OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Political Science Review 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The rise and fall of exclusion: A longitudinal study of US attitudes toward immigration	26
Change in armed conflict: An introduction	18
Online censorship and young people’s use of social media to get news	17
New insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts	16
The public legitimacy of elite athletes’ political activism: German survey evidence	15
Thank You to Reviewers	14
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	14
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	13
Do bilateral investment treaties help post-coup countries attract foreign investment?	13
Germany and the Indo-Pacific in an age of superpower competition	13
Does opinion really matter: World Trade Organization’s members’ stance on India’s anti-dumping policy?	12
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	12
Cohabitation and presidential powers: A global examination of dual executives 1850–2022	11
Understanding individual preferences over political appointees: Evidence from a conjoint experiment	10
Expanding anticipatory governance to legislatures: The emergence and global diffusion of legislature-based future institutions	9
The right man for the job? Dictators’ selection mode and their facial characteristics	9
Navigating new realities: Explaining programmatic transitions of mainstream and niche parties	9
Introduction to special issue: Inclusion and commissions in peace processes	9
Thank You to Reviewers	9
Can institutional quality reduce geopolitical risk? Evidence from G20 countries	9
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	9
Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive	8
Pathways to democracy after authoritarian breakdown: Comparative case selection and lessons from the past	7
People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel	7
The road to citizenship: How discussing politics shapes political interest across the lifespan	7

Electoral rules and the two-party system: A methodological inquiry with reference to Duverger’s law	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
Introduction: War in Ukraine	7
Unintended environmental sustainability ramifications of US sanctions	6
The forgotten protest dynamics: The politics of non-repressive state responses to mobilization	6
Does it pay to think about the future? Future orientation, ideology, age and vote earning among political candidates	6
Gated pathways: Gendered networks and the relational politics of local candidacy in Palestine	6
The economic vote when there is no ruling party presidential candidate: Chile in 2021	5
Policymaking under tough economic times: Parties, policy issues and the adoption of programmatic policies	5
Is there more strategic voting under plurality or majority runoff? Survey evidence from presidential elections worldwide	5
Shaking up the vote: The electoral impact of induced earthquakes	5
The penetration of Russian disinformation related to the war in Ukraine: Evidence from Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia	5
The egalitarian paradox: Democratic values, perceived inequality and political support	5
The revenge of ‘democratic peace’	5
Do aid projects from World Bank and China impact state legitimacy differently? An exploratory analysis in Tanzania	4
Introduction: A feminist international relations approach to the Middle East/North Africa	4
Do populist presidents crowd out FDI inflows? The role of ideology and sectoral characteristics	4
Does (dis)liking the governing parties correlate with democratic (dis)satisfaction?	4
States or social networks? Popular attitudes amid health crises in the Middle East and North Africa	4
Conceptions of democracy in China: New evidence from the structural topic model	4
Illiberal democracy and the erosion of academic freedom in the ‘new’ Türkiye	4