OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

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

Article	Citations
From streets to parliament: understanding the mechanisms of protest impact on the policy-making process in the European Parliament’s TTIP debate	74
Developing banking union’s common supervisory culture: a look into the ‘black box’ of joint supervisory teams	67
Knowledge power Europe	60
The parliamentary politics of the rule of law crisis in the EU	53
So much promise, so little delivery: evidence-based policy-making in the EU approach to migrant smuggling	50
Trans-governmental regulatory networks and the European Union’s involvement in global governance: an occasional instrument?	39
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	38
Player and playground: Europe in US–China competition	33
The COVID-19 pandemic and institutional change in the EU’s financial assistance regime: the governance of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)	33
In Europe we trust: selecting and empowering EU institutions in disruptive circumstances	33
The European Union’s leadership in the eyes of others at the UN Human Rights Council	30
Investigating the politics of democratic legitimacy in EU climate policymaking: the special case of Fit for 55	29
War and integration. The Russian attack on Ukraine and the institutional development of the EU	25
Strategising solidarity: an examination of the Visegrád group’s role and motivations in EU migration policies	23
The mismatch between regulatory ideals and practical implementation: the challenges faced by national regulatory bodies in pursuit of the single European railway area	23
In every crisis an opportunity? European Union integration in defence and the War on Ukraine	22
Quiet early bird or loud late riser? Parliamentary activities and types of European Parliament involvement during the negotiation of international agreements	21
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	20
Bridging Normative and Market Power Europe: The EU’s Diffusion of Market-related Norms and Policies in ASEAN	20
Public finance and the dynamic of European integration: an expanding galaxy	20
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	19
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	18
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	18
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	17
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	17

In the shadow of the EU’s crises: the changing dynamics of the European knowledge area, 2014–25	16
The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	16
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	15
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	15
Synchronizing out of gridlock: how the Council of the EU reached agreement on the New Pact on Migration and Asylum	14
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	14
Towards a political economy of the green transition	14
The EU’s interactions with formal intergovernmental organizations: a big data analysis of news media	14
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	13
Filling the EU information deficit mitigates negative EU attitudes among the least knowledgeable. Evidence from a population-based survey experiment	13
Explaining transformative change in EU climate policy: multilevel problems, policies, and politics	13
Getting Article 7 done: coalition-building against Hungary in the European Parliament	13
From NGEU to REPowerEU: policy steering and budgetary innovation in the EU	12
What do citizens in tax havens think? The EU blacklist and public opinion in Switzerland	12
The European Central Bank in the Single Supervisory Mechanism: The Maturing of the European Regulatory State	12
Stalled by design: New paradoxes in the European Union’s single financial market	12
A moving target. EU actorness and the Russian invasion of Ukraine	12
The European Green Deal and the democratic imagination	12
National satisfaction vs. European support? Explaining attitudes towards the EU in candidate member states	11
The recovery and resilience facility as a new legal technology of European governance	11
No fences, good neighbors: measuring and explaining integration in European cross-border regions	11
The ECB as a banking supervisor: transparent compared to what?	10
Supranational authorities and private actors as drivers of single market integration? The state of the Union in electricity and banking	10
External shocks, policy spillovers, and veto players: (post)exceptionalist common agricultural policy and the case of the 2023-2027 reform	10
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU	10
From cohesion to differentiation? The effect of Cohesion Policy on the citizens’ preferences for differentiated integration	9
Europe after the crises: toward an optimum financial area?	9
Post-Brexit council: winners and losers after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU	9
Reform of global trade governance: the role of the European Union	9
Federal fiscal capacity and the challenge of the green transition in the EU	8
Leaving the dragon’s shadow – Normative Power Europe and the emergence of a Taiwan policy in the EU?	8
Europe, the MENA region and knowledge production	8
The EU’s different faces in climate diplomacy: leadership, interests, and responsibilities	8
Back to the future: Twenty-five years later, relaunching the project of transforming the EU into an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?	8
Navigating widening and deepening: the European Council, geopolitical motives, and Union enlargement	8
Cross-border regionalism in the EU and ASEAN: another dimension of the “varieties of regionalism”	8
The partnership that failed: EU-Russia relations and the war in Ukraine	8
Multilevel governance in the temporal protection and integration of Ukrainians within the European Union: the case of Estonia	7
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	7
Between processes and norms. Understanding EU development cooperation beyond EU institutions	7
Between contestation and compromise? An evolutionary analysis of eurosceptic MEPs in the EP’s INTA committee	7
Wedging, binding and Europe in the US-China competition: theoretical and policy implications	7
The European union: assessing global leadership through actorness in artificial intelligence	7
Emotional politics of norm hierarchy in EU’s external relations: the case of climate crisis and the EU’s arctic policy	7
The transformation and design of EU restrictive measures against Russia	7
Correction	7
Negotiating and governing the economic and monetary union	7
Democracy and European Union: beyond the dichotomy	7
Discursive postfunctionalism: theorizing the interface between EU politicization and policy-making	6
EU law and the governance of Global Spaces: ambitions, constraints and legal creativity	6

