourses Influence Learning in Peace Operations	9
The Military Academy as a Civilizing Institution: A Historical Sociology of the Academization of Officer Education in Sweden	8
Book Review: Embracing senior leadership: Three critical factors needed to reach the C-suite and thrive by James W. Browning	8
Armed Forces as an Employer of Choice: The Role of Gender and Person–Organization Fit	8
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: The EMASYA Protocol and Civil-Military Relations in Turkey	8
Stabilization of Anti-U.S. Military Bases Sentiment: Japan’s Evolving Compensation Policies and Base Politics in Okinawa	8
Bridging the Gap? Ex-Military Personnel and Military–Civilian Transition Within the Prison Workforce	7
Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	6
Book Review: Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army by Imy K	6
“We Don’t Negotiate with Terrorists”—Afghanistan, Bargaining, and American Civil–Military Relations	5
Economic Sanctions and Civil–Military Relations in Target Countries	5
Engagement of Military Peacekeepers in Brazilian Politics (2011–2021)	5
Rural Military Veterans of Color and STEM Occupational Outcomes	5
Professional Socialization During Restructuring: A Study of Workload and Career Time	5
Military Organizations Can Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time	4
Book Review: Divided not conquered: How rebels fracture and splinters behave	4
Troop Crime in Peacetime: Criminality and Accountability of U.S. Troops Worldwide During the Cold War	4
A Problem in the Huntingtonian Universe: The Military Side of the Gap	4
The Afghanistan War’s Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security	4
Book Review: Corporate Security Surveillance: An Assessment of Host Country Vulnerability to Terrorism	4

Stolen Valor: The Legal Story Behind Impersonating Military Personnel	4
Managing Threats on the High Seas: The Role of Naval Bases on Reducing Maritime Piracy	4
Trump(ing) Tradition: Old Laws, New Norms, and the Danger to Civil–Military Relations	4
How Does Military Experience Affect Employment: Evidence From China	4
Virtuous Shirking and Social Distance: Concept Measurement in the Context of Militarized Response to Nonviolent Revolution	3
U.S. Veterans and Civilians Describe Military News Coverage as Mediocre, Think Stories Affect Others More Than Themselves	3
Band of Brothers or Band of Others?: Rhetoric, Veterans, and Civil Rights Fights in Germany and the United States	3
The Cult of the Irrelevant or Political Narrative?	3
Accountability, Bureaucratic Discretion, and Civil-Military Relations	3
Concordance Theory: A Retrospective on the Creation of New Civil–Military Relations Theory	3
Living Liminal Lives: Army Partners’ Spatiotemporal Experiences of Deployment	3
The Military and the Family as Greedy Institutions: Then and Now	3
Food Insecurity Among U.K. Veterans	3
U.K. Veterans in Prison: Attitudes Toward Authority, Legitimacy and Compliance With Regime	3
Two World Views? How Regular and Reserve Royal Marines Perceive Each Other	3
Complexities and Possibilities of Strengthening the Social Inclusion of Military Women in the Netherlands Armed Forces: Findings From an Action Research Project	3
Book Review: “German Warriors: From the Empire to the Berlin Republic—A Military History.”Deutsche Krieger: Vom Kaiserreich zur Berliner Republik—Eine Militärgeschichte by Sönke Neitzel	3
The Art of Military Innovation	3
War and Commitment to Military Service: Deployment and Combat Experiences Associated With Retention Among Army National Guard Soldiers	3
Editor’s Note: Afghan Scholars’ Response to Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Arrogant Conquest; Disgraceful Withdrawal	3
The Rebel and the Politician: Developing a Typology of Insurgent Civil–Military Relations	3
Committed to its Founding Principles: 50 Years of Armed Forces & Society Journal	3
The “Supermen” Club: Organizational Secrecy and Masculine Identity in an Israeli National Security Organization	2
Mental Health of Canadian Children Growing Up in Military Families: The Child Perspective	2
Sentiment Analysis of Russian-Language Social Media Posts Discussing the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine	2
Transformational Leadership in Extreme Contexts: Associations with Posttraumatic Growth and Self-Efficacy Among Combat Veterans	2
Do the Best and Brightest West Point Officers Stay in or Leave the Army?	2
Battling Defense Austerity Cuts With the COVID-19 Crisis Response? The Czech Army’s Online Public Perception	2
