OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Intelligence and National Security is 2. 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 academic-practitioner divide in intelligence studies	13
Investigating an authoritarian intelligence apparatus: the case of Myanmar	12
A new theory of surprise – unraveling the logic of uncertainty and knowledge	10
Australian intelligence oversight and accountability: efficacy and contemporary challenges	10
Spies for the Sultan: Ottoman intelligence in the great rivalry with Spain	10
Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism	9
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silence?	8
Agents, attachés, and intelligence failures: the Imperial Japanese Navy’s efforts to establish espionage networks in the United States before Pearl Harbor	8
Pinochet’s poisons: examining Chile’s historical interest in chemical and biological weapons	8
Critical Intelligence Studies: a new framework for analysis	7
The many realisms of John le Carré	7
Identification-imitation-amplification: understanding divisive influence campaigns through cyberspace	7
A blue ribbon goat: the Rockefeller Commission, public opinion, and the Ford Administration’s intelligence reform failure	7
Spies, lies, and algorithms: the history and future of American intelligence	6
The COVID-19 intelligence failure. Why warning was not enough	6
Optimal spending on cybersecurity measures: digital privacy and data protection	5
The history of intelligence in Kenya	5
Beyond counterintelligence: understanding the SBU’s social media outreach on Telegram during wartime	5
Thatcher’s spy: my life as an MI5 agent inside Sinn Féin Thatcher’s spy: my life as an MI5 agent inside Sinn Féin , by Willie Carlin, Newbridge, County Kildare, Republic	5
State Department cipher machines and communications security in the early Cold War, 1944–1965	5
Israeli national intelligence culture: problem-solving, exceptionalism, and pragmatism	5
The determined spy: the turbulent life and times of CIA pioneer Frank Wisner	5
Modelling the intelligence requirements and priorities process: the US response to the Rwandan genocide	5
The handbook of Asian intelligence cultures	5
The multifaceted norm of objectivity in intelligence practices	5

Methodological and epistemological reflections on elite interviews and the study of Israel’s intelligence history: interview with Efraim Halevy	5
Recruit, deploy, discard: Jewish Israelis in Iranian espionage operations	5
Unravelling effectiveness in intelligence: a systematic review	5
The evolution of African intelligence cultures	5
New writings on grand strategy	4
Stepping out of the shadows: the legitimacy of the Bahamas’ NCIA	4
‘The painful aftermath’: reactions to the publication of SOE in France	4
Innovation, openness, and the future of intelligence: an interview with Brigt Harr Vaage	4
A unified theory for intelligence analysis	4
Profiles in Intelligence: an interview with Professor Loch K. Johnson	4
Ambient politicization: intelligence, credibility, and the U.S. Intervention in Lebanon, 1958	4
SIGINT below zero: the indications and warning role of Canadian Forces Station Alert, 1958–1975	4
World War I and the foundations of American intelligence	3
The last honest man: the CIA, the Mafia and the Kennedy’s. And one senator’s fight for democracy	3
Improving intelligence analysis and education in the US with stronger foundations in statistical literacy	3
Human-machine teaming for digital transformation	3
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man	3
Privatizing civil society: outsourcing governance in John le Carré’s post-Cold War novels	3
Standing, joint or select committee? The motivations and consequences of creating new permanent select committee on intelligence in the U.S. Congress	3
Swedish intelligence, Russia and the war in Ukraine: anticipations, course, and future implications	3
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with 11th Mossad director Tamir Pardo	3
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Tony Comer	3
The vanishing watchman: the rise and decline of early warning	3
A country with “its own special problems”: domestic surveillance in Scotland during the Second World War	3
A seat at the president’s table? Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Six Day War	3
The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s	3
Integrating Japan’s Intelligence Community: analyzing the effectiveness of the Director of Cabinet Intelligence as a coordinating body	3
Learning from mistakes: the impact of the October 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts	3
The value of engaged critique: civic intelligence oversight and the freedom of information in the Netherlands	3
Women in intelligence: historic insights, contemporary challenges, and future directions	3
Examining the January 6 Capitol attack ‘intelligence failure’: the challenge of domestic security and the role of HUMINT	3
Profiles in intelligence: an interview with the 17th Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon	3
The neo-imperialism of decolonisation: John le Carré and Cold War India	3
Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI): adaptive evolution in the interaction between collection and analysis	3
‘What goes on behind the cloaks and daggers’: George Markstein and the dramatization of counterintelligence on British television	3
Fact, fake or fiction?: the disguised spy novels of Bernard Newman in the 1930s	2
India’s foreign intelligence history and future challenges Strategic Challenges: India in 2030 , edited by Jayadeva Ranade, foreword by Peter Rimmele, Gurugram, HarperCo	2
Listening to Cairo: British radio monitoring and intelligence gathering, c. 1953-1967	2
‘No one was listening’: the 1981 JIC report, the Falklands/Malvinas crisis, and the politics of selective listening	2
Political theory and the CIA in the US imperium	2
The good, the bad, and the tradecraft: HUMINT and the ethics of psychological manipulation	2
The politics of intelligence failures: power, rationality, and the intelligence process	2
Public-private collaboration and the digital transformation of intelligence	2
Leveraging data science to investigate intelligence failures	2
Editor’s Note:	2
The theatre of the real: the actor/spy relationship in le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Little Drummer Girl	2
Twenty years on: Intelligence and Security Committee and investigating torture in the 'war on terror'	2
Iran’s grand strategy: a political history	2
From TOPLEV to ALCHEMY: the evolution of one FBI approach to addressing foreign influence	2
Knowledge gives strength to the arm: an agenda for studying combat intelligence as a discrete function within military intelligence	2

The myth of coercive diplomacy: the U.S. intelligence community and the war in Bosnia	2
Dealing with data: coming to grips with the Information Age in Intelligence Studies journals	2
Che Guevara: the romantic revolutionary	2
National security intelligence activity: a philosophical analysis	2
Avoiding the terrorist trap: why respect for human rights is the key to defeating terrorism Avoiding the terrorist trap: why respect for human rights is the key to defeating terrorism	2
The regulation of intelligence activities under international law	2
The perils of presidential openness: strikes, secrecy and performative opacity	2
Partisanship and congressional intelligence oversight: the case of the Russia inquiries, 2017-2020	2
All the world’s a stage: covert action as theatrical performance	2
How to explain the value of intelligence analysis: external consequences or internal characteristics?	2
Sharing empire: Great Britain, Fascist Italy, and (anti-) colonial intelligence networks in the Palestine Mandate, 1933-1940	2
Spreading the “smog of war”: the impact of propaganda, social media, and OSINT on U.S. civil-intelligence relations	2
Intelligence outsourcing for non-traditional clients: the rise of private sector intelligence providers	2
The FAN TAN file: Quebec separatism and security service resistance to politicization 1971–72	2
‘Profiles in intelligence’: an interview with 8th Mossad chief Danny Yatom	2
Smart new world: adapting human intelligence for the digital age	2
Recruiting resistance: women, war, and intelligence in the SOE’s F section	2
Comparative intelligence operations of nonstate armed groups: a comprehensive review	2
The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets The declassification engine: what history reveals about America’s top secrets , Matthew Con	2