OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of European Integration 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
EU economic governance and Covid-19: policy learning and windows of opportunity	116
European Union Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic: adaptability in times of Permanent Emergency	84
The Covid-19 crisis: a critical juncture for EU climate policy development?	82
Theorizing institutional change and governance in European responses to the Covid-19 pandemic	73
Nein to ‘Transfer Union’: the German brake on the construction of a European Union fiscal capacity	40
The development of EU health policy and the Covid-19 pandemic: trends and implications	39
Discursive continuity and change in the time of Covid-19: the case of EU cybersecurity policy	35
The Domestic Challenge to EU Foreign Policy-Making: From Europeanisation to de-Europeanisation?	35
Framing immobility: Schengen governance in times of pandemics	28
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	27
Sizing up the competition: explaining reform of European Union competition policy in the Covid-19 era	26
A member state like any other? Germany and the European integration of core state powers	24
Digital Single Market and the EU Competition Regime: An Explanation of Policy Change	24
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	23
A community of shared values? Dimensions and dynamics of cultural integration in the European Union	22
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	21
Reframing the language of human rights? Political group contestations on women’s and LGBTQI rights in European Parliament debates	19
Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process	19
The European Council as a crisis manager and fusion driver: assessing the EU’s fiscal response to the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Clear messages to the European public? The language of European Commission press releases 1985–2020	17
The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	17
Loyal at once? The EU’s global health awakening in the Covid-19 pandemic	16
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	16
The European defence fund: a step towards a single market for defence?	15
Championing the ‘German model’? Germany’s consistent preferences on the integration of fiscal constraints	15

Importing EU norms: the case of anti-corruption reform in Ukraine	14
Populism meets EU Foreign policy: the de-Europeanization of Poland´s Foreign policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict	14
Debating fiscal solidarity in the EU: interests, values and identities in the legitimation of the Next Generation EU plan	14
The Ukraine war and the emergence of the European commission as a geopolitical actor	14
Defending European integration by (symbolically) integrating European defence? Germany and its ambivalent role in European security and defence policy	13
The impact of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine on public perceptions of EU security and defence integration: a big data analysis	13
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	13
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	12
How to implement the European digital single market: identifying the catalyst for digital transformation	12
Power without a cause? Germany’s conflict avoidance and the integration of European defence procurement	12
Foreign policy and de-Europeanization under the M5S–League government: exploring the Italian behavior in the UN General Assembly	12
Explaining the reform of the Europarties’ selection procedures for Spitzenkandidaten	11
Not so unique after all? Urgency and norms in EU foreign and security policy	11
The Return of Intergovernmentalism? De-Europeanisation and EU Foreign Policy Decision-making	11
The Eurozone crisis’ impact: a de-Europeanization of Greek and Portuguese foreign policies?	10
Defying Europe? The Euroscepticism of radical right and radical left voters in Western Europe	10
The European Union’s failure to address the autocracy crisis: MacGyver, Rube Goldberg, and Europe’s unused tools	9
Watering down the ‘nuclear option’? The Council and the Article 7 dilemma	9
Borrowing in the European Union: from a pure national model to the antechamber of a European fiscal federal solution	9
Resisting domestic and external pressure towards de-Europeanization of foreign policy? The case of Estonia	9
The discursive construction of discontent: varieties of populist anti-system ideas and discursive interactions in Europe	9
Ontological security, crisis and political myth: the Ukraine war and the European Union	9
Challenges to the European single market at thirty: renationalisation, resilience, or renewed integration?	8
From Trevi to Europol: Germany’s role in the integration of EU police cooperation	8
The impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on Sino-European relations	8
The return of the commission social entrepreneurship before and after the Covid-19 pandemic	8
One step forward, two steps back: the ambiguous role of Germany in EU Asylum policies	8
Policy responsibility in the multilevel EU structure – The (non-)effect of media reporting on citizens’ responsibility attribution across four policy areas	7
Hierarchy, polyarchy, and experimentalism in EU banking regulation: the Single Supervisory Mechanism in action	7
Unintentional neo-colonialism? Three generations of trade and development relationship between EU and West Africa	7
Unity over diversity? The politics of differentiated integration after Brexit	7
The European Central Bank, the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the COVID-19 related economic crisis: a neofunctionalist analysis	7
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	7
Towards a ‘gold standard for the world’? The European General Data Protection Regulation between supranational and national norm entrepreneurship	7
Promoting the regulatory or the redistributive state? The politicisation of core state power integration in the German Bundestag, 1978-2019	7
Executive gladiators in the European arena: discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan	6
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	6
Speaking on Europe’s behalf: EU discourses of representation during the refugee crisis	6
Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities	6
De-Europeanisation in European foreign policy-making: assessing an exploratory research agenda	6
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	6
Bringing Independence and Accountability Together: Mission Impossible for the European Central Bank?	6
