OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Intelligence and National Security 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of AI on intelligence analysis: tackling issues of collaboration, algorithmic transparency, accountability, and management	15
Critical intelligence studies: introduction to the special issue	10
Australian intelligence oversight and accountability: efficacy and contemporary challenges	10
A whole of society intelligence approach: critical reassessment of the tools and means used to counter information warfare in the digital age	8
Flexible versus structured support for reasoning: enhancing analytical reasoning through a flexible analytic technique	8
Hard target espionage in the information era: new challenges for the second oldest profession	7
Reflexive intelligence and converging knowledge regimes	6
Circulation, not cooperation: towards a new understanding of intelligence agencies as transnationally constituted knowledge providers	6
Strange bedfellows in the arms trade: Polish intelligence, Monzer al-Kassar and the Iran-Contra affair	5
From sigint to cyber: a hundred years of Britain’s biggest intelligence agency	5
Intelligence under democracy and authoritarianism: a philosophical analysis	5
On the critical utility of complexity theory in intelligence studies	5
Why still critical? Critical intelligence studies positioned in scholarship on security, war, and international relations	5
#ForgetJamesBond: diversity, inclusion and the UK’s intelligence agencies	5
“Don’t keep mum”: critical approaches to the narratives of women intelligence professionals	4
New evidence and new methods for analyzing the Iranian revolution as an intelligence failure	4
Espionage by Europeans: treason and counterintelligence in post-Cold War Europe	4
State preferences, viable alternatives, and American covert action, 1946-1989	4
Understanding the complexity of intelligence problems	4
Deciphering intelligence analysis: the synthetic nature of the core intelligence function	4
Justified true belief theory for intelligence analysis	4
Integrating intelligence theory with philosophy: introduction to the special issue	4
Adopting and improving a new forecasting paradigm	4
Queering intelligence studies	4
A fundamental re-conceputalization of intelligence: cognitive activity and the pursuit of advantage	4

A prominent spy: Mehdi Ben Barka, Czechoslovak intelligence, and Eastern Bloc espionage in the Third World during the Cold War	4
‘No, we don’t know where Tupac is’: critical intelligence studies and the CIA on social media	3
Is sunlight the best counterintelligence technique? the effectiveness of covert operation exposure in blunting the Russian intervention in the 2020 U.S. election	3
Rethinking intelligence practices and processes: three sociological concepts for the study of intelligence	3
CIA support to policymakers: the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities	3
‘Familiar but not intimate’: executive oversight of the UK intelligence and security agencies	3
Twenty years on: Intelligence and Security Committee and investigating torture in the 'war on terror'	3
Devil’s Advocacy within Dutch military intelligence (2008-2020): an effective instrument for quality assurance?	3
Intelligence-exalting strategic cultures: a case study of the Russian approach	3
Public knowledge of intelligence agencies among university students in Spain	3
Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism	3
Strategic intelligence practice in the Australian intelligence community: evolution, constraints and progress	3
Party politics and intelligence: the Labour Party, British intelligence and oversight, 1979-1994	3
Moshe Dayan in the Yom Kippur War: a Reassessment	3
Policy for promoting analytic rigor in intelligence: professionals’ views and their psychological correlates	3
The Iran nuclear archive: impressions and implications	3
Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis	2
The many realisms of John le Carré	2
Stay-behind networks and interim flexible strategy: the ‘Gladio’ case and US covert intervention in Italy in the Cold War	2
Reluctant revolutionaries: Czechoslovak support of revolutionary violence between decolonization and détente	2
Where to submit: a guide to publishing intelligence studies articles	2
Conclusion: the development of critical intelligence studies	2
Using argument mapping to improve clarity and rigour in written intelligence products	2
British intelligence and the Dardanelles: the 1906 Taba affair revisited	2
Private sector intelligence: on the long path of professionalization	2
Assessing intelligence oversight: the case of Sweden	2
CIA/SOF convergence and congressional oversight	2
The multifaceted norm of objectivity in intelligence practices	2
Counterintelligence and escalation from hybrid to total war in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict 2014–2024	2
Michael Herman: doyen of intelligence studies	2
Intelligence and culture: an introduction	2
Epidemiological intelligence fusion centers: health security and COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic	2
The good, the bad, and the tradecraft: HUMINT and the ethics of psychological manipulation	2
Dealing with data: coming to grips with the Information Age in Intelligence Studies journals	2
Oversight and governance of the Danish intelligence community	2
Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy	2
‘An anarchy of treason’: public history, insider knowledge and the early spy novels of John le Carré	2
