OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Interactions is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Lessons from an escalation prediction competition	22
United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition	18
Known unknowns: media bias in the reporting of political violence	17
How moral foundations shape public approval of nuclear, chemical, and conventional strikes: new evidence from experimental surveys	16
Success of economic sanctions threats: coercion, information and commitment	13
Commanding Support: Values and Interests in the Rhetoric of Alliance Politics	13
United Nations peace initiatives 1946-2015: introducing a new dataset	11
The effects of economic sanctions on targeted countries’ stock markets	10
Using past violence and current news to predict changes in violence	9
Forecasting conflict in Africa with automated machine learning systems	8
Conflict and cooperation with trade partners	8
Re-examining the costs of sanctions and sanctions threats using stock market data	8
Labor rights in comparative perspective: The WorkR dataset	8
Making trains from boxcars: studying conflict and conflict management interdependencies	7
Local competitive authoritarianism and post-conflict violence. An analysis of the assassination of social leaders in Colombia	7
Should I stay or should I go? The decision to flee or stay home during civil war	7
Deprivation, instability, and propensity to attack: how urbanization influences terrorism	7
The colonial roots of structural coup-proofing	6
Regime type and co-sponsorship in the UN General Assembly	6
Conflict forecasting with event data and spatio-temporal graph convolutional networks	6
Shaming into compliance? Country reporting of convention adherence to the International Labour Organization	5
Signaling restraint: international engagement and rebel groups’ commitment to international law	5
Combatant rank and socialization to norms of restraint: examining the Australian and Philippine armies	5
Survival of the best fit: modelling nuclear proliferation	5
Click, click boom: Using Wikipedia data to predict changes in battle-related deaths	5

Dictators, personalized security forces, and coups	5
A price for peace: troop contributing countries’ responses to peacekeeper fatalities	5
Private military and security companies, corporate structure, and levels of violence in Iraq	4
Reporting of non-fatal conflict events	4
Rebel recruitment and retention in civil conflict	4
Domestic Politics and the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Courts	4
The role of governmental weapons procurements in forecasting monthly fatalities in intrastate conflicts: A semiparametric hierarchical hurdle model	4
A shape-based approach to conflict forecasting	4
Rebel command and control, time, and rebel group splits	4
Could leaders deflect from political scandals? Cross-national experiments on diversionary action in Israel and Japan	4
Covid-19 insecurities and migration aspirations	4
Forecasting conflict using a diverse machine-learning ensemble: Ensemble averaging with multiple tree-based algorithms and variance promoting data configurations	3
Rivalry, ethnicity, and asylum admissions worldwide	3
Strategic rebels: a spatial econometric approach to rebel fighting durations in civil wars	3
Extant commitment, risk, and UN peacekeeping authorization	3
Will you still love me tomorrow? Partisan electoral interventions, foreign policy compliance, and voting in the UN	3
Employing local peacekeeping data to forecast changes in violence	3
Risk preferences, uncertainty, and war	3
Group identification, uncertainty, and the duration of genocide and politicide	3
“Whitewashing and extortion: why human rights-abusing states participate in UN peacekeeping operations”	3
Why “cheap” threats are meaningful: Threat perception and resolve in North Korean propaganda	3
Categorization in international organizations	3
Amplifying and nullifying the impact of democratic sanctions through aid to civil society	3
Crowding out the field: External Support to Insurgents and the Intensity of Inter-rebel Fighting in Civil Wars	3
‘Wars of Others’: National Cleavages and Attitudes towards External Conflicts	3
Women in uniform: the opening of combat roles in state militaries	3
Norms, non-combatants’ agency and restraint in jihadi violence in northern Mali	3
Time for a haircut: political regimes and sovereign debt restructurings	3
Initiator conditions and the diffusion of digital trade-related provisions in PTAs	3
Mutual gain or resource drain? Attitudes toward international financial assistance during the early COVID-19 pandemic	3
High-level visit and national security policy: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Taiwan	3
Challenging the status quo: Predicting violence with sparse decision-making data	3