OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European Integration 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	94
Confronting geopolitics: the EU (and EU studies) at a crossroads?	88
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	84
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	60
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	56
Towards operationalisation of ‘Europeanisation’ at the sub-national level: a review and proposal of indicators	45
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	41
Player and playground: Europe in US–China competition	41
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	40
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	37
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	36
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	34
The mismatch between regulatory ideals and practical implementation: the challenges faced by national regulatory bodies in pursuit of the single European railway area	33
A market for war? the reinforcing logics of Europe’s security turn ¹	31
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	28
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	27
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	26
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	24
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	24
In the shadow of the EU’s crises: the changing dynamics of the European knowledge area, 2014–25	23
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	22
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	22
Public finance and the dynamic of European integration: an expanding galaxy	20
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	20
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	19

Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	19
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	18
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	18
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	17
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	16
The role of external interference in the politicisation of EU integration: Russian influence and the 2024 referendum in Moldova	16
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	15
Towards a political economy of the green transition	15
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	15
The politicisation of morality in German and Irish discourses on Ukraine	15
Synchronizing out of gridlock: how the Council of the EU reached agreement on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum	15
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	14
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	14
A matter of scope: regional strategies in EU matters from the viewpoint of citizens in twelve European regions	14
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	14
The EU social turn in words and deeds: economic coordination and labour-market reforms	13
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	13
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	13
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	13
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	13
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	12
The European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism: The Maturing of the European Regulatory State	12
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	12
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	12
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	12
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	11
From cohesion to differentiation? The effect of Cohesion Policy on the citizens’ preferences for differentiated integration	11
Beyond the water’s edge. Realities of European security and defence politics during war	11
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	11
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	11
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	10
Correction	10
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	10
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	10
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	10
Wedging, binding and Europe in the US-China competition: theoretical and policy implications	10
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	10
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	10
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	10
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	10
Early warning to no avail?: explaining (in)activity of national parliaments in the Early Warning Mechanism	10
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	10
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	9
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	9
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	9
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	9
Populism, the far right and EU integration: beyond simple dichotomies	8
The European Union’s roles in global atmospheric governance: evolving towards a ‘spacifier’?	8
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	8
’We do not see the problem, but agree with your solution’: the European Court of Auditors and the politics of evaluation in EU development policy	8

Mind the output gap: the (de-)politicisation of fiscal policy in the EU	8
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	8
Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation	8
Comparing radical left parties’ positions on Ukraine and Israel: between Russophilia and anti-Semitism?	8
EU law and the governance of Global Spaces: ambitions, constraints and legal creativity	8
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	8
What comes next? Institutional differentiated appropriation of the Conference on the future of Europe’s recommendations	8
The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	7
The crisis discourse’s blind spot: EU-level politicization and the endogenization of the migration crisis	7
Policy learning within and across European institutions: charting the path towards European integration	7
Winds of change? The impact of the European Green Deal on the practice of EU climate diplomacy	7
Do citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendum	7