To trust or to restrict? – mapping professional perspectives on intelligence powers and oversight in the Netherlands using Q-methodology	2
What philosophy can do for intelligence	2
The Yom Kippur intelligence failure after fifty years: what lessons can be learned?	2
Health security intelligence capabilities post COVID-19: resisting the passive “new normal” within the Five Eyes	2
Intelligence analysis as cryptic hermeneutics	2
Secrecy, evidence, and fear: exploring the construction of intelligence power with Actor-Network Theory (ANT)	1
‘The tortuousness of our Albanian allies’: Special Operations Executive in Albania through the eyes of Anthony Quayle’s Eight hours from England	1
Health security warning intelligence during first contact with COVID: an operations perspective	1
Overcoming the inertia of ‘old ways of producing intelligence’—the IC’s development and use of new analytic methods in the 1970s	1
Secret partners: the national reconnaissance office and the intelligence-industrial-academic complex	1
Reappraising the effectiveness of intelligence methods of a violent non-state sovereignty: a case-study of the SPLA insurgency in the Sudan (1983 – 2005)	1
The evolution of the Al-Shabaab jihadist intelligence structure	1
‘The enemy teaches us how to operate’: Palestinian Hamas use of open source intelligence (OSINT) in its intelligence warfare against Israel (1987-2012)	1

Special Forum on intelligence and theory	1
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace	1
Intelligence & the Russo-Ukrainian war: introduction to the special issue	1
National security intelligence activity: a philosophical analysis	1
The Ukraine war and the shift in Russian intelligence priorities	1
Reflections on conveying uncertainty	1
John Cairncross, RASCLS and a reassessment of his motives	1
The Phantom Eye: New Zealand and the Five Eyes	1
British geographic intelligence during the Second World War: a case study of the Canary Islands	1
The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures	1
Ignorance, indifference, or incompetence: why are Russian covert actions so easily unmasked?	1
Sharing empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-1940	1
Predator’s Progress: the bureaucratic challenges to the Clinton administration’s development and deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (1993-2001)	1
Arms exports and intelligence: the case of Sweden	1
Listening to Cairo: British radio monitoring and intelligence gathering, c. 1953-1967	1
The best of both worlds? a hybrid approach to intelligence and research	1
Analytical innovation in intelligence systems: the US national security establishment and the craft of ‘net assessment’	1
The essential inevitability of worrying about the bomb: new writing on the Cuban missile crisis	1
A delicate truth: John le Carré, spy fiction and intelligence	1
John le Carré’s The Looking Glass War: imagining the Special Operations Executive – Secret Intelligence Service rivalry as post-war counterfactual history	1
Between the secret state and the public sphere: the writer as intermediary	1
Quantum espionage: a phenomenology of the Snowden affair	1
The intelligence lobby before the intelligence lobby: MI5 Director General Stella Rimington and the hunt for the new legitimacy	1
Towards a better framework for estimative intelligence – addressing quality through a systematic approach to uncertainty handling	1
‘Vital and irreplaceable facilities’: explaining leverage when states host great powers’ spying operations	1
Growth, diversification, and disconnection: an analysis of 70 years of intelligence scholarship (1950-2020)	1
The sad loss of Michael Herman (1929–2021)	1
Leviathan’s Heirs: sovereignty, intelligence, and the modern state	1
Making intelligence telework work: mitigating distraction, maintaining focus	1
Fake leads, defamation and destabilization: how online disinformation continues to impact Russia’s invasion of Ukraine	1
Robert Jervis: remembering the dean of intelligence studies	1
All the world’s a stage: covert action as theatrical performance	1
The Rooseboom operation: uncovering the embryonic German intelligence network in South Africa, 1940-1942	1
The evolution of historical scholarship and the rise of the visible and accountable national security state: tales from a life in Intelligence Studies	1
How surprising was ISIS’ rise to power for the German intelligence community? Reconstructing estimates of likelihood prior to the fall of Mosul	1
The Sisson Documents and their ‘distinguished place’ in the history of disinformation	1
Disaster intelligence: developing strategic warning for national security	1
French paramilitary actions during the Algerian War of Independence, 1956-1958	1
Finding a match: the revolution in recruitment and its application to selecting intelligence analysts	1
Robust-satisficing ethics in intelligence	1
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity	1
Intelligence warning in the Ukraine war, Autumn 2021 – Summer 2022	1
Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention - and how to think deeply again Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention - and how to think deeply again , by Johann Hari, New	1
The intelligence politics of early congressional oversight of CIA	1
The Security Intelligence Agencies in New Zealand: evolution, challenges and progress	1
Tradecraft, the PIAB, and the 2007 NIE on Iran’s Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities	1
The neo-imperialism of decolonisation: John le Carré and Cold War India	1
Feminist philosophy and the problem of intelligence analysis: standpoint, measurement, and motivation	1