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 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
Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it	14
Campaign expenditures and electoral outcomes in Israeli legislative primaries – A financial gender gap?	14
Thank You to Reviewers	14
Class voting or economic voting? Electoral support for chavismo (1998–2015)	13
The various facets of eliminationist politics: Conflict, nation-building, and forced migration	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
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
Digital public governance and corruption: Analysis of a two-way relationship in Africa	11
BRICS, G20 and global economic governance reform	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
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
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
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
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