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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	44
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	26
Media skepticism and reactions to political scandals: An analysis of the Trump–Ukraine case	21
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	20
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	17
Editorial introduction: Gender and political financing	15
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	14
Thank You to Reviewers	14
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	14
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	13
Class voting or economic voting? Electoral support for chavismo (1998–2015)	13
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	12
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	12
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	11
BRICS, G20 and global economic governance reform	11
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	11
The internal and external institutionalization of the BRICS countries: The case of the New Development Bank	11
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	10
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	10
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	9
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	8
Thank You to Reviewers	8
Introduction: War in Ukraine	8
Politics and corona lockdown regulations in 35 highly advanced democracies: The first wave	8
Conservatism, social isolation and political context: Why East Europeans would leave the EU in Exit referendums	7

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
Introduction: ‘The BRICS, Global Governance, and Challenges for South–South Cooperation in a Post-Western World’	6
Natural resource wealth and the informal economy	6
The rise of research on independence referendums	6
Does it pay to think about the future? Future orientation, ideology, age and vote earning among political candidates	6
Pathways to democracy after authoritarian breakdown: Comparative case selection and lessons from the past	6
The penetration of Russian disinformation related to the war in Ukraine: Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia	6
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	5
Unintended environmental sustainability ramifications of US sanctions	5
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	5
Special issue introduction: The political ramifications of COVID-19	5
Life satisfaction and the conventionality of political participation: The moderation effect of post-materialist value orientation	5
Electoral rules and the two-party system: A methodological inquiry with reference to Duverger’s law	5
Domestic legal traditions and international cooperation: Insights from domestic and international qualification systems	4
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	4
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	4
Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective	4
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	4
Time is of the essence: Explaining the duration of European Union lawmaking under the co-decision procedure	4
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	4
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	3
Are politically engaged citizens more democratic? A glimpse from Brazil	3
Should we conduct correspondence study field experiments with political elites?	3
How perceptions and information about women’s descriptive representation affect support for positive action measures	3
Comparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review article	3
The relative effectiveness of overlapping international institutions: European Union versus United Nations regulations of air pollution	3
Party policy responsiveness at the agenda-setting and decision-making stages: The mediating effect of the types of government and promise	3
Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors	3
‘Sour grapes and the seeds of discontent’: Citizens in ressentiment and the populist surge	3
The peacemaking role of independent commissions: The role of institutional design	3
Improving referendums with deliberative democracy: A systematic literature review	2
Populist attitudes and challenges towards liberal democracy: An empirical assessment of the Turkish case	2
Femisocial capital: Homophily and bill sponsorship by South Korean female legislators	2
Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: Feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy	2
Funding demands and gender in political recruitment: What parties do in Cabo Verde and Ghana	2
Supermarket politics: personality and political consumerism	2
Do populists practise what they preach? Intra-party democracy in populist parties	2
Time to go: Paths of term limit resilience in sub-Saharan Africa	2
‘We’ve got this policy, now what?’ The security politics of implementing the Family Protection Law in Jordan	2
The angry voter? The role of emotions in voting for the radical left and right at the 2019 Belgian elections	2
Sources of campaign funding for incumbents versus challengers in list proportional representation systems: The case of Colombia	2
Populist radical right-wing parties and the assault on political correctness: The impact of Vox in Spain	2
The structural power of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in multilateral development finance: A case study of the New Development Bank	2
Constructing the local woman peacebuilder in the Women, Peace and Security agenda: Iraqi women’s participation in local peacebuilding programmes	2
Can women dynasty politicians disrupt social norms of political leadership? A proposed typology of normative change	2
A whole-of-nation approach to COVID-19: Taiwan’s National Epidemic Prevention Team	2
Multi-bilateral aid for disease control	1
Direct democracy as a liberal political regime	1
The deepest foundation of our democratic crisis	1

Europe in the Indo-Pacific: Economic, security, and normative engagement	1
Legalistic autocrats: How legislative rules shape term-limit compliance and evasion	1
Direct democracy and equality: A global perspective	1
Moving in parallel? Economic inequality and public demand for redistribution in unequal societies	1
Thank you to Reviewers	1
Are men and women contacted differently by electoral campaigns? A cross-national examination of gender gaps	1
Experts, coders and crowds: An analysis of substitutability	1
Multidimensional poverty and conflict events in Nigeria over time	1
Varieties of local participation? A vignette survey on local executive politicians’ legitimacy perceptions towards different participatory arrangements	1
From football stadium to revolution and war frontlines: Ukrainian ultras and the conversion of their capital	1
Free market capitalism and societal inequities: Assessing the effects of economic freedom on income inequality and the equity of access to opportunity, 1990–2017	1
Gendered leadership and political structures: A global analysis of crisis responses across 150 countries	1
‘It’s a total no-no’: The strategic silence about gender in the European Parliament’s economic governance policies	1
Contingent gender gap: a cross-national study of female attitudes toward economic globalization	1
The Brexit effect: Political implications of the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union	1