OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of European Integration is 8. 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
Player and playground: Europe in US–China competition	41
How ‘European sovereignty’ became mainstream: the geopoliticisation of the EU’s ’sovereign turn’ by pro-EU executive actors	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
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal	24
How the climate movement shaped the EU: protest cycles and democratic spaces in the European green deal	24
In the shadow of the EU’s crises: the changing dynamics of the European knowledge area, 2014–25	23
National identity as a cultural filter: External perceptions of the EU in Israel	22
Turnabout or continuity? The German Zeitenwende and the reaction of the V4 countries to it	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
Third time lucky? Reconciling EU climate and external energy policy during energy security crises	19

The impact of Brexit: polity, politics, policy	19
A limited green criminological turn in the EU approach to climate change? Mapping representations of climate change as ecocide	18
Principal-agent relations, politics of discretion, and the Africa-EU Partnership on Peace and Security	18
Neverland: the strange non-death of cakeism in conservative European thought	17
The role of external interference in the politicisation of EU integration: Russian influence and the 2024 referendum in Moldova	16
Candidate turnover in EP- versus national elections: a new perspective on the second-order logic? A comparative analysis	16
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
Is it all about distribution? – Debating the Green Deal in the European Parliament	15
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Constructing an ‘emotional community’ in times of crisis: the EU’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022	9
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

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