The Best They Could Do? Assessing U.S. Military Effectiveness in the Afghanistan War	2
The Effects of Military Lifestyle and Operational Deployments on Marital Dynamics: A Qualitative Study of Military Spouses in Türkiye	2
Emergent Veteran Identity: Toward a New Theory of Veteran Identity in Israeli Society	2
Workplace Stress in Military Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: A Research Note	2
National Guard Command Authority and the Black Lives Matter Protests of 2020: Domestic Security Debates for a New Generation of Military Veterans	2
Nomos, Hostis, and War: State-Building Process and Armed Forces in Africa	2
Gender and Sexual Minorities in the Armed and Police Forces: Perceptions and Mental Health Implications of Portuguese Militaries—A Qualitative Study	2
The Military As a Non-Caring Institution: A Case Study of Nigerian Military Widows of the Boko Haram Conflict	2
The Military Covenant, Contractual Relations, and Social Cohesion in Democracies: Estonia as an Exploratory Case Study	2
Right or Wrong? The Civil–Military Problematique andArmed Forces & Society’s 50th	2
Why Nurses Are Leaving Veterans Affairs Hospitals?	2
“Leaning In” or “Taking a Knee”: Career Trajectories of Senior Leaders in the Canadian Armed Forces	2
Military Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis in Latin America: Military Presence, Autonomy, and Human Rights Violations	2
“She Clearly Thought That Something Bad Had Happened to Her”: How Military Lawyers Construct Narratives of Victim Legitimacy and Perceived Harm in Sexual Assault Cases	2
“Tokowa po ya ekolo”: The Military Body Within the Congolese Army	2
The Motivation to Enlist Among Kurds	2
Calling out the Troops to Manage Environmental and Health Crises in Australia: Public Understandings of Domestic Armed Forces Operations	2
Why Did the Taliban Win?	2
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Health Outcomes Among Women Veterans: A Research Note	2
Expanding the New Roles of the Military—The Case of Spain’s Military Emergency Unit: A Research Note	2
Violence and Moral Exclusion: Legitimizing Domestic Military Operations in Brazil	2
The Empirical Determinants of Violent Nonstate Actor Drone Adoption	2

The Specter of the Casualty: Elite Misreading of British Public Perceptions of the Soldier 2001–2014	2
Nigerian Troops in the War Against Boko Haram: The Civilian–Military Leadership Interest Convergence Thesis	2
Book Review: Kings, conquerors, psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the corporation	1
Veterans Affairs Hospital Productivity Change and the Policy Implications: A Research Note	1
Civil–Military Relations and Russia’s Post-Soviet Military Culture: A Belief System Analysis	1
Boko Haram, security architecture and counterinsurgency in North-East, Nigeria	1
Between “Victims” and Their “Saviors”: Process-Based Leadership and Trust Building in Civil–Military Relations in Northern Nigeria	1
Civil–Military Relations: Through a Perilous Lens	1
Military Professionalism, Power, and the Division of Labor: The Case of the Reintroduction of NCOs in the Swedish Armed Forces	1
Book Review: US National Security: Policymakers, processes, and politics by Williams, J. A., Cimbala, S. J., & Sarkesian, S. C.	1
Developing Effective Small Team Army Leaders: A Quasi-Randomized Controlled Trial of the Squad Leader Development Course	1
The Reactivation and Reimagination of Military Conscription in Sweden	1
Moral Coping or Simply Uncomplicated Soldiering? How Soldiers Avoid Moral Injury Through Simplification, Justification, Rationalization, and Compartmentalization	1
War Is Back in Post-Heroic Europe: Change and Continuity in the Relationship Between the Armed Forces and Society	1
Cohesion, Combat Performance and Civil-Military Relations: Contextualizing “The Word of Command”	1
Something to Take Home: A Two-Wave Study of Work–Family Facilitation and Well-Being Among Brazilian Soldiers Prior to and During a Humanitarian Mission	1
Who Lost Afghanistan? Samuel Huntington and the Decline of Strategic Thinking	1
Risk Factors for Homelessness Among Post-9/11 Era Veterans	1
Domestic Military Deployments in Response to COVID-19	1
“A Hidden Community”: The Experiences of Help-Seeking and Receiving Mental Health Treatment in U.K. Women Veterans. A Qualitative Study	1
My Commander in Chief is Black! The Mental Health Significance of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Election for Military Veterans	1