The European Union’s transformation after Russia’s attack on Ukraine	6
Governing the digital economy: transatlantic accommodation and cooperation	6
The European Union’s roles in global atmospheric governance: evolving towards a ‘spacifier’?	6
Winds of change? The impact of the European Green Deal on the practice of EU climate diplomacy	6
’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	6
Do citizens know more about political issues after failed referendums? Evidence from the EU Constitution referendum	6
Populism, the far right and EU integration: beyond simple dichotomies	6
Embedding past, present and future crises: time and the political construction of the Covid-19 pandemic in the EU	5
Civilizationism in the European Union beyond the far right: a morphological approach	5
The crisis discourse’s blind spot: EU-level politicization and the endogenization of the migration crisis	5
De-Europeanization as discursive disengagement: has Georgia “got lost” on its way to European integration?	5
EU or Euro Area Crisis? Studying Differentiated Integration as an Idea Structuring Elite Perceptions of the Sovereign Debt and the COVID-19 Crisis	5
How to implement the European digital single market: identifying the catalyst for digital transformation	5
Defending Europe from below: pro-European activism in Germany and the UK and its contribution to the politicisation of Europe	5
Running out the digital clock: transatlantic privacy politics and veto points in time	5
From projection to introspection: enlargement discourses since the ‘big bang’ accession	5
The role of the European Central Bank in response to COVID19. An evaluation of its mandate	5
Cohesion through co-optation: the mobilisation of evaluative critique as a key enabler of a European investment policy	5
Policy learning within and across European institutions: charting the path towards European integration	5
Exploring the cave of the unknown: transnational party politics in the EU	5
Dancing to the same tune? EU and US approaches to standards setting in the global digital sector	5
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)	5
Reappraising the EU-Turkey Refugee Statement within the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Nexus	5
Analysing the European Union-Japan dialogue through the lenses of knowledge for development	5
Partners for the climate? How and why EU Delegations engage with civil society organisations in climate diplomacy	5
The Roma and the double-movement of Social Europe	5
Ad hoc coalitions in European security and defence: symptoms of short-term pragmatism, no more?	5
From entry to exit: how and why the European Commission politicised EU emigration	5
Progressing regressively: conditional convergence and Europeanisation of tax mixes	5
‘J’accuse!’: whistleblowing, critical citizenship and the EU directive on whistleblowers’ protection	5
A ‘Europe of defence’? The establishment of binding commitments and supranational governance in European security and defence	4
Sub-national bureaucracies in the European administrative space	4
The European Union and the Eurasian Economic Union – three rationalities of interaction and the problem of non-democratic regionalism	4
Shifting narratives? The EU’s approach to the Indo-Pacific after the war in Ukraine	4
Public communication and strategic planning: the case of EU Cohesion Policy	4
Riding the Eurosceptic tiger vs taming it by technocracy: the UK and France as two ideal types of how to manage hard Euroscepticism	4
When the guns fall silent: the variety of European perspectives on the end of war in Ukraine	4
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers: the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the decentring-recentring conundrum in EU-Africa relations	4
Avoiding an emotions-action gap? The EU and genocide designations	4
Everything but liberal – aid and EU democracy promotion in the European neighbourhood	4
The EU Market Citizenship paradigm: embraced or abandoned?	4
Women’s leadership in the EU institutions: a comparative prosopography between 2016 and 2021	4
From roadmap to regulation: will there be a transatlantic approach to governing artificial intelligence?	4
Under pressure? How regional dominant parties shift their EU positions when challenged by Euroskeptic parties	4
The European Union’s nascent role in the field of collective defense: between deliberate and emergent strategy	4
The unbalanced transatlantic relationship: understanding US influence in Europe	4
The geopolitics of cyberspace and the European Union’s changing identity	4
The Covid-19 pandemic and European integration: challenges and prospects for citizens, institutions, and the EU polity	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
Russia’s war on Ukraine: unbottled emotions and the conditioning of the EU’s Russia policy	4
COVID-19 as a critical juncture for EU development policy? Assessing the introduction and evolution of “Team Europe”	4
The EU’s recovery playbook: solidarity, conditionality, and resilience in European Parliament debates on the Recovery and Resilience Facility	4
International organizations, European Union access, and authority	3
Genesis and evolution of EU anti disinformation policy: entrepreneurship and political opportunism in the regulation of digital technology	3
Executive gladiators in the European arena: discursive intergovernmentalism in the politicization of the Covid-19 EU recovery plan	3
Wartime EU: consequences of the Russia – Ukraine war on the enlargement process	3
The EU hotspot approach in Italy: strengthening agency governance in the wake of the migration crisis?	3
Perceived constraints from European and international integration: citizens’ feeling of being represented and turnout	3
The three images of EU strategic autonomy: perspectives on wedging, binding and hedging	3
Emotions and norms in the Syrian refugee crisis: the comparative responses of the EU and Turkey	3
The fiscal sovereignty of the European Union after the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine	3
A principal-agent analysis of inter-agency cooperation in EU border management	3
From market failures to systemic failures: the evolving rationale for European industrial Policy	3
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?	3
Understanding Chinese influence in Europe: an institutional asymmetry approach	3
Emotions in EU foreign policy – when and how do they matter?	3
Controlling European money for failing banks: designing the European Stability Mechanism as banking union’s financial backstop	3
Russia’s war in Ukraine and transformation of EU public diplomacy: challenges and opportunities	3
The European Parliament and Fridays for Future: analysing reactions to a new environmental movement by Europe’s climate policy champion	3
The EU and the governance of the Maritime Global Space	3
Implementation performance in the field of the EU Customs Union: consequences of differentiated policy implementation on customs control efficiency	3
Schrödinger’s off-balance-sheet fiscal agency: the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the limits to incremental fiscal integration in Europe	3
From ordo-liberalism to ordo-Keynesianism? The contradictory nature of EU economic governance	3
Beyond parliamentary ratification: the role of national and subnational parliaments in EU-Mercosur trade negotiations	3
The evolution of EU–US cybersecurity law and policy: on drivers of convergence	3
Is the EU’s rule of law crisis a byproduct of dissensus and disunion?	3
Unpolitics, domestic pressures, or else? The opposition of Visegrád Group countries to the EU’s Pact on Migration and Asylum	3
Exploring the limits of the de jure Brussels Effect: competition law adoption in India, Singapore, and Ecuador	3
Silencing voices or strengthening democracy? SLAPPs in the European context	3