OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Political Science Review 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	32
The rise and fall of exclusion: A longitudinal study of US attitudes toward immigration	19
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	19
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	18
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	17
The contentious politics of academic freedom: Some reflections on recent threats in the context of the protests for a Free Palestine	17
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	17
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	17
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	17
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	14
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	13
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	13
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	13
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	12
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	11
Old boys, church mates, childhood friends: How social relations form and sustain the multi-ethnic political elite in Africa	11
The right man for the job? Dictators’ selection mode and their facial characteristics	10
Introduction to special issue: Inclusion and commissions in peace processes	9
Thank You to Reviewers	9
The road to citizenship: How discussing politics shapes political interest across the lifespan	9
Can institutional quality reduce geopolitical risk? Evidence from G20 countries	8
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	8
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel	7
Gendered punishment? How the corruption of female politicians affects public opinion of female political leadership	7
The law of group polarization revisited: Using transcripts from a deliberative poll to examine the influence of imbalance in the argument pool	7

Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive	7
Pathways to democracy after authoritarian breakdown: Comparative case selection and lessons from the past	7
Introduction: War in Ukraine	7
Rules of the game: Legislative exits in four Westminster systems	6
Does it pay to think about the future? Future orientation, ideology, age and vote earning among political candidates	6
Electoral rules and the two-party system: A methodological inquiry with reference to Duverger’s law	6
Reassurance and pride: Narrating and legitimating digital surveillance in China	6
Unintended environmental sustainability ramifications of US sanctions	5
The forgotten protest dynamics: The politics of non-repressive state responses to mobilization	5
The penetration of Russian disinformation related to the war in Ukraine: Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia	5
Gated pathways: Gendered networks and the relational politics of local candidacy in Palestine	5
Shaking up the vote: The electoral impact of induced earthquakes	4
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	4
Is there more strategic voting under plurality or majority runoff? Survey evidence from presidential elections worldwide	4
Does (dis)liking the governing parties correlate with democratic (dis)satisfaction?	4
The economic vote when there is no ruling party presidential candidate: Chile in 2021	4
The egalitarian paradox: Democratic values, perceived inequality and political support	4
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	4
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	4
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	3
The relative effectiveness of overlapping international institutions: European Union versus United Nations regulations of air pollution	3
Civic engagement moving online: Empirical examination of its antecedents during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	3
Illiberal democracy and the erosion of academic freedom in the ‘new’ Türkiye	3
Unconditional cash transfer and polarized support	3
‘Sour grapes and the seeds of discontent’: Citizens in ressentiment and the populist surge	3
The power of ‘big brothers’: political leaders and regime changes in authoritarian states	3
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article	3
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	3
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	3
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	2
Institutional disruption and women’s substantive representation: the Senate of Canada as a case study	2
Hawkish leaders and foreign policy: A political psychological approach	2
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections	2
‘We’ve got this policy, now what?’ The security politics of implementing the Family Protection Law in Jordan	2
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	2
How issue opinions relate to individual-level affective polarization: Exploring the psychological mechanisms of affective polarization regarding immigration in a multi-party setting	2
Party policy responsiveness at the agenda-setting and decision-making stages: The mediating effect of the types of government and promise	2
Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: Feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy	2
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties	2
Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness: The impact of Vox in Spain	2
The politics of legislative term limits: A comparative analysis in Latin America and Southeast Asia	2
Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries	2
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	2
Constructing the local woman peacebuilder in the Women, Peace and Security agenda: Iraqi women’s participation in local peacebuilding programmes	2
The peacemaking role of independent commissions: The role of institutional design	2
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	2
Varieties of local participation? A vignette survey on local executive politicians’ legitimacy perceptions towards different participatory arrangements	2
Simulating election results and party systems	1

Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	1
Transboundary Air Pollution and Public Opinions on Neighbouring Countries: Evidence from South Korea	1
From football stadium to revolution and war frontlines: Ukrainian ultras and the conversion of their capital	1
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	1
The personalistic challenge: The rise of Bukele and the collapse of an ideologically structured party system in El Salvador	1
Elite domination by design? Comparing the rules of the game within Parliamentary Party Groups	1
Ethnic voting and agenda framing under authoritarian reversal: a survey experiment in Myanmar	1
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1
Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability	1
Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion	1
Affective polarization and institutional confidence in Canada	1
Democratic satisfaction under affective polarization: Evidence from South Korea	1
The empire’s fading influence: United States soft power in Africa during the COVID-19 era	1
Rhetorical entrapment in international negotiations: A new pathway and mechanisms	1
Explaining changes in women’s representation in peace processes: The adoption of a gender quota in the Agreement Monitoring Committee in Mali	1
Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Economic, security, and normative engagement	1
The language of protest: A scientific mapping of cross-national protest themes, narratives, and success patterns	1
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis	1
Ideology, financial circumstances, and attitudes toward public and private foreign aid	1
Elite cues and public climate attitudes: The influence of the Trump presidency on republicans’ attitudes toward global warming	1
Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time	1