OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Electoral Studies is 20. 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
Editorial Board	68
Forecasting elections with October surprises	62
Secure majorities, unequal districts: One person, one vote & state bipartisanship	60
Age gaps in political representation: Comparing local and national elections	46
Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy	45
‘It's the quality of government stupid’ explaining patterns in support for far right in the 2022 French presidential election	44
Have attitudes toward democracy polarized in the U.S.?	43
Information, perceptions, and electoral behaviour of young voters: A randomised controlled experiment	37
Wishful thinking in response to events: Evidence from the 2021 German federal election	34
Linking individual electoral performance to the composition of elected bodies: A counterfactual-based approach	33
The unswayed voter: How a polarized electorate responds to economic growth	31
Does Brown beat Biesiada? Name fluency and electoral success	30
Do second-order elections produce second-order governments? How national and regional factors influence the composition of regional governments	29
Who punishes the government? Income-based disparities in economic voting	28
Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives	28
Judicial resistance during electoral disputes: Evidence from Kenya	27
Motivations for partisan attachment in the developing world	27
Limited supply: Youth underrepresentation in the Canadian House of Commons	25
Consolidation nations: Public attitudes, electoral institutions, and fiscal rules in the European Union	23
The federal election 2021: Germany at the crossroads?	22