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	6
Introduction to the special issue: the persistent challenges to European Banking Union	6
Emotions in EU foreign policy – when and how do they matter?	6
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	6
Watching EU watchdogs assessing the accountability powers of the European Court of auditors and the European Ombudsman	6
Hidden phases of de-Europeanization: insights from historical institutionalism	5
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?	5
De facto differentiation in the EU’s economic and monetary union - A rationalist explanation	5

The fiscal sovereignty of the European Union after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	5
Engaged but constrained. Assessing EU actorness in the case of Nord Stream 2	5
De-Europeanisation of Czech policy towards Eastern Partnership countries under populist leaders	5
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	5
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	5
The coral reefs of global governance: how formal IOs make informality work	5
Gendering European politics: A story of Progress and Backlash	4
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	4
Implementation performance in the field of the EU Customs Union: consequences of differentiated policy implementation on customs control efficiency	4
Participation of ministers in Council of the EU meetings: variation across members and decline over time	4
Governance, accountability, and political legitimacy: who participates in the European parliament’s committee hearings (ECON 2004–2014)	4
Towards an ever stronger politicization? How members of the European Parliament deal with values in social networks	4
Inside the EU–China Human Rights Dialogue: assessing the practical delivery of the EU’s normative power in a hostile environment	4
Integration through (case) law in the context of the Euro area and Covid-19 crises: courts and monetary answers to crises	4
Genesis and evolution of EU anti disinformation policy: entrepreneurship and political opportunism in the regulation of digital technology	4
An ever more entangled Union? The European Union’s interactions with global governance institutions	4
Niger – Europe’s border guard? Limits to the externalization of the European Union’s migration policy	4
Electoral incentives for territorial representation in the European Parliament	4
Knowledge power Europe	4
Reconciling participatory and evidence-based policymaking in the EU Better Regulation policy: mission (im)possible?	4
Revisiting the informal power resources of member states’ permanent representations to the EU	4
Why did they comply? External incentive model, role-playing and socialization in the alignment of sanctions against Russia in Albania and Montenegro	4
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	3
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	3
Leviathan versus the super bugs: free riding drives support for EU power over antimicrobial resistance	3
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	3
Public procurement and European Union integration: a systematic review	3
The EU hotspot approach in Italy: strengthening agency governance in the wake of the migration crisis?	3
Moral Hazard, central bankers, and Banking Union: professional dissensus and the politics of European financial system stability	3
Crisis and paradigm change in the European semester: from austerity to investment-oriented policy ideas	3
Exploring the cave of the unknown: transnational party politics in the EU	3
‘Pushing the boundaries’: a dialogical account of the evolution of European case-law on access to welfare	3
Higher education in the single market between (trans)national integration and supranationalisation: exploring the european universities initiative	3
Emotions and norms in the Syrian refugee crisis: the comparative responses of the EU and Turkey	3
A European labour market and nationally bounded welfare states. EU emigration and challenges to social citizenship	3
Who holds the elephant to account? Executive power political accountability in the EU	3
No peace from corona: defining EU strategy for the 2020s	3
EU or Euro Area Crisis? Studying Differentiated Integration as an Idea Structuring Elite Perceptions of the Sovereign Debt and the COVID-19 Crisis	3
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	3
De facto differentiated disintegration in the European Union. The case of Poland	3
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	3
Ad hoc coalitions in European security and defence: symptoms of short-term pragmatism, no more?	2
Investing in the single market? Core-periphery dynamics and the hybrid governance of supranational investment policies	2
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	2
A temporal perspective on staff support in the European parliament	2
French presidents and the discursive use of European Sovereignty: more than a metaphor	2
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	2
Euroscepticism and anti-establishment parties in Europe	2
Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative in EU-China relations	2
Feeling European? The EU as an emotional community	2
Public support for the European solidarity deal in EU debtor states: the case of Greece	2
Striving for trade not peace? Revisiting trade-peace and trade-security nexuses in the EU’s trade policy strategy amidst the Russia-Ukraine war	2
COVID-19 as a critical juncture for EU development policy? Assessing the introduction and evolution of “Team Europe”	2
The European Union’s nascent role in the field of collective defense: between deliberate and emergent strategy	2
Human rights sanctions and the role of black knights: Evidence from the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours	2
Memory and the integration. The European parliament’s 2019 resolution on European remembrance as a case study	2
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement: has Georgia “got lost” on its way to European integration?	2
European diplomats in the MENA region: a two-sided sense of disillusionment	2
When the EU takes the field. Innovative forms of regulatory enforcement in the fisheries sector	2
Banking Union — a stability-oriented macroeconomic or an efficiency-oriented microeconomic project?	2
European procurement schemes and the European Defence Fund (EDF): how should academic research develop?	2
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	2
Individual amending activity in the European Parliament committee system	2