Perceptions of Women in U.S. Army Combat Units: A Mixed-Methods Study Post-Gender Integration	1
We (All) Want You? Perceived Military Leadership Potential and Actual Leadership Role Occupancy in Working Life: A Longitudinal Study of a Swedish Cohort	1
The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 70 Years Later: Alive and Kicking	1
Commentary on: Military Institutions and Citizenship in Western Societies	1
STEM Degrees and Military Service: An Intersectional Analysis	1
A Tale of Two Clocks: A Framework for Assessing Time Pressure and Advantage in the Russo-Ukrainian War	1
How Do Those Who Have Served Deserve to Be Treated? Military Veterans in the U.K. Social Security System	1
Building a National Army: The Paradoxes of Civil–Military Relations in Ethiopia	1
Book Review: Military Sociology: A Guided Introduction by Wilbur J. Scott, Karin Modesto De Angelis, and David R. Segal	1
If You’ll Be My Bodyguard: Presidential Guard Units and Leader Capture During Coups d’état	1
LGB Service Members’ Relationship Status, Satisfaction, and Well-Being: A Brief Report	1
Perceptions of Espoused Versus Enacted Culture Around Sexual Misconduct and Other Offenses Among U.S. Military Service Members	1
Do Elections Cause Military Spending to Go Up or Down? New International Evidence	1
The Rise of the Militarized State? African Developmental Militarism, Public Works Projects, and Praetorian Politics in Kenya	1
Military Propensity Among Israel Defense Forces’ Potential Conscripts: A Re-Examination and Differentiation by Personal Preferences of Enlistment Motivation	1
Hazardous Duty: Investigating Resistance to Police at the Point of Arrest Among Incarcerated Military Veterans	1
Sexual Arenas, Alcohol (Ab)use, and Predatory Leadership: Facilitators of US Military Sexual Violence	1
What Do Successful Military-to-Civilian Transitions Look Like? A Revised Framework and a New Conceptual Model for Assessing Veteran Well-Being	1
“I Just Don’t Want to Be Part of It Anymore”: How Harm and Betrayal Erode Cohesion in the Aftermath of Military Sexual Misconduct	1
Access and Equity Among Veterans During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Research Note	1
Income Security for Vietnam-Era Veterans: A Research Note	1
Substance Use Service Utilization and Barriers to Access Among Homeless Veterans: A Scoping Review	1
The Science of Charles C. Moskos: From Institution to Occupation	1
A Comparative Study of Military Communication on Instagram: A Research Note	1
Are the U.S. Military’s Nonpartisan Norms Eroding?	1
Air Power, International Organizations, and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan	1
Introduction to the Symposium on National Security and Social Science	1
“Our One Great Hope”: The Interdependence of the Woman’s Relief Corps and the Grand Army of the Republic	1
Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Commentaries on a Misadventure	1
Maintaining Male Exclusivity: Porcelain Privilege in the Military	1
Making Ends Meet: Employment, Cash Transfers, and Poverty in Post–9/11 Era Wounded Military Veterans	1
Multidimensional Measures of Militarization (M³): A Global Dataset	1
Masculine Conformity and Social Dominance’s Relation With Organizational Culture Change	1
Psychological and Sociological Profile of Women Who Have Completed Elite Military Combat Training	1
Why the U.S. Military Lost Afghanistan	1
State-Building 101: Hard Lessons From Afghanistan	1
Differences in Cultural Dimensions Between South Korean Officers and Conscripts: A Topic Modeling Approach	1
Gender Disparities in Active Duty Air Force Parents’ Childcare Access: Pre-Pandemic Costs, Utilization, and Career Impacts	1
Adjudicating Competing Theories: Does Civilian Control Over the Military Decrease Conflict?	1
Predicting Loyalty: Examining the Role of Social Identity and Leadership in an Extreme Operational Environment—A Swedish Case	1
Of Rivals and Enemies: Military–Police Relations in Internal Armed Conflict in Mexico and Colombia	1
Exploring Why Police and Military Commanders Do What They Do: An Empirical Analysis of Decision-Making in Hybrid Warfare	1
Vladimir Putin’s Russian World Turned Upside Down	1
Power Sharing and Coups d’état in Postconflict Settings: Evidence From Burundi and Guinea-Bissau	1
Professionalized Heroism? Comparing US, UK, and Norwegian War Decorations From the War in Afghanistan	1
Military-Connected Children With Special Health Care Needs and Their Families: A Literature Review	1