The illusion of convergence? Exploring the patterns of (de-) politicisation of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the European Parliament	7
The Roma and the double-movement of Social Europe	7
Partners for the climate? How and why EU Delegations engage with civil society organisations in climate diplomacy	6
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement: has Georgia “got lost” on its way to European integration?	6
EU or Euro Area Crisis? Studying Differentiated Integration as an Idea Structuring Elite Perceptions of the Sovereign Debt and the COVID-19 Crisis	6
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development	6
Reappraising the EU-Turkey Refugee Statement within the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Nexus	6
Defending Europe from below: pro-European activism in Germany and the UK and its contribution to the politicisation of Europe	6
Civilizationism in the European Union beyond the far right: a morphological approach	6
Behind closed doors: informal governance in intergovernmental decision-making during the 2015 Greek bailout negotiations	6
Riding the wave? The impact of the Russian invasion on MEP behaviour regarding EU enlargement to the Western Balkan countries	6
Dancing to the same tune? EU and US approaches to standards setting in the global digital sector	6
Embedding past, present and future crises: time and the political construction of the Covid-19 pandemic in the EU	6
Italian foreign policy between Ukraine and Gaza: politicisation and war fatigue from Draghi to Meloni	6
Who you gonna call … when developing a flagship initiative in an area of limited EU competence? A resource exchange perspective on the development of the European Universities Initiative (EUI)	6
From entry to exit: how and why the European Commission politicised EU emigration	6
Cohesion through co-optation: the mobilisation of evaluative critique as a key enabler of a European investment policy	6
Ad hoc coalitions in European security and defence: symptoms of short-term pragmatism, no more?	6
Running out the digital clock: transatlantic privacy politics and veto points in time	6
‘J’accuse!’: whistleblowing, critical citizenship and the EU directive on whistleblowers’ protection	6
The European Parliament as a human rights champion? Legitimation practices in the DROI and LIBE committees	6
A ‘Europe of defence’? The establishment of binding commitments and supranational governance in European security and defence	5
Sub-national bureaucracies in the European administrative space	5
Under pressure? How regional dominant parties shift their EU positions when challenged by Euroskeptic parties	5
The European Union’s nascent role in the field of collective defense: between deliberate and emergent strategy	5
The unbalanced transatlantic relationship: understanding US influence in Europe	5
The EU’s recovery playbook: solidarity, conditionality, and resilience in European Parliament debates on the Recovery and Resilience Facility	5
Everything but liberal – aid and EU democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood	5
To ban or not to ban? Chinese telecom equipment in Northern Europe	5
Avoiding an emotions-action gap? The EU and genocide designations	5
The role of the European Central Bank in response to COVID19. An evaluation of its mandate	5
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	5
COVID-19 as a critical juncture for EU development policy? Assessing the introduction and evolution of “Team Europe”	5
The geopolitics of cyberspace and the European Union’s changing identity	5
When the guns fall silent: the variety of European perspectives on the end of war in Ukraine	5
Russia’s war on Ukraine: unbottled emotions and the conditioning of the EU’s Russia policy	5
Riding the Eurosceptic tiger vs taming it by technocracy: the UK and France as two ideal types of how to manage hard Euroscepticism	5
Progressing regressively: conditional convergence and Europeanisation of tax mixes	5
Schengen in crisis? Positions of member states reimposing internal border controls	5
Present at the invasion: issue ownership, party competition and the politicisation of the Ukraine War	4
Cautious optimism: unravelling Chinese views on European strategic autonomy	4
The European Union’s failure to address the autocracy crisis: MacGyver, Rube Goldberg, and Europe’s unused tools	4
Public communication and strategic planning: the case of EU Cohesion Policy	4
Beyond parliamentary ratification: the role of national and subnational parliaments in EU-Mercosur trade negotiations	4
A principal-agent analysis of inter-agency cooperation in EU border management	4
Minilateralism in practice: assessing the EU’s and its members’ selective embrace of minilateral diplomacy	4
Schrödinger’s off-balance-sheet fiscal agency: the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the limits to incremental fiscal integration in Europe	4
From ordo-liberalism to ordo-Keynesianism? The contradictory nature of EU economic governance	4
Shifting narratives? The EU’s approach to the Indo-Pacific after the war in Ukraine	4
Implementation performance in the field of the EU Customs Union: consequences of differentiated policy implementation on customs control efficiency	4
Genesis and evolution of EU anti disinformation policy: entrepreneurship and political opportunism in the regulation of digital technology	4
The fiscal sovereignty of the European Union after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	4
Silencing voices or strengthening democracy? SLAPPs in the European context	4
The EU Market Citizenship paradigm: embraced or abandoned?	4
From market failures to systemic failures: the evolving rationale for European industrial Policy	4
Women’s leadership in the EU institutions: a comparative prosopography between 2016 and 2021	4
The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union – three rationalities of interaction and the problem of non-democratic regionalism	4
From roadmap to regulation: will there be a transatlantic approach to governing artificial intelligence?	4
Anti-populism, populism, and the politicisation of foreign policy: evidence from Czechia and France	4
